Hello,
I have read in many places on the site that the Arducopter battery must be switched off or disconnected before connecting to the USB, or irreversible damage may occur. Is this still going to be true on the production release and with your own power distribution board? My feeling is that however disciplined one is, sooner or later it's gonna happen that both get connected together.
If so, couldn't this feature be designed out?
regards
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Funny thing is I can go into configurator and send a motor command then everything works great.
I have a full backup APM/OP, I just programmed it and connected it up and it does the same thing...?
Thanks
Mark
I am having a problem where the motors wont start up unless I have the USB cable plugged into the PC.
Once I connected a esc to the board when the battery plugged in. Esc connector began to smoke and I pulled it immediately. Luckily both the board and the esc was not damaged. Only the connector was slightly melted.
Power distro board helps a bit on this due you do not put ESC cables directly to APM inputs and you have separate power cable coming from power pcb to APM.
We are just waiting our new power pcb's to arrive from factory.