Recent content by Glen Larsen

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    A BIG battery question--- also, Lightbridge....

    Apologies to Venom battery. Turns out that, coincidentally, while flying the new 13000mAh battery from Venom, our 3Drobotics X8+ had an ESC short out and burn up. It's been two weeks, however we have rebuilt the thing, which involved replacing all ESC's and, well, launching. I am going to...
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    A BIG battery question--- also, Lightbridge....

    Now that I've reviewed our log files, it is starting to look like our barometer failed. Originally we thought the new battery fried our ESC, but it now looks like barometer failed, crash landing, burnt ESC because motor unable to rotate. Now I need to determine what Err: BARO-2 means. From...
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    A BIG battery question--- also, Lightbridge....

    Mike, screen shot from mission planner tlog of failed mission. A lot of time was spent with A over 30. Is this normal, or a fail?
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    A BIG battery question--- also, Lightbridge....

    Hi Mike, Yes, we do fly with telemetry link. I have the tlog file and, well now I guess I will try to decipher it. The pixhawk seems fine. The "fire" seems to have been isolated to the electronic speed controllers (A person, Pyrate, on another post here identified the thing for me) . One of...
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    what the heck is this?

    Thanks Pyrate. Completely helpful, and totally correct from what the Internet is telling me. Electronic speed controller. 20 amp. Anything else I should know before I order one from my local hobby shop? Like would this (Flycolor 20 Amp Multi-rotor ESC 2~4S with BEC be a suitable replacement for...
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    what the heck is this?

    Microcontroller by Glen Larsen posted Aug 24, 2016 at 5:02 PMHey x8r's, could someone tell me what this thing is. One of mine on the x8+ got fried by Venom Battery's 13000mAh. If I could name the item I may be able to find a replacement. Cheers
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    A BIG battery question--- also, Lightbridge....

    Our experience with Venom's 13000mAh battery on the X8+: