Wiring in my quad [pict.] Correct or Wrong ?

I wonder if the common GND is correct in this case. Should I change something? All parts powered separately (seems for me to be good). But as I mentioned in other topic I have strong servo twitching only during the flight and I'm not sure if it's  some noises, brown-outs or code-bugs.

..between APM and RX there are only Signal wires.   Take a look:

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    On my TradHeli I had a lot of power problems (although not twitching).  While investigating that issue I heard it was a bad idea to provide power from two switching BECs so I finally bought a 20Amp Castle Creations BEC Pro and life has been good since.   http://www.castlecreations.com/products/ccbec.html

  • Just google high current circuit design, and you will notice/should notice, that all subsystems are tied to a common grounding point.

    On your standard quad, that would be the PDB.

    While only one BEC is used to power the APM electronics  and servos, all 4 supply ground.

    Which makes it a fairly low impedance path, so if you are using small servos to drive something like a light camera mount, it  should not be a problem.

    In your drawing, the servo ground is somewhat removed from the system ground, are you using the standard PDP?

  • Why is there any connection from your servos to that first esc?  They should get power from the output rail of the APM.

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