Green doesn't mean that this version is lower power consumition, it is the board color in that series of clones of our ArduPilot
I have a question: Do you think it's safe to buy one of this versions?
Best regards,
Miguel.
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Yep $15 dollars saving with 0 overheads is a joke. This is a rip-off clone. I have no alliance to any of the profiteers of this amateur market but don't agree with going clone unless it shows a huge excess of profit margin by the original manufacturer. Not so in this case!
http://www.goodluckbuy.com/arducopter-fly-platform-flight-control-f... for $83.61 a good price. GPS seems to be not included.
Drone Savant i suggest u go somewhere else and promote ebay APM clones and "My clone vendor will happily repair my own user error or when i fry the board...pffff!..what a bunch of crap u wrote above...
Also those eBay cloners usually don't even know what to do with electronics and how to properly configure them or test them. Which is rather normal, they just assemble them and that's it. So you don't know are you getting right software versions in and also are the PCBs correct or not as most of them are using outdated design files.
Clones are just that... clones. Some good, some bad.
We tried a couple Cryus Wii clones and they were terrible, failed on firmware loads, bad software tools, defective chipsets, one armed fine the other did not, etc... But then we tried a MegaPirate clone and it was just like the devteams' and worked great, even loaded AC2.5 at the time and worked.
Sure the big factories east have the heavy duty fab machines, but if the QC testing is not robust, then I'll pass. That's were the real difference is usually: clones don't offer the consistency between boards.
What OEMs offer (or should) is that consistency. Every board should work the same, every copter kit should fly the same, same tune, same parameters. Clones on the other hand maybe reliable, but tuning, flight characteristics, efficiency maybe inconsistent. Crash your quad: replace board, same tune, same radio calibration, same sensor settings == it should fly exactly the same--that's where I see the OEM advantage.
Now if a clone manufacturer does that type of QC, then guess what? The price will likely be very close! Then it's a matter of choice and customer support quality....
I don't think there is anything wrong with buying clones and perhaps 3D feels the same way but I'm sure they want you to purchase from them, any business would.
Open Source and Open Hardware...right?
If a clone can go head to head with other products then it inspires innovation. Good for 3D and good for the community.
Would I buy one...no. I agree with the price comments. Does it have any new features...no.
Reliable...not proven.
I'll continue to purchase 3D products.
Randy
That's an interesting commentary bGatti. You raise some good points, but there's a counterpoint that kills the "fiefdom" concept: The source contributors do so of their own free will. They are simply able to walk away at will, go do something else, if they wanted.
Slaves can't do that. So the analogy is incorrect.
We are all agree that clones would affect the vision of outside our community if they are used and have problems (low performance, bad components and/or implementation).
But how can we warn people outside DiyDrones about these 'bad' components.
we have a worldwide group of Ardupilot enthusiasts all over the world here and buying clones outside the community is not ethical... all the research and development of Ardupilot is funded by sales of them from the store... i never can think of buying Ardupilot from outside our community....
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