My delve in to the world of the DJI Inspire

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Another update :slight_smile:

I’ve been getting increasingly unhappy with the DJI “suitcase” for the Inspire. The zips are fragile as hell, check any review, you’ll see how many break.

Also, the real bug bear, storing the drone in travel mode. I thought I could live with it but the more and more I used the Inspire the more and more frustrated I was getting with it.

When in travel mode the drone is “flat”, so it’s very low profile and ideal for storing. The downside to this is you can’t leave the camera attached. Which means you have to go through bit of a song and dance each time:

  1. Power up controller
  2. Power up drone
  3. Take drone out of travel mode
  4. Turn off drone
  5. Remove gimbal mount dust cap
  6. Remove camera (connector) dust cap
  7. Attach camera to drone
  8. Power up drone

It did my head in eventually :confused:

I went off in search of a “landing mode” case which allows you to store the Inspire in landing mode, with the camera attached. The only down side to this then in the sheer height of the case that’s required.

I found a cracking case on Mr Axessories (or however its spelt) but I don’t think he’s trading anymore, emails just bounce, phone is dead.

@MementoMori mentioned the Inspak case which I thought was too small (I’ll come back to this in a minute) so I continued my search and in the end opted for a HPRC INS-2780W case:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/HPRC-INS2-2780W-01-Wheeled-Inspire-Black/dp/B06X9D1FKR

Note, there is a “INS-…” and a “INS2-…”, the 2 being for the Inspire 2. Same outer case, different foam moulds inside.

Also no, I did not pay ÂŁ529 fucking quid for it :scream:

Anyway, it’s an amazing case but I what I wasn’t quite ready for what the sheer size of this thing. Yes, all the measurements are clearly displayed on various sites when ordering, but who pays attention to that?

When this thing arrived I questioned the delivery guy thinking he’d given me the wrong parcel.

This thing is HUGE.

Panic set in… my gaff wasn’t big enough to store a crate this size. I literally had no where to keep it in my house!!

Anyway, luck was on my side, I opened the case and found an Inspire 2 foam inside, so it didn’t fit my drone anyway!! Thankfully the firm I bought it from were great and collected it FOC two days later with a full refund.

PHEW!

Honestly, I shit you not, it was ridiculously big. It has a handle on each side for TWO PEOPLE to lift it :scream:

Anyway, it was indeed an amazing case, EVERYTHING would have fitted inside it, with room to spare. But it weighed +16KG when empty!

So the case is gone, I was disappointed because it was an amazing case, but I was relieved at the same time as I literally didn’t know where I’d store it in my house, nor how on earth I’d lift it from the house to the car.

Heads up people, don’t buy a HPRC 2780W case unless you have two people to carry it and a spare bedroom all on its own to store it in :+1:

I have since another case sorted, more news on that shortly!

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