Hexacopter power distribution board help (UPDATE: Solved)

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?

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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.

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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

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  • Let us know what you find out...I too just got a new hex PDB and I would hate to have the same issue.

  • T3
    Two questions. Where did you buy the power boards? You might have to go back to them.
    What type and voltage of battery did you use to test with?
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