I can't believe RadioMaster and ELRS have made this incredible module! Legit if you want to send your craft out as far as you want and not have to worry about your radio link this is great! Cheers Stu and Stickman Steve! I'm going to throw this on my 7" SuperG+ and see how far she will go!
Hi Stew, Great video and review of the Nomad ELRS transmitter. I have been flying long-range for a while now, and I have never failsafe since I switched to elrs. Thanks again for the video and info on these module
The great point for me is to have a multi protocol transmitter and this covers all the elrs bases - eg for me I can get the usually cheaper multi to cover my frsky and flysky fleet and this module covers ALL the erls I may get in the future
I REALLY want to love long range, but I keep crashing. Some advice from my hard lessons learned. 1. Watch your terrain. ELRS is awesome, but video links still suck in the hills. 2. hills at a distance will grow taller once you fly past them. 3. When you lose video, don't panic. You're behind something. Punch the F out. 4. Be very, very, very comfortable with your return to home switch. Evidently, loss of video will immediately draw my finger to the disarm switch and hiking around searching sucks. I'm using WS, and am contemplating going back to analog. Digital drop to black screen happens really fast, and really sucks.
@UAVfutures I just got mine yesterday or opened the box yesterday. I updated the transmitter and the backpack, and I've got 1 4 antenna receiver. And I'm actually gonna try and fly it today. Or at least do some hovering testing in a vital. But yesterday, I went 1 km down to the mailbox, which is about 50 feet below me. With quite a bit of ground between and I never lost. Connection. Through 6 to 36 inch pine, ferns, everything. PS. Mindshift with the same firmware as yours. There's and if people upgrade, they gotta go to the latest because the point 51 had some kind of bug in it. But with the latest firmware and the latest backpack, everything seems to work. Great, I just gotta get something the flight. Check the responsiveness. There are latency or whatever blah blah. Have a great day, enjoy your coming summer.
Hey question. I have a Taranis X9D SE, does this module work in older radios like that? I'd like to get into ELRS at some point but a new radio seems like a waste when my current radio works fine.
Yes this works with it. But I've seen some people have to drill the back of FrSky modules to make it fit but yes it should fit perfectly. you just need to update to EdgeTX and get the ELRS lua scrip and you're set
I have a Mobula 8 analog with an x12 all in one flight controller . I recently developed white horizontal lines all over my OSD when flying. Do you know what could be causing this ?
915mhz is a dirty band. Its full of noise. 2.4 is full because of wifi on it. I wanna put a meshtastic node on a fpv but it's on 915 as well ,I'm worried the mesh might jam out my fpv. So 2.4 it is
This isn't really for long range, imo. All my LR birds use 900mhz diversity with a 2 watt module. My ELRS link will be on 10 or 25 mw while my video is struggling 3 to 5 miles away. This is for noisy RF environments like a city block or film set where you benefit from both 2.4 and 900mhz. I have one. I put the monstrosity of a receiver in my AtomRC Dolphin. I like it, Its cool tech, but I don't really need it. I thought it would be cool to use 1 module for all my receivers, but I find switching between packet rates in the LUA more cumbersome than just switching between the internal 2.4G and external 900mhz modules on my Boxer. I've never personally had a failsafe with ELRS in either band, tbh.
@@UAVfutures hey Stew… I just fly 5 inch freestyle and some long range. I think my preference for the TX16s is based on flying for the last 10 years and working my way up or through several radios. For example I was on the taranis QX7 for 2 years and I’ll never go back to a smaller screen, black and white, and non touch screen. Then we got the TX16s, then we went backwards again back to a smaller footprint. I think honestly the company did that because of shrinkflation. I know a lot of people like the smaller ones, but I like the big radios.
ELRS is also updating there software so that 915 will do 250hz and a 1000 packet rate i guess if this happens wont it make the 2.4 kind pointless well see i guess.
I wldnt call 2.5km long range...i can fly 2.5km on my old FrSky v8fr ii rx...for true long range its crossfire for the win....just wondering Stew why you dont promote crossfire? I mean if it reliability u want then crossfire is obvious choice
This wasn't actually very convincing. Wouldn't it have been a good idea to test the connection by arming and disarming the drone to prove it actually has the ability to control it, rather than just making notes of the number of bars you've got.
