Recent content by Pacmanfever

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    The BIGGEST Barrier to Real Estate Missions...

    Right now the housing market is white hot, houses in many markets are selling within hours and often above list price. Extra marketing efforts aren't as necessary as they'd be in a slower market; I think most drone work for real estate would involve high end properties that tend to be on the...
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    Copper Dust On Two Rotors

    You can use a magnet to see if it is iron oxide (rust) from a ferrous source like a ball bearing, or bronze which is non-magnetic. If the motors have bronze bushings instead of ball bearings, you may be seeing bronze particles wearing from that surface. I haven't taken a DJI motor fully apart...
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    Drone Eclipse?

    I picked up some eclipse viewing cardboard glasses at the hardware store that have some type of thin film mylar-like lenses. They were $3 bucks, and I bet you could cut those out to protect your camera lens without throwing off the gimbal balance. One of the earlier posters may have said it...
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    China Gimbal Variation for FC200 Camera, installation?

    I never used mine, it's still new in the box because the following week a Vision+ with a damaged ribbon cable popped up on my local Craigslist cheap, and I fixed that. If you'd like, I'll sell the new Gimbal with the cables for what I paid, I think it was $69 + shipping. I'd take $70 and I'll...
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    SAFE DISTANCE FROM OVERHEAD HIGH VOLTAGE POWER LINES

    When my neighborhood was under construction, a concrete pumper truck got his boom too close to overhead lines and it burnt the truck to the ground. He had a spotter but what they didn't account for was the field attraction of the line to the boom a couple of feet away. It was an almost new...
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    News Helicopter vs Drone

    International navigation laws, and FAA regs don't take into account who has "first dibs" on a news story. Manned aircraft has the highest priority for right-of-way -vs- drones.
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    Thinking about buying a tablet instead of smartphone.

    I added an Inspire 1 mount to my PV2+ radio last week, the problem with a sunscreen is the thickness that it adds under the table, coupled with the rounded back edges of the tablet; means the grippers on the holder can't get a purchase on the edge of the tablet. They're too short with a...
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    Propellers

    I think it's a guy thing, put carbon fiber on something and it has to be better right? Actually cast resin carbon fiber is a bad idea in this case, there is no way to get linear uniform flex resistance so the tracking goes bad resulting in more drag and then everything gets unstable. This...
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    Propellers

    Don't buy the knock-off OXOXOX cheap white props either, they're very poorly balanced. The first Phantom I bought used off Craigslist was unstable and I noticed the prop tracking was way off but the props looked like regular DJI props. Then I read about the markings on them, genuine DJI props...
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    China Gimbal Variation for FC200 Camera, installation?

    I haven't had time to work on it, it's been a crazy busy week with travel & my oldest son going off to college, also house-guest last weekend and this weekend. The info JDot posted is awesome, I think we'll have no problems now. Thank God for people like him.
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    Adding an Inspire 1 Tablet Holder to P2V+ Transmitter

    This ASUS tablet is curved on the back and is just thick enough that the grippers can't get a good purchase on the edge. I'll have to fire up the 3D printer and make some clip on adapters.
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    A sports pilot license ain't cheap!!!!

    There is an inherent danger in having people earn a Sport Pilots License just for drone operations because if they rarely fly a plane, they're much more likely to have an accident when they do decide to fly. NTSB statistics back this up. If you're going to fly, you need to do it often enough...
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    Adding an Inspire 1 Tablet Holder to P2V+ Transmitter

    I flew with my ASUS tablet last night using the Inspire 1 holder, the only disappointment was the grippers aren't tall enough to securely hold the tablet. I can't use the sunshade and the tablet is just barely held in place, any slight bump and it goes tumbling. It's even worse with a sunshade...
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    How do you clean your phantom?

    Be careful using a vacuum for cleaning, they produce a high electrostatic discharge at the nozzle end that will zap your circuit boards.
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    Adding an Inspire 1 Tablet Holder to P2V+ Transmitter

    That's exactly what I was looking for, my search skills need a little help apparently. The rivet-nut is a great suggestion and I picked up the tool and an assortment of rivet-nuts from Harbor Freight today. The 1/4-20 they sell has the threads recessed and requires a hard crimp which I worried...