Bought a handful of 1s 500mAh batteries...

i_r_beej

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...for my "garbage can find"!

Last week I was riding around the neighborhood with my fam and spied a quadcopter sitting on top of an overstuffed garbage can. I slowly looped back around for a closer look and... the thing looked intact and okay. Continued on the ride. Coming back later the quadcopter was still there. Wife suggested I ask the homeowners if I could take some of their trash. ;) It was dusk and the house was dark- nobody home. So I grabbed the 'copter. Then I noticed the transmitter was sitting on the ground by the garbage can partially obscured by another bag of trash. And... there was a little baggy with the spare props and instructions! What??

So I snagged everything and rode off into the diminshing sunset.

It's an UDI R/C U818a-1. The airframe is bent and warped but the thing flies with no problem! There was already a battery installed so I bought a parallel charging cable and five more batteries. (Flight time is a measley 5 minutes per battery.)
 
Nice find! Would love to luck out and find stuff like this.
 
Probably the poor guy's wife decided she'd had enough of that thing buzzing around the living room breaking stuff :D
 
Yeah, that's the joke around our house. That or the kid was chasing the dog.
 

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