Servo Slow/ Servo Rate Reducer

I went through a few different Servo Extenders/ Servo Slows for my Escale P-47 and found that the Dionysus Design one was by far the best, and its so tiny and incredibly lightweight too.

We’ve now bought a box of them and become the UK distributor for Dionysus - they’re here on our website: http://www.firstpersonview.co.uk/accessories/servo-slow-retract-slow. Give one a try, I think you’ll be really impressed with it.

Simon

180 Degree Servo Extender Demo

Here's a quick demonstration video of our Servo Extender/ Servo Stretcher designed for FPV Pan servos so that you can look shoulder to shoulder (or as near as possible, depending on your servo).

Vodafone iPhone Tarriffs - European Data Included

Vodafone have now announced their tariffs and there are a couple of interesting differences to the o2 offering. Vodafone have included 1gb of data on all tariffs and they include 5mb per day of European data on tariffs over £40. For those people who travel this is definately a significant new development and it will be very tempting. On the current o2 iPhone tariff 5mb would cost £15.

It may, however, be somewhat problematic to measure and stay within the 5mb per day limit. It is not currently clear what Vodafone will charge you per MB when you go over this limit.

O2 iPhone v4 Tariffs - 18 month or 24 month?

O2 have just announced their iPhone v4 handset pricing and released that alongside their tariffs here: http://shop.o2.co.uk/new-iphone/tariffs.html

Tariff
Interestingly the price of the handset doesn’t alter on the 1200 minutes per month tariff whether you sign up for 18 or 24 months but the price per month for the tariff does. So which is better - 18 months at £50, or 24 months at £45?

Well to answer that we need to think about what will happen after 18 months. There won’t be a new iPhone 18 months from now so presumably after 18 months, if you're on an 18 month tariff, you'll switch to Simplicity 30 and get the same 1200 tariff for £35 (£15 cheaper than you'd have paid for months 1-18).

How do the numbers compare?
• If you were on the iPhone 1200 tariff for 24 months at £45 you’d save £120 (£5 per month * 24 months) compared to staying on the 18 month version for 24 months.
• If you were on the iPhone 1200 tariff for 18 months at £50, and then switched to simplicity 30 for the remaining 6 months you’d pay £90 more initially and then save £15 per month for the last 6 months. £90 – (£15 * 6)= £0

So the cost is exactly the same. There’s an advantage to being on an 18 month contract in that you’re out of the lock-in sooner, but the downside is that you’ve got to pay £5 more per month for months 1-18 and you’ve got to remember to change tariff on the correct date (if you’re a month late you’d have been better signing up for 24 months). Of course if you change tariffs down to something much cheaper on month 18 then all bets are off, I'm just looking at the different ways o2 are charging for the identical 1200mins, 750mb, unlimited texts deal.

Capacity - 16 or 32GB?
When I bought the original iPhone and the 3G I got the highest capacity available, but this time I'll be happy with the smallest 16gb unit. Clearly your mileage will vary depending on how much music you like to carry around, but for me personally experience with my previous 2 iPhones shows me that I don't need more than 16gb. In fact 8gb, or even 4gb, would most likely be fine for me!

So these are the reasons why I'll be ordering a 16gb on a 24 month tariff. Now I just need to decide whether I want white or black...

Propeller Price Reduced

It seems that XAircraft completely overcharged us when we bought our batch of propellers and as such they came out very expensive. After a little argy bargy they have now agreed to send us some more free of (further) charge. This enables me to reduce the propeller price to £3.99 each (down from £6.50 previously).

They've arrived!

Hi guys,

Just a quick one because we are absolutely run off our feet here. We received the recall sets and the pre-ordered V2s this afternoon.

The recall sets have all been sent out to customers. We are currently sorting through every single set of the new quads and checking that every unit has enough of every item. So far I've found no two bags to have the same number of any component :-(
(Of course it doesn't help that everything is in Chinese and XAircraft are closed now due to the time difference).

We will prepare everything tonight, send photos to confirm with XAircraft tonight and then ship the new units tomorrow and supply tracking number to all of our faithful and patient customers!!

Thanks for your patience everyone.

All the best

Simon
(From FirstPersonView.co.uk)

X600D v2 recall parts have apparently shipped...

Dear all,

I am being told that new v2 parts for all of our recalled X600D customers have been shipped today, along with 5 new v2 units. XAircraft assure me that they have been sent today and they will provide the tracking number tomorrow morning (their time). We also have a quantity of propellers in the delivery.

Further v2 stock to satisfy the rest of our pre-orders and to go in to stock will ship on Saturday and we expect to have that 3 or 4 days later. We'll have some L4500 Pro Pan and Tilt camera mounts in that delivery as well.

Thank you all so much for your patience! Hopefully this will all be resolved very soon now.

Sincerely

Simon