Recent content by ericos

Skipholiday, Thanks for the advice on the gps. I hadn't thought of that and will look into it. Sounds like that could help. And OI photography, thanks for the info on the go pro wiring (I was afraid of that). TKN Quad, I don't have any solid numbers for flight time. Yes it is the full fpv...

Hey all, I've been trying to get my phantom down to the 1300 grams called for in the manual. I have an iosd mini, the dii 5.8 transmitter with clover leaf, zenmuse gimbal, and the go pro, and a tracking gps in case of emergency. I was weighing in at 1400 grams. I tried to reduce weight over...

Huh... I noticed that my compass calibration stopped working too. I didn't have any lights indicating that it needed calibrating, but I thought it strange. My phatom 2 software is set for "Naza-M" and not "Phantom" because I wanted to be able to enable atti mode. Are you saying that if you...

You may be right, but from the best I can tell it is using gps. I think the sim card is required to send the map data to the phone. When I get the text back from the unit it either reports "GSM" in which case it is not terribly accurate. Most of the time however it reports "GPS" and it seems...

Thanks for the advice. That all makes good sense. I hadn't notice any problem with prop wash (or whatever its called) in relation to the mounting plate and poor flight characteristics, but I'm fairly new to flying this thing so not sure I would notice it if there was. Guess I'll ditch the...

Bugatti, Got home and measured the dimensions of the tracker I mentioned earlier. It's 4.75cm x 7cm x 1.5cm.

It flies fine, not straining, but I try to keep my flights at around 10 min. When I'm not on a full battery is when I get into trouble. Over the weekend I was descending quickly at a little past the 10 min mark and It was not a graceful landing. Not enough power to overcome the descent. I...

With battery and sim card it weights 53 grams. Not sure about dimensions. I'll try to measure when I get home. I have a photo of how I mounted it in this post: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=6558 I too was concerned about overall weight. ('im at 1400 grams) Thats what the post was about, but the gps...

After I lost a phantom 1 I decided I better buy some insurance, so I bought this tracker: http://www.cedarpc.com/cgi-bin/commerce ... QgodgG0AAw (I posted a link because I don't even know what the thing is called). This link is to a refurbished one but there are new ones out there. It requires...

Hi all. I've been reading for about a month, but this is my first post. I'm wondering what the ramifications are for excessive weight on the Phantom 2. The manual says 1300 grams or less. I weighed mine, and it came in at 1399 grams. I have a go pro, gopro battery, dji video transmitter and...