Recent content by duboisj

Does that use a different mechanism than the Solo controller A+B+Pause key combination? That's supposed to be an instant-kill for the motors. @william35 - is that one of the things you tried that didn't work? That's what seems so tricky - if communication with the controller is really lost...

Dang! That's interesting. Unlike my crash (flying indoors), that sounds like a case of drone malfunction. I know 3dr is basically out of the consumer drone business ... I wonder how they'd react to getting logs from that. People have been saying worse and worse things about customer service...

Ouch! What happened? You haven't flown it since the crash that way, have you?

Update: I took this out for its maiden flight (other than the brief one in my living room, which crashed it in the first place), and it flew! I just tooled it around for a few minutes, mostly to see whether the repair would fail immediately. It held up so far - no visible change in the...

Although I do have a shell now, I ended up attempting a repair! I saw advice elsewhere to use Loctite superglue on the inside of the break and Bondic on the outside. (Bondic is some kind of liquid plastic which is activated by a small UV light which they sell along with the plastic.) I also...

I ended up getting mine on eBay.

Interesting. Thanks for the replies! The shell replacement video is exactly what made me hesitate to go that route, because it involves cutting parts off the main board with an exacto knife and re-gluing them. I'll see what happens.

Good idea! Original post edited with photos uploaded.

I am a brand-new Solo owner and I crashed mine fairly hard on first flight - my fault. One arm of the shell is broken about halfway through. That's the most visible damage other than busted propellers. I bought a replacement shell already. Question: should I go straight to replacing the...