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One thing to look out for with the cheaper motors with cir-clips underneath holding them together - Make sure they are intact after a hard landing by trying to lift the motor off the mount. After a minor 217' drop (after one of my motor solder joints gave way...) and my hex being placed firmly...

What I do is use a "Stanley knife" type blade. I keep the blade 90 deg to the prop surface (so it doesn't slice into the prop) and I scrape across / centre-to-tip. It removes very very thin shavings. I find sandpaper doesn't work well on plastic. I use my techinque on plastic and APC props...

I have now sorted two ubecs, one for the board, the other for the servo. I have shared this on the OP board (and Ivan) as well. A good test was had tonight :) It is coming with me to Palmy this weekend. Looking at the weather map, it might be indoor only - although my new camera is...

I had my Openpilot CC board and Hexacopter fail today and the CC board had all of its settings return to default (aeroplane!). It's a great way to get attention! 6 esc's going bip bip bip 1/2 way up a tree for 10 minutes!The UBEC was only putting out 4.75v. Add that to a binding servo on a...

We all know the Gopro is the camera we measure everything against. Well... in walks China with this offering from Chinavasion. At 190 grams, it's not light and quite a bit bigger than the Gopro, but the 190g is everything. Miniature screen, waterproof case (to 1M) and it has a 1/4" screw...

I have done this with two 1.3G links on different channels. No interference - it was sweet... at 1000' on a Trex700. I had the usual camera-operators downlink tx on the rear/base of the underslung mount and the extra downlink from a Sony SuperHAD 1/3" cam on a stalk front/left of the heli...

Oh dear... it looks harder than we thought. My night-time idea is looking really stupid now! The guys at work loved this. Great video ;) Nice touch with the sheep! Will it fit in a bucket???

You are not the only one to have bought the 6mm Ragecam lens.... because I did too. I bought it because I dropped my Gopro on the road and scratched / pittied the lens. It created colour sun spots if the the sun was anywhere at the front side of the camera. Bugga... not happy! The...

Awesome effort Bart - and of course, thanks to DJI :D Let the dancing girls out of the box... :p Pete

Ok... since the 20 acre park is apparently mine, keep your v-quad thingy out of my damn tree!!! Pete ;)

Hi Rick You in the Naki I guess? (I'm ex Stratford). Welcome to the dark work of multis :D I'm using Trex-600 and Trex-700 electric machines as well as building my own multis. As for the "odd puff" on the west coast... (yeah right) the bigger heli handles the wind better than my multis but...

Awesome stuff Juz! Stunning :)

Balls in the buckets on the way out, then having to circle the ball below the top (not above) of each bucket on the way back? That may be a bit hard for some... perhaps the slalom on the way back after going in each bucket? Pete

Should be fun. I'm looking forward to doing this in the dark :D Planning is well advanced already. It helps when you work with a buch of nutter blokes that can't fly... full of suggestions! Pete

Looking good so far... "and the pilot stays standing at one end"? Pete

I'm running Deans copies on everything but the 6S + 12S helis (EC3's as that's what Align used). The last batch I got are ribbed for better grip (minds out of the gutter boys!). The trick with soldering them is using a small vice to keep it still, tin them first and have a WET sponge on hand...

Thanks - it's only the 2nd time I've used the SD9 camera. I bought it 2nd-hand to strap under the hex. I also had the wind-cut filter enabled on the camera which did block some of the wind noise :) Dad/daughter quad pretty soon I think... I have a quad on the sim now so I'll get her...

Here it is... :D Pete

I have had it finished for 2 hours and every time I try to create the final file, it crashes... at 65%. Swearing doesn't help! It is a mixture of the Gopro and the .mts files from my Panny SD9. I've done this combo before... but it won't work tonight! Yes I have restarted the pc, moved...

Nothing to be proud about! Video is compiling... should be up after T :D Awesome day guys. @Stacky - I nearly photo-shopped your finger down in the group photo but I was feeling pretty lazy last night... ;)