Recent content by Stu

Motor covers no matter how elaborate won't keep moisture, dust and dirt out of the body of the quad. In fact the least troublesome are the motors. As mentioned, they will happily run underwater and the occasional clean out with compressed air will get rid of dirt and sand. Taking off and landing...

Why would you want to put motor on each wheel? Have you thought about how you intend to sync the 4 motors and how to achieve steering. Taking a sharp bend would need each motor to be turning at a different speed, You'll need some pretty sophisticated hardware and software to do that. Plus the...

Brushless motors are naturally waterproof, but like anything made of metal, salt water will play havoc with it over time. I shudder every time I see someone launching or landing from concrete, grass, bitumen or any surface which harbors sand or grit. Always use a landing mat, because although...

God I hope Australia doesn't do their usual trick of following you Yanks. They've done so with many other rules and laws pertaining to quadcopters. They did the same with CB Radios many years ago. Clearly our public servants are too darned lazy to design rules and regulations for Australia, They...

All you need is an inexpensive Lipo Charger Simply paste this title into Ebay and the perfect charger with sockets for your battery will appear " iMax B6AC RC Pro Balance Charger I've got a couple of these and had them literally for years, They've charged all my Lipos and kept them running...

Hi there TMan. Sorry I don't know your name, I prefer to call people by their first names if I know them. What a shame about your Zino, It's a quadcopter I've never come across before. You Americans have a much larger number to pick from. The quads we have over here are darned expensive as...

If you do consider the Mavic Mini 3, be aware the cheaper model has no avoidance features at all. . I purchased the Mini3 a few weeks ago, but haven't taken it for a fly due to ending up in hospital the day the postman delivered it, bummer. I now have the Mini 1, 2 and 3. Unfortunately the Mini...

Coincidence? I also collected large numbers of computers from schools and local businesses. Then repaired them, joined them with missing parts. monitors, printers etc and gave them to local disabled kiddies and later to single parent children. In all I donated 108 full systems which for a small...

Thank you for the information. What is it with people these days? They appear to be unable to communicate with anything consisting of more than one or two lines of text. I've had numerous people asking to be a friend (whatever that means today) I take the time to answer their questions and all...

It may help if you referred to it as "Goggles" The term "Dronemask" made me click on it to find out what it was. I thought it was some new gadget I'd missed. :) If something's made by DJI, it's a saFe bet to assume it won't work on anything else. I own the Halo goggles from DJI and they only...

I'm not sure where you get your information from, but Ben Hall wasn't known for giving to the poor, but he definitely knew what "stealing from the Rich was all about. His only semi charitable act was feeding a group of people who were in a pub whilst he robbed it, plus some town's people. That...

I'm the proud owner of the first Xiaomi quadcopter, the Xiaomi Mi. It's never been flown apart from flying off my wall to the floor. In doing so the bracket which holds the camera to the Gimbal broke. I'd love to get it back to it's original, new condition so if anyone has a wrecked model with a...

I'm not being smart, but I'd advise you learn how to fly before investing in suitable software. No quads don't come supplied with suitable software and I'm not sure if there's any freeware versions. Try sending off a few emails to software manufacturers and ask for prices. Be cheeky and phone...

Which brand of SD Card? Many of the "Less Expensive" SD cards coming out of China have been spoofed with false capacities. Temu and Wish are big sellers of these cards. Thy read the correct capacity but a 128Gb card may be just a 16 GB card which has been doctored. What happens is when you're...

I just read your initial post again. THE gimbal is what moves the camera up and down. The lens is a fixed part of the camera. So if the Gimbal is OK then the camera and it's lens must be OK. I'm afraid you've got me a little confused. By the way, it's bad Netiquette to use all upper case...