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I upgraded a stock cube solo to Open Solo 4 from the factory firmware today and did some test flying. One of my batteries caused a cell differential warning, which I think is a feature of Open Solo. It gave readings of 254 mV then 274mV in the first couple minutes of flight, and I landed it...

UPDATE: It happened again today with a different battery, again while about 1000 ft out, 400 ft up. On restarting the solo, the battery level reported normally. It only happened once out of 4 batteries of flights. RMA the solo? Factory/pixhawk reset? P.S. I was using Solex this time, and it...

I was flying about 1000-1500 feet from home at about 400ft high, testing antennas. I had lost controller connection twice on this flight (not sure if this is connected, but reporting it anyway), otherwise everything was going normally. A few minutes in I got the flight battery at 10% warning...

Also, even though it's a moot point, I recorded this effect today:

Update post from Solex facebook group:

No I haven't been doing anything weird like that. As I just posted on facebook, I will probably do more testing and report back either way.

Thanks for the reply. Yes the twitching does not happen when not connected to Solex. I just uploaded another short video taken flying with the solo app:

I was flying with Solex 1.3.3 yesterday, and the app seemed to cause the solo to twitch in the air in a constant rhythm. Below is a video of the effect (sorry for the short length). Just for the record: A few days ago this solo was factory reset, the pixhawk was reset, and I am using a new...

Thanks for the help. Is there any way to actually confirm if anything changed on the reset? Are there some important parameters that could cause this erratic behavior that I could check before and after reset? I'm asking because my only way to test is to fly it, which was was pretty much an...

I did some fooling around with it today. I have the V2 shield, but also added copper tape on the bottom with kapton tape on the bottom of that, to insulate from the GPS board. Its too windy to fly today, but the GPS did pick up much quicker than before to 17 sats/.7 HDOP, which I rarely saw...

Is this resetting back to Solo specific values, or some type of generic values? I ask because it feels like tower caused this in the first place. Are there default values for some parameters that I can check before I reset just to see if this is the problem at all?

I forgot to mention that for the second flight, I had restarted the tablet and launched only the 3DR App. It had the same results. I was afraid it might have changed something like the PID settings, but I'm not too familiar with how that stuff works. How would you go about verifying them? BTW I...

I decided to try out Tower for the first time today. When I took off, the Solo began flying very erratically, with lots of oscillation and not able to maintain level. I wasn't able to bring it down without flipping over and breaking props. I went ahead and tried a second flight with the same...

Is it possible to open tlogs from a previous flight (that didn't use Tower) in Tower?

Is there a consensus on how to install the M8N, specifically in regards to shielding? MRO recommends using cardboard with the original shield, but other install videos do not use cardboard. Is it recommended to use the "upgraded" shield from 3DR? Or is a 3D printed shield with copper tape the...