Recent content by David M Millsaps

For comparison, here is a bad TB48 Inspire battery, which is swollen. See this link: http://www.unifourpeds.com/images/BadBattery.MOV In this short video file, note the swelling of the case with obvious trapped gas. DJI promptly replaced it at no charge, because it was in the warrantee period...

Yes, "DJI is future-proofing themselves" at bit, but I am glad to see that they are looking forward and making provisions for future enhancements, rather than only thinking of the current minimal requirements. Have fun with your Inspire. DJI listens to their customers' ideas and feedback, and...

It turns out that the instructions are provided with the battery charging hub discuss an firmware "updating procedure" for the latest firmware (via a USB port on the bottom of the unit, under a cover). However, no firmware update exists yet because it's such a new product. So ... I was trying to...

Having great difficulty updating the two DJI battery hubs that I purchased from the above. Apparently not updating the firmware in battery hubs, and now two of my 7 batteries will now charge. On these two batteries, the light nearest to the battery power button now continuously repeats three...

I crashed my Inspire also about 2.5 months ago, and just got it back from DJI repairs. Fortunately, I had (1) a Drone Mods cellular location device on the Inspire (about 56 grams), and also (2) a Marco Polo locating device (12 grams) both Velcroed behind the battery housing. Both were helpful in...

Nice mounting job. You might want to call Marco Polo. They provide good service. My dog eventually broke the bracket off and they quicky fixed it at a reasonable price. If it become nonfunctional all by itself, they it may be fixed without charge. Give them a call. .

I just posted better photos of the mounting of the locators on the Inspire (5 posts back). Regarding finding the Inspire in very heavy brush and crowded tall thickly-leafed trees (like thick East Coast forests), the trick I found (that worked) was to get as close as you can to where the Marco...

r Excellent points made. I would hope that some of the concepts that you have laid out will be incorporated into the autopilots to be released for the Inspire. I absolutely will purchase the autopilot when it becomes available, and I hope that this will meets your expectations. Later, please...

I used velcro for both locators to the back of the battery housing, at the rear of the Inspire. The Marco Polo antenna curls up as shown over the top of the inspire. The photo will show how I mounted them, although since I have no more Inspire (it's at DJI Repairs in LA for 6-7+ more weeks)...

Thanks Mark/Editor - Sent information that you requested via email - Thanks for your interest. Dave

Hi Eduardo, Thank you for your thoughts. You are correct that it is problematic "having power and rudder controlled by the same stick (where you need sub-milimeter precision)" ... but that is standard "Mode 2" setup, and changing these around may cause other problems. I agree that it is...

Marco Polo works great, as does that Drone Mods cellular unit. . Just crashed my Inspire approaching 2 weeks ago ... signal suddenly went dead. First even near-crash in 500+ flights ... and just before a heavy rain started several hours later. Totally my fault (not DJI's fault) when I...

Thank you for your recommendations.

There is no question the the crash of my Inspire was entirely my fault. I was flying solo, with no one else around (and tired - big mistake!), and made a series of errors detailed below: I was in DIRECT sight of the aircraft almost all of the time , but is hilly country, and heavily forested...

Thanks Editor (I assume that you are the editor for InspirePilots). I appreciate your comments. The enhancements items subsequent to my original post have escalated considerably from my original document. Note in my second post, we made the comment "Be cost-effective! After all, the Inspire 1...