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I use Sony Movie Studio 13 Platinum. For the money, about $60.00 USD, you can't go wrong. It has a lot of the same functionality and features as their Sony Vegas Pro Suite. A lot of tutorials and support too.

Thanks RENOV8R. The roll was caused by my FC/PDB stack being loose. One of the crashes I had before this flight sheared the nylon screw heads clean off causing the stack to be unlevel so the FC was overcompensating for it. Since then I have hot glued the stack level again and got 2 more...

I'm taking as much advantage while I can. Really surprised the farmer hasn't begun tilling and planting yet. The last 3 years it's been corn. It's definitely ideal for learning and not too bad when crashing. :)

Thanks Jackson. As is my luck, the weather has not been good for flying since that flight. Keeping my fingers crossed this weekend will give me at least one good day. I have 2 fresh batteries waiting to be used. :)

So I got my first successful LOS flight out of my YKS250, finally! The previous 3 or 4 flights resulted in crashes, broken motors, bad ESC, etc, etc, etc. Installed 4 new Emax 2204/2300kv motors with Emax 12A Simon series ESCs. All programmed by LibrePilot, for now. Specs: 250 carbon frame...

LOL, yeah. Or corner gas station. Use a chunk of old CD/DVD for your mirror.

Yeah. Pretty much. :)

I've done it both ways. The mirror will give you more "play" in the reflected dot. Plus you can move the mirror or laser to get the dot where you want it on the surface you're watching. With the laser mounted to the motor assembly/arm, it won't oscillate as much, therefore detracting from actual...

Here's how I would trouble shoot this: 1) Check for any kind of debris in the gears. (Sand aka: silicon granules, can be stuck in the recess of the gear. Since it's more or less translucent, you may not be able to see it just peeking into the motor/gear housing) 2) Remove prop and motor...

Interesting you posted this. :) I viewed that one just last week in my search for information on my scenario. As it stands now, since the motor is reacting more or less like all the others, I'm leaning toward the programming of the ESC being the culprit. But I've got a lot of work (rewiring...

Yep. That's a familiar sight!! I have done that too many times. So many in fact, you'd think I'd learn by now. My board is a CC3D, but any board will react the same way when: You rotate the FC and DO NOT account for it in your GCS. If you rotate your FC 90 degrees and don't account for it in the...

Update: The programming card for the ESCs arrived yesterday and I checked the programming for each ESC. 2 of the 4 were in braking mode. After releasing that setting I checked the spin of the offending motor. It does spin more freely on deceleration now, but still seems to "stick" just a little...

During your set up in GCS (OpenPilot? LibrePilot? Other?) did you go through the transmitter setup wizard? Do all your motors react and spin up during the calibration? Did you go to the arm/disarm page and select an arming method? (Typically, I use the Yaw-Right to arm with NO spin up) At that...

If you have an Android style phone, the vibration app I use is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gamma.vibrationmeter&hl=en It does the job. I found that using a "small" phone is best. Larger phones seem to absorb a lot of the vibration or are too large for the smaller...

LOL Yes! It most definitely will be. I ordered one already. Quick and painless. - Mike

Perfect for the ESCs I have. This card can apparently program other ESCs as well, so I went ahead and purchased it. Just cuz. :) Thanks for the link RENOV8R!

No I haven't tried to fly it yet. I probably will now as a test. But it will have to wait until next week. I'm out of town as of tomorrow. I'll post some results as soon as I can.

That's my next step. To try the motor on a different ESC. I also thought of the braking scenario, but I am not sure if the present ESCs are flashable. I'm sure they are, but I don't know how. /EDIT The ESCs are HobbyWing Flyfun ESC 12AE from Amazon...

Not being certain, I removed the screws and compared them to the others. They are all the same length. Since they were removed from the offending motor, I spun them up and it does the same thing. It still functions, but my concern is that if/when I release throttle all the way, that motor will...

So being the ex-grease monkey that I am, I was changing a prop on my quad and while tightening it back up, I twisted the shaft off. DOH! So, I ordered 4 new motors. YKS 1806-2300kv. At the same time I ordered new ESCs. Once I got everything in place and programmed with LibrePilot I did a quick...