"Another problem.. The power from a panel is highly variable. If someone walks by and shades your panel or even a cloud, your panel voltage will drop to nearly zero which likely will not make the lipo charger happy."
"I don't think that charging a lipo from a 5W panel will work very well. First off the 5W is really the theoretical max. In full sun of the summer you likely won't get even 80% of that. I have a 100W panel for other reasons outside of charging lipos…"
"PixHawk should absolutely have a max altitude setting set to 400'.. Much like how other equipment you buy come with default settings. let the user turn it off and be warned of the consequences.. Otherwise our industry is doomed if someone ever does…"
"If it was aimed at the professional commercial market I don't think I would go with a quad copter. I sure wouldn't want my very expensive cameras/sensors on a platform that can't recover from a prop failure. I don't believe the A2 can gently…"
"I would like to see a customer service that can actually fix a gimbal that we poorly manufactured and never worked since they shipped it. I was very not impressed with months of inability to fix their brushless gimbal.. Finally had to ship it back…"
"I think the launch of PixHawk has been bad.. seems like a problem from announcement and delays and delays and such. I wouldn't be surprised if the announcement of it wasn't meant for the round two investors more than anything.The best course of…"
"Totally agree with @Marius.. This is so stupid and dangerous... nothing like flying lawn mower over students heads in a confined space.. where all sorts of problems could occur. Good thing it didn't fall out of the air and cut someone face, hands…"
"Actually they look good because of that nice tiny print item at the beginning of the video that says: ‘thermal images shown for illustration purposes only.. and may have not been taken by the camera series depicted’
Which means they didn't use the…"