Recent content by ElGuano

Yep, it's worth reading the manual for these. These modes are pretty easy to use, but IOC must be activated in Assistant first, and each mode has a few gotchas that you really should be familiar with before you play with them. Once you learn them, they're both quite useful tools, particularly...

Putting details aside (endpoints, gains, etc.), manual mode requests linear throttle. 100% throttle on manual is spinning your motors as fast as they'll go for the given voltage provided. That's the full 600-800g/axis. If you needed that much thrust to take off, you have nothing left to maneuver...

If it took 100% on manual to take off, you wouldn't be in the air for long, and you wouldn't be able to control attitude or maneuver :) Ideally, you should be able to take off in manual just over 50% throttle, and be able to hover just at 50%. On some of my heavier Phantoms, it's still easily...

Well, there's already "intelligent orientation control" or IOC if you're not in Phantom mode, that does exactly that. If you're flying in home-lock or course-lock modes, the Phantom disregards the direction the Phantom is facing and directs it based on stick input only, as modified by GPS lock...

Idle speed shouldn't need to be changed on a Phantom, the motors/props don't present enough resistant to warrant a change. For manual flyers, it may very well be that you're used to the linear response and ability to run immediately to 100% versus GPS/ATTI modes, but it's hard to tell without...

The app will let you know when you gyro/acces parameters are off enough to require an advanced IMU calibration, but many flyers do so more often. I do one every 10 flights or so or after I make a hardware change on the phantom. I subscribe to the "don't let a problem be your indicator" school of...

A phantom in manual mode maintains user-requested attitude, it doesn't correct for level flight. If you fly in manual and set your attitude for neutral, and fly with a non-center-sprung throttle, you CAN have it hover, but not for long. It'll start drifting after a few seconds due to wind and...

Nice, glad everything is working as it should!

Yes, in the Phantom Assistant, go to the RC tab and select "upgrade controller." That will allow your lever to stay on after the wifi connects. Note that this puts the controller in Rate mode, rather than position mode like the h3-3d uses. That means the gimbal tilts faster the farther you...

I have heard that there may be an unversioned update to the RC Assistant. Try deleting the application and redownloading it from DJI.com. Also, when you calibrate in RC assistant, make sure you calibrate X1 as well, even though it tells you the calibration only works for AETR. Then recalibrate...

There isn't a definitive test. You can always just hover outside and see what happens. But that only tells you it is not failing in the moment. The problem is it could still fail completely at some random time after flight. Maybe the next flight, maybe that one time you are 500m high, maybe...

That's an interesting spot for prop damage - the trailing edge is usually pretty well protected from strikes. Did it happen during flight? I typically have a policy not to fly with props that have any more damage than just cosmetic dings/chips; you don't want these to fail in the air. $10 prop...

From my informal testing, it will auto-discharge a battery that is >65% full down to 65%, after 10 days of no activity. No activity means you never touch the button to turn it on, or even check the charge. It takes a little over a full day to discharge a full battery down to 100%. If you are in...

Depends. I find beginners fly facing away from the pilot almost exclusively, since piloting with stick at reversed or off-side orientation can be very confusing. Once you are comfortable with controls, you fly whatever way works for you, whether nose in or side in, if you're filming a pan...

Heya PJA! Yeah, I have the same mod (sans LED) on my P1 as well. The P2V+ TX is already version 5 of DJI's PCB, it's changed a LOT since the version 1.0/1.1 Phantom TX. So the solder points are almost guaranteed to be different. But the principles are the same: 1. Find the datasheet for your...