Ideal compass mod

[lloydDugmore]

Does anyone know what sort of range I should be aiming to get my phantoms compass to be within?
I am in South Africa and cannot get my mod to below 2500. I watched a video tutorial on you tube posted by dji on how to calibrate a compass properly and the ideal range was stated to be around 1800-1600. I was wondering if that was location specific? Anyone know?

 

[Mal_PV2_Ireland]

There are problems with location, luckily enough here in ireland its not a problem so I havent really looked into it too much. Maybe someone else can give you a link to a map of problem locations. Ideally your compass mod should be 1200 but anywhere from 900 to 1800 is best (someone correct me if I'm wrong but I know I'm not too far off) I know 1800 is the upper ideal limit for sure. Try hooking your phantom up to your computer and in the assistant software do a basic calibration and then an advanced calibration. If the mod doesnt come down below 1800 you may have to try resetting the compass with a magnet BUT THIS IS ONLY DONE AS A FINAL RESORT, BE WARNED. There is an old dji video with Colin Guin showing how to do this on a phantom 1. Please read up more on this if you really have to do this first mate.

 

[EMCSQUAR]

Video here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCT1rRE_UIg

 

[Mal_PV2_Ireland]

Video here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCT1rRE_UIg

Excellent, thats the video. Fair play mate!

 

[Happyflyer]

WOW! One of Colin's videos DJI didn't pull. They must have missed that one.

 

[BigTulsa]

WOW! One of Colin's videos DJI didn't pull. They must have missed that one.

Probably because that one was posted not by DJI...

 

[lloydDugmore]

Thanks guys. Yes that is the video I was referring to. OK I'll try advanced calibration via my laptop today. Thanks for the comments guys

 

[lloydDugmore]

So I went out this afternoon... I was running on version 1.08. Tried a couple of advanced ccalibrations with my laptop with no luck.

I upgraded again to version 3 and above. Did an advanced calibration as it was still sitting around 2700 on the compass mod.
It didn't help.
Then I did a compass dance and boom!!! Got it down to 1400.
Flew 2 batteries flat and had no problems.... I think I may have finally got control of my phantom again. Will go out with all three batteries this coming weekend and know for sure.