I have a Tarot Gimbal and accidentally damaged the 8 pin ribbon control cable. I have been unsuccessful trying to find a replacement and so I'm reaching out to anyone that might have a gimbal that they no longer use and woulld be willing to give up t
Read more…I left the hobby in 2022 after the crash of my Tarot Ironman due to a propeller blade separation resulting in complete destruction of the aircraft. Since then I have been flying an old DJI MAvic Pro that I bought used from a photographer who wanted t
Read more…After a few years hiatus, I have decided to build a new quadcopter. It will be a Tarot 650 Sport utilizing strictly old tech stuff as it is what I'm familiar with and my needs are modest: 15 minutes endurance, a three-axis stabilized GoPro Hero 10 ca
Read more…I completed a build of a Tarot 650 Ironman and have done two short test flights. I am experiencing random motor surge/twitch which makes the aircraft unstable. In a previous build I had the same problem. Once, during a waypoint mission, the aircraft
Read more…I have a Tarot 650 Sport quadcopter that I built. It uses an APM flight controller and is powered by four MN3220 T-Motors, which require 6S power.I have flown this several times, but recently made a few mods/adjustments, including adding 15"x5 carbon
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I recently had a GPS issue with my quadcopter that almost flew away when I switched on the autopilot to fly a waypoint mission - successfully brought it back manually and a review of the logs suggested some sort of GPS glitch. So I decided th
Read more…Guys, I hate to post this, as radio calibration failures have been reported before, typically the problem was something simple such as reversing the pins (signal to gnd) or reversing the inputs/outputs. I have searched this forum and have found nothi
Read more…I built and modified a Parallax Elev-8 quadcopter - added an APM 2.6, external GPS/compass, telemetry transceiver, and later a Tarot 2 axis gimbal and 600 mW video transmitter. But I was not happy with the flight endurance time using the stock 1050 k
Read more…I have two aircraft - a Parallax Elev-8 quadcopter and a Tarot FY680 Pro hexcopter; both aircraft use an APM 2.6 flight controller/autopilot. I'm using an APM Power Module to supply power to the controller, GPS, compass and telemetry transceiver. Bot
Read more…I need some advice - I modified a Parallax Elev-8 quadcopter by fabricating a boom from alunimum U-channel stock to hang a Tarot 2 axis gimbal/GoPro camera. The aircraft is using an APM 2.6 FCU, with external GPS/compass, telemetry and a small video
Read more…I installed a Tarot gimbal on my Tarot Fy680 Pro hexcopter and it has worked fine. One day, I took off to fly a waypoint mission and switched to Auto mode just after takeoff - the motors throttled back for some reason and the copter settled down befo
Read more…I figured out what my problem was: damaged motors. During a previous crash into a tree, three props were held fast by branches while the motors were powered. During repairs, I thought the motors were okay as they seem to spin fine during testing. But
Read more…I was testing a Parallax Elev-8 V2 quadcopter that I built with a 3DR APM 2.6, external compass, GPS, etc. It also has a boom with a Tarot 2D gimbal with a GoPro camera mounted on it and a TX-5D 600 mW video transmitter.
I took the aircraft out to the
Read more…I have built an Elev-8 quadcopter from Parallax and installed an APM 2.6 flight controller, with external GPS/compass and 915 MHZ telemetry. I spliced an APM power module into the power distribution harness and connected the 5 little wire to the PM p
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