At the beginning of April I finally had my first flight with the Solo. It was very good! The setting on the 4 Black were perfect and the 3D gimble performed great. The flight was 18 minutes. My problem was that the battery meter on my Ipad mini never went lower than 100% for the solo. I took the unit home and charged up the battery. After the charge, I turned the unit on and it started to beep loud and constantly. I tried several power ups and connected to the Mission Planner to see if there was any issues. None that I could find. I then contacted support and they said it was a disconnected GPS unit and asked me to watch a vid on YouTube to see if it was the same sound.... It was not!
I then made my own video and posted so 3DR could hear what I hear.
Here is the link:
The Good... somewhat
After 3DR reviewed it, they sent me the paperwork to send it back o them for either repair or replacement. the first problem was the paperwork that 3DR sent did not include the FCC customs forms for the drone. The box sat at FedEx until I was able to complete the form information. At that point I was on a road trip and had to turn around to sign a form at the depot that the FCC information for both Canada and the US was correct.
The Bad
My wife ordered two extra batteries and had them sent to my friends house in WA as we are in Canada and were planning on visiting down in the area when 3DR had that one weekend 2 for 1 sale on batteries. For what ever reason they ignored my name and address and somehow sent the replacement unit to WA and not Canada.
It was a bit of a battle to get hem to reroute the replacement to the correct address in Canada. But they were able to do it. A week or so later it arrived today!
I then made my own video and posted so 3DR could hear what I hear.
Here is the link:
The Good... somewhat
After 3DR reviewed it, they sent me the paperwork to send it back o them for either repair or replacement. the first problem was the paperwork that 3DR sent did not include the FCC customs forms for the drone. The box sat at FedEx until I was able to complete the form information. At that point I was on a road trip and had to turn around to sign a form at the depot that the FCC information for both Canada and the US was correct.
The Bad
My wife ordered two extra batteries and had them sent to my friends house in WA as we are in Canada and were planning on visiting down in the area when 3DR had that one weekend 2 for 1 sale on batteries. For what ever reason they ignored my name and address and somehow sent the replacement unit to WA and not Canada.
It was a bit of a battle to get hem to reroute the replacement to the correct address in Canada. But they were able to do it. A week or so later it arrived today!