Recent content by Johnhi30

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    Brite Lite LED lighting system

    Yes, Thanks Maddog, i appreciate that your efforts weren't all about profit and that you put yourself out to produce a great product to the benefit of many of us.
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    Unable to acquire any Satellites

    Finally got some time to look closely at the mainboard, didnt like the look of the soldering on the GPS connector on the mainboard so gave it some attention with the soldering iron and hey presto we have satellites, thanks for the suggestions along the way. Solo number 3 takes to the Air...
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    Brite Lite LED lighting system

    For those of you wondering what the new star is in the Southern Skies in a week or two's time, it's a set of Maddog's Brite lights in the Sky above New Zealand, on their way now, Thanks for the Awesome service Mark !!!.
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    Unable to acquire any Satellites

    Thanks, if I don’t use a battery will plugging a USB into the Pixhawk power up enough to see if GPS is present from mission planner ?
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    Unable to acquire any Satellites

    Quick question, any tricks to powering up a solo main board while out of the frame so i can check if we now have a GPS Signal, I'm assuming that the controller will show all sorts of Level and compass errors, so is my best chance with Mission Planner ? Or is there anything I can see with Solex...
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    Unable to acquire any Satellites

    Thanks, any idea where the board traces are headed to ? Known pins on the pixhawk ? If I have 5v and ground at the GPS I probably only have to try rerouting two tracks to have a chance at cracking it.
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    Unable to acquire any Satellites

    Hi guys, thanks very much for the suggestions to date, no success so far, but appreciate any clues to help narrow the problem down.
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    1.5 SOLOs for Sale

    If I could find a way to get the Solo’s and the batteries to NZ i’d be keen to buy, for us down under the shipping of batteries is a mission.
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    Unable to acquire any Satellites

    Hello All. I have come by a used Solo that never acquires any Satellites, app always shows 0 in red for Satellites and the Solo gives a continuous alert tone maybe 20 secs after boot. Same tone as in this video Solo and Controller are running Opensolo 3.0.0, I have reinstalled OpenSolo on...