Importaint NOTAM to all Auto Pilots and New Lid up Graders.
Mar 9, 2017 3:09:25 GMT
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Post by treva on Mar 9, 2017 3:09:25 GMT
Hi Folks
I suggest you ground or land your aircraft immediately. I am at present doing an EMI shielding exercise with my Auto. Pics and procedure will follow at a later date, after test flights. However, I recently saw a Utube vid of a guy in China, who also did the same thing, but not on as large a scale as I am doing with mine. Whilst he was doing it, he removed the metal disc that sits under the GPS/Compass on the lid. He found a very poorly soldered connection, that joins the yellow earth wire to the metal disc. So I thought I had better check mine. Spicey Italian, you are livid. I am far beyond that and heads will roll, trust me. Absolutely no solder whatsoever, the earth wire was completely loose and not connected to anything. I have attached two pics, to prove this. One of the wire and one of the base plate. They are the best close ups I can take with my camera. Not a trace of solder on the exposed wires or the base plate. This is the drone I posted a vid of. of crashing on here. After that crash, I did a complete re calibration the next day. However on the second occasion it flew away never to be seen again. But a few weeks back it was handed into the local Police Station, and as I had reported it to the Police they were able to return it to me. It was in a sorry state, battery completely discharged and therefor being a Lipo, dead as a door nail and unable to be recharged. All props buggered, and locked/fused to mounting screws, motors burnt out,landing gear shattered. This is the one Swellpro refused to replace. I ordered parts to the value of $500.00NZD from Australia.
And whilst fitting them I decided to go down the EMI shielding exercise, as I had the drone in bits. The EMI shielding tungsten alloy cost me $150.00 USD.
I had one successful flight with this Splashdrone, The next two were the crash flights. I must have been lucky with the first flight, and the unsecured/soldered wire must have been touching the metal plate. Obviously it didnt touch for the next flights, and that was the cause of the crashes. Entirely Swellpro's Fault. Hope you are reading this Patrick and Eric, as you will be hearing from me.
I urge you all to unscew the plate and check your earthing wire. You can do this without having to disconnect the GPS wires from the flight Controller.
I took my plate and GPS/Compass Unit to the local Electronic man. He confirmed the wire and the base plate have never seen solder. This is just so unbelievable. Swellpro's Quality Control is totally non existent, and their putting together of these things is absolutely abysmal. Its just plain shocking.
Incidentally the base plate is not aluminum, as aluminum will not tin and hold a joint. My base plate did, so it is alloy of some sort. Perhaps even a EMI Shielding plate, such as the stuff I bought and am fitting. One would hope so. But I highly doubt it when it comes to Swellpro, always cutting corners they are.
PLEASE CHECK YOUR LID AND EARTH CONNECTION BEFORE YOU FLY AGAIN. YEP I AM YELLING. WAIT TILL SWELLPRO HEAR FROM ME.IT WILL BE VERY LOUD YELLING IN RED.
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Cheers Trev
I suggest you ground or land your aircraft immediately. I am at present doing an EMI shielding exercise with my Auto. Pics and procedure will follow at a later date, after test flights. However, I recently saw a Utube vid of a guy in China, who also did the same thing, but not on as large a scale as I am doing with mine. Whilst he was doing it, he removed the metal disc that sits under the GPS/Compass on the lid. He found a very poorly soldered connection, that joins the yellow earth wire to the metal disc. So I thought I had better check mine. Spicey Italian, you are livid. I am far beyond that and heads will roll, trust me. Absolutely no solder whatsoever, the earth wire was completely loose and not connected to anything. I have attached two pics, to prove this. One of the wire and one of the base plate. They are the best close ups I can take with my camera. Not a trace of solder on the exposed wires or the base plate. This is the drone I posted a vid of. of crashing on here. After that crash, I did a complete re calibration the next day. However on the second occasion it flew away never to be seen again. But a few weeks back it was handed into the local Police Station, and as I had reported it to the Police they were able to return it to me. It was in a sorry state, battery completely discharged and therefor being a Lipo, dead as a door nail and unable to be recharged. All props buggered, and locked/fused to mounting screws, motors burnt out,landing gear shattered. This is the one Swellpro refused to replace. I ordered parts to the value of $500.00NZD from Australia.
And whilst fitting them I decided to go down the EMI shielding exercise, as I had the drone in bits. The EMI shielding tungsten alloy cost me $150.00 USD.
I had one successful flight with this Splashdrone, The next two were the crash flights. I must have been lucky with the first flight, and the unsecured/soldered wire must have been touching the metal plate. Obviously it didnt touch for the next flights, and that was the cause of the crashes. Entirely Swellpro's Fault. Hope you are reading this Patrick and Eric, as you will be hearing from me.
I urge you all to unscew the plate and check your earthing wire. You can do this without having to disconnect the GPS wires from the flight Controller.
I took my plate and GPS/Compass Unit to the local Electronic man. He confirmed the wire and the base plate have never seen solder. This is just so unbelievable. Swellpro's Quality Control is totally non existent, and their putting together of these things is absolutely abysmal. Its just plain shocking.
Incidentally the base plate is not aluminum, as aluminum will not tin and hold a joint. My base plate did, so it is alloy of some sort. Perhaps even a EMI Shielding plate, such as the stuff I bought and am fitting. One would hope so. But I highly doubt it when it comes to Swellpro, always cutting corners they are.
PLEASE CHECK YOUR LID AND EARTH CONNECTION BEFORE YOU FLY AGAIN. YEP I AM YELLING. WAIT TILL SWELLPRO HEAR FROM ME.IT WILL BE VERY LOUD YELLING IN RED.
ScreenShot376.bmp (257.05 KB)
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Cheers Trev