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The dinky E10C came not long ago. It’s the same size as my tiny Hubsan but much easier to fly. Compared to the E61H it’s a very twitchy but that’s bigger so it was expected. It’s not hard to fly just needs more of a delicate touch on the inputs.
The camera is pretty good in decent light, photos and video are certainly better than expected. The micro SD card needs to be formatted as FAT32, 32GB max size. A quick format won’t do the job.
Flips are a bit more difficult to do as you have to click the right hand stick down and then select a direction with it, that could just be me though. The E61H has a dedicated button for flips but that’s the video capture start/stop button on this model.
Sample shot.
Size comparison with the E61H
I’ll get some video later on hopefully.
Finally got around to getting some video of the E10C
For something that fits on top of a can of beer I’m very impressed.
My big quadcopter came today. Finally.
Compared to the ones I had it’s huge. Compared to some available, it’s not big at all.
The red one is my previous largest one.
Not flown it outside and only briefly indoors as it’s quite scary in a small living room. As there’s no satellites available it’s down to trimming it to get it be stable, need a bit more space than I have available to keep it away from things and trim it at the same time.
Not bolted the searchlight on yet but it’s nice and bright and has it’s own rechargeable battery.
For some reason I can’t get the camera into 4K mode, it’s only doing up to 1080p at the moment. You can manually adjust the camera from straight ahead to straight down. From my quick play with it looks to be a good quality image.
Batteries are rechargeable via micro USB. Best to use the cable supplied as that has a charging indicator LED on it.
The app seems to be good, with a little deciphering of the manual it looks quite logical and easy to use.
Importantly, with the searchlight, it’s 230 grams, safely under the 250 limit where you need to register.
I just need to able to get out and give it a proper flight now. :unsure:
I might have sorted the 4K recording issue.
I forgot to mention that I couldn’t find the micro SD slot, even though it’s marked on the bottom of the drone. After a bit of digging I found out that the whole camera module slides out to allow access to the SD slot. In theory the recording to the SD should be in 4K.
That’s something to try tomorrow.
No mention of that in the manual.
Finally got a chance to fly the large drone today. Really impressed with the performance considering it was windy high up.
The satellite systems work a treat to hold it pretty much rock steady even in the higher winds. The return home function also works very well, bringing it back to within about 20cm of the take off spot. It’ll also return home automatically if the battery gets too low. One thing about the return home function is the quadcopter goes up high on it’s way back, could be an issue if there are overhead wires or trees near.
Being able to store photos on the phone is handy but the ones stored on the SD in the quadcopter are a little bit better quality as they haven’t been transmitted via WiFi.
Had some flights with the ‘big’ one recently. Yesterday it wouldn’t work at all, very early morning so I put it down me being a bit tired and not checking everything.
In the afternoon it dawned on me that there was some dew on the field I’d been trying to fly from. Home experiment concluded that moisture above a certain point on the aerials completely wrecked the ability to connect/ fly.
Out this morning, earlier, take offs from dry areas and no problems at all.
Barry docks, a big chunk of Barry and the Vale of Glamorgan Council building in the centre.
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