I'm Chadd Rains and this is my First Person View! I do all kinds of stuff, mostly focused around FPV, drones, cars, dogs, batteries and electric skateboards. Weird mix, I know but hey you're here reading this so I must be making some cool stuff haha 🤙
nice product , will be mounting on a small plane .. for a flight time of 20 mins max what size seperate battery should I use to power the 03 armer /DJI 03? 2s 250 mah? or Bigger 500 mah or can i use the flight battery balance tap and power the O3 via XSTH-XT30 adapter? will it cause any RF interference?
Thanks! If you’re powering your plane from a 2s or 3s you can totally power from the flight pack’s balance lead. It won’t interfere at all with the RF side of things. You can technically use a 4s, but it’s kind of necessary to add a 25v 470uf capacitor if you do that. It will draw about 30w to power the O3 air unit, Armer and fan, so a 2s 250mah may be a bit too small for a 20min flight time.
Pro tip: plug your crossfire module into your PC and use TBS agent M (just google that and it will come up). From there you can mess with everything in the crossfire module. You likely need to update the module in order to bind to the receiver, as most receivers have newer hardware than needs new fw. Lmk if you get stuck 🤙
So getting higher up to get range and connection, instead of finding high ground could you get a tower and set up the antenna on said tower so you don't have to climb on top of the roof? There is a 24' telescope camera tripod I found on Amazon that I think would be high enough. Then just run the wires down it and hook into witch ever screen you are using..... also perhaps putting the transmitter antenna up there as well. I'm sure this wouldn't go as smooth as it does in my head, but this is the system I'm looking at building. Would you have any input towards maybe things I would need to think about doing something like this? I apologize for the lengthy comment 😅 love what you are doing for the community, keep up the good work 🤘
Quite the goal, my dude! But yes, you’re on the right track with the telescopic mount. That style of “ground station” has been common for years and I’ll make a video showing off mine at some point. There’s some things you’ll likely need to get that kind of distance, like a very directional antenna (a TrueRC X2-Air is a good option) and likely an antenna tracker (though that is a pretty complicated setup, honestly). Remember it a hobby and that goal will not happen on the first try, but it can happen if you keep at it! 🤙
I’ll be sending a bunch to FPV24 here soon. I need to get the next batch ready and I’ll get their invoice sent over. I don’t know any EU dealers besides them and I only just found out about them. I’d love to have these stocked better in EU 👍
@@ChaddRainsFPV thanks for the quick reply. fpv24 is good and even just a few kilometers from my home. Alternative large FPV and RC shops include "Lindinger", "Rc- Hangar 15", "Premium Modellbau" or "Rctech".
It’s def cooler, but not better. If you’re going fast you need to be able to see bumps or you’ll flip. If the camera is low, and inside the frame your visibility sucks. You’re right, it is a cool look though 🤙
I need your help what do I need to buy to do this to my RC arrma vehicle I need to to be able to have long range and fpv googles and camera ? Please give me a list of what I need to buy to install on my rc car ? Thank you
In my newer videos I have links to everything. I recommend the ELRS version of the RadioMaster MT12 now. The video system is O3 Air Unit with an O3 Armer and DJI Goggles2 or Integra. You can email too, I link it in the newer videos 🤙
Hi Chadd, I am from india and i have started my likeness in RC car and i want to make a long range car for myself. Need some help and assistance. Can you help me out to make my first long range RC car.
A while back I poset that Iwas not able to find one of these. I have since deleted that post. I have one from progressive rc. I have tested it on an older CADDX Vista and it seems to work fine. I used the PWM switch mode. When I put the PWM output to HI the O3 Armer powers on the CADDX Vista. When I set the PWM signal to LOW it power the CADDIX Vista off. Thanks for a great product.
Thanks for the feedback! We actually removed the trace for the center (5v) pin on the PWM input side, just in case someone wasn’t aware. Thanks for getting this from PRC. I still have not set up a website as running that on top of my 2 other jobs would be insane for me right now haha. Thanks again and let me know if anything ever comes up!
Analog offers more flexibility. You can design this setup for whatever situation. It's how much you want to spend. Analog can far exceed digital. But you are talking about an extreme setup.
You should give the 1.2ghz vtx stuff a try. I’m running elrs 900mhz for rc link and the range and performance is incredible, believe I’ll be doing a fixed wing of some sort with the Geprc maten 1.2ghz 2W vtx
I have a huge amount of 1.3ghz noise in my area. I’d love to finish my ground station video but I can’t bring myself to “show off” my other rigs when they perform so bad compared to all the other options (I know it’s just a ‘high noise floor’ issue in my area) 🤙
It’s kind of wild that just now all the sudden, all these manufacturers decided it’s time to release crazy powerful VTXs haha. I’m sure Foxeer makes a solid one 🤙
Thank you! We definitely considered it, but since RadioMaster has a ground remote with ELRS already built in we figured nobody would want to use an air remote. But maybe I’m wrong!?
@@ChaddRainsFPV hehehe well for the right price everything is possible, not sure how much more would be vs the armer to have like 4 channel output on the same thing
Hey, I really like your videos (I've been using them as a guide to build my own FPV car), but you're seriously going to end this one without range testing the VTX in the title? That's really clickbaity :[
Fair. But in all honesty I thought the range was super impressive, and the fact it was the less powerful version made it even more-so. I do plan to test the Alpha 10 but will also have my receiver on top of my roof, to give it a chance to get around that far block 👍
Making an analog relay is still on my list of fun things to try. Analog really has a everything going for it except image quality. Analpg image quality is fine for crawlers and trail rc also i could go for it on track cars.
I had the wind blown out of my sails with the relay, cuz my area sucks for 1.3ghz and that’s what I wanted to use. I’d def point people your way if you can do some 1.3 stuff!
@@ChaddRainsFPV Dude did you ever get any insight into what the actual problem with 1.3 is for you. Is it just fresnel zone issues? I remember after trying a Lawmate receiver I had much better signal, it just still wasn't what I wanted. I even started scanning with an SDR and stuff like that.. seemed relatively noiseless around me.
@@ChaddRainsFPV That's kind of what I thought after looking up what might be occupying that space near me. Nothing showed up in a scan though. You're probably right in your case but for me it's still a mystery. I also tried a 900Mhz tx I saw online and it was way worse. I was driving the Avatar GT around earlier and it was getting some pretty good range cause I mounted the receiver high on the 2nd floor with long power and HDMI cords. Only downside is not being able to access the controls on it without modding it to have super long extension buttons in parallel or something. I know technically you can do that with DJI also but I remember some decent lag using the app. Could have just been my phone. I got this 15 inch USB powered screen for when I'm in my car and it's pretty legit being able to easily drive it like that without goggles.
