what would cause gps to stop working?
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So I've been flying with the Naza m v2 for a year now with no problems. I normally plug it in and within 30-60 seconds I would have all green lights on my LED, If I remember right my osd would show 9 sats. Now all of the sudden, when I plug it in it takes much longer and Only ever acquires 5 sats. (So it stays at 2 red blinks on LED indicator) after 4-5 minutes it will sometimes find a 6th sat. But it never gets past that to show me all green.
I tried to calibrate the compass again, did not help. I also read dust can cause an issue with signal acquisition, so I tried taking apart the drone and cleaning it, also to no avail.

Any thoughts?
This came out of no where, I flew it one day, no problem. Tried the next day, from same location, and boom it won't acquire satellites.
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Kneepuck
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Any trees nearby?  That have leaves now,  but didn't during the winter?  A possibility.
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vandruten
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How's your weather over there? Is it heavily cloudy? I found that flying in cloudy days will reduce the amount of satellites detected.
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vandruten Posted at 2016-5-29 18:37
How's your weather over there? Is it heavily cloudy? I found that flying in cloudy days will reduce  ...

GPS  is an all-weather system and not affected by clouds or rain.
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labroides@yahoo Posted at 2016-5-29 15:54
GPS  is an all-weather system and not affected by clouds or rain.

Well good news for us pilots with monsoonal seasons then.
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vandruten
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But I'm sure I'm getting less satellite readings when its cloudy. Maybe its only in my bird.
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vandruten Posted at 2016-5-29 19:03
But I'm sure I'm getting less satellite readings when its cloudy. Maybe its only in my bird.

The number of satellites you can connect to varies all the time - but it has nothing to do with weather conditions.
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