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I recently tried a DIY drone, using HEQ’s drone: SWAN K1 PRO PNP, this drone has VTOL function, also provides flight control and GPS, and it only sells for $499. I put my own gopro camera in and used the HEQ battery. The flight time was about 50 minutes, and the shooting pictures were very stable.
I m a new comer to drone, needs to learn from experience experts.
You didn’t mention the brand of MicroSD cards you use. I found the Sandisk Extreme 256g chips for ~$21US on Amazon.
I think you may have mentioned it in the video, but for those that don’t hear it, or you didn’t: Spend the first hour just charging batteries. The Drone battery came with enough of a charge to update the firmware but seemed to be having an issue charging, but the controller had only around 16% charge. Just do it. It’s so easy. (I got the ‘Fly More’ kit, and it’s silly easy to charge all of the batteries)
I also used the Apple 140W charger block as the DJI 100W is unavailable. It worked well. I wonder how well the Mophie Speedport 120 would work. It has 3 USB_C PD ports, and a USB-A port too. The Apple 96W block would probably work out really well too.
Great video. My wife was hesitant, and after watching your video went all in on getting one. We’ll have to watch it again for next years 5 Boros New York City bike tour. It would be great to get a tracking video for that amazing ride.