My name is John, and I have a goal! I want to learn to fly mini-quads and have fun doing it. Please join me on the adventure as I try to progress from a newbie flyer. Who knows how far I will get, but hopefully it'll be an interesting journey!
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Greeting to you from Canada Toronto nice build love it🥰🥰🥰🥰😇😇😇i build my own i have 2 20Amp breaker coming from my inverter going to 2 110A/C outlet i have so if anything happenend my inverter is protocted nothing will happened the breaker will flip like breaker in your house
Great video! Thanks for sharing. I am on the market for one EUC, I am about to order the KS s16, looking forward to it, I think physically we are very similar for a change😅, I thought you got to be pretty skinny to use one 😂.
I havent flown since 2014, most was still flying brushed but brushless was getting pretty hot, FPV was still fairly new...fastforward to today. A friend sent me a little shit drone, ya know the type, for beginers not knowing I use to be a pretty good pilot on the sticks. Through lots of research and ton of videos I see everyone is acro over angle, but what happened to those with real skills and fly in 3d mode? I was shocked to hear people claim they are flying inverted in acro, and after watching many videos I have come to the conclusion that most people just do not know what it means to really fly inverted. So this is what I am going to be doing, bringing back real 3D acrobat flying just to show those new to quad flying what real inverted flight...I cant wait to blow some minds at the top of a power loop I set at the top literally upside down and hovering at the top of the loop, then finish it after a slight midloop hover...so much more you can do in air with 3D over acro......FYI, I am just south of Detroit, small town on the river, if you know then you know....maybe see ya out and about
I got my V12 Yesterday and also Coming From Riding a Pint. EUC are so much Harder for me, I practice inside my House and It's just Hard to Balance. Please Give me an Advice to Ride my EUC in the 1st day
it's definitely much harder to learn to ride an EUC than a onewheel. So don't worry about it! The biggest thing for me is that you can stand stationary on a onewheel, but not an EUC. It makes it easier to learn what it's like to balance. The EUC you have to get over your fear of it moving to make it easier to balance, but it's hard to get moving when you can't balance. Just keep at it, and once it clicks it becomes second nature, and honestly I find it easier to ride around than a onewheel. Good luck!
Looks like a lot of fun. Unfortunately there aren't any Street League races close enough for me to drive it in a day, but I really want to build one and try it.
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Looking at that video for the US Airforce Museum race, I think that's where you might actually be faster with the HDZero quad, simply because the analog is so sketchy that you see the gates pretty late.
hey, things have changed a bit since the original build. The battery inside this at the time of filming was 7S20P. Since then I have added 3 more internal batteries (all 7S, one 20P and one 16P but with 21700 cells). All 3 are wired in parallel. I then also have an external 7S24P battery which I can connect to an expansion port I added in case I need the extra capacity. The total battery is about 4.6Kwhr internal now with a 1.8Kwhr external battery I can attach when needed. All of the batteries are using Daly BMSs.
@@JohnEFly what BMS do you use? I am also building up a LiFePO4 battery using a bunch of 32700 6000mAh cells I have. I will use a 4S config but I'm wondering what BMS to use. I see some need to be started manually and I'm trying to get around that. Like you I have a Victron 100/20. Would appreciate your input to this. You're the only guy I've found on YT building his own battery packs for portable solar gennies. Thanks
@@JohnHeath777 these are all Li-ion and not LiFePO4, but I use DALY BMS for my battery packs. They also make the same BMS for LiFePO4 if you want to try that.
I remember when I switched for the first time from angle to acro with my very first brushed micro I thought "damn! this is easier!" I didn't expect that. I realised how angle was constantly fighting my attitude and hence it made for a bumpy ride. It's much easier to be smooth and "flowy" in acro. Please note that I don't do racing though...
thanks my man, I really appreciate it. Unfortunately I barely ride the onewheel anymore. I ride my King Song S22 EUC about 99.9% of the time. Thing just flies up any curb I want it to. so easy
@@SumanVisu I LOVE my S22. I've been riding it for over a year with over 1100 miles now. I've had great luck with it, and it's extremely versitile for me. So I would definitely recommend it. I know others have had issues, but it's always been good to me.
I’m back on learning how to curb nudge, I’m going to take your advice on removing the fangs because I was having the same issue with the board shooting out from underneath me, I won’t lie it freaked me out when board shot out forward on me pulling my leg making me land on my butt. I didn’t think the fangs where the issue until you said it In this video. Thank you for the video and the tips.
We have used the ru-vid.comUgkxOTeIs0vv4_9B5hsmnLsk9r930uDQLu_Y for probably 30 hours with our camper and it’s been great! The noise level is really only noticeable when running the AC and other appliances like the microwave, hair dryer, or coffee pot. It’s not huge like other ones and it has wheels so even at 90lbs, I can move it!
Nice testing! But your racing line is too much point & shoot. You can gain more lap time by preturning and taking some perfect preturning paths that can't be done in angle mode.
i noticed u said u had updated your esc firmware in the begging of the video .i was having trouble with one of my fcs ands its escs and wondering if u had or knew a video to help out
The HDZero quad weighed considerably more than the analog quad. The latency was irrelevant between the two. Weight makes a huge difference in performance.
@@JohnEFly thanks, makes sense. Totally in awe of people flying these courses at the speeds you do. Tried in Velocidrone and happy if I can complete one at all :)
the shunt only reads one side incoming or outgoing. there is a way to hook it up to read both sides by using a switch. look up Jasoniod- solar power, batteries and more! he has a great video on this issue
What firmware? Chris Rosser and ctsnooze have done some serious work on Betaflight Angle mode. Also, I've been using Bluejay 0.19 which flies much better on my rig. I fly a chonky 2S, 2-inch whoop, exclusively in Angle mode, and I can tell you the latest firmware changed how my stuff handles. I don't race, but I do tight flying with lots of tiny gaps. Propwash is almost non-existent, and the thing seems like it's reading my mind.
@@JohnEFly 4.4 on its own is different, but Rosser & snooze's work puts Angle in another league. I suggest you look into it. Might be useful for some course layouts, particularly the tight, twisty ones. I'll bet you'll wring more out of that firmware than I did. Best o' luck and happy flyin'!
I have just started...not so easy but possible. I am over 50...It's fun. I like your video very much. It is very encouraging. Thanks for sharing all those thoughts. Cheers!
I just stick to acro. Want to keep my muscle memory consistent. A few times I accidentally switched to angle and it felt like the radio input was laggy. I did notice I can orbit way easier in angle.
@@franciscohompler2773😂 I can orbit left and right on acro just fine. I was actually referring to when I orbit myself on my weak side. But yeah practice practice
For years I thought angle mode was the sht, but when I finally mastered acro, no going back. The only time I use acro, is when I test my quads after a repair. Whoops these days can handle acro with ease! It’s all good. Lol
I did find it fairly punishing to learn, but once it clicks, you are good. I’d rather ride it than anything else. It’s the best PEV, super portable, can integrate it into your life. And it’s fun to be out there, people love it. Did 3 miles each way to the post office earlier today on a V8S, had several groups comment on it. That’s still my errand wheel, though I have subsequently bought an EXN and don’t know what people think about that because I’m already gone before they could talk where I’d hear. Either way, this or Onewheel, it’s awesome being out there driving fewer miles. It’s my parking hack, if I’m going somewhere parking is expensive, I find somewhere it’s free and ride from the car to my destination. Pays for itself just in pure dollars pretty quickly between parking and fewer car miles driven, let alone in fun.
12:19 the weight and motor KV will become more apparent when on a track with longer lead ups to gates. The whoops when heavy and underpowered with low KV motors will prop wash out no matter how much you pre-turn or throttle you give to the whoop before entering a gate. This became very apparent for me in Sacramento over the weekend where I had to basically treat it like a DRL R4/SL spec quad; momentum racing versus point-and-shoot racing flying at close to full throttle. But after this event I was already planning on building new whoops that were going to be lighter and way higher KV motors too.
I think back to the last Tiny Whoop Invitational course and I know we had some of the best acro pilots in the world at the time there, and at least on that course, Angle mode was faster even for those guys. Now performance of whoop hardware has increased, but that Tiny Whoop course was SO tight and SO technical that I wonder if Angle would still win. A lot of the courses I've seen recently like Whooptopia do feel more like a condensed 5 inch course instead of the crazy tight courses that used to be the norm for whoops. But in the end, they are all fun to watch and the talent in all the big races is CRAZY good.
