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Last weekend I was intrigued to see what happens to solo when the battery depletes fully....
Sat in the garden, set the return home to launch site, set the height to zero meters and thought what's the worst could happen.
GPS lock, lift off... Solo sat there about 1m-2m off the ground for about 15 or so minutes.
As I watched the battery slowly deplete, I think it tried to return home but I cancelled it to see what the bird would do at 0%... Still hovering in the back yard, where it took off, battery was flashing 0% and still hovering nicely....
As I thought how very uninteresting and I'll land now, all of a sudden, the solo went up to say 10m and shot 10m horizontally away from the launch site..... With this I lost all response on the controls.... It sat there for a few seconds then dropped like a stone.......
Despite there being no damage, what shocked me was the return to home height being set to zero meters but the solo still climbed to approx 10m and lost response.....
Silly question.....is this normal for the solo to do what it wants when you loose battery power?
Sat in the garden, set the return home to launch site, set the height to zero meters and thought what's the worst could happen.
GPS lock, lift off... Solo sat there about 1m-2m off the ground for about 15 or so minutes.
As I watched the battery slowly deplete, I think it tried to return home but I cancelled it to see what the bird would do at 0%... Still hovering in the back yard, where it took off, battery was flashing 0% and still hovering nicely....
As I thought how very uninteresting and I'll land now, all of a sudden, the solo went up to say 10m and shot 10m horizontally away from the launch site..... With this I lost all response on the controls.... It sat there for a few seconds then dropped like a stone.......
Despite there being no damage, what shocked me was the return to home height being set to zero meters but the solo still climbed to approx 10m and lost response.....
Silly question.....is this normal for the solo to do what it wants when you loose battery power?