Development: New power distribution board
Some of you might already seen this board on Open-source ESC development post several days ago and some not. As many of you have been requesting and talking about new type of Power distribution board we went ahead and created first version of it.
We would like to have your comments on it, how would you like to see it and to which way to develop?
Currently we only have 4 ESC version of it but this version is designed in way that you can easily stack them to create combinations of 3-12 ESCs while one layer has max of 4 ESCs.
It can also carry a carrier boards for external uBECs and IOBoards and OSD boards.
It supports PWM, I2C, CAN and UART ESCs
We can also include current sensors for it if/when needed.
Bottom picture of it, exposes uBEC carrier board under main board:
We have now 10 test boards available for public use. If you want and really need one, let us know. But remember, you need to have good reason why YOU would be a good candidate for testing it. So if you just want it but don't want to really test and give feedback on it, don't bother.
You can send request via our contact page or send a PM in here to me.
Receivers will be informed in person by email.
Technical details:
- Custom 4 layer PCB
- 70 AMP capacity
- Support all ESCs smaller than 25 x 37mm
- Fits on all Original ArduCopter frames / Holing
- Support for 2 uBECs via carrier board
- PWM, I2C, CAN, UART support
- Terminal blocks for easy cable assembly
- Stackable
Let the imagination flow...
--jani
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Tags: ArduCopter, Development, Distribution, ESC, Hexa, Multicopter, Octa, Power, Quad, Tri, More…jDrones

Jani, I just sent you a note through your page, but I'm not certain it went through properly.
Comment by Marooned on August 23, 2012 at 9:59am I wish I had a good reason ;-)
Good to see rapid innovations on this field.
Going to fly my copter now :)

Will bring one "sample" to the Montreal Mini Maker Faire, Rober I may let you solder the ESCs to it! :)
hehe
It really look nice! This will reduce so much the wire clutter we have! Can wait to see it in action! (just received it last night)
Sweet! wish I was anywhere near building something to do this justice, but too many projects, too little time.
Look forward to seeing you develop it, someday when I can't resist building a hexacopter anymore hopefully you'll be in production mode.

Yes, wire clutter. My quad looks like crap. I was just about to buy a Hobbywing Quattro to rebuild it.

These are looking awesome jani. Keep up the great work.

I cant wait to see these in production I really like the concept. But I have so many irons in the fire R&D wise that testing another component would be wasted on me so im not even going to ask for a sample. But when they are "gold" I will definitely be picking them up for my quads. Especally if they have a quality ESC integrated.

Any chance you will create one with a higher amp rating?
Comment by quadrocopter on August 23, 2012 at 3:27pm Would love to test this thing on one of our Mikrokopters :-)
Simon

is that 70 amps total? or 70 amps per esc.
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