Keith Callaghan's Discussions (6)

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quad vs. hexa vs. octo

I have had three major crashes that are all related to mechanical failures. 2 times, prop flying off. Addressed that by buying new motors/mounts fixed in place.  Now today had a prop snap 30m up.  With a quad, it is lights out, big crash coming.  So,

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Big Crash today - what happened

Had a big crash today with my quad from about 25-30m up.  Interesting as I was in alt hold when it started to go a bit wobbly and rotate.  The she dropped.  Was filimg with GoPro at the time and actaully caught footage of what might of happened.  Att

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Failsafe mode confusion

I have failsafe setup on my copter so that if you lose radio contact or radio power, it will RTL.  Now I was playing around on the bench to day and came across something that I do not understand.

If you are in any mode except STABILIZE, when I flip th

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What a great hobby!

I live in Thailand and am a bit of a tech nut.  Spent the last 6 months building a now obsolete Pocher model car (2500 pieces in the model).  Happened upon this whole drone thing by accident and got complelety overwhelmed by it.  For that last two mo

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