Recent content by DaveSieg

Hello Now that its winter here, I am only going out once a week with the solo. But I have been having a problem lately. Specifically since the firmware update that allowed more go pro controls. Basically I have been flying a tower loop once a week. Before, I would put it in auto. My last...

Had a similar incident by re-arming after a successful tower flight. Solo flew itself into the ground from 100' up. Broke a couple of props, bent the gimbal badly, ejected the gopro. I was amazed at whatever the material is that the gimbal arm is made of... I was able to carefully chuck it up...

In these sad times, the appearance of solving the problem while actually just adding to government size and coffers seems to be more important than actually doing anything useful.

Just an educated guess here... The magic of the gimbal is in the little slip-ring assemblies that connect signals like the HDMI and motor control from the moveable part to the non-moveable part. With almost no friction! I could be mistaken, but it sounds like either a slip-ring failure or a...

Doing the M8N upgrade I noticed something about the standard Solo GPS board that might explain some of the anomalies I've read about here. The chip's case is ground, and the copper foil does have a thin layer of adhesive which would act as an insulator unless stressed or pressed hard against...

SOLVED: Yep, it was bad crimp job on the Solo end of the cable. Now 12 sats 1.6 HDOP (Indoors!)

OK I incorrectly reversed the numbering on the Solo pins but I have them connected: M8N Solo 1 BLK 6 2 Red 1 3 NC 4 NC 5 RXD 2 6 TXD 3

FWIW I went through this with my "upgrade" to Win10. Apple Quicktime doesn't support Win10 which is kind of ironic. This handicapped Vegas. The solution, after much Googling and dead-ending was to install the previous version of Quicktime which does not have the test for Win10.

Having read the threads about upgrading the Solo's GPS to the M8N mini, I ordered one from RTFQ. I'm pretty confident its installed correctly as in the video, but Solo just beeps its unhappy with GPS. The chip is supposed to be ready to go but doesn't seem to be responding correctly. I...