Greetings everyone!
My name is Pablo and I live in Argentina.
I finally got my fist Phantom last month! I previously owned a toy quadcopter which altough it had a nice camera, on my fist trip to the mountain, a strong wind pushed him out of the reach of the RC and went straigh down a river!
With the phantom, is like enetring a new leage! Videos are amazing!
Enough presentation, lets get to the low range problems.
I bought the P3S on jan 2015 and after unboxing I updated software to v1.8.0.0
I noticeed at the very begining that the range was not OK. I´ve started to see erratic signal reception when I hit it 40 to 70 mts (either vertical or horizontal). Even using a printed windsuf antenna, the numbers where really bad.
With the drone static in the air, on one moment I had full signal, and on other I got low RC signal warning, untill finally RTH was activated.
(keep in mind thant since I´m in Argentina, my RC is set to CE most probably.
At first I though it might be the wifi routers, the many trees arround, etc.
But I tried some days later my drone on the farm and on the beach, with the same result.
So, after reading & researching, relinking the RC, reading some more, calibrating RC, reading some more, calibrating the ICM and reading some more, I finally decided to open the RC.
I´ts difficult to explain the releaf sensation when i slightly pressed the 5.8 pigtail connectod, and felt that unique sensation of the connector snapping in.
After that and some hot glue later, Chorizo was tested (chorizo is like a "saugage" vey traditional during bbq´s, and its my P3S name). Got to 150 mts horizontal and 101 vertical with good signal, and altough i did had few signal lost, the RTH never got to kick in as the signal was recovered (keep in mind, a lot of tree, wifi, Mhz data links, etc. near-by).
Conclusion, another P3S with the antenna connector unpluged, for the count!
Regards!
P.
My name is Pablo and I live in Argentina.
I finally got my fist Phantom last month! I previously owned a toy quadcopter which altough it had a nice camera, on my fist trip to the mountain, a strong wind pushed him out of the reach of the RC and went straigh down a river!
With the phantom, is like enetring a new leage! Videos are amazing!
Enough presentation, lets get to the low range problems.
I bought the P3S on jan 2015 and after unboxing I updated software to v1.8.0.0
I noticeed at the very begining that the range was not OK. I´ve started to see erratic signal reception when I hit it 40 to 70 mts (either vertical or horizontal). Even using a printed windsuf antenna, the numbers where really bad.
With the drone static in the air, on one moment I had full signal, and on other I got low RC signal warning, untill finally RTH was activated.
(keep in mind thant since I´m in Argentina, my RC is set to CE most probably.
At first I though it might be the wifi routers, the many trees arround, etc.
But I tried some days later my drone on the farm and on the beach, with the same result.
So, after reading & researching, relinking the RC, reading some more, calibrating RC, reading some more, calibrating the ICM and reading some more, I finally decided to open the RC.
I´ts difficult to explain the releaf sensation when i slightly pressed the 5.8 pigtail connectod, and felt that unique sensation of the connector snapping in.
After that and some hot glue later, Chorizo was tested (chorizo is like a "saugage" vey traditional during bbq´s, and its my P3S name). Got to 150 mts horizontal and 101 vertical with good signal, and altough i did had few signal lost, the RTH never got to kick in as the signal was recovered (keep in mind, a lot of tree, wifi, Mhz data links, etc. near-by).
Conclusion, another P3S with the antenna connector unpluged, for the count!
Regards!
P.
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