Plugging In Your Motors
Estimated time to complete: 5 minutes
Grab the top shell with your motors attached. You’ll notice the wires from the motors are
colored red, black, and yellow and the wires from your ESC are colored red, black, and blue.
For all your motors, connect them to your ESCs by plugging them together. Don’t worry
about being in a particular order. That will come later.
Congratulations! You’re almost there!
Getting Ready to Test Your Motors
Estimated time to complete: 5 minutes
Before you close up the hood, you want to make sure you haven’t made any mistakes and
everything is spinning properly.
First go through all your connections and make sure you’ve done them correctly, especially
the power cables between your ESCs and your Power Distribution Board. If you’ve mixed up
your wiring, you may fry some electronics, so double check it well.
Now, if you’ve jumped ahead and attached your propellers, back it up, cowboy. Remove
those props. You are about to check your motor rotation, and having the props on now can
be very dangerous. Never test a motor with propellers attached unless you like the sight of
your own blood and don’t really care about losing things like fingers, noses, or lips. Props
are the last thing you’ll put on once you know your drone is working properly. Don’t be a
statistic.
