Today I’m hanging out with my 1.5 year old boy having a lot of fun. During his noon nap I was able to get the motor power leads soldered to the power distribution board! That’s great use of time.

A trick I learned through much reading is to put liquid electrical tape on the connections when done. This helps prevent shorts. The liquid electrical tape can be found at Home Depot.

Power Distribution Board – Liquid Electrical Tape

Next up is figuring out the mounting of the flight controller and onboard electronics.

Finally some good progress on the big bird, the MegaHexaCopter, last night.  I haven’t worked on the bird for almost three weeks. I finished re-wiring and mounting the ESC’s, and running the cables through the heli’s arms.

I then mounted the motors.  Not difficult to do, and I found a missing motor plate I thought I’d have to order from China.  Next steps to be determined.  Next I could definitely go with cutting down the motor power leads (2nd photo) and soldering them to the power distribution board (round plate in 2nd photo).

I’ve rewired the power wires for the ESCs and re-heat-shunk them so the wires are all coming out of the ESCs in one direction.  Much cleaner.  That’s done now.

Next step I’ve finally started is mounting the ESCs and connecting them to the motors.  I had to solder 3.5mm banana plugs onto the motor leads, which I completed yesterday.

So hopefully today I’ll be finishing the motor/ESC assembly, and fishing the wiring through the arms of the hexa.