Recent content by DCH

That's for sure! Especially if you are on a fixed SS retirement income. The price they demand for batteries these days are about to price me right out of the hobby! Next time I need to replace batteries I will most likely be forced to sell off my favorite hobby.

I would not even try to sell that. It's a disaster waiting to happen. Do the responsible thing and dispose of it properly. You will be doing everyone a favour.

Thanks for the info. Don't underestimate my repair skills, I have been involved in Electronics my entire life. I am a retired Aerospace Engineer, and I was a NASA Certified soldering instructor. However, at some point I need to accept the fact I'm neither of those anymore. I can see how it...

The SD card slot in my C23 is having some issues. The card no longer clicks into place, and won't pop out when pressed in slightly to release it anymore. It slides in OK without resistance, but there is no spring resistance to push against anymore, it just slides in almost all the way but still...

Here's the promised update on the GPS issue. I ordered one of the GPS modules and antenna from Amazon just for the antenna, like @Omnitest recommended. It arrived today and I gave the new antenna a try. No joy. It will not connect even after multiple power-cycles. The original antenna was still...

Not at all, it all makes sense. Thanks for the ideas and the links. I already have some U.FL to SMA cables of various lengths to play around with. I like @Vaklin's idea of top mounting an external antenna, makes more sense. I never liked the location of the GPS antenna in either the ST16s or the...

Thanks, but that site didn't work out. I could not get to a search page or register a new account. Too much info lost in translation and fields that were partially obscured with no access to fill in the requested info, even when I was able to select English. I discovered that Mouser Electronics...

Did you get a replacement antenna for it? If so where does one find this type of replacement component?

This is the one I cleaned. Lower right corner of the main board.

Problem solved! Judge Doom made an excellent judgment and passed down the death sentence for the Gremlin (both of them), and they have both been executed for the heinous crime of disturbing an aerial video/photo shoot at the worst possible time. It was the GPS antenna connector. How egregious...

That explains why I didn't really understand when you said the Sat icon was for the aircraft. That's okay, you get a free pass, the orange 520 body on my H Plus must have thrown you off! These old eyes couldn't see the original dark grey body against the backdrop of mountains and trees, so I...

The ST16S GPS, as mention in the OP, of my two ST16s, one works fine the other has intermittent GPS. I'm going to try Doom's suggestion this afternoon when I get a little time. I'll post the results.

Hey all, long time no post! ...I've been great, thanks for asking! After breaking out my H Plus after 9 months of storage, there is good news and bad. The good news is the batteries are in great shape -no swelling and all cells were still well balanced, I stored them with a storage charge and...

Now that makes no sense Steve! The props are specialized. So are the motors, the bolt pattern for the motor mounts, the arms, basically everything that supports the props are specialized. Yet the prop mounts are not? 🤔 I rest my case!

Big mistake on Yuneec's part to design the H480 and the H+/H520 with the same prop mounting configuration. They should NOT be interchangeable. They should have made the mount unique to each aircraft.