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Give our current moronic POTUS' desire to impose tariffs on Chinese imports, should we expect a price increase on DJI products? I am planning on buying a Mavic Platinum Pro but was going to wait for the new product announcements coming soon... now I'm thinking I should pull the trigger now...

"The colder it gets, the more the electrons slow down, the more they slow down, the less current / voltage you're going to get which again slows down the motors." Uh, maybe you can get some tiny scarves to keep them warm! Actually, the colder temperature increases the battery's internal...

Golly, I appreciate it! But I live out here in the wild west - sort of.... Northern Colorado. I have a plethora of pins of the other gender, and those that I ordered should arrive today. I have a theory that the video problems might be due to my drawing power for the vtx and camera from the main...

Took the Tarot outside and fired it up - was able to arm and run the motors. Didn't take off - just wanted to make sure that I can arm okay. I'm waiting on servo pins that should arrive sometime today to fix the gimbal leads and hope to have it fully functional. Elev-8 is a crap shoot... May...

It is the same but mine does not have the pin indications that you show. Maybe I have a knock off or an earlier one??

Solved the Flight Mode problem! I'm using a Spektrum AR8010T 8 ch receiver. It has two rows of ports and it does not indicate which pin is the signal lead. I figured out by trial and error that the ground pins are on the top of row one. The flight mode plug goes into row 2 and I mistakenly...

I like having the ability to switch to RTL in case I get carried away and lose orientation - I can always take over manually once it is close enough. Yeah, I know how to figor how which way it's pointing when you lose orientation, but this makes it so much easier. Also, I like flying waypoint...

I seriously don't know what I did to perturb the cosmos, but it must have been something serious... I took my two quads out for test flights - my Tarot Sport, to do a video shoot to test out everything - landing gear retract, adjustment to the gimbal (to get the horizon level), and endurance...

Was in the Army from 1972 - 1975; was a radar repair guy.... Always wanted to get a Heathkit but never did... One of my many regrets...

Practice evasive maneuvers - is there a Top Gun school for drone pilots?

You didn't mention what kind of flight controller you are using. I am only familiar with the APM F.C./autopilot and can't offer advise on others, but I suspect that all must go through a similar set of calibrations. For mine, I have to the the following: Accel/IMU - which side is up, down...

I have built several multicopters and there is something about building your own that is great. But you have to be very careful about the building process, especially soldering - I've crashed a couple of times due to losing power from a bad solder connection. A recent devastating crash is still...

A footnote: I just returned from a trip to Singapore to visit my son, his wife and their brand new baby. Anyway, while there, I ordered an FPV camera and video transmitter from Amazon - want to try out the FPV experience using the Elev-8. The components arrived before I did, and this morning...

Success! I bought an unused APM 2.6 from a neighbor, installed the firmware and went though the configurations - it works! I can arm and disarm at will.

I remember watching this video back when I first started using APMs. Unfortunately, it is no help - I'm in Stabilize mode, I've successfully completed the radio calibration as stated previously, and the APM has to be communicating with the radio, otherwise it would not know that I'm trying to...

I have an APM 2.6 controller on a quadcopter that I recently rebuilt. It has flown successfully a couple of times, but arming the motors is a hit or miss affair. Several times, the motors fail to arm, so I removed the props, brought it into my home, powered it up and established a telemetry link...

The following video pretty much covers what I posted here but also has video of two test flights:

I will try to get some video this morning - will fly a waypoint mission and use a camera mounted on a tripod. BTW, I managed to find some thrust data on the Tarot 4002 620KV motor - specs are hard to come by but a Russian guy ran a test on YouTube: Here is the thrust/current curve along with...

I had success today! I had to replace flight controllers and a balky engine (#3), but after all the APM configurations, I was ablle to get it to arm, fire up the motors and disarm. So I installed the propellers and took it out to a nearby parking lot. It armed after getting GPS lock and I took...

2 and 3/8 inches measured center to center => 60.325 mm