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First impressions ** MAJOR Update page 5 post #90 **

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Well finally after a week of it just sitting at my sister's house, waiting for me to get my 4x4 ready for our 5 week holiday to the centre of Australia.
I was finally able to open the box last night and take a look.
1) it is light... When I opened it up and first took it out it feels light.... Too light?? Almost cheap nasty light. It didn't have the sense of quality it premium price.
2) it feels oh so nice. The finish off the Orange plastic feels smooth and silky but slightly textured.
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3) Looking into the battery compartment it is empty. Ok so what I mean is in the H480 there was stuff in there. Off to the sides and bottom there were circuit boards and the like.
The H520 bare.
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3a) the charger has the newer balance leads. Will have to wait for an after market adapter to be produced.
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4) The current rear facing status light is no longer. Therefore there is no longer a board in the bottom.
5) Speaking of the bottom. There is a Realsense connection cable. I will plug one in to it and see what happens.
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6) binding is now via inverting the drone for a number of seconds.
7) The ST16S Is all new redesigned.
The Front face is pretty much the same. But the rear and top and bottom are all redesigned.
7a) the hand grips are thinner (not so high)
7b) full sized USB on top for access to tethered WiFi dongles.
7c) fan now exits out the top through a grill. It looks like it could be using a new barrel type fan (won't know until it is opened)
7d) the battery is a slide out module (as someone who modded their original H480 charger and made my own charging leads for the H batteries I liked the fact that it had the EC2 connector so I could 1C charge it at a reasonable speed. Now however it is not quite as easy. I Will have to see what options can be retro fitted.) There is a very nice push button release to allow you to pull the battery down and out.
7d) a new handle. It is now thicker and stronger and feels nice you could quite easily prop the controller up onto this and it would be very stable.
7e) the sunshade looks to be the same, maybe slightly different in the pins.
7f) a 4 point neck strap is supplied and is of the newer thicker Style as opposed to the original straps which were quite thin.
7g) both type of 5.8GHz antenna are included. The mushroom omni directional and the flat directional.
8) The box/foam. It is a new type of foam. Similar to the original H480. Not the second batch and current ones with the cheap foam.
8a) IT FITS! So it fits into the $30 Chinese back packs from eBay. It should also fit into the current H Pro bag and the original hard cases (for those few of us that actually were able to get one when first release before being discontinued.
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8b) it has provision for a wizard. (Oh well ... Let's see what happens)

8c) you still have to unpack the full list of extras (Charger, Power Adapter and Cord and two batteries) it is a pain doing this each time.
8d) it will therefore still be allowed as a Carry-On item and not have to be checked in.
8e) the propeller box is nice. 6 props in the front and then the extra 4 behind in a seperate flap.
8f) the main box has a cutout for the propeller box. This I guess saves some space.

9) The E90 Camera . This thing is Nice.
It looks the goods.
The gimbal redesign works. It just looks polished.
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9a) 91' fov, 23mm equivalent, f2.8, 40.5mm lens size for ND and other add-on's.
9b) a16Gb Panasonic micro SDCard Class 10 U3.
9c) There is a cover over the card slot and micro USB.
9d) the actual body of the camera is strong and sturdy. There is some weight to it. In fact it weighs 339g I will add the weight of the CGO3 once I weigh it.
9e) the angle that the camera can go to.... Both down up and rotate both sides. It didn't bind up at full movement. Instead it has nice solid feeling bump stops. I need to see at what angles you can get the controller to tilt it. But if it can get closer to that upward angle it will allow my bridge inspecting customers the ability to use it effectively.
9f) The mounting plate is now one piece. As opposed to the cover piece on the current CGO3+
9g) the rubber dampners are thicker and gel filled. From squeezing them it is like they have gel in them as they baloon out when compressed.
9h) The slip ring wires are now covered by a protective rubber sleeve. Inside it looks the same design as we perviously had with the 6 wires and retaining plastic bridge.

So that's it for now.
I drove for 12 hours 900km (Out of our 7000km trip) and broke 4 wheel studs today. So haven't had time to fly it yet.
Hopefully things get a bit smoother.

More to come.
Haydn
MountainView.enterprises

PS if you have read this far the last picture is of the steady grip and the E90 . I was able to get image and adjust a few settings... But the app couldn't adjust everything.

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Drone
1009g. 35.9oz
Drone and H520 battery
1582g. 55.8oz
Drone H520 battery and E90
1921g. 67.75oz
 

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Here are some of the photos I couldn't attach as I was only allowed 10
 

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Hi Haydn - thanks for putting up all these photos - that was a big effort :) . Appreciated your cal the other day even though you were flat out packing!! I have a few questions - Does the drone come with an Australian power lead? And does it not come complete with some kind of carry case like the DJI Phantom's do? Looks like you can buy a packaged product in the U.S.A. which includes what looks like a Yellow coloured plastic case - are you able to get the package or case imported into Australia? I hope your journey continues without any more broken wheel studs! Cheers - JD
 
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Thanks Haydn, nice work - especially given your circumstances. It must be driving you nuts not to have taken it for a fly yet... :-(
 
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Hi Haydn - thanks for putting up all these photos - that was a big effort :) . Appreciated your cal the other day even though you were flat out packing!! I have a few questions - Does the drone come with an Australian power lead? And does it not come complete with some kind of carry case like the DJI Phantom's do? Looks like you can buy a packaged product in the U.S.A. which includes what looks like a Yellow coloured plastic case - are you able to get the package or case imported into Australia? I hope your journey continues without any more broken wheel studs! Cheers - JD
Yes mate AU plug.
No bag. No case at all.
Just the foam box.
As I showed in the pictures ugly can fit it in of the current H480 offerings.
The kiss from TI you are taking about are ones that they have made up themselves.
I can get you a Pelican case but you are honestly better off going to Bunnings or something and taking the drone with you to find one that suits your needs. Clark rubber has the pick and pull foam to insert into the case.
Hope that helps
 
We asked you for a couple of photos and you rewarded us with 50, so that no one would be left in the mood :D

Thank you so much for the effort ;)
 
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Trying to get to the devil's marbles for sunset and sunrise tomorrow night. Only 1300 in to go.
Then it is flight time
 
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Trying to get to the devil's marbles for sunset and sunrise tomorrow night. Only 1300 in to go.
Then it is flight time

Safe trip, careful and don't let the devil touch your marbles or anything :D
 
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Awesome write up. Finally some closeups of the ST16S and the E90. Also, interesting about the gel filled dampers, nice touch.
I also found it odd that the ST16S in the 520 manual only shows 2 antenna's like the early H480 ST16's. Maybe Bob520 can weigh in on that one.
 
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Sorry I forgot to put that in.
Drone
1009g. 35.9oz
Drone and H520 battery
1582g. 55.8oz
Drone H520 battery and E90
1921g. 67.75oz

Thanks
 
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