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I agree about the prices being relatively affordable -- a nice feature of a much lighter craft is the savings in battery cost. By the way, I paid $169 at allerc.com and that is their list price now. Have you tried the 5700 mAh yet?

I'm sure it's possible, but it wouldn't be easy. The Inspire uses a "smart" battery with its own internal hardware for monitoring charge, balancing, and even automatically discharging to storage level in a set number of days if unused. Much of the software is relying on that hardware. There are...

Mine arrived today. So far, just one flight to get the feel of it. I can't say there is anything about the flight capability that is blowing me away so far. It's fine. Winds here were a little gusty today and it handles that well enough, but not like a big heavy rig. It feels like a small quad...

Mine should be here this week. From what I've seen, the footage is better than (I) expected, but still just OK. It's not up to GoPro standards but is very close and given that the Inspire lens is not a fish-eye, the end result is pretty much GoPro comparable (after a de-fisheye or shooting...

Still don't get it, but I'll let it go.

I had decent luck with a nanotech 2200 3s battery. Flight times were around 10 minutes if I recall correctly. Those Pulse lipos should work well I would think. Good luck!

I agree that it is all pretty much irrelevant, and assuming one decides to calibrate ESCs then using the receiver for the build makes as much sense as anything. My motivation here is to understand why things are done a certain way. And, as I noted above, the logic of calibrating ESCs to the...

Why? This whole ESC calibration exercise seems like a ritual based on some past necessity but irrelevant today with modern flight controllers and radios. Just take the advice repeated here of calibrating "to the receiver you are going to use". Forget for a moment that the receiver never sends...

I have always been confused by this. Can you tell me where I'm going wrong here? During actual use, the RX from the radio is connected to the flight controller. The controller is connected to the ESCs. The flight controller is making all sorts of decisions about how much power to send to each...

Bart, thanks for all of the effort you have put into this. I know you are doing all you can to get our voices into the conversation. This may not have been the right option for the resources available at this time, and sometimes making the decision to take a step back is the best thing to do. I...

For me it would all come down to the camera. I've been following the Inspire release and looking at a lot of photo and video output and I think the end results are pretty poor for the total cost. Everything else looks just terrific (built-in HD downlink, full featured app, easy out of the box...

Here is the thread where I discussed the issue: http://multirotorforums.com/threads/escs-and-extended-power-wires-should-we-add-capacitors.19336/ A 680 sized frame is about 27 inches in diameter (motor-to-moter), so leaving room for the center plate, the ESC itself, etc., I can't imagine the...

You will be fine with XT-60 connectors. While the ESCs are rated at 15A, the motors under full load should be well under that. Additionally, you won't put full load on the motors anyway if the build weight is appropriate -- most of your flying will be far under that. Finally, there are tons of...

Reviving an older thread here... I've come to really like DJI's Lightbridge. Sure, I don't need HD video to frame a shot, but it sure is nice. Today over on another forum I posted some thoughts on details in the Lightbridge control signaling and thought readers here might be interested. As...

Bart, One thing any RC flyer can do (and here I'm thinking about line of sight flying) is to drop quickly if any plane or helicopter is nearby. That's easy to do by sound alone, so while a guy on the ground may not have the vantage point to literally employ "see and avoid" he can do a lot to...

As long as manned helis are at any altitude they like and planes go below 400' routinely regardless of any rules in place (gotta get that pic!) then there is zero space available for anything else. If the manned aircraft demand deference (and often for competing in the same space commercially as...

This is all so stupid. I would much rather have a multirotor over my neighborhood than some guy in a small plane or helicopter a few hundred feet up trying to take photos. Just once I would like to see government do something competently and intelligently. The only hope is that the big money...

No, I ended up going with a Zenmuse BMPCC on my S1000. I've been busy on other things, but still plan to get the MOVI in the air.

And now I fully appreciate the importance of "see and avoid" (you all can see me learning in real time!). What I now understand is that existing manned rules leave basically zero airspace untouched, and even over private land. Add the attitude that manned aircraft trump RC/"drones" due to pilot...

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the logic of random heli pilots having the right to buzz my house and blame me if they hit my multirotor while doing it. Or how about this class G space where some guy in a plane can fly over my farm at 1' if he likes? I'm learning here and one thing I'm...