- Joined
- Aug 7, 2015
- Messages
- 235
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- 94
- Age
- 66
- Location
- Sanford, FL
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Well... My Solo crashed, HARD.
Solo will have to go back to the factory. Lost complete battery power at 0% at altitude and Solo flipped upside down and came spiraling down and landed legs up in a grass parking lot just behind a friends pickup truck.
Impact ejected the GoPro and landed about 30 feet away, GoPro also almost ejected SD card from the impact but was able to recover flight video, which stopped when the battery hit 0%. So, don't count on internal GoPro battery to continue video once flight battery hits 0%. Hope 3DR can fix that so it will switch over to GoPro battery to record the rest of the video.
Battery and GPS cover ejected along with two of the LED light covers. All 4 propellers destroyed.
Damage summary: Solo GPS will not work even after inspection, why I have no idea, Internal Gimbal HDMI connector ripped off. And to boot, for some reason the Controller now has a white/blank display with no data showing on it. I hope to be able to recover log files prior to shipment to 3DR.
Number 2 flight battery is shot = never run a LiPo battery pack to <10% capacity. It crashed with 0% battery and that on is now a paper weight.
So time to say goodbye to Solo as I send it back for repair. NEVER fly your battery lower than 25%, land it NOW, period!
I take the blame for being a stupid, lesson learned. Just glad no one or vehicle got hit. This is a real bummer....
Cheers
Solo will have to go back to the factory. Lost complete battery power at 0% at altitude and Solo flipped upside down and came spiraling down and landed legs up in a grass parking lot just behind a friends pickup truck.
Impact ejected the GoPro and landed about 30 feet away, GoPro also almost ejected SD card from the impact but was able to recover flight video, which stopped when the battery hit 0%. So, don't count on internal GoPro battery to continue video once flight battery hits 0%. Hope 3DR can fix that so it will switch over to GoPro battery to record the rest of the video.
Battery and GPS cover ejected along with two of the LED light covers. All 4 propellers destroyed.
Damage summary: Solo GPS will not work even after inspection, why I have no idea, Internal Gimbal HDMI connector ripped off. And to boot, for some reason the Controller now has a white/blank display with no data showing on it. I hope to be able to recover log files prior to shipment to 3DR.
Number 2 flight battery is shot = never run a LiPo battery pack to <10% capacity. It crashed with 0% battery and that on is now a paper weight.
So time to say goodbye to Solo as I send it back for repair. NEVER fly your battery lower than 25%, land it NOW, period!
I take the blame for being a stupid, lesson learned. Just glad no one or vehicle got hit. This is a real bummer....
Cheers