Recent content by shanmoon

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    Loose Silver Screw inside - Found Jammed in Motor

    There are two more silver screws under the GPS shield, but on mine they were the same size as the ones through the shield, so sounds like thats not it. Hmmm.
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    Loose Silver Screw inside - Found Jammed in Motor

    Check the GPS board. It has two silver screws under it that hold the board in place and two that go through the gps shield and down to the board.You';; have to take out the four screws in the battery compartment, and gently pry the cover off over the gps and then take 3 screws out there...
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    New Solo Owner near Charlotte NC

    Wow, what a difference the gps upgrade makes. Instead of taking 3+ minutes to get satellites, it was more like just 30 seconds! After breaking my compass (snapped a wire) when I did the Wifi card upgrades, I was sitting grounded until I got the new compass leg Friday. I installed that yesterday...
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    Newbie in Hawaii

    Aren't there some 3rd party leg sliders (not extension) that can help widen the stance of the solo for this purpose from Relish 3D? http://www.relish3d.com/solo-sliders/ I was thinking about picking up a set.
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    broken compass wire

    Update: Went ahead and just ordered a new one, along with a stripped solo (sans motors but includes boards, legs, etc) just to have spare parts on hand. At some point I'll probably order a few extra motors as well.
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    broken compass wire

    Sure. Basically I snapped the black wire on the compass connector that plugs into the main board. There is so little slack that I can't imagine clipping off the connector and trying to rewire, particularly as I have very shaky hands, and would ever after be paranoid about the compass reliability.
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    broken compass wire

    This last weekend I installed new wifi cards in my solo and controller. Unfortunately I broke the black wire on the compass connection when I was installing/reinstalling it on the main board. What's my best option for fixing this? My hands are too shakey to be able to fix the wire back into the...
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    African airline reports drone collision with passenger jet

    Not sure I agree. I've seen what a small bird can do to a composite motorglider wing at much slower speeds. I could see a solo or a phantom doing massive damage to a plane traveling hundreds of miles an hour... F =M * A (force == mass x acceleration). The mass of the solo might be small but the...
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    GoPro HERO4 quality issues with 3DR Solo

    My thought (as Solo newbie myself) is try settings as recommended by the manual (Hero 4 Black recommendations below). If you have a different model, the manual recommends matching these as closely as possible. Right off the bat I see you chose wide FOV. Quality of my shots improved dramatically...
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    How Many Solo's Do You Own?

    Two. Got a Best Buy Bundle w/backpack, extra battery, 2 more extra props, and gimbal for $349. A few days later got another similar bundle (sans backpack) for $299. Got the mR gps upgrade, wifi upgrade cards, v2 shield, and better antenna for the first. Will probably dup the upgrades for #2...
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    Couldn't resist the BB deal, bought another; bundle with/backpack was sold out, but got the...

    Couldn't resist the BB deal, bought another; bundle with/backpack was sold out, but got the extra props, extra battery, and gimbal for $299.
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    Two solos in close proximity

    I chose slightly different search parameters and that result didn't come up. Guess I should try multiple variations next time.
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    Questions regarding GPS Shield V2

    That's a really good question. I ordered and plan on installing the M8N GPS this weekend and purchased the V2 shield. Now I am wondering if I should use the v2 or the original shield myself.
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    Two solos in close proximity

    Apologies if this has already been answered. I searched the forums and didn't see any posts on the topic. Now that I have my solo, one of my neighbors is also likely to be picking one up from BB tonight and to order the same gps/wifi card/shield/antenna upgrades as I did. After my first flight...
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    New Solo Owner

    Practice Manual flying: Although I am also a recent solo owner (so more experienced owners may have better suggestions), I'd strongly suggest getting comfortable with the fly manual mode in the event of GPS connection loss (that was the main focus of my second flight). I would rather my first...