Recent content by skrubol

Aluminum is also a slightly worse conductor. 18 AWG is way overkill though. 26 AWG is capable of carrying 2A according to this chart, American Wire Gauge Chart and AWG Electrical Current Load Limits table with skin depth frequencies and wire breaking strength and the copper itself would be...

In theory, yes. Still might be too heavy though.

Nope, as long as you've got the voltage, DC is more efficient over long runs. The reason people think AC is the only way to transmit power over long distances is because transformers only work on AC, and back in the Edison/Tesla days (and for quite a while after,) stepping up and down DC...

You'd be better off with DC than AC, unless you plan on running high frequency (400+ Hz,) AC. The first thing a switching mains supply does is rectify and filter the AC into DC. Having a 50/60 Hz transformer in the drone is a non-starter. A 600W transformer would weigh several pounds. A...

It's $35 cheaper (including shipping) than the refurb 4k I got from Woot 6 months ago. Only issues with that was it had one bad prop (out of 8, doesn't screw on correctly,) and it came with what appeared to be a used (white,) battery. Doesn't seem like a too good to be true deal..

Yes, the CGO camera gimbals have wifi video transmitters built in. The external transmitter for the gopro is just a video transmitter. The transceiver for flying the copter is all inside the body.

I think even if you had done this successfully on a particular craft, it would be a roll of the dice every time you did it. These things aren't particularly stable in freefall, and can flip in a very short time. Once it's inverted, most likely the firmware won't know how to deal with the...

Shouldn't be attempting to auto-land after 3 minutes (assuming a fresh charge,) unless you've got a bad battery. Did it lose altitude over the 3 minutes (like dropped 10 ft per minute,) or did it fly around 30 feet for most of the time then come down relatively quickly? If it just lost altitude...

I definitely get keeping the video short to reduce editing, but I like to keep my video running from take-off to landing so if the crap hit's the props (so to speak,) I've got one more piece of data to figure out what went wrong. I'm pretty new with mine though, once I have a few hundred flights...

Glad to hear it!

So you don't have to swap cards or download photos every time you swap batteries?

Where does the requirement for a UHS-3 SD card come from? The Q500 4k manual states a class 10 (similar to UHS-1) is required. CGO3 maxes at 50Mbps, and a true class 10 card should have write speed of at least 10MBps (80Mbps.) I guess if I was buying a new card I'd go ahead with a UHS-3 (they...

FYI this is the Typhoon G forum, not the Typhoon H. G is a totally different product, it's a quad with a gimbal for a gopro.

I don't see the pic either, but does the pitch work for stabilizing and just not respond to the controller, or does the pitch not work at all?

I've never tried it, but from what I've heard, flying FPV with a gimbal camera just doesn't work well. You would be better off getting a small FPV camera and transmitter and making a cable to pull power from the port on the Q500, or just use a small auxiliary battery pack. I got a camera and...