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    Lipo fire Always charge outside lesson learned.

    I had an 8s lipo catch fire while i was 150 feet out on my T-REX 600 2 minutes into the flight Total loss of the heli and burnt half of a field of long grass That battery was less than 20 flights old and was way more than needed in "C" rating Sorry no pic didn't have camera with me
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    F550 Flamewheel Groupner blades and motors wanted.

    G'Day mate Perth r/c are stockists for both Graupner props and DJI parts or Ark r/c Cheers
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    DJI Naza VU power connection

    You usually solder it onto the battery input on your power dist board
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    -how to- shorten that POS sat cable

    mine looks just how Kloner has his set up and cable shortened to fit just with just a little slack SO much tidier cut cable put new plug on with new pins takes all of 15 mins and $3 inparts well worth it and recalibrate the compass it actually seems to lock quicker, less than 15 secs when...
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    GoPro FPV kit

    This fpv stuff is far more additive than recreational drugs my heli fleet has gone from a few to almost nil in the last month and i will sell it all within the month to buy more fpv/quad gear I am really struggling to not buy a QAV500 as i really like the 2 go pro capability and the clean/...
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    Brandnew Naza M - Strange Behavior (Attitude Drops and Gains)

    I had exactly the same problem when i first set up my naza and i figured it out to be when i faced the sun with the left side of the naza it would drop so i played around sheilding the naza in different ways and it was always resolved by covering the left side and only the left side with...
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    Turnigy 9X - What's the REAL story?

    I have bought 3 of the 9x's to use for people who wanted cheap builds made for them and 2 of them lasted no more than 3 months and the 3rd lasted 6 months but was hardly ever flown with and it still just stopped transmitting and the model was lost to the ground gods 2 of them i managed to get...
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    8FG & Naza set-up

    G'Day Des I too have just made the jump to a T8FG Super tx and R6208 sb rx from an aging DX7 (old dsm2) I have my aerials mounted straight to the rx via a crimp on electrical connector ( round bolt on type with plastic removed alloy opened up and 2 aerial tubes glued into crimp amd...
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    NAZA + Ar7000 failsafe/RTH question

    G'Day I never did a firmware upgrade it is just how my rx came with a sticker of v1.6 stuck to the side of the rx from the factory and i bought this radio with the rx about 20 months ago to replace a damaged one Cheers James
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    NAZA + Ar7000 failsafe/RTH question

    This is what i was told by somebody else and it seems to work very much as he describes it QUOTE Originally the AR7000's only let you set the throttle fail safe, and all other channels would just hold their last known position in the event of a lost signal. This is a bad thing if you happen...
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    NAZA + Ar7000 failsafe/RTH question

    My AR7000 rx says batt/data on the front of the case
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    NAZA + Ar7000 failsafe/RTH question

    Well I am sure it does as that is why you take the bind plug out before pushing the bind key leaving the plug in whilst binding will just set it to last known control positions of current flight with low throttle Any way mine works this way and did not whilst binding with the plug in But...
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    NAZA + Ar7000 failsafe/RTH question

    I use the AR7000 and it is a case of when you bind the radio to the tx Place bind plug into rx and power up the rx and while the light is flashing remove the bind plug with out doing any thing else and leave power to rx Then place all switches on the radio into the positions required for...
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    VU not functionin as a BEC

    Would you care to enlighten us as to what the problem actually was so others can learn from this
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    who needed the gps mount

    Hey Guys was it in this post you were talking about the gps mast http://www.multirotorforums.com/showthread.php?5562-Naza-gps-mount Cheers
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