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If there's one area where I will not cut corners, the radio gear is it. Too much on the line in all respects to not have 100% KNOWN RELIABLE gear, don't want it flying away, crashing, or worst of all falling out of the sky and causing personal injury and/or property damage. That said, in reading...

I would disagree with the concept that hanging the camera under a multi is a bad idea, when you're doing APV, video especially, you want stability so some damping of the reactions is a good thing, that's why a lot of folks that produce good video use a lot of expo on the controls. The proper way...

I've got a DJI F 450 kit that I've been flying for albout a week now, if you want a strong reliable multi for FPV you can't go wrong with one of these, especially at the price they're being sold at. DJI has within a short span of time proved that they can build multirotor flight controllers that...

It depends on how comfortable you are flying a multirotor craft and how willing are you to risk damaging the camera? If you don't have much flight experience the basic F 450 is probably a good start. Personally I think until you're confortable with flying in all orientations including nose in...

I don't know that it would be practical to hang a gimbal under the F450 kit frame. I'm sure there's a way to do it but it would also require adding some taller landing gear and I think by the time it was done the load may well be more than the basic F 450 kit pieces would be happy dealing with...

Today I swapped the WKM on my small APV quad for a Naza controller, toughest part of the swap was unsoldering the power module leads from the WKM and then soldering in the module for the Naza, I think it took longer for the iron to heat up than it did for the rest of the swap! Before I...

720P 60 FPS, pretty much the only setting I use on the GoPros, I find 30 FPS doesn't handle spins and panning all that well. The GoPro is tie wrapped to the tab on the lower frame plate, no vibration isolation at all, the F 450 frame seems to do a decent job of damping the vibrations and the...

I have a GoPro tie wrapped to the tab sticking out the front and eventually a video TX for FPV will live on the back one, I put the Naza dead center on the lower deck and a small park flyer RX tie wrapped to the side of and arm. The RX will have to go in favor of a longer range unit when I start...

As long as your phone has a data plan, use PDAnet ( http://junefabrics.com/iphone/index.php ) to connect your laptop to the net through the phone, your service provider will never know the difference. I have Sprint which doesn't limit data on either phones or 3G so I'll be turning in my Wifi...

DYS and Turnigy Plush both of which are variations of the Hobbywing ESC. Reflash with SimonK's firmware ( http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1513678 ) for the smoothest flight possible with the WKM. The firmware update will work on just about any ESC with an Atmel processor, most...

Blue means one of two things, no TX signal at the RX (TX is switched off/set to wrong model) or the WKm is in failsafe mode. As long as you have a blue light flashing you won't get the motors to start. I flashed the DYS ESCs on the CineStar 6 today, WOW, what a differnece it made! I did a...

I have the re-release of 4.22 on both of my WKM, the CineStar I haven't noticed the white flashes but on the quad it seems to be happening everytime I do anything other than slow steady flight, was fine on previous versions where I'd have to slam the sticks around before the LED would flash...

The last video doen with Graupner props, a lot smoother than the first flight with the stock props... I've seen a couple snowflakes falling outside so I think I'll get one more flight in and then call it day with the Naza. Ken

I just flew another pack, this time with a set of Graupner 10 x 5 props and some minor adjustments to the gain settings to account for the wind that's come up since the first flight this morning. Huge difference, the jello is gone, so it appears the props in the kit are badly unbalanced, the...

The GoPro is tie wrapped to one of the centerplate extensions with a velcro strap around it in the other direction to keep it centered, more or less. It can move around a bit but from the video appears to have stayed in the same spot. A fair amount of jello effect which doesn't surprise me but...

I just did the first flight with my Flamewheel 450 out in the backyard in barely 30 degree F temperatures. First impression, it flys really well, the Naza controller works as good or better than every other flight controller I've owned or flown with altitude control and autolevel, and I've tried...

I'm happy to hear that because one of those has my name on it :) Ken

Do you have firmware for the Silabs chip? I haven't yet heard of anyone that has stable working code for them yet, only a developer version that is very much use at your own risk for testing... Ken

Not abandoning yet, the stack on the Droidworx AD6 will be moving to another frame for now. My hexa V1 I'll never sell, it was my first MK and I still have a lot of fun flying it, but I do have some spare MK boards that I might consider selling at some point when I get around to thinning out the...

You're correct, the Naza by itself isn't generally available yet, the complete Flamewheel kit is the only way to get one at the moment that I know of. As far as I know both DJIUSA and RCHobbyHelicopter had stock of the kits as of a day or two ago, both are, or were, waiting for their Naza...