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General Discussion / Emerging from cryo-sleep - what's changed?

« on: November 30, 2016, 03:22:05 pm »

Hi all,

I built mine in Feb '16, and all working dandy.  Haven't been flying a lot and am a student anyway so thought my instructor would take a dim view, so it's been in a drawer.

On checking back in to the site, it seems much has changed - the bride, etc.  I presume I should now buy the bridge and antenna, re-flash my old SD card, and all will be well.

Can someone just give me a bit of a lowdown on what's changed - like, what does the bridge do that my old (first) system doesn't?

Also, my old licence expires in Feb 17.  Do I then need to buy a new one?  Will my old licence work with the new bridge, etc?

Cheers

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General Discussion / Battery advice

« on: February 10, 2016, 10:38:39 am »

I built mine last night, and was absolutely thrilled that it worked first time, ready to go.  Amazing, and a huge shout out to the team that did this - and props to Ian Fallon for a great job on the manual.

I have an Anker 10400 power pack and it's a great solution, and I'm happy with it.  That said, it's in a shared Permit To Fly aircraft, and in an ideal world, I would either install it permanently with a feed through a step-down regulator, as previously put on here (which of course is fine, and one way to do it, but is a lot of faff), or alternatively to leave the PA unit in the aircraft and then get group members to bring their own battery pack.

Now that in itself I guess is fine - there's only four of us, but I was just wondering whether it's possible to wire up some kind of unit that takes 'every day' batteries and if so what type, or whether that's a cack-handed bodge, and whether the Anker is the most elegant solution all round. 

Any thoughts would be gratefully recieved!

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General Discussion / Which device into which USB slot..?

« on: December 09, 2015, 09:59:23 pm »

I vaguely remember there is something about how the GPS, the TV antenna thing and the wifi dongle are best placed into particular slots - can anyone remind me which is which?

Thanks!