Power/APM 2.6 for Tricopter

Posted by bus on October 2, 2013 at 6:44am

Hi, I'm new here. I hope you can help me.

I do not quite understand the instructions.Perhaps it is also because my english is very bad ...

Next week I should get my APM 2.6 for one of my Tricopters.
I wonder at the moment, if I have to consider the supply of power the APM. I will use the power module.
If I do not use a jumper, I can connect all three ESC / BEC and servo to the APM?

Or do I have plus and minus of 2 ESC cut off? So that only an ESC via the APM supplies the servo?
I would be very happy if someone tells me what I have observed.

Despair ...

Greetings from Berlin

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    Richard Boyhan October 3, 2013 at 3:47am
    I'm not tricopter guy. But care needs to be taken when powering your APM. Lots of people use a separate BEC to power servos and 1 ESC to power the APM. The APM can only put out some much power and if you over load it, you'll get a brownout and a crash. I've done it a couple of times, not very pretty sight. Have fun and fly safe.
  • Brian Sigmon October 2, 2013 at 12:58pm

    The answer would depend on the design of your ESCs.  The Hobbyking Blue ESCs I use have linear regulators which have a small resistance on the output of each regulator to attempt to prevent the regulators from fighting with each other.  I parallel my ESCs 5v outputs and have had no issues running a yaw servo, plus 5v camera, etc.

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