"FWIW, mine was a Windows 7 to 10 upgrade.  "

"I would say no.  You are talking about a panel that would be producing milliamps of current (given the physical size and voltage requirements) in hopes of charging your main battery that is sucking down amps of current.  It would be much like…"

"I have....I put it on a little Netbook.  MP seems to run just fine.  I haven't taken it out to the field but did have the quad connected via the USB port while sitting on the bench.  Everything looked normal.  Haven't tried the 915 Mhz USB telemetry…"

"Hard to tell you what to undo when we don't know what was done.  Good luck."

"It might help if you were to tell us what your brother did.  It is difficult to say what is wrong when we can't see anything and we have no idea what was done.  "

"Isn't the battery showing 12+ volts on the display?  I don't understand why you think it is zero.

So....did you look in the manual about what is required to arm the IRIS?"

"You typically can't arm with only 5 satellites in view.  (your photo shows 5 sats on the display)
I've no idea what a yellow light is.....I don't have an ISIS.  Perhaps it flashes when you don't have satellite lock?  
Did you get a manual with your…"

"Prop wash creates noticeable ground turbulence, at least for my quad.  Launching slowly and driving to navigate the quad through this turbulence can make for difficult handling.  I launch in stabilize mode.  I do not slowly bring the throttle up but…"

"Arducopter 3.2 is the most recent release.  Yes, when a new version of the firmware is released, you can update the PixHawk."

"Erik....congrats!  Way to go.  Sounds like you are getting things going very well now.  Yes, channel 5 is most handy for applying the various flight modes to the board.  I have a batch (6 of them) programmed in the APM and my transmitter.  I was out…"

"Erik,
As they say, the devil is in the details.  Glad to hear you got the ESCs calibrated....I'm sure your next attempt at flying will meet with much better results.  I put my first quad together in November....so I understand your comment about the…"

"Awesome....good that you found it....but like you said, hard to trust it in the air.  Who would have thought that it was an electrical contact on the board? 
Maybe if you ever decide to make an APM Rover, that would be a good candidate for that.…"

"Erik....come on....I gave you the link to the Wiki to answer you last question.  As I said then, the Wiki is a great read.  And....you really need to read it.  I realize it takes time and you want to get this into the air.  But in the time you spend…"

"At least it is the correct microprocessor, although I'm not familiar with the board.  (lots of boards out there using that chip)"

"FYI.....haven't received any photos yet.  Not sure if you sent them or not."

"Don't know what may have caused your problem, but am curious as to if you had any failsafes set on your APM?  RTL can be engaged when a loss of signal from your transmitter occurs (or you simply turn it off).  However, launching from a…"