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    old batteries

    stock gimble and camera. Of course I heard about the camera popping off on a hard landing years ago so I made my own little keeper thing. I started to make a bunch of them, I was going to sell them on Ebay, but I couldn't get them to be consistent enough and look professional enough so I gave...
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    old batteries

    haha yeah I did that once and lasted about 5 seconds before I crashed. I tried it when I was too close to the ground - no time for corrections, and I never tried it again. After that I concentrated more on taking good videos, getting smooth pans, etc. Slow and boring haha I still have my...
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    old batteries

    I already bought two Phantom batteries on Amazon but thank you for this. I will keep this in my back pocket and I may end up making this mod. I wish I would have known about this before I bought the two batteries, I would have done this mod in a heartbeat! I still might. I'm a wiring fool. Thank...
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    2 years in a time warp

    Good call, yes I was in Long Beach at Marina Vista Park. speaking about bad apples and not following the rules... I met a friend in San Dimas yesterday. He has a DJI Mavic something or the other. He was at the campground next to Brackett Field Airport. He said his Mavic would not even launch, it...
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    2 years in a time warp

    Well it works. It works better than I do haha. I was pretty rusty and I flew low and slow, but I have control and was recording video and flight data. It doesn't spin on a dime, I need to calibrate it, but it is good enough to fly. I'm relieved. Now I just need to practice a little. FAA trust...
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    2 years in a time warp

    OK so I haven't flown my Phantom in close to two years now. It's a Phantom 2 Vision Plus. I drug it out a week ago and tried to charge the batteries and they would not charge or do anything. I asked some questions. It looks like they died. I bought a couple of batteries on Amazon and I got them...
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    old batteries

    well I tried to charge all 3 batteries and they never responded. I followed some voodoo I found on the internet but of course it didn't work. I may as well hop up and down on one leg and hope for a miracle haha. I really try not to buy everything on Amazon but I ended up ordering two batteries...
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    old batteries

    Hey everybody. Happy 2022. It's been a while. It's been a long while. I haven't flown my P2V+ in a couple of years now. I decided to get it out and see if it still works. I have 3 batteries and none of them will charge. I tried all kinds of things hoping to stumble on to a solution. Nope nada...
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    How many have had no major issues of flyaways?

    expect the best but plan for the worst saves your @ss every time in life too, not just quads haha
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    How many have had no major issues of flyaways?

    I bought my P2V+ about a year ago. No issues at all and I have opened her up quite a few times for mods and stuff. I did a stupid thing about a month ago where I used auto take off in Litchi and I forgot about the S1 switch to get out of it. My quad was stuck in the air 20 feet up, unresponsive...
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    I just had the opposite of a fly away

    haha no of course not. I used different aps on different flights. But thanks for all your helpful suggestions about doing work while flying. Jheez.
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    How best to mount compass with the Phantom 2 V+ landing gear removed

    I bought a cheap retractable landing gear kit from ebay a few months ago. I think it was about 40 bucks from China. It worked well enough but I wanted it to be automated so I added a HC-SR04 distance sensor with an arduino nano. When it "sees" the ground at about 2 feet the gear will lower by...
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    I just had the opposite of a fly away

    Of course! The S1 switch. I haven't flown for about a month and totally forgot about the S1 switch. Thats what I use to get out of a way point flight, I should have thought of that. I was to busy panicking. haha that's probably all it was. next time
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    I just had the opposite of a fly away

    I was flying around my shop this morning, just messing around. I used the DJI ap, then the DJI Ultimate Flight ap, then the Litchi ap. I noticed in Litchi it had auto take off. I think I may have tried this once before but since I was just messing around I tried it again. It was cool watching it...
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    Cheapest Tablet 7"+ for Phantom 2 V+?

    I bought an 8" tablet on the cheapo side. I thought I did my homework. It turns out this tablet does not have a compass in it. I still use it and made a mount for it. But do your homework. Cheapo is one way to go but if I had it to do over I'd get a Samsung. ...my 2 cents