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    We are looking for members opinions

    I'm an old fart so maybe that explains this, but I still can't see the draw to Facebook. It's a mystery to me. The pages there are more cluttered with garbage I'm not interested in than any of the forums I like to visit, which is why I visit those forums I like. Seems to me that at least one...
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    We are looking for members opinions

    to me, it all comes down to traffic. Maybe it's just my own preference, but I MUCH prefer a lively forum to a database wearing a forum "mask". It almost doesn't matter if there are tons of "nothing" posts, but if there's nothing to read, then nobody show up to read it. I recently re-added the...
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    Hello from Kansas City, Missouri!

    I've been going a little nuts this week. Originally I had a good little build in mind for my current 250 quad project, then I fell off a cliff. I picked up a nice little ALCE OSD module a while back. It's an On-Screen-Display which overlays various information on top of your FPV video picture...
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    Hello from Kansas City, Missouri!

    Hi. I'm in KC, KS !! That Hubsan is always the quad I recommend to folks who want to give them a try. Cheap to buy, difficult to damage, indoors is easy so weather doesn't matter and the flying is exactly the same as anything else so it's an excellent thing to practice and get secure with your...
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    RTFQuads Mini 4-in-1 ESC help please

    A very long time ago I purchased and received a 4-in-1 ESC from Ready To Fly Quads. From what I've seen, I'm probably lucky to have got it at all, but now that I have it, I'd like to know if I should move forward with it or punt for something better (easier?). This thing is a bit of a "kit" as...
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    New member, first build. Could use some advice.

    Hi folks. I got pretty busy for a while and haven't had much time to play with my toys. But the past few days I've been kind of getting back into it. Last weekend I ordered a Fat Shark FPV setup. It's the full kit thing with Predator goggles and 600tvl camera. I am impressed with the latency, or...
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    need help with current setup... before I judo chop this than

    I'm kinda new to lipos, but is it a big no-no to power something off the balance plug? You could just span across the right gap and get any voltage from 1S to the full battery off that. Gimbal shouldn't draw too awful much power. Then again, flight controller and receiver would probably not be...
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    250 class FPV build

    It just needs 5V (max 5.5V) input. Do you have any connector stuff laying around? If not, I wonder if you could get enough stuff cheap at a local hobby or electronics shop to just put together a battery or battery pack just to power the receiver. Just need gnd and (approximately)+5V on two...
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    Facebook Integration, Log in with your Facebook account

    What's a facebook? Sounds a little painful.
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    New member, first build. Could use some advice.

    I just got done flying the 250 a little. It needs more fine tuning but it's not too bad. It's fairly stable whatever I try to do with it and it seems to cut through the wind like a knife.. MAN this thing is fast ! (at least for me it seems so). It's a total hoot! And all those LEDs look great in...
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    Bored at the office? Try this...

    Looks like it took several hundred takes. You can see how the quad blew the leaves and piled it up off the clear green grass path you flew ;)
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    New member, first build. Could use some advice.

    I got the little 250 together last night and started fiddling with it today. I've been trying to wrap my head around PID settings and I think I've got a vague idea what to do, but I haven't ironed it out yet. D'oh! I just this second realized that I've been doing is trying to adjust kP settings...
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    Need some help choosing a frame!

    toAFC76: What kind of flight times are you getting with those 4000mah? Saw a post on another forum they are getting over a half hour (different setup obviously). Wouldn't expect that with 4000mah but even 15+ minutes wouldn't be bad for me I think.
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    Quadrotor with Honkable Horn

    They make a spray for that. I think they call it "Buckshot" Don't get any on your quad
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    New member, first build. Could use some advice.

    Yea. My approach with the S500 MR was not to try too much at one time, but I think I still dove in just a little too deep. I'm hoping that the 250 with a much simpler but still capable controller will give me less grief and be more enjoyable. It might be good to be working out on the 250 how to...
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