"Dan thanks for your reply.  Sorry that it has taken more than a month to put this into use but parts and life sometime get in the way of a ground-up rebuild.  

I flashed all of the ESCs and took the prop down to a 10x4.5.  Test flights went very…"

"I would like to add this here, not as a criticism of the hardware (lord knows I don't have a clue) but for the information of those who might find it useful.  

Frame: Tricopter
ESC: Afro 20A ESC (each ESC is grounded to the Pixhawk)
Motor: iFlight…"