My RTF came yesterday. No problem seeing where the money went - very high-quality kit especially tuned and ready to fly.
Changed out the connector to a Deans Plug - (old school), powered it up, tested the motors and hooked up to QGroundControl
Flight tests delayed until tomorrow - too much wind today. Reports right after.
Per the specs, using this battery: Gens ace LiPo Battery Pack 4000mAh 11.1V 25C 4S with Deans Plug from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011QFMISO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011QFMISO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Hi BethanySciences,
The drone looks great! Let's hope the weather improves so you can test it soon. Feel free to share your experience with the community.
-Sergio A.
Thanks for sharing your drone build, Bethany! Looking forward to your flight test report.
Thanks Marty.
Hi BethanySciences,
The drone looks great! Let's hope the weather improves so you can test it soon. Feel free to share your experience with the community.
-Sergio A.
A few short flight tests today with observations.
Keeping notes on:
+ flight procedures
+ updating the software
+ part replacements
+ specifications
prettied them up a bit and started a repository on github with a wiki for updates...
Some folks may find the info useful - happy to take feedback and/or pulls.....
https://github.com/bethanysciences/Intel-Aero https://github.com/bethanysciences/Intel-Aero
A few useful images too.
You're being excellently scientific with your testing and documentation, Bethany. I'm sure it'll be an invaluable reference source for others following in your footsteps!
Any chance you could provide more details on:
I only have an hour or so experience with this and just did a power up w/o props (flies great ;-) . I am just curious about the downlinking since I live in the land of trees and find the Phantom's stream video pretty invaluable.
I am guessing you are using a wifi signal off the drone to downlink to QGroundControl running on a laptop(?)
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