I'm hoping someone that has been through this can help. I recently fried my ardupilot and oilcan boards by the battery contacts hitting backwards (Its a long story). I found that both boards were fried. Both boards partially work. I can got through and test the different components, but I thought someone here could point me at which components I should start with on both boards. I appreciate the help in advance.
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How did you reverse power the board, from the servo rail? If it was the battery input you may have fried the voltage regulator. If the servo rail then i don't think it would do anything. What do you mean it partially works. Is the power fried or not. You did look at the schematic, didn't you? !!!
I did the same thing, I shorted positive to ground accidentally.
I tried to get help here but nobody could really offer many suggestions. I did a lot of diagnosis and analysis and found that my IMU was fine but my main board had blown the PPM chip.
I ended up ordering a new main board from the store which USPS then lost. I finally ended up ordering a new main board from a local supplier as I couldn't wait for the USPS service to finally get back to me. That was over a month ago, still waiting.
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How did you reverse power the board, from the servo rail? If it was the battery input you may have fried the voltage regulator. If the servo rail then i don't think it would do anything. What do you mean it partially works. Is the power fried or not. You did look at the schematic, didn't you? !!!
I did the same thing, I shorted positive to ground accidentally.
I tried to get help here but nobody could really offer many suggestions. I did a lot of diagnosis and analysis and found that my IMU was fine but my main board had blown the PPM chip.
I ended up ordering a new main board from the store which USPS then lost.
I finally ended up ordering a new main board from a local supplier as I couldn't wait for the USPS service to finally get back to me. That was over a month ago, still waiting.
Any ideas?