Buying Antennas – the first mistake I got a couple of these TS350 10mW 5.8GHz FPV transmitters from Hobbyking and a set of these circular polarized antennas with SMA connectors (pin centre). These were the wrong antenna connectors, I should have got the RP-SMA (hole in centre) type; these. Because […]
Two ESCs Fail I’ve had two ESCs fail in one day, one in a zero-throttle fast descent and one while bench testing with no props and running off a 5A current-limited bench power supply. Both play the little tune through the motor when powered on but ignore PPM input and […]
Failure At the last indoor flying event I found that one of the motors on my quad was doing its own thing; beeping randomly, starting and stopping when the controller was in safe mode. The ESC is one of 4 HobbyKing SS (super simple) 20 Amp I bought about 2 […]
We have just done another test of the lost model tracker transmitter and the new yagi antenna. To make it interesting, a night test; in the dark. Waterproof the tracker transmitter I armed a transmitter using the servo tester, put it in a piece of bubble wrap and into a […]