Hey, thanks for the quick response. It is annoying cause I did a build before and followed all the same steps, even did the build on the same table and the last one worked perfectly .. Anywhoo ..
Blades are not on yet, I like to do all the testing with the blades off and all the electrics and solder points accessible in case, so blades are not the problem.
I relocated, leveled the craft, re configured the board from scratch(double checked esc connections), now all the motors spin, all the time.. so one pblm down. but it is still going to full throttle all the time. I redid the radio setup a couple times paying special attention to the throttle config. I played with the throttle curve in the taranis, as well on the gcs ... but nothing.. The motors are responding to attitude changes of the board as well as yaw/roll/pitch inputs on the radio.. I'll pbly reset my tricopter and see how it works, and take off 2 motors from the hex, configure it as a quad and see.. not sure what that will prove .. but i'm lost for now!