In other news...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv__1wbPhv0
First flight of the "Little Phoenix" ; my F801 that was eaten 2 months ago by the Kite-Eating Tree in my front yard.
Two months ago, this quad got slammed by the Wind Gods into the tippy-top of the biggest tree in my front yard; stuck up there where the branches are so thin even the squirrels don't go. Once the lights went out on the quad, I never saw it again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmOqiRAi_Gc
I wrote it off a couple weeks later after massive storms with 50-60mph winds stripped the tree pretty much bare of leaves and I couldn't spot it. Well, today it returned to me! We've had torrential rains here for several days, and my son was outside splashing in puddles and found it in the yard!
I've washed it out and dried it out; after 2 months in a tree all manner of insects made it home. Now it's all reassembled, oiled up and back in the air!
Aside from the camera, the only casualty was a single motor after 2 months of exposure to the Texas weather. I even recovered some video from the card; although no luck with the file recorded at the time of the "incident"...
And the crazy part... this is flying on the original battery! The protection circuit inside cut the power once it got low enough; when I got it on the bench and it wasn't all puffy, I tested it with my meter and it was still holding 3.01 volts!
I ran a few Charge-Discharge cycles on my Reaktor 300W x 2; it came up still showing 620 mAH capacity!
In a little bit, I'll be giving this quad to my son... We'll see how he fares with it. He saved it... it's his.
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