Yes my motors are spinning correctly. Motors 2 and 3 are wired in order to provide a counter clockwise rotation and motors 1 and 4 are wired crossed to provide a clockwise rotation.

Example of motors 2 and 3 wiring


Example of motors 1 and 4 wiring

From the video, it looks like your back two props are on backward. Can you take a good photo of your quad with the props on?

Cross wiring your motor doesn't mean anything. You have to still check spin directions.

I know you've shrink-wrapped the ESCs but the connections are still exposed. Make sure that there is definitely no chance that any of the solder connections are able to create a short to the carbon fibre arm.

Also, clutching at straws here but please check that none of the screws in your motors are too long and touching the motor windings because this will cause a short to ground resulting in some strange behaviour. However, if that was the case then I wouldn't expect the motors to spin up fine in the Motors tab of BFC. Still worth double checking though.

If all of that is fine then I'm starting to run out of ideas unless you have some bad soldering or a signal wire short somewhere. It's almost 2:30am here and I really need to go and get some shut-eye so hopefully Voodoo or someone else can continue to help you try and diagnose the problem.

The next stop will probably have to be some blackbox logging analysis. Do you know if your flight controller has blackbox logging capabilities? There is no SD card on that FC but it might have internal flash memory for blackbox logging, although it's not clear from the specs of that FC. If you go to the Blackbox tab in BFC, see if there is an "Onboard Flash" option in the first dropdown box. If there is then it should have blackbox logging capabilities.

No problem, feel free to head to sleep. Im in bed myself now. Ill leave you with a picture of the drone props and we can continue troubleshooting tomorrow or later this week. EDIT: motor spin direction is confirmed to be correct.

Can you Setup angle mode, and try to hoover again. I want to see if it is a FC problem or motor/esc problem.

Same issue persists in Angle mode.

This has surely got to be some kind of hardware or wiring fault.

Did you manage to find out if your flight controller supports blackbox logging?

I would swap one of the front motor with one of the rear motor. If same problem, it could be ESC or FC. If the problem moves, then it is the motor(s).

Have you tried throttling up a little further to see if the quad flips or hoover?

If I throttle up a lot the quad flips. I did have issues with blheli, it wasn’t recognizing any of my esc’s.

(19-Jun-2019, 11:08 PM)polak658 Wrote: If I throttle up a lot the quad flips. I did have issues with blheli, it wasn’t recognizing any of my esc’s.

Which version of BLHeli were you trying to run? You need to run the 16-bit version (from HERE) for your BLHeli_S ESCs. The 32-bit version only works for BLHeli_32 ESCs.

Hi, my apologies for not posting in a while as life got in the way. I am able to connect to BLHeliSuite via the download link you provided. It detects my ESC's and motors just fine. I also checked BFC for blackbox logging. In the drop down menu there are 3 options: No logging, SD Card, and Serial Port.

Sorry for wasting everyone's time. I figured out the problem. Turns out, I have been putting the propellers on the wrong way and that's why the drone wouldn't take off. I feel like an idiot and I apologize for the long time troubleshooting. Thank you all for your patience with me and the help you provided me. Without you guys, I would have given up a long time ago.

That is what I thought several posts back. Glad you figured it out.