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What are the brightest? Green is brighter than blue. I'm guessing red isn't that bright either.

A little loiter mode, and the strobes...

Okay I mounted four of them. Did mostly-hover flight for a battery and seemed to work fine. So I did a 2nd flight and did some regular moves. All good. The greens look brighter than the blues. They're not as bright as I'd hoped but still better.

Yeah if I do them this way the nav strobes are on all the time, which isn't necessarily bad. Only drawback I can see is if I wanted to fly at night and not have the strobes reflect off of what I might be filming or shooting. I could mount the front ones on the side instead of the very front...

You'll want a flight controller with GPS for a few reasons. First, like you describe you'll need that to hold position. Second, if you lose communication or need to trigger safe mode, a GPS is required for the copter to return to home.

I will only take the 5v and ground. No signal wire even attached. Ever heard of anything like that happening? I did wonder if that's introducing a failure point, in that if the strobe croaks it takes out the ESC?

I should have been a little more clear. These are 5v navigation strobe/led's. Flytron/strobon. Here's a video.

On my large hexacopter I have the ESC's under the motors. The BEC wire is lifted before it reaches the flight controller (SuperX). So that means I have 5 volts available at the end of each arm. Thinking of putting my LED's on the end of perhaps 4 arms and powering them via the 5v coming out...

It is an odd quirk.

this part: "he states that, while helpful, a pilot license will not ensure remote control piloting skills. He further indicates that the risks of operating a UAS are far less than the risk levels inherent in the commercial activities outlined in 14 CFR part 61, et seq., thus he requests an...

Yes I know. I went through that song and dance with the SuperX.

My MiniX arrived.

I have the receiver. Seems to work fine.

Only consistent knock people seem to have about the SX is the X8 performance. But I'll be putting it on a quad for now, so won't know.

Got a ship notification... :-)

I emailed hobby-wing and asked if they had a MiniX in stock before I order. They told me they did, so I ordered the "pro" setup, whatever that is... I'll be putting it on a foldable 680 quad.

I ended up picking a foldable Alien H4 680 frame. The keyword that "got me" was "backpack." I'd love to fold it up and take it hiking into the boonies, then launch.

I seem to remember reading that the Vector was only good on frames up to 650 or something like that.

Hmm. Makes my decision a little tough. Do I go with a MiniX or was thinking about trying out a Pixhawk.

Is the MiniX out yet? I'm going to start a 680 quad build and thinking of trying it, but don't want to wait for months.