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RobRoy
Key Veteran
Location: Huntsville, Alabama

Took a drive over and visited Rotomotion in Charleston this past weekend. I must say, I was very impressed with the products they had to show me. The staff there was extremely professional, and very knowledgable. Their autopilot was very stable even in high winds, and the ground station interface was amazing. I'm looking for feedback from anyone who might have any long term experience with a Rotomotion product. How has it held up? Have you had any problems that required assistance from Rotormotion? and if so how was that experience?

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is for life.
10-01-2008 01:59 PM
 
 
BarryB
Heliman
Location: Germany

I would be interested to find out too.

I've been researching the different autopilot options and I've been unable to find anybody using the Rotomotion for commercial day-in, day-out jobs. Everyone has either been a sponsored university or a dealer/rep.

Did you try a search ?. There is some info - but not much.

So - anybody using one ?. Got some pics of your rig ?.

Barry.
10-01-2008 02:15 PM
 
 
HiroboEric
Veteran
Location: Los Angeles, CA.

I would suggest calling rotomotion with technical support questions and contrast that with your initial impression. If you can get anywhere you'll be doing well.



I would highly suggest calling Mike Fouche at NRI. They are very capable to take care of all your needs and concerns.

Eric Pacheco, AirWorksRC.com
10-01-2008 08:27 PM
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RobRoy
Key Veteran
Location: Huntsville, Alabama

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I would highly suggest calling Mike Fouche at NRI. They are very capable to take care of all your needs and concerns.

You have got to be kidding, right? NRI and customer support is an oxymoron in itself. I am a former employee of NRI and know better than to touch their stuff. The last I heard about NRI was from a law firm looking for them, because they had left Huntsville, without a forwarding address.

Do you or have you owned/fly a NRI or Rotomotion product? Just curious as to what you are basing your statements on. You seem to know about Rotomotion customer support, I would really like to hear your experiance with them.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is for life.
10-01-2008 09:21 PM
 
 
Hogster
Key Veteran
Location: Surrey, UK

I was one of the members who had experience with Rotomotion as a University student, and although a little slow to reply to emails sometimes, when I got hold of Dennis on the phone he went to every length to try and resolve the problems we were having.

Unfortunately for European users, there is an issue which, when I was last in touch with Rotomotion, was still not rectified, where the onboard computer would somehow swamp the 35MHz receiver, drastically shortening the range of the safety-pilot's transmitter. You can see the result of that in this video:

http://www.vimeo.com/908839

When the heli was flying fine it performed well ... the hands-off hovering using GPS and the altitude sensor was very very cool

http://www.vimeo.com/906766

Cheers


David
10-01-2008 11:52 PM
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swch900
Senior Heliman
Location: Denver, CO US

lol
10-02-2008 04:04 AM
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HiroboEric
Veteran
Location: Los Angeles, CA.

I will not have a debate with former employee that may sway one way or another based on his indifferences. I have had many e-mails and phone conversations with the NRI staff and everyone there contributed to find solutions for my needs. I am very happy with the support and products from NRI. On the other hand I have also worked with Rotomotion for two years now and I have personally found their service to be poor at best. Several services they have performed have been incorrect with the wrong firmware installations. They have failed to support these mistakes to solve solutions in the field in anything resembling a timely manner. I would consider a timely manner being inside business hours or even inside the same business week. All in all I would consider other options there many out there if NRI is not a prospect. This is my experience. You asked for it. I am sharing it with you. I will not debate it. If you don't like it I suggest you don't ask or don't read it. Thank you.

Eric Pacheco, AirWorksRC.com
10-02-2008 04:57 AM
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trackhead
Key Veteran
Location: utah

Carvec.
10-02-2008 05:03 AM
 
 
tabbytabb
Elite Veteran
Location: seattle

I like that^^^^

A man who gets to the point



Tabb
10-02-2008 05:15 AM
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gjestico
Senior Heliman
Location: Vancouver, B.C.

No one ever has anything bad to say about Carvec.....hmmmm
10-02-2008 05:28 AM
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swch900
Senior Heliman
Location: Denver, CO US

my personal experience is that a used HC profi is 1 million yep I said it 1 million times better than a brand new NRI system. the cool thing about the NRI system is that its about 8.8lbs, and thats the same weight shot put mike would have thrown in high school if he had competed in the event.

here's the wiki link ---> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_put

My advice is don't trust mike or his "shot put" intelligent auto pilot any further then they can be thrown.
10-02-2008 05:55 AM
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BarryB
Heliman
Location: Germany

David (Hogster),

Just interested : did Dennis start to help you before or after the other thread where you brought it up ?.


Barry.
10-02-2008 10:54 AM
 
 
RobRoy
Key Veteran
Location: Huntsville, Alabama

HiroboEric,

No debate here, just looking for information. NRI is out due to my first hand knowledge of the product and the company. If your NRI product is working for you, great. Rotomotion is on the table still, along with a few others. Could you elaborate a little on you experiance with Rotomotion? What model are you flying? What firmware did you have problems with? Did it finally get resolved, or are you still unable to use their product?

Thanks.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is for life.
10-02-2008 12:12 PM
 
 
Hogster
Key Veteran
Location: Surrey, UK

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Just interested : did Dennis start to help you before or after the other thread where you brought it up ?.
It had nothing to do with the thread. I don't think I'd even put the thread up by the time he started helping. I just kept pestering him until we got the problem fixed

It doesn't help that there are two Dennis D'Anunzio's - snr and jnr - send emails to the wrong one and you might not get an answer for ages! His contact is dbd [at] rotomotion.com

Cheers,


David
10-02-2008 07:02 PM
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BarryB
Heliman
Location: Germany

Thanks David, though are we talking about the same thread ?:

http://www.runryder.com/helicopter/f25p1/

It does read like they started to help after your first post.

I want to be sure because it would make a difference to my choice of system (I don't want to have to post on public forum's before they pay any attention).


Barry.
10-02-2008 07:11 PM
 
 
Hogster
Key Veteran
Location: Surrey, UK

To be honest I would be very surprised if it had anything to do with that. They just seemed to be very busy at that time with quite bad staff shortages. Once I got hold of Dennis he was a really genuine chap and went to great lengths to help me.

Cheers,


David
10-02-2008 10:28 PM
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rroback
Elite Veteran
Location: Irvine (UCI), Ca

I understand the benefit of autonomous systems, for long distance stuff, or possibly something along the line of spraying fields, telephone wire surveys, etc, but I don't understand the desire for fully autonomous for aerial photography. I quite understand the desire for 'assisted' flight, like my profi ( well, soon to be profi number 2... thanks to swch900), or carvec. Both profi, and carvec, work well, and are supported well, although I might be biased about the profi

Rhett... I can't fly, luckily the HC Profi Can!
10-03-2008 09:48 PM
 
 
iskoos
Key Veteran
Location: Orlando, FL

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I don't understand the desire for fully autonomous for aerial photography.

One advantage is that you eliminate the second guy and do everything as one-man setup.
This said, there are ways to have one-man setup without a fully autonomous systems. Not everybody has $15k+ to blow on autonomous systems...
10-05-2008 05:28 AM
 
 
rroback
Elite Veteran
Location: Irvine (UCI), Ca

I don't feel comfortable doing ap alone, not merely because it's much harder to frame ( which would be fixed by autonomous systems), but because I need a spotter, always looking out for obstacles.

Rhett... I can't fly, luckily the HC Profi Can!
10-05-2008 11:25 PM
 
 
RobRoy
Key Veteran
Location: Huntsville, Alabama

I'm not looking for this to be used for AP. I have a customer that requires the capabilities that the Rotomotion system offers. If it weren't for the need of such requirements, I would be looking very hard a what Carvec offers. The fact that I need these advanced capabilities limits me to just a few companies. I have found a few companies that offer about the same product, so my final choice will come down to price and how happy thier customer base is. So far HiroboEric is the only one to have anything bad to say about Rotomotion, and he's been very criptic about what he has and what problems he's had with it. Hogster, Good to hear that you seem to have had an overall good experiance with Rotormotion. What Rotomotion model do you have, or do you just have thier flight system installed on you platform? Do you know anyone else with thier product?

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is for life.
10-06-2008 02:37 AM
 
 
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