2Jan/110
Tricopter troubleshooting
If the motors are numbered 1, 2 & 3 in clockwise order starting with the rear yaw control motor as '1', then today I swapped motors 2 & 3 to troubleshoot the number 3 motor stopping dead intermittently. I found that the problem did not follow the motor after I swapped them.
The next suspect is then the #3 ESC and it's soldered connections.
Luckily my eHawk 1500 uses an identical Hobbyking 15-18A Super Simple (SS) ESC so I'll swap that for the tricopter suspect ESC. The downside is my eHawk uses JST connectors so I'll need to solder an XT60 on the battery side and some 3mm bullet connectors on the motor side.
Hopefully the result will be a stable setup so I can focus on learning to fly it and get the Arduino board setup.