Peggy,
So sorry to hear about your fruitless E50 exploits.
For me, it goes like this:
1- Camera replaced - better, but then could force vibration by tilting camera 30 degrees or lower - AND panning. Sometimes, not often, but sometimes stopping the panning and/or bringing the angle back up stopped the vibration.
2-whole kit sent back to dealer - dealer worked with Yuneec; Yuneec suggested using the old style, non-grease filled dampers (perhaps CGO3+ version?). Guess what? It worked. But... there's more.
3-Upon return to me, H520 itself had issues. Didn't want to shut down. - H520 replaced - including yet a third camera. I don't recall asking, but it must have been a package deal.
4-Now on third E50 - video feed from E50 to ST16s looked like SD TV being viewed on an HD set. Not good. Suspect wifi transmission issues. By the way, this was not at distance. This was sitting no more than 10 or 20 feet away, on a table, let alone in the air.
5-On to fourth E50. This one is beautiful! I mean absolutely gorgeous! But (there always seems to be a "but...") the only thing I cannot believe is the SD slot. The memory card will jam! But... hanging on as long as I can. The card stuck last night, and decided I was too tired to fight with it. When I do manage to retrieve the card and try reinserting, it works just fine. Could be me, but...
Morale of the story - Yuneec was fantastic with their personal service and communication. It took awhile, but it all was handled.
Now I just have to figure out if my aborted fly-away yesterday was due to being a bit further under my canopy of trees than I have ever gone with my H520! Thank goodness for the mode switch on the ST16s having its fully manual (turn off GPS) mode. I would not have been able to save my H480's in the time I had to react.
Will be re-calibrating everything and trying the same thing again. That is what I do (troubleshoot) and validate. Also, I need to figure out if perhaps ALL the calibrations had reset, since the ST16s appears to have done so. The only thing obvious, however, was the units of measure had reset to meters (metric), after sitting for a couple weeks; make that a month or more. Perhaps I should have returned home when I noticed the altitude in meters. No worries, I stayed under 120m!
The curious thing is... I was up there for the better of 15 minutes, holding steady just fine. And, hovering back home at 15-20 feet (estimate since ST16s was still in meters) was just fine. I was playing with the camera exposure settings when I noticed it decided to just start moving away. I had the H520 pointed at me at the time, so... that practice, practice, practice save me from pushing it further into the trees. That was one close call. I do remember thinking... at least i had the trees (forest) to catch it if it decided to totally ignore me, rather than if I was over the lake or in the wide open.
Anyway, hang in there and don't give up. Hopefully whatever appears to be working for the early C23 reports will bleed over to the E90 and E50 family.
Jeff
P.S. Sorry for the ramble... a cabin full of 11; everyone else is still asleep and I am looking out on the start of a beautiful day. Where's my coffee?
