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Can anyone tell me the best way of connecting the fatshark TX and a lipo low voltage alarm?

Currently using a low voltage alarm off the lipo balance lead but looking at the fatshark manual that will need it too.

I have tried the KK2 buzzer but it's faulty and just alarms no matter what and also tried a solder to PDB lipo alarm which doesn't alarm until there is just 4% left in the battery.
 
Ash2097 said:
Can anyone tell me the best way of connecting the fatshark TX and a lipo low voltage alarm?

Currently using a low voltage alarm off the lipo balance lead but looking at the fatshark manual that will need it too.

I have tried the KK2 buzzer but it's faulty and just alarms no matter what and also tried a solder to PDB lipo alarm which doesn't alarm until there is just 4% left in the battery.
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Why not find an alternative way to connect the TX rather than an alternative way to connect the buzzer?
 
Skeeter said:
About 3 weeks, and it looks like they have charged me VAT plus £8 handling fee.
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I was just curious about the value of your order to gauge how much mine might be... my order was just on £100 total.

I am at nearly 4 weeks now... with 1 whole week with my parcel sitting in Heathrow according to tracking, and I don't have Lipo's in my order.
 
Yeh I'd solder some cables of your own to connect the buzzer to the main power. That way you get a nice clean feed for the FPV transmitter.

Just spotted Makeitbuild it now has the 1806 motors and the matching ESCs back in stock..... Tempted to buy a set from there just because I'm too lazy to order from HK International, especially with all the potential hassle of customs :/ Looks to be pretty much the same as the DYS BE1806s that a few people have mentioned here over the past few weeks.
Torn on what to do about controller and stuff though. Do I just strip down my current KK2.0 build and use that controller and the receiver from that. Or do I buy a separate controller and receiver and have 2 full separate quads? :D If the latter - Naze32 vs CC3D? Anyone got experiences of them?
 
Just got the Naze32 acro, well 4 of them in fact. 2 sat in current quads and 2 for back up as I will probably wreck one at some point, or I may just sell them on.

Currently my thoughts are:

1) A whole new level of difficulty setting up - I chose to solder my own pins lol and some advance functions require a bit of research as you can pretty much configure all the pins to do a variety of tasks

2) Flew great out of the box with no PID tuning

3) PID tuning not as easy as KK2 as no LCD so must be done with android app/pc/OSD connected/bluetooth

4) Support is interesting at best

5) Much more configurable than KK2 I think (never really delved into kk2 too far so that may be a misunderstanding on my part)

6) Will now work with at least 2 other firmwares I know of (Cleanflight & Harakiri)

7) The Chrome config app is really good

8) Will work with cheap £20 uBlox GPS if you fancy it

9) Smaller than the kk2, lighter but HK now have a kk2 mini that is the same size

hth?
 
FunkyCowie said:
I was just curious about the value of your order to gauge how much mine might be... my order was just on £100 total.

I am at nearly 4 weeks now... with 1 whole week with my parcel sitting in Heathrow according to tracking, and I don't have Lipo's in my order.
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My order was about £75, and I chose the cheapest possible postage that didn't have tracking, so I don't know if it sat somewhere for a while. No LiPos in mine either.
 
Can somebody recommend a good charger and PSU if applicable (mine just died), £30 -£45 budget atm. I have a stack of Turnigy 4.0 (3 cell) batteries. Thanks.
 
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Flukester said:
X100 chargers arrived, I must say I never got excited over a charger before but these are dam cool :)

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Just spotted this, would you recommend?
 
gandhi said:
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Thanks for the comments! I'd been looking at the full version rather than the Acro. As I had wanted the extra features like the compass/barometer and support for the GPS. I wasn't aware that the GPS could be used on the Acro version - I'll dig a little deeper :)

I'm thinking I'd potentially use this quad for FPV and such, and keep the KK2 setup as a cheap one for acro! So features like position lock in addition to good acro performance are on the agenda.

Think the main thing I need to do is more reading up on it's connectivity, it looks like the receiver connections need a little more work than I'm used to with the KK2. But I guess the breakout connector will cover that initially until I am ready to minimise cabling as much as possible for clean packaging :)
 
Rilot, I was looking at treating myself to something like your FPV250.

I was wondering if you have changed anything, or learnt any lessons from the build you could share before I drop cash on one.

Can I ask what props and battery you used ?

I think I'm gonna skimp on spec and use Naza lite maybe without GPS... would love to have iOSD on one though but I guess it's not really needed on something so small and that would need Naza v2 which is abit spendy for something so tiny.
 
I'm on the verge of pulling the trigger for a quadcopter. I want something cheap so if I kill it it doesn't hurt so much. I also want something a bit noob proof because I will probably bump it around a bit. I would like it to have a camera.

I'm looking at this. Anyone got one? Can you recommend anything better?
 
Another vote for the Hubsan X4. Fun thing to fly, nice and quick, takes a battering.
Has no camera but you aren't going to get anything decent with a camera at a low budget without big compromises elsewhere.
 
The camera is the biggest point for me though. Would the Hubsan accommodate a wee little camera? I've no issues hobbying one on of the copter can handle it.
 
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