Recent content by Sandpiper270

Welcome to the forum. I am also an older member, being 76. I just started with drones a couple of months ago, and am still learning. I have crashed and repaired my Mavic 2 zoom, and realized after buying it and having a tree bring it down that I should be learning with something less...

Calculating the time for Max distance I get 21.6 minutes. Indicates to me the battery is good getting over 22 minutes.

Since my recent encounter with a tree with my M2V I have had to do a fair amount of fixing. I am back in the air, and I don't think I could have done it without all the helpful posts I have found here. Much appreciated!

Welcome to the forum! I am also a newbie here, and have been flying around my 10 acres. I have found trees spell trouble for my Mavic 2 Zoom. I have also found out that if you are careful you can herd a few cows if they are not too wild. The drone is much more maneuverable that being on...

Different speeds for different things. In your car you would not expect the speed that gets you some place the fastest to also be the speed the lets your car run for the longest amount of time. Seems I have read that the maximum flying time for the drone was measured at 17 mph. The speed to...

A common phenomenon that may be related to your flight is that the wind can be expected to change about 30 degrees as you get close to the surface. It is briefly explained here: Key Skill: Determining Wind Direction | METEO 3: Introductory Meteorology What is happening is that the wind aloft...

After my M2Z encountering a tree and falling 20 feet or so into my pasture, I have been fixing things. Last problem to show itself during flight test was no control of camera tilt or pan. I thought at first I had set something wrong in software, but no. Gimbal calibration did not even try and...

It is a square dance move where two people move around each other and both go back where they started. So you sort of change places, then go back where you were. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-si-do

I have been looking at the rear arm LED driver circuit. I see that in the arm itself, there are three LEDs, and each is capable of emitting red and green light. The gray wire is common to both colors and all three LEDs. The black wire connects to the red LED, and the white wire connects to...

Thanks to all the kind replies! I was practicing coordinated turns with the M2Z when I got too close to a tree and the drone came down. Broke the of the little tab on each the rear legs that limit the angular movement of the legs, have one of those repaired, the other one still needs to be...

Thank you! I have been looking through forum posts and have already learned quite a bit. I am currently flying the MM with a Samsung tablet. I ordered the mount that seemed most recommended here, and it should be arriving via UPS in the next few hours.

I have been trying to determine how the Mavic 2 ESC board operates. A good beginning point is the very good description of the ESC board for the Phantom 2 by na5n. From what I have been able to determine so far, the Mavic 2 board circuitry is similar, especially on the motor and LED control...

Hi all! I am from the Hermiston, Oregon area, a rural area. I am new to flying drones, and very new in the learning process. I have a small 10 acre farm to fly around and learn. I have broken a Mavic 2 zoom, hope to get parts tomorrow to repair it. I think the ESC board is dead. None of...