Today, the temperature ranged from a low of -21ºC to a high of -11ºC but it was a calm and sunny day. I took the NEO out to see how it would do in temperatures below the rated -10ºC minimum. The temperature at the time of the flight was -12ºC. I set the NEO to follow me using Active Track and record as I walked along a snow covered bush trail. The NEO tracked me and the camera operated without any problems. The only anomaly was an error message mid flight that said the NEO was 'Preparing to take off'. When I returned home and inspected the log message it said 'Preparing to take off; IMU warming up. Wait before take off (Code: 30072)'. I'm thinking that this message was due to the cold weather conditions since I have never seen it before on my NEO.
On my old P3S I will get the IMU warming up message in cold weather and I get around this by calibrating the IMU outside in cold weather otherwise the P3S will not take off until the IMU has warmed up, so having this message appear mid flight on the NEO got my attention but thankfully it flew normally.
I will try to do some more tests in the coming days to see if I only get this message when it is really cold out.
Chris
On my old P3S I will get the IMU warming up message in cold weather and I get around this by calibrating the IMU outside in cold weather otherwise the P3S will not take off until the IMU has warmed up, so having this message appear mid flight on the NEO got my attention but thankfully it flew normally.
I will try to do some more tests in the coming days to see if I only get this message when it is really cold out.
Chris
