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    Controlled crash ?

    If a motor dies and the quad/hex starts spinning, can its direction still be controlled by switching to Course Lock mode ? Has anybody tried this, either intentionally or by "Hail Mary" ? Rhino
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    GPS Flying today

    I'm a believer ... ...I'm a believer...! Couldn't get GPS lock today, only spurious satellite contacts ... more than usual transmitter frames dropped ... Rhino.
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    Tracker

    Greetings! DX8 telemetry can display latest lat/long when used with Spektrum GPS module, and can be graphically displayed (map) on iDevice if used with STI dongle described here: http://www.spektrumrc.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=SPMTR1000. NIL registration, fees, etc required. For...
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    Understanding Lithium Polymer batteries

    SUPERB writeup, Bart - thank you! Re: PROPER CHARGE LIMITS "Also regarding chargers and charging, there are a lot of chargers that advertise the ability to charge multiple batteries simultaneously using what is called "parallel charging". This means that groups of packs are connected to each...
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    F550 Problem

    my DX8 won't talk to the RX - there's no response at all. That's happened to me twice: At the very top of the Tx calibration page are three option buttons for selecting the transmitter type. Choose the leftmost one and magically the Naza will now respond to transmitter inputs.
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    Newbie questions about batteries

    The voltage sensor that comes with the Telemetry module looks like a tiny white plug at one end and red/black leads at the other end. Those leads should be soldered to the same color leads going into your ESC; tiny white plug into TM1000.
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