Well, that was fast!
I was sleeping in late today when my phone chirped to tell me the FedEx guy had dropped off my GPS gizmo at my door. Cool beans!
And, for those guys worried about the installation - no worries. It's strictly a plug-and-play deal: take out the old, put in the new, shazaam. If you've done as much as install the GPS cardboard mod, that basically exactly what you're doing here. The only tool you need is the screwdriver that came with your gimbal. I went from unlocking my door to turning on Solo in roughly 15 min (but I've had Solo apart a zillion times, yer mileage mayest vary.).
After snapping the GPS cover back on I sat Solo on the floor and powered it on. At first, I'd say three minutes, the indicators showed no satellites at all. Not good!
Then, bingo! One, two, three... the count stopped at eight in my huge brick apartment building, the kind with the gravel/tar lined roof. At six, Solo announced it was ready to fly.
I powered everything down and repeated the procedure - like I suspected, the first time was slowest and likely won't be repeated unless I fly somewhere completely new. In under a minute I was ready to fly.
The weather in this part of Ohio right now prevents me from running outside and throwing everything at the sky: I'll hopefully burn through a few batteries tonight and can issue a more complete report.
However, I'll say this: I have never, not once, had Solo reach flight lock inside my apartment. For that matter I've never picked up more than three satellites.
Color me very, very initially impressed. I'm anxious to see what differences there will be in position holding: the bulk of my videos are of the how-to variety, in which I use Solo very much like a tripod. I'll park it six feet in front of my face, talk into the lens for awhile, etc., in effect using it as a artificial live human operator.
It's really kind of funny in this regard. The Solo system is incredibly well suited for my purposes, much more so that any thing else I can think of aside from three or four actual people filming me.
how long do you think it will take them to get more stock? Also, are there other gps upgrade units you can recommend? Thanks!
