Recent content by Chris50ae

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    Battery cell swap

    Anybody ever swap out the cells in a genuine dji battery with cells from an aftermarket battery by soldering old board to new cells thereby keeping the smart battery setup? Pulled my p4p obsidian out after a year and lost one of the batts. Opened up and read 2.25 volts across all 4 cells. She's...
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    Map view won't show up

    Is this true? That would explain why I have to update after not using p4p for a while. It drives me nuts. I only have street version and not satellite overlay every so often in maps.
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    FailSafe motor failure firmware from can land drone with only two motors running

    Looks awesome, and holly cow was that skier lucky!!!!!
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    Cs 7" ultra no maps

    It wasn't wifi, this has been driving me nuts for 6 months ( no sat or hybrid maps), then I did the updates and lost the screen totally, just a black box. Searched internet, dji site, phantompilots and mavicpilots. Found a post on mavicpilots that said there is an update on go4 down at bottom...
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    Cs 7" ultra no maps

    Any of you guys having problems with maps on the CS? I had a general road map for return-to-home and did an update to the CS yesterday and lost it. Have nothing but a blank ( dark) screen where the map was now. I never had the satellite map or hybrid map at all. Now I can't even see if the RTH...
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    Dropped into swimming pool!!

    Salt water, yes, definitely a problem. That's how some people dispose of lipo's. Discharge them as low as possible, then throw in a bucket of saltwater for a week, then trash. We lost a boat that had no flotation and couldn't find it till next day. 6' water, receiver still powered up when it was...
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    Dropped into swimming pool!!

    I'm gonna have to disagree with this statement. I am the VP of a model boat club, we run a lot of electric boats. My boat alone is stuffed (crashed) 4-5 times a day. The batteries, motors and speed controls get wet constantly. Speed controls for boats are designed to be waterproof. But the...