Re: To everyone who has lost a Phantom, you may get it back
Great to hear and thanks for posting. We need more good stories like yours. Well done mate!
Great to hear and thanks for posting. We need more good stories like yours. Well done mate!
Mal_PV2_Ireland said:Great to hear and thanks for posting. We need more good stories like yours. Well done mate!
djczing said:One thing I forgot.
I am going to do the GPS shielding mod. However, it will cause more heat buildup in the GPS unit, at least, and less of a cavern to disperse heat in the rest of the bird.
More heat and temperature warming/cooling worry me a bit. I spose the best thing to do would be to get the primary components (like the GPS chip(s)) and spec them out and see what max temp is, and if heat variance might destabilize the GPS (or the rest of the components).
In that vein, it would be interesting to see how many of these flyaway incidents were on shield-modded aircraft, and how many not. I don't think you are giving up one fly-away reason in exchange for another, but it could be...
Just a thought...
yali said:Mal_PV2_Ireland said:Great to hear and thanks for posting. We need more good stories like yours. Well done mate!
My native language is not English. My English teacher once told me that "more good" is wrong, you should use "BETTER"
wow man, that sucks!nexus said:Lost mine the other day, never came home. And I had all the software updates and did the GPS calibration without error and waited for the home position lock lights.
It's sucks, but going by your screen shot, you were not too far from the Phantom. I have had bees and birds almost knock mines out of the sky before, but never had it run away on me, even using an app called V+ booster that really did work.
Sorry for your loss, I feel ya pain.
Are you SURE your S1 and S2 switches are 100% reliable?NRL777 said:I had an interesting flyaway this weekend. Home lock worked and it came back after I engaged failsafe RTH twice.
I was practicing at about 50 ft in course lock and homelock mode rotating the V2+ with latest firmware updates as I flew along the course route..
I did this a few times to practice filming at a particular position and flying to another postion.
This was all done with it in record mode, with a GPS count of 6-7.. and I was aware the it did drop 1 gps when in record mode.
As it was rotating round and round but moving in a straight line, it went left of me and I could not control it other then thrust.. it wanted to go left.. and kept going as I tried to stay calm to get control back. I moved from course lock to home.
Nothing, tried course lock again, did not follow grid lines set, then I did ATTI mode..
By the time I had itin ATTI mode it was at least .5- .75 miles away, wind was at 15-20 spordic. I just kept it climbing higher and higher to keep a sight of it. Then I tried RTH, and it didn't seem to work..
Then I tried GPS Mode again, hoping it would regain 6 or more GPS lock, tried homelock mode and pulled the stick back, and it FINALLY started to come back..and made it back to home position.
Phew, talk about adrenaline pumping action! The footage is awesome (see if I can upload it soon).
Now that I think of it, I should have stopped RECORD mode right away!
So long story short, I did the gps shielding mod that night and well attempt to repeat what I was doing before the flyaway...
Do you think it was the compass gone awry because I was spinning it 360 in courselock/homelock mode? And confusing it when the GPS dropped into atti mode due to low GPS coverage?
I will now be using satpredictor and will check for number of US Satellites above me whenever I fly..
nexus said:Lost mine the other day, never came home. And I had all the software updates and did the GPS calibration without error and waited for the home position lock lights.
It's sucks, but going by your screen shot, you were not too far from the Phantom. I have had bees and birds almost knock mines out of the sky before, but never had it run away on me, even using an app called V+ booster that really did work.
Sorry for your loss, I feel ya pain.