At this point in time the Quad build has slowed to a crawl due to the ESC's. After a lot of soul searching I decided it was best to bite the bullet and order four new Plush 30 Amp ESCs. Unfortunately they were backordered when I ordered them several days ago and they are still backordered. I had hoped I would get lucky and they would get them back in inventory right away but that doesn't seem meant to be. I can find them at a few other vendors, but they are almost twice the price and since I have to buy four of them, and since I am basically a cheapskate, I will have to be patient and wait.
While I am waiting I have been making a little progress. Yesteday I did some initial testing of the KK2 Flight Controller Board. I powered it up using one of the ESCs I had. I connected it to the receiver I plan to use, which is a Hobby King Orange RX 610 receiver. The 610 receiver is a Spektrum DSM2 compatible receiver. I have been using one of these receivers very successfully with my Dynam Hawk Sky RC Plane.
I bound the receiver to my Spektrum DX6I transmitter and connected a series of five male-to-male servo lead between the receiver and the KK2 board. The KK2 board worked right off the bat with the receiver and I was able to run through a number of tests of the KK2 board as well as set up the transmitter for the Quad. I had planned to wait until I had flown the Quad successfully before I flashed the KK2 board firmware to version 1.5. But, being the impatient guy that I am, I decided to try a KK2 Flashdance.
Flashing (or updating the firmware on the KK2 board) requires a few things. First you need a USBAsp AVR Programming device (a little circuit board and cable that provides the connection between the KK2 board and a computer). You also need drivers for the Programming device as well as flashtool software. Once you have all of that connected and working you need the actual new version of the firmware, developed by Kaptain Kuk, the creator of the KK (Kaptain Kuk, get it) 2 board.
I found a great video that does a wonderful job of providing a detailed video explaination of how to perform the flashing of the KK2 board.
Here it is (thanks to eluminerRC):
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