FPV Parts review. What have you bought and is it any good?

I while ago I bought a couple of ViFly Finder v2 buzzers. I put one of them on the Nazgul and I’ve never been happy with it - it’s very quiet. It may get louder in a genuine emergency situation (fortunately that hasn’t happened yet) but as it stands, it’s pretty useless.

By comparison, I threw one of these JHE ones in with my last order from UMT and it’s been spot on.

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Funny you should say that. I got through so many ViFly2’s… They poor, and I had bought a few from amazon a while back…

Turns out if you hover on the photos they are JHE too. Two sizes. Strangely have a larger one on the 5 inch as didn’t fir the 7inch frame, and a smaller one on the 7inch now! Nice to see UMT have them too! So yeah the JHE I think are better (though you need to hold the button down to stop it rather than plug in and out the battery like you can in the viflys!

Also as a side note, BF4.3 allows you to mute the buzzer which is great when you are ignoring your battery low warnings, as that large JHE one is LOUD!! Very LOUD!

Hmm…that reminds me, I need to look into why my Nazgul is beeping constantly while plugged in. It’s a good thing the buzzer is quiet - for the moment. :grin:

Probably missing WIllington, that’s all…

An update on this… sometime later.

The M4Q is not good. It faffs about and does not efficiently charge like the K2 does.

Do not buy the M4Q.

I took the new hdzero goggles out for a spin today. They really are a premium goggle and well worth the promo price. From the bag all the way to the menu system and dvr.
My hdzero quad felt super locked in. I felt very connected to it giving me way more confidence.

I also put the walksnail on it at 720p 100hz mode. In my plane, it was very nice cruising around. Lovely images and colours and no breakup at range.
However, in my 3" baby ape, performing quick low proximity flying, I started to feel a little woozy. Much like flying a sim on a pc using goggles :man_shrugging: :face_vomiting:

Good to hear the goggles are living up to the expectations :star_struck:
With the Walksnail were you running 25 or 50mb mode? I heard the 25mb mode is smoother and they need to work on the firmware to improve the 50mb mode

I was on 25mb. I’ll try again next week. I didn’t feel that way at 60hz

Really? On my DJI the 60hz mode makes me feel a little funny like you describe but the 120hz is silky smooth

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Yes thanks for letting me try them. Never before have I liked any of these style goggles, but it was great (sorry I had forgotten how to land a drone, been a while lol). Only tried HDzero and did look and feel smooth. Didn’t notice any latency difference personally to DJI w, but wasn’t 90fps can.

Bizarrely I flew my analogue baby hawk for first time 8n ages after the HD systems, and it felt very weird and jerky. First time ever noticed thatz and have back to back flown DJI and Analogue plenty of times in past.

Anyways… We got till the 4th yeah? Heh

Here is a Hdzero runcam 90 fpv camera clip. Its something like 540p resolution, but at 90hz refresh rate. The latency is meant to be rock bottom and the fastest on the market.
As you see, the image is naff. But it is has a slightly more connected feel. I’m not good enough to feel the full benefits I think, but it feels like the quad is more where you expect it to be? Definitely only for racers.

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Good for flying close to stuff… not for the middle of a field.

It would have helped us today…

Ooooh. A crash?

Not that time.

There’s enough excellent tree-avoidance for a decently long video…

Would just like to mention a piece of kit I bought a long time ago, and recently become even more useful!

When I started the hobby I was kindly given two of these (I’ve passed one onto another flyer recently). And they’re great, and do the job well enuf. Believe they are alarms too for fixed wings, etc with no telem!

Anyways, I bought a “better” battery monitor a long time ago the ToolkitRC MC8

It’s a far better checker, can even balance cells if you must from that, but whilst I knew it could be a servo checker, I’ve recently used that functionality to move servos 100s of times (recommend to test your servos), as well as an input from signals (so I’ve checked that outputs from a RX works correctly). Can check and produce PWM, PMM, and SBUS signals! Fantabulous!

It’s small, I just leave it in my battery bag and a solid piece of kit that does what I bought it for brilliantly, but more recently become even more useful!

And after RTFM this morning, yet another use for it! Using my unused full packs from yesterday to charge my mini 2 batteries for a flight later with that!

Don’t buy the AtomRC Dolphin…Ive seen this thing launch 7 times. Once a very impressive roll into flight. The rest end up similar to this.

No idea why mutley is in this video… But still

(Sorry @Yith for your loss… Lost cause me thinks. At least you found the battery in the end)

Sorry to see the Dolphin crash again Richard :sleepy: I had high hopes for that model mate

I’m half tempted to build one… He’s not had much luck with it though :disappointed:. But the front missing was like a wall.

I was saying I’d launch it for him, but glad he waited for Josh so I couldn’t take any blame for that. Though the throw was fine. Just seems to be back heavy but I checked the CG myself and was if anything slightly forward