After a frustrating couple of weeks trying to find out why my copter was spinning and flipping just after take off a complete rebuild was necessary and recheck of everything, After spending 3 hours rebuilding everything and doing a test flight everything worked out and a had a successful flight , then I started looking at what could have been wrong and didn't seem to me like I did anything different EXCEPT I solder my Power PCB from the new Downloadable ArduCopter PDF file and realized what was wrong !!!!

boarddifferences.jpg?width=750boarddifferences2.jpg?width=750Spot the problem ?

Look at the orientation of where the lipo battery leads get soldered two the White (PWM wire)

 

It was a case of checking my connections of the power distribution board against wrong documentation , check your this might be two different revisions of the PCB but it fixed my problem

 

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  • Developer

    Yes pdf is correct. It seems that wiki has few wrong pictures and we are already making new ones.

    On wiki pictures left/right and up/down signal wires are upsidedown.

  • 3D Robotics
    That PDF was left over from the previous version of ArduCopter--I had no idea it was still in the download section (I hope you're the only person who found it!). At any rate, it's gone now, so I hope nobody else will be confused.
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