I looked inside and wasn't enough to make a picture worth the trouble. Wind is calm. Really impressed with battery and ease of basket removal!
It’s not a question of can it run all night. It’s a question of how many cloudy days and nights can it run? Haven’t figured that one out yet, been sunny here the last few weeks. Also the other question is how long can this one last before breaking down?
Still going at about 24 hours. Been cloudy most of the day, but sun has peaked out now and then. Shade from 5 oaks after 2, from house before noon. I'd be happy with it running 8 hours, but 24 use amazing!
Well, mine has red lights this morning, no clue when it died. It's really cloudy, so if it actually starts moving I'll be surprised. If it can charge with clouds, I'll let you know.
I would think that it should be the same as the old one. It will charge up a bit, but don’t expect it to run all night after a cloudy day if it didn’t get a full charge after running the battery down. The old one could run a few days and nights without much sun coming from a full charge.
It does work great, I think it’s a very well thought out design the first generation worked great. The only knock with the first generation ones was that they failed pretty quickly and consistently. It remains to be seen if that was production problem or a design problem. Time will tell, but with how great they are with their warranty and now that they offer a 3 year warranty, it’s not much of an issue if it breaks down a few times a season.
Check the props, there should be L&R. If the same let them know.
That's typically a good thing. My bank does that for any high dollar purchase out of state that I've never bought from. You also may have a purchase limit set that requires approval.
Negative on both items. I had just placed an order from an out of state company that I had never dealt with before for more than the price of the betta bot without a problem. I checked the card and everything should have gone through with regard to limits.
It just got weirder. I went to use the first card for something else and it didn't go through. I called the bank again and they had actually blocked the card due to the attempted purchase at bettabot.
I didn’t have any problems. I used my credit card over the phone to pay for the upgrade charge to the new beta and I used it on their website for the 3 year warranty. Sounds like their chat client got hacked or something and your banks just being super weird. My experience with banks is that they will on occasion randomly flag purchases out of the blue. I’ve used mine before while traveling out of the country or to the west coast without notifying them that I would be traveling and used it without issue. On the flip side I’ve also had them flag the card and not run it due to “suspicious activity” at the grocery store down the street where I always shop…
They sent me one once with two right propellers, and it just drove in circles. They sent me the correct propellor and I swapped it myself. I chalked it up to someone having a bad day at the factory. Check the propellors, they are labeled with an L and and R.
