I've built 2 550s. Watch the length of the screws holding the motors. I use a 4s 6000 mah battery and get almost 13 minutes. Watch your gain settings as they will be much higher than a quad. One of my 550s uses the aluminum arms from ready made RC and it feels much more locked in than the one...
Well even in the best if builds, there are a lot of things that can go seriously wrong. I've built some real decent birds and have still had problems. That's why I install my Gimbals after I have proof tested the bird usually with a solid mounted GoPro but always running a OSD with GPS. I fly...
Get an Eagletree OSD with GPS. Assuming you fly FPV record your flts on a ground station and DVR. Even easier use the new Fat shark HD goggles with a built in DVR. If you crash just hit replay and record the last GPS positions. Take out your phone and plug the coordinates into Google earth...
I had something similar happen on a high end FLIP FPV quad. 10 successful flts then suddenly a slow uncontrolled descent from 200ft into the ground. Giving it full throttle seemed to slow the descent at the last minute. I had a Eagletree OSD data logger on it and from the ground station DVR got...
Re: Friendly tip --- do not compass calibrate under high vol
Krunk- if you don't believe/ understand that there are strong magnetic fields orthogonal to wires carrying AC current, then please educate us on what you believe is going on. This should be interesting! Please elucidate why you think...
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