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I hope you didn't roast it when you plugged it into the power distribution board (straight off the battery)! If it's looking for 5v, hitting it with 11 may be bad. You may want to try to rig a USB power adapter to feed it power, just to see if it yet lives. I bought a power module along with...

If you want a quad that appeals to people that want video of them doing something else, you need to include a fob or other beacon pod so the quad could follow them at a preset distance. What would be better than to be able to mountain bike like a madman and have your quad stay three meters...

You may have a customer over in "Newb Guides". Look for "Gift for Husband" thread. She wants it dialed in and RTF.

Why not just get him a DJI Phantom with those features. He'd have someplace to go with questions and issues, and it would be READY to fly. I think there's a guy here who builds and sells the "Hornet" series which has these features or could. I'm sure he'll pipe in here in a day or two...

I'm wondering if anyone makes a tiny FPV "cam pen" with a camera in one end, an antenna in the other end and the battery and guts in the middle? That would make just about anything FPV within a limited range. I wonder what the resolution of the FPV H107D model is. I understand you can record...

Here's a link: http://www.dji.com/info/spotlight/whats-difference-of-naza-m-litenaza-m-v1naza-m-v2 I'd go with an APM board anyway! You don't want the magnetometer or GPS on the board in any case -- put them in an elevated "dome" for better performance and less interference. You can get APM...

When shopping for motors, I get the kv and obviously I understand what comes after the $, but I've noticed most motors have a four digit number that doesn't seem to correlate with anything -- not the kv, poles, max current or size. I've also seen people on YouTube refer to their motors by these...

The only reason I didn't buy an X4 is that there is too much model confusion. There's one with a camera, but no FPV. One with FPV but the camera is awful. There's a "Pro" version. And there's this version which I guess has none of that stuff, but can be had for $40 with a radio. You need to...

I know both aluminum and copper foil are supposed to be good RF shields, so I'm wondering why they aren't used routinely in quads where the separation between receiver and ESC can't be increased due to the frame design? And is the ESC considered to be the biggest culprit? I suppose a powerful...

If you don't have a quad now, just buy a Phantom and enjoy it! You can build one later when your requirements are better defined, after having flown something you can be in the air with a couple of days from now. Unless you're really anxious to build, and flying at all this summer isn't...

I think I'd buy another frame with the quad. Although you could probably transplant the parts to another frame with only a little more effort.

I fired up my Turnigy AccuCell 6 today, read the manual and watched a few videos on it. One thing doesn't make sense to me. Every source stresses that you must never leave a LiPo battery unattended while charging, due to the risk of fire or explosion. Ok, if the battery is going to go off...

I got the Turnigy Accucel 6. I'm trying to figure out the optimum current for the power supply. I see people using computer power supplies, and the tiny "balanced" wires are too small to carry much current, so I can probably use most anything I have that's 12v DC. And yes, when I cut the...

*** updated *** I wound up buying a dome housing and mounting the GPS/mag above everything, but after getting responses elsewhere, I did line the bottom of the top deck with thick aluminum foil. *** I got a little plastic "IdeaFly" canopy for my quad at Hobby People, and got carried away when...

Some people buy enough batteries to rotate them through a charger in their car, but flying continuously (apart from battery changes) may overheat components in the quad, and some quads have other things that need charging, like cameras. If you're staying with the Phantom, three is fine, more is...

Yeah, this kit is a good value, especially with the FPV pan and tilt already there. I don't know how easy it would be to repair that single-piece frame if you lunched it though.

Is that the FPV antenna dangling over the starboard side?

The rest of my stuff arrived today from HobbyKing, and the 45amp ESCs have banana plugs and sockets (when the motors have mini-banana plugs). I'm going to solder the ends to the power distribution board, extend the motor wires and put on the bananas I took off the other end of the ESCs. I have...

I got two reverse polarized SMA antennas by mistake. I needed them non-reversed. But the "reverse" basically means the host device has a tiny hole in the center of the connector, AND the antenna has the same hole. So if I fabricated a pin the right diameter, long enough to bridge the holes...

The federal law (FAA) requires that you keep your craft under 400 ft from the ground, fly it line of sight, not within I think 5 miles of an airport (even a small municipal airstrip), not fly over people or in populated areas. The "mileage" in your area may vary -- what is enforced. Now for...