Flying acro los is hard mate. I struggle. Its a lot easier with your goggles.
Yeah if your going to practice line of sight, do it in angle mode (stability), but if you have goggles, stick em on and fly about. It’s a lot easier to control the quad when you looking through its camera.
If your flying on grass as well, remember that you can always disarm if things are getting a little dodgy. Don’t worry too much about chewing up props while learning, as long as they are not split, wildly bent or broken, just keep practicing. Just check the motors are not excessively hot.
Thanks. I’ve just got this fear of crashing with goggles and then not being able to find the drone…I got to link the buzzer to a switch I guess, so I can get it to make some noise? Not done that yet. Also, there are little RFI tags you can attack to stuff and then use a little blipper to locate. That worth getting you think?
Suppose. Also you can setup blheli to have a beacon. It uses the motors to make a beep. But just have a spotter. That’s really the best way.
Rfi? Is that rfid? I think that’s short range. Inches.
You can get lost model buzzers for like £5-7 quid which you can add to the quad, but if your going to get one of them make sure it’s one with a backup battery otherwise it’s a bit pointless.
It’s pretty rare too eject a battery in a crash though, although if you hit the ground hard enough to do that its probably buggered anyway.
You get bluetooth ones and an RF one that comes with a remote.
Think range is under 100m but would be ideal if you can find the general area.
Hiya, just wanted to jump back on here with a couple MORE questions.
Quick update, initial experiences of flying weren’t very successful. I felt like I was trying to fly a rollercoaster by looking out of a tiny dirty porthole. I couldn’t gauge height so kept bouncing off the ground. However after putting the training wheels on and switching to angle mode and digging a lot of grass out of the flight controller I’m staying airborne for literally tens of seconds! Right proud I am. Amazing how tough the little drone is.
So next issue, these stupid dipoles on the goggles seem to give a range of about 30 metres before I start losing video which limits area of operations ridiculously.
Which antennae should I go for and how do I know if they’re right or left handed…?
Secondly, I’m getting “low battery, land now” with the 3s 650 lipo, but when I check the voltage it’s still at 3.6 per cell. Doesn’t that still mean some juice left? Is that a setting thing or seriously, that’s the battery done?
Thanks in advance…!
Oh and lastly, I think this DJI VS FPV video says it all…
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Rhcp is Right. Lhcp is left. Match em up. Get some height too. It gives you room to make mistakes.
Ok so even more basic than that. How do I know if I need RHCP or LHCP, or so I need one of each…?
You either choose LHCP or RCHP. You can tell the polarasition of an antenna like a clover leaf by the direction the coils are facing.
Dipoles are linear and neither lhcp or rhcp.
What antenna do you have on the quad? If it’s a dipole you want to swap it out with something like a clover leaf and same on goggles. If your goggles have diversity receiver a triple feed patch is a good addition.
Hmmm well the quad has an xm+ transmitter which I guess is dipole?
That’s for control only.
Quads have a receiver for control (xm+) and a vtx for video.
You should have another antenna plugged into vtx. It’s probably a dipole with an ipex connector.
I’m sure you could get an ipex to sma female and mount antenna of your choice on top.
Duh! Yes of course. I knew that.
Ok so the antenna for the vtx is just a dipole plugged into that mini connector. So, swap that one out then
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You choose one or the other. As long as they match. On the vtx and rtx. That way you will get a better signal. Most people get a right. So if you fly in groups a left may be better. It doesn’t really matter as long as they both match on your quad and your goggles.
Great. Can you recommend a brand…?
I would have to solder something new to the xm+ though, if I wanted to change that from a dipole?
Just checking 
Most people get a small extension which is the small connector (ipex) to sma female.
It’s like a bulkhead fitting where you can drill a hole in top cover and fix in place.
You can then put any antenna of your choice up there.
What power level is your vtx running at?
Pigtail!
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XM+ antenna should be good enough mate.
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Just to be clear, the duh was at me…having soldered everything together a should know what is what!
Ok power level for vtx…? Keep on running up against the limits of my knowledge here…
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