Recent content by phph001

Did you know that drone pilots in Tennessee must abide by federal regulations? Those regulations specify, amongst other things, a maximum height of 400 ft above ground level, and also that the drone must remain in line of sight.

Using a drone as a stereoscopic camera is a fun idea, but there are limitations, the main one being that as the pair of pictures is not taken simultaneously there cannot be anythig moving in the subject area. I presume that the 90° rotation in instruction 1 is to define the start of a 180°...

I repeat: "if one specifies that in a 4 motor drone two are sufficient to keep it aloft". Yes, this is more power than most drones have, but it is an engineering possibility. If one motor fails two can continue to keep it aloft while the 3rd motor can then function as an attitude controller. It...

That's not entirely fair. bearing in mind that single engine failure is less serious in 4-engined aeroplanes than in 2-engined aeroplanes, and in turn single failure is less serious in 2-engined than in in single-engined. If one specifies that in a 4 motor drone two are sufficient to keep it...

Yes, it's getting power but not nearly enough. The lights come on only briefly, and disappear as the load requirement exceeds the available current supply. When you connect the phone the current drawn from your phone is sufficient for the indicator lights but still not enough for the display.

There's something seriously wrong with the battery or with the connection between battery and controller electronics. Bought new? Send it back. Bought second-hand from a dealer? Send it back

Charge the battery?

"Please explain to the audience how WiFi is used to transmit video from a drone that is flying several thousand feet from the controller" Certainly. Transmission of data wirelessly requires a matched pair of transmitter and receiver. The matching involves first an agreement on the nature and...

You are making generalised statements based on your knowledge of 1 brand, which are not universally true. "The IEEE WiFi 802.11 family is not a protocol used for drone flight control or video transmission". Actually Holy Stone drones, in particular the 720R, DO use wifi to communicate video...

Just to get your terminology straight: wi-fi IS a communications protocol, defining how data of various kinds, including but not limited to audio and video, may be transmitted wirelessly from one device to another. Some drones do use wi-fi to communicate data back to the transmitter, which...

It is an unfortunate feature of the Holy Stone controller that it does not have user-operable trimmers on the joysticks. If you take the case apart and find trimmers inside, in the form of variable resistors which can be adjusted with a small screwdriver, then you're in luck. Otherwise you will...

Yes, the drone is a form of helicopter. A single-rotor helicopter progresses in any direction either by tilting the rotor itself or by varying the the individual angles of the blades so that the airflow is made to flow at an angle to the vertical. This means, of course, that if the throttle is...

I would suggest that your actual drone is fine and it is the sim which is misbehaving. Yes, the drone does tip its nose down when moving forward but the automatics should preserve the height.

I can only agree with all of the above. Have you contacted your insurance?