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  John Hooper March 4, 2014 at 9:57am

  Ordering the whole enchilada. Iris, gimbal, extras, and PoPro Black. Does anyone know how long this back order is going to be? Won't hold you to it, but would love to get an idea of how long I am going to wait. I am going to pull out of the Pocket Drone kickstarter and put my $$$ on the Iris. Is this the smart move? Thanks. Also, any Austinights going to be flying theirs thus weekend at the long center?
• LouB March 4, 2014 at 9:41am

  Paul,

   

  I thought out of the box failsafes were in play. I also started to poke around MP and found the nice battery info.

   

  Again, I hope 3DR steps their presence in the forums that they say are for product support.
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  Daniel Morgan March 4, 2014 at 8:43am

  I am flying the same one as Andrew with great results. Also have tried the valuehobby 4000mAh ones with good results and am waiting on the valuehobby 5000mAh to see the results with that.
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  Andrew Ferrara March 4, 2014 at 7:54am

  I use this battery it's only 16 grams heavier and 1000 more mAh
  http://www.hobbyking.com/mobile/viewproduct.asp?idproduct=24310&amp...
• James Wolff March 4, 2014 at 7:44am

  You can try

  http://www.readymaderc.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&a...

  But you will have to put on a new connector

  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D842CQA/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_...
• wbal57 March 4, 2014 at 7:31am

  With the battery troubles reported is there a comparable or larger capacity battery that is confirmed to fit in IRIS? 
• Bruce Gage March 4, 2014 at 7:21am

  I bought two batteries with my Iris. One would not charge using the charger included in the kit. It would start in discharge balance mode and never switch to charge mode. I put the battery on my Losi charger and it charged fine and seems to be working well; however, between the wind and the rain I've not been able to fly much. That is I've not been able to test flight duration. This is my first quad - on an airplane when the voltage drops the motor cuts out completely but of course you can glide it in and if you pull the throttle back to zero, the battery will recover giving you just a bit of power for landing. With the quad I guess I'll be running a timer and put the it on the ground before the battery begins to fade. I've also ordered some batteries from an alternate source.
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  Daniel Morgan March 4, 2014 at 7:01am

  I hate to say it but the batteries I received were not great quality. Both of them would drop like a rock after 10.5. I was 10 ft off the ground and it was at 8.8V by the time it landed. I tried another battery that was 2650 and a year old and it landed at 10.3 from the same height. This could really screw some new users that might not know better. 
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  Jon Currier March 4, 2014 at 6:58am

  I got my IRIS just over a week ago, and I had it up in the air, no problems, on the first day.
  I am taking small steps, trying just one or two features each flight. I have flown almost every day now, despite the below freezing temps in snowy New England. I have had no problems, and each new mode I try seems to work perfectly!
  So far I am very impressed!
  I just need to make some snow shoe landing gear.
  
  My suggestion to others starting out, is don't get ahead of yourself and try something big with your new bird before making sure you have confirmed you have made all the right settings, and have tried your setup low and easy first.
  I am as eager as anyone to try all the cool features right away, but, starting with the very basics and working upward in complexity in small, confirmed steps is a better approach.
  
  We will attract clueless onlookers as we fly our new IRIS quads, and we need to impress them with how safe they are when operated properly, and how perfectly in control of the system we the pilots are. They need to have a positive impression of our activity. Then, when they are having coffee with their local politician, they will give us the thumbs up.
  We do not want them to see us trying and failing (crashing), and appearing out of control, and a threat to humanity.
  
  So, please fly safe, have fun, and be a good ambassador to our sport.
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  Paul Meier March 4, 2014 at 6:39am

  Had a similar problem, luckily my iris was on the ground while I was trying to liftoff and then I see the drone struggling to move. But honestly I didn't check the color of the notification led but definitively no beep. Later I was pissing about (i am a n00b) with mission planner and droidplanner and andropilot and I noticed that in the settings battery notification was not enabled. Guess that must be your case.