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New firmware 1.7.8 (01.07.0082) P3S
- Thread starter Ojcze Nasz
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Don't believe it. It's ALL about where you fly, has been and will always be. It's radio frequency we're talking about, and that's all about weather, LOS (no trees or buildings) and interference. I've gone 1000m with a stock setup, but can drive down the road on the same day with the same craft and only make it to 400m because of interference in that area.
If I was living in the USA...I would have returned this product already
I have now missed two potential incomes....one being an annual surfing competition...
If only I could get 500m height and 700m distance I would be a happy flyer...but 70m not cutting it....
I have now missed two potential incomes....one being an annual surfing competition...
If only I could get 500m height and 700m distance I would be a happy flyer...but 70m not cutting it....
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The good thing is that i can get my moneyback .and he adviced me to wait a few days for the new firmware before i return it.
I tested at open area the fw... Not perfect.... max alltitude is 60 m, and max distance 110 meters and then signal lost, and rth. Maybe the argtek mod fails? I bought with it. Maybe i will ty with the stock antenna tomorow...
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No problem. I checked my battery and it's actually 6800mah. I charge it for 30-60 min after every flight but it always seems to be a full charge.
I'm thinking of changing the plugs to a deans type low resistance typically used on land based RC since I have so many and can then charge and monitor the voltage with my lipo charger.
Haha. Yea so far seems to be working. I figured I'd give it a shot to see what happens.
I definitely lost my video before my control, and I ended up doing RTH until I could see the bird about 0.75 - 1.0 miles away and then fly in by line of sight not getting video back until I come about 10 feet away. Maybe it's something I did wrong. It happened one other time where I was flying around a lighthouse with a ton of wifi interference, not to mention I was on the far side of a lighthouse about 2200 feet away. It happened once, and the other five flights I took around the lighthouse were fine.
Here's one of the lighthouse videos in case your interested:
But typically the video signal is pretty solid if I maintain a clear path from tx to rx.
My video loss happened at 12000-13000 feet out though so I probably should not complain too much. But I do wonder; could it be better if I boost both 2.4's?
Then I think, maybe the P3S has two 2.4 because stock, it only has those two fairly weak internal patch antennas, and not a boosted DBS.
Just tried this myself and it does not work.
My P3S came (second hand) with 1.6.8 which I downgraded to 1.5.7 to address the short range issue. I then manually applied the 27 dBm mod and all worked fine.
I thought I'd try 1.7.8 so disabled the mod and upgraded the P3S via the SD card. That all went well, but I had problems reconnecting with the RC (which may have been down to interference as I was inside my house), so I thought I'd downgrade to 1.6.8 and then to 1.5.7. The first downgrade to 1.6.8 worked, but then I couldn't get it to go to 1.5.7 ("downgrade not supported"). Not wanting to suffer the same range issues, I upgraded again to 1.7.8.
For some reason, the P3S and RC need to be re-linked, but I can't get it to work. I hope this is just too much RF interference in my house so will try again outside somewhere when the weather gets better.
Why are things never as simple as they should be?!
Then it's lucky at least we can downgrade to 1.6, and we need to wait to the official release... Yesterday when i tested beta, i have "disconected" too. When phantom disconect, and cannot reconect, it will rth?
