Jello and cold weather

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Flew in -10 Celsius with windchill of -18. Most of the video has jello in it.

Flew yesterday, at 0 degrees and almost no jello.

So my theory is that rubber absorbers become more solid in cold weather and produce more jello.

Anyone here to confirm it?

P.S. i use white stock absorbers
 
Took the words out of my mouth. I've found this but at a different range of temperatures; for example, I consistently get jello below 3ºC. I use 2 thin black dampers and 2 white ones incidentally, and on an F450 so although our situations aren't identical, your findings back up my suspicions that low temperature affects the damper balls' effectiveness.
 
Replace the damper balls with 1/4" wide rubber bands. Just basically tie the bottom part of the gimbal to the upper if you really want to do winter flying. Use zip ties as a backup just in case the bands break.
 

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