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    Panasonic GH2 and Sony CX730 comparison

    I was able to tell immediately that the GH2 was on the left because its the sharpest one, the one on the right shot with a cx760 looks very soft. I can see why everyone is excited by the optical stabilization but is it really worth losing sharpness, colors, manual settings over a slightly more...
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    Castle Creations Speed controllers with WKM

    130 Fahrenheit = 55 Celsius ;), a quick google search said that these CC ICE 50 escs shut down when the internal temp reader marks 250 Celsius but its better to keep them below 210 C. Programming the ESCs was straight forward, what I did was upgrade them to the 4.01 firmware, set the...
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    Castle Creations Speed controllers with WKM

    I'm happy with the CC Phoenix 50 ICE on my CS8 WKM, I like the datalog feature because I can always go back and look at temps/amp draw after a set of flights. Its hot and humid outside and the escs are averaging 130f but I heard these ESCs can get A LOT hotter before they thermo-shut.
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    F550 WKM went down like a sack of bricks!!!

    really this is my interpretation of the beta update, v5.12a - fixed known bug where motors 7 & 8 had a countdown until automatic arm regardless of user input.
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    F550 WKM went down like a sack of bricks!!!

    I heard bad things about the 5.12 firmware specially on octos just falling out of the sky. Apparently 5.12a fixes those issues.
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    The perfect stabilization system

    Here it is guys, he used tape for the key chain cam now we just have to wait for an Epic Red mount.
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    DJI naza MC Led

    I don't like when green things turn red lol
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    DJI naza MC Led

    I saw the light too, its green. I think its the status on the barometer reading but I never saw it a different color other than green.
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    Faulty NAZA?

    I've crashed my naza hexa by flying very high, practically the edge of space then a motor failure caused it to free fall at terminal vel. Except for the naza everything else died, even the xt-60 plugs broke and left a crater on the ground, it now flies a quad.
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    Cinestar 8 WKM

    Price is actually not terrible, should sell.
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    Two clients want me to fly their RED EPIC cameras - advice?

    I don't know why he didn't use the same props, he used 11" for the avrotos and 14" for the axi of course the axi will lift more because of the bigger prop but its not a really useful comparison.
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    Two clients want me to fly their RED EPIC cameras - advice?

    You're in Atlanta? Cool. I'm in Atlanta right now just visiting and yes the heat is as crazy like home you just can't be standing around in the sun, tomorrow is my last day here before I head back. I still don't understand how well eCalc figures out all the information I've put in various types...
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    WKM or Naza with GPS

    If you take octocopters and waypoints out of the equation naza is at an advantage -$600 and lighter (no IMU box) its all integrated in to the naza + the gps thingy. There's no reason to get a wookong unless you're doing octo or in serious need of waypoints.
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    Two clients want me to fly their RED EPIC cameras - advice?

    Maybe someone with more experience with octo's can give you their input, I'm in the process of building a cinestar 8 from the knowledge I've gained with the ex-hexacopter, now a quad. My thought process is that if your stress out the motors too much with this heat one way or another one will...
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    Two clients want me to fly their RED EPIC cameras - advice?

    I've seen videos of an octo flying with one motor down on the WKM but they weren't carrying anything underneath so it is possible, maybe MK boards are better dealing with this? I've had a hexa naza with one motor out just crash out of the blue and it was carrying a light dslr, it was because an...
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    Gonna build a cine star 8 and avrotos

    I was told by timecop, one of the guys on rcgroups who knows all about simonk firmware update for ESCs to get the these hobbyking ones. http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__18966__Hobby_King_40A_ESC_4A_UBEC.html Although these ESCs werent the first thing that popped into my mind when I...
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    National Gerographic Showcase their Multicopter

    These tests are good but they don't represent AP, show me a video where a guy with a hexacopter, a gimbal and dslr lands safely with one motor out, it will most likely dip straight down in the direction of the failed rotor.
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    WooKong-M enhanced flight algorithm – Coming Soon !

    Well right now dji needs to release features in form of updates for the wookong so the naza+gps doesn't cannibalize its sales and make the wkm owners feel left out.
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    NAZA w/ GPS (barometer and Sun)

    Good find, I realized that there's a green light lit on inside the Naza that indicates the health status of the barometer, I wonder if it changes color.
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