Recent content by mike9449

Thanks for the info jannislh. It's pretty beat up and likely not cost effective to have sent out for repairs (I've already bought a replacement Q500 complete system for 2/3rds the list price of the QCO3 alone). I'll fiddle with this for a while longer and if I can't get it to behave (which...

Following the spectacular crash of my Q500 the other day, I've been trying to repair the camera. It, along with the right front motor, had receive most of the damage - completely destroying the housing, bending the pitch arm, and breaking the plastic piece that holds the camera lens and...

Was finally able to reassemble the Q enough to power it back up and close out the video that was recording at the time of the accident. It clearly shows that there was no prop on the left front motor during its tumble. That lead me to expand my search of the crash scene and I located one...

I retrieved the telemetry. Based on altitude and roll, yaw, and pitch elapsed time from the event to impact was just about 5 sec. Timing from the start of the event, "f_mode" went from 13 to 14 in .654 sec, "error_Flags1" went from "0" to "32" 0.234 sec later, then to "33" 1.0 sec after that...

All, I didn't notice any smell or check the temp of the motors. This was the first flight after having transported the vehicle and I did check the props, but perhaps not good enough. After sifting through the carnage a bit more trying to account for all the parts, I couldn't find the left front...

At approximately 5 minutes into the flight and at approximately 300' AGL I selected HOME. The craft flew back to me and when almost directly overhead, it just started tumbling and fell to the ground motors still running all the way down and the drone was still powered up after impact. This was...