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Hello everyone,

Newbie here  to the RC world and have a doubt about the power distribution board for the Hexacopter. 

I just bought  two pdbs and out of the box neither of them seem to show continuity between the "To APM (+)" and the "Battery (+)" terminals  and this seems to be odd  ,(there is continuity for all the - terminals and between all + nodes except this one). Is this an expected behavior or what can be happening here?

I also soldered the battery  and the APM terminals in one of the APMs to their respective cables. Then plugged in a battery to the Battery terminal and tested the output to check for the expected 5 V However as you can see in the picture below I had no luck with this.

Any ideas or advice?

Update: 

Thanks for the info Tim, I will continue to solder my pdb!

P.S. I added this topic to this section since it seemed to be the most relevant. I also downloaded the schematics for the PDB but do not have Eagle to see them.

Regards,

-H