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    Best way to cut CF booms?

    I use a pipe cutter from home depot found in the plumbing section. Don't get the super small blue one trying to save a couple bucks. Turn and twist, turn and twist, don't rush it and don't put to much force on the twist or the tube gets a slight flange. I was just cutting some 15mm cf rails...
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    New competition

    uhhhh, is it a violation if no hipsters get taken out? Kinda stupid really, if my waiter is d#cking around with an ipad instead of bringing my overpriced food, that should be a violation too imho.
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    GPS calibration wont do the vertical calibration

    You can disconnect the gps and fly your gig in atti mode if it's that important. Do you have a picture of how your puck is mounted?
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    6 Motor Failures. What is this noob doing wrong.

    Wonder if your using to long of a motor mount screw and it's going into the windings.
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    Using TILT on AUX3 Spektrum DX8

    Try holding your scroll wheel down while you power up the tx, then scroll down to switch select and assign the knob to the channel of your choice.
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    Foldable and/or Backpack Rigs!

    Steve, whatever happened with those leopard motors you were testing? I see he doesn't have them listed anymore.
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    Matts PVC T-QUAD

    Matt, nice stuff again. A couple questions- why did you make the frame so small, I just finished a 500mm quad and it seems small? do you use a switcher on your vid tx for the 2 cameras? you still fly goggles? did you feel "dirty" building a pre made kit? what you got against landing gear? did...
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    TBS Disco Motor/Prop Recommendation to carry Brushless Gimbal w GoPro3??

    300 bucks for 4 motors, 4 arm extensions and a hand full of bullet connectors? Guess some peeps have deep pockets,,,oh wait, you've got a kratos. The spidex quad with the gopro bg looks cool though.
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    Does anybody have problems trying to calibrate the NAZA GPS compass

    Jack, it's called "magnetic declination" use this site to lookup yours and adjust your puck accordingly...http://magnetic-declination.com/
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    Big electron storm

    happening, 10 fold increase past 24hrs. Be careful with gps lock out there... ELECTRON STORM: In the past 24 hours, the flux of high-energy electrons swarming around Earth has increased more than tenfold. The source of this "electron storm" is a 600 km/s stream of solar wind buffeting Earth's...
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    Learning to fly a quad - getting there slowly. And experience.

    Nice work Danny! Welcome to the virus that will drain your wallet but feel soooooo good. Here's a tip that's helped me with nose in flying, imagine the copter is a one legged table and your pitch stick on the controller is the one leg. Any time the table starts to dip, slide the leg/stick...
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    Anyone using the Martinez board

    Hi Denny, I had that same problem and it ended up I hadn't deleted the drivers in windows. This is from a thread on rcg... Plug in your device (board) Open device manager in windows. (from command prompt >devmgmt). Find the two devices. One will be under USB Serial Bus Controllers, the...
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    Noob setup and questions...Help!

    I'm probably not the guy to ask, I only had it because it was a matter of convenience. A member here (kloner) had one that shorted out and so I bought the frame plates from him, already had arms from an old 450. I like the more classic style quad, they just seem to suit my old man style of...
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    Noob setup and questions...Help!

    I think any board camera will fit on the disco. One thing to understand with that ship is you'll be limited to the size battery you can squeeze into the batt bay, I could barely fit a 4000mh zippy c in there and even then, it was tail heavy. I guess you could strap your batt on the top plate...
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    Noob setup and questions...Help!

    Thanks, the mount is a standard 15mm rods @ 60mm spacing with a rail block from an old shoulder rig, I wanted to be able to pull off the gimbal without any tools. I drilled 15mm holes in a piece of pvc bar stock and the rails fit tight (they're stubby and don't go into the battery bay). The...
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    DJI motor spinner screw replacement?

    FIVE BUCKS???? That's nuts!!! see what I did there?
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    Noob setup and questions...Help!

    I guess it depends on how you fly. The fpv frames or H frames are really for forward flight and I'm more of a hover drifty flyer so I never really liked the disco and it's *** hung battery but guys are fitting brushless gimbals on'm and kickin out some wonderful video. I really loved the...
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    Noob setup and questions...Help!

    Your first frame won't be your last frame. You'll be lucky to get 10 minutes with the battery you listed. The longest week of my life was the six minutes I flew my disco in 20mph winds.
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    Noob setup and questions...Help!

    Don't know flight times since I haven't got it off the bench but I figure around 6-8 minutes safely running a 4000mah 4s spinning 10's. It's getting one of my naza's for the fc. A lot of the gear I had already, motors, esc's, naza w/gps etc. I haven't had a proper kit in like forEVER (even...
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    Noob setup and questions...Help!

    Here's my newest lil beasty... Quadframes heavy weight quad...http://www.quadframe.us/collections/quadframe/products/heavy-weight-quadcopter-frame-with-21-5mm-carbon-arms Quadframes 200mm landing gear...http://www.quadframe.us/collections/landing-gear/products/200mm-clearance-landing-legs I...
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