Recent content by rosco11

I like the idea. Where RC sites failed was their small niche market. Drones are becoming mainstream with applications reaching to all sectors of society, both government and private. Their popularity is on the rise currently and is no where near their ceiling yet. As tech advances progress, the...

Being a risky business, i would go with a USED phantom 2. Can pick them up for under 500 bucks, reliable tech, has all the requirements you describe. And with any luck, your battery will die mid flight or have some other malfunction and your little box of cash will crash in my back yard. Or if...

Looks like you could get the betaflight f3 in there, it has a pdb and 4 in one esc. I have to tell you though, it looks tight. Frsky has a receiver about the size of a thumb nail that would defiantly work. Getting a 25mw or 200mw small enough would not be hard to find either. My personal...

Rofl, not news. I am an air traffic controller by trade. Yes, you fly near an active airport, prison, military installation, or any other sensitive operation, being it rescue missions, power plants etc, you are not only subject to loosing your quad but quit possibly some very unpleasant...

I would highly recommend the Flycolor tower. It comes with pdb, F3 controller, and esc. All you need to do is solder on the motor wires. After that, you only have the video equipment. Makes for a very tight build for small quads and is plug and play. The parts separately would cost you as much...

a. what are you trying to build? Camera ship? racer? Both of which do not lend well to DJI anything. DJI equipment is very proprietary. Even the little things you do not expect like the coating they put on their motor wires that make them very difficult to solder. You have to scrape the...

cc3d and eachine = openpilot. If it is, replace it with a naze controller. I had a eachine racer with the cc3d. The flight controller failed. Replaced it with a naze controller. Best thing that ever happened to that quad. That said, the falcon is a good frame. The only thing i do not like...

mount a fpv camera...oh yea, gotta have one.

I can only tell you what i do and have had a lot of success with. Success being i have never had one ripped off or damaged. I run mine down the arm along the upper inside edge and tape it there with electrical tape. Easy on, easy off and insulated in a crash. Being an inside edge, between the...

The learning curve is HUGE. But like Jackson said, stop reading and start flying. It is really the only way you will improve no matter what equipment you purchase or how much knowledge you have. Bottom line. Reading will never give you the muscle memory you need in your fingers or rewire your...

Usually, the receivers with a single wire are for micro or mini quads and are very small and light. Honestly, it will still have more range than your 5.8 video transmitter, so a better question is, does it matter? Not for most people. Absolutely no point in spending 40 to 50 bucks on a fancy...

Actually, it sounds more like you burned out a BEC on the power distribution board or flight controller. If your receiver and VTX or camera are gone, check which board they are connected to and replace it or move those power connections to the other board. Probably the FC unless you wired the...

Something to keep in mind is they do fly different depending on size, power, props, battery. You might want to find something cheap that is close to the same size and power to the end product you want to master. The smaller and closer together the props are will make it more sensitive to pith...

update, Going to stick with it on my plan B quad, the penetration is noticeably better. I can fly around the outside of the house from the inside with about as much interference as a 5.8 system outside of the house. The range at the park is worth the cost. in a heavily residential area, the...

check the connection between the motors to esc and the esc to the power distribution board. bullet connectors vibrate and can lose connection for micro seconds creating erratic behavior.