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  1. QuadCopter102

    No more buying drone stuff

    The Anet A8 is one extruder ( it feeds the filament through a heater to the feed nozzle) no immediate plans - apparently - to add additional extruders...it will need a new program writing to control it and - being China - unless they find one to "clone" it will not happen! If you want to...
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    No more buying drone stuff

    I did just that - the current low cost , best value is the Anet A8 Around us$150 - $170 depending on add on sent with it..DHL shipping and mine was dispatched Thurday night in China - arrived at my door 4.30pm the following Tuesday. 18000 member on the Official Facebook !! Whatever you do...
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    Battery recommendation...

    I actually read the thread before jumping in with something A.N .Other had mentioned! My first thought was ESC.s - glad I read the thread... but as a side story... I was setting up a 250 a few weeks back and it was a bit windy at the bottom of my garden where the wind comes up from...
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    Battery recommendation...

    You are getting to the point where you will need more powerful lipo's up to 6s maybe. Punch outs etc - hit the lipo with bursts of power usage - and that's probably the main reason they appear to last less and less in flight. If you do go up in cell numbers - check your ESCs can deal...
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    What quad charger for a beginner?

    I have the Imax B6 AC Pro. It dies a reasonable job of actually balancing a lipo...but it needs more than just plugging it in and hitting the go button. Wait till a used lipo cools down - place on charge at the correct charge voltage - ie don't run a 1.5 mah lipos - in this example I...
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    Looking for a new transmitter

    Anybody interested in the Turnigy - TGY i10 radio....its on discount at around us$90 - I just got another for au$126. I was about to buy a spare batter for my existing TGY i10 cost au$23 + shipping and another 10 chnl RC the TGYi10A cost au$25 + shipping so these two would have cost me around...
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    What first radio?

    We have all had this start up dilemma! I will give you the adv ice I got - and ignored! Buy the BEST you can afford...TARANIS is probably the most used by the top guys...Spectrum tend to be popuar with fixed wing flyers. There is now a Taranis "Lite" on the market and looks a winner. I...
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    Banggood Shipping???

    I have for 15 months or more.... stood by BangGood as being far from perfect - but better than most of the cheapo online stores - certainly as far as Gearbest their sister shop EverBuying and a few others, - BUT I have to say that prior to Last November I had only a couple of either never...
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    hi there from Australia

    Where on the coast are you?
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    Banggood Shipping???

    As I said... they can call them what they want - they are dropshipping or otherwise they would havetheir own warehouse and get better deals for having stock in. As it they seem to have deals with Eachine and some other.... but note what IS NOT available from them......
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    Banggood Shipping???

    Do you expect them to say... we send your order from our drop ship supplier Sum Ting Rong? HobbyKing DO have regional warehouses - east and West coast I think in US - but the US situation may change because they seem to have contravened some sales laws or whatever... RCGroups have the low...
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    Banggood Shipping???

    GOOD NEWS......BAD News..... GOOD NEWS - Saw a ticker on CNN ( I think) that Alibaba was having a crackdown on those selling counterfeit goods. BAD NEWS - after the rogues shifted their bad stock..... there are now only two items available until further notice....... ( for those without...
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    Banggood Shipping???

    To my understanding so called "Free Shipping" is airmail - but uses what I think is called "Consolidated shipping hub" which seems to that its not unusual for airplane cargo hold space allocated to post/parcels - at full cost- have left over space/weight allowance - so the first bin load of...
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    Banggood Shipping???

    BangGood are no different from basically every other online and eBay store - they are DropShippers and it could be the case that either the manufacturer/main distributor - area or region distributor - has agreements that disallow BG shipping to certain area's. I suppose you can ask WHERE in...
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    Soldering connections

    300 @ us$1 each??? I was tempted to buy a batch and try to sell them on Gumtree - handy for locals instead of waiting 3-4 weeks for ebay to deliver. BUT - I purchased 4 from one seller at au$4.99each and picked up another four one at a time from other sellers... trying not to get any...