Recent content by BDFlyer

I drowned mine in a river, I mean shoulder high river. I learned two things from that outing. Trees are evil, and if you pull a bird out of a river the first thing to do is pull the battery and shut it off. I replaced the main board and battery to now have a quad that flies and shoots great...

One of my adventures with my quad is that I had to replace the main board... at least 25 solder points, two cables and gimbal cushions to bring my Phantom 3 Standard back to life. Go for it.

I understand. I tapped a tree branch about 8 months ago and the bird dropped into a river. We spent about 1/2 hour wading for it and found it. Once held above the water, it started burning. Two of the chips on a quad of the main board were burned. The battery is basically dead, having smoked...

Yes! I do! I had to wait a couple of days to not have rain and then I was able to try it out. My first challenge was the GPS didn't update it's location, and thought it was near the Grand Canyon, thus not allowed to fly. It took a couple of on-off cycles before it updated. I had to of course...

About 5-6 months ago, last year I was trying to shoot a video at the direction of my wife whom is very artistic and ended up crashing into a tree branch over a river, which downed the bird into the river. Half an hour later, after both of us had waded in shoulder deep water against current, she...

Thank you everyone. I have three more wires to go and they are all attached. Then come a test with no propellers and on from there. I can't wait to be airborne. Sent from my iPad using PhantomPilots

Thanks, I'll give that a try! TIm Sent from my iPad using PhantomPilots

I forgot to add that the board I bought is secondhand and has the solder on it already. I had tried to desolder the old board but could not get these same connections to melt then either. Sent from my iPad using PhantomPilots

I am working to repair my P3 that drowned and smoked out a couple of chips on the main board. I'm right now trying to solder the wires back on and finding that the solder for the RD YW and BK wires, which are thicker and for the motor is needing more heat than the others. Does anyone know what...

Storm with firework... brave one you are. Sent from my iPad using PhantomPilots

Very nice video. You may have noticed the most eye catching shots are when there us a point of reference, such as shoreline. I learned that shooting while flying over incoming waves is a pretty unexciting shot. I have not done much over water shooting, it's a bit scary. Sent from my iPad...

Well, there it is.. I had searched for the part number and found nothing.. Thank you so much!

I am replacing the main board and the battery. It was a bad crash with the drone underwater for a while.

Now to find someone in the USA that has it....

That's it, yes!, but that particular part link goes to one for advanced pro. I have a standard. I can look around. Thank you!