Comment by bGatti on July 9, 2010 at 4:30pm

Awesome, I grew up in Monterey.

Developer Comment by Mark Colwell on July 9, 2010 at 5:58pm

Jack, maybe the BEC is over loaded? Are regulator chips hot? I run a $20 Castle Creation 3AMP UBEC to power all 5v stuff, It is programmable for output voltage up to 12v.
Wait I see one next to giant super cap, Well maybe add a bigger heat sink to FET arrays? Is ESC set for low voltage cut off for 4 cells but should be 3 cells?

Comment by JOHN PIZZICARA on July 9, 2010 at 10:27pm

Hi Jack, great shots of Lake El Estero and MRY rwy 10R & ATCT. I hope we were on the 28's at the time and you had a spotter, right? The flag flying is cool. I think your radar "dish" is Bay ASR-9 Terminal Radar. IMHO, Get beefier ESC's, they're cheap enuf on the direct HK sites (ABC!) I really thought your tri-clops was a hoax the last post, but it's obviously for real!.

Comment by JOHN PIZZICARA on July 9, 2010 at 10:32pm

BTW, N is towards the water and W is back towards Assilomar from your location!

Comment by Paul Marsh on July 10, 2010 at 6:33am

Hi Jack. Great photos. Maybe this is a given, but was the flight totally autonomous? I'd be interested in the details there.
Thanks,
Paul

Comment by JOHN PIZZICARA on July 10, 2010 at 11:57pm

Hey Jack, maybe it was the control link that failsafed the ESC's during the EMP Susceptibility Test you gave it in the main beam of that radar, especially if you were using a 2.4 GHz rig!?!

Comment by Greg Fletcher on July 12, 2010 at 8:22pm

If you stopped using ground based computing thru the air (how do those signals go thru space if there id no air ???) , you wouldn't have to worry about cooties from c130's. GCS is for control input, not thinking. You may be the peak of DIY control circuits, but watch out for the singularity.....

Comment by Michael Evans on July 17, 2010 at 12:40am

i can see my work! :)

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