Recent content by Douggieboy

B&H out of New York City is selling the batteries for $39 with free shipping...... This is a really great platform and an excellent value. I got mine with gimbal and 2 extra batteries last year at this time from Best Buy for $299..... Plus tax..... I’ll never understand why 3DR put the Solo out...

I'm in Vermont, and flew two identical runs, one with the solo/3dr setup, and the other with a Phantom 4. The Solo lost signal at 300m, and the video was totally washed out. I saw a posting on here suggesting optimal settings for drone and camera, followed them, and ended up with garbage on a...

How do iOS/mac users do this?

Battery or no battery, the gimbal with GoPro attached is close enough to the drone's center of gravity, the few grams that its battery might weigh can have little to no effect upon its flight characteristics. The alternative is to include a small camera battery that heats up to 140f/60c before...

Ancient history. Please correct me if I'm wrong...

I flew the solo with no the battery in camera, and everything went well. The GoPro did not overheat as it did when running with the battery installed. With no battery in the camera there's nothing for the drone to be charging-- it simply powers the camera for the duration of the flight. Thanks...

Hi--- Thanks for the advice-- I’ve found that with no battery in the camera at all, it gets power directly from the drone itself. There will be a tradeoff of not having to fly with the weight of the GoPro battery, but the camera is then drawing its power from the drone, so this may affect the...

Drone addict---;)...

Hi, I started another thread about the GoPro, but here's what I tried first-- I took the battery out of the camera, put it into the gimbal, and turned on the drone. It worked!-- meaning that there's no need for a battery to be in the camera at all; the drone powers it. This has an advantage and...

That has happened to me, and here's why. It is necessary to bind your smart device to the drone's local intranet wifi profile. This system is designed to operate wirelessly between its user's phone or tablet, and creates its own IP address and network profile. Go into settings then wifi, and you...

I bought a hero 4 black off eBay a few weeks ago-- this must be one of the reasons I was able to buy a complete 3dr solo package at BestBuy with gimbal and extra battery for $299 on a Christmas gift card. I was planning to use an extra ilook+ fpv camera, but it wouldn't fit the solo's dedicated...

As my drone army increases in size and complexity, the x8+ is still sitting upside down in my living room, Pixhawk controller, 3 lipo flight packs, and DJI’s lightbridge taking up the same space/tying up the same money all these things were the better part of a year ago. I rebuilt the P3Pro...

Don’t use the gimbal to carry or drop grandma’s ashes. At the opposite end of the drone’s chassis is an empty bay designed to carry extra things, like a thermal imaging, system, or to support the mount for a true 360* camera setup that uses two fisheye FPV devices, one mounted below and the...

Gimbals still on sale here @ $39,95, batteries 34.99. If not for proprietary GoPro ONLY camera restrictions on this drone, I would be buying more~~ but for now, one’s enough. 3DR customer service is 3DR no service. My new drone came with documentation in French~~ thankfully, I speak the language...

Since the first of the year, I’ve bought a Solo with gimbal, controller, 3 batteries, backpack, and extra props from Best Buy, all for less than $400-- brand new. They cut alot of corners-- the gimbal plate doesn’t stay in place; it’s secured in the back by 2 tiny plastic tabs that don’t hold it...