I want to build a small 3-3.5 inch analog drone and link it with a tx16s. someone help me with hardware recommendations. also some older practice footage with crashes. enjoy!! #fpv #drone #fpvdrone #dji #radiomaster
Hey bud! 1. Nothing wrong with analog 2. As long as its analog, you can use your goggles! 3. Tx16s 4-1 is what i got initially and have tracer, crossfire, elrs modules for the jr bay. 4. Crossfire and Tracer are 2 different protocols, so you cant mix/match 5. You might be interested in the Boxer w ELRS… receivers are much less expensive and the technology is excellent. The inly downside is the initial setup, but once over that hurdle its a breeze to setup receivers and works wonderfully!
I use the betafpv elrs module standard size on my tx16s and the ep1 & ep2 receivers never had a failsafe on my 5" or squirt, its cheaper than tbs and there's loads of info on RU-vid when installing and updating.
Forget the build. Buy a darwin baby ape 3inch. or two and have one for spare parts. They're capable enough to help with practicing and learning but cheap enough to lower the stress levels. those goggles will work maybe get a better antenna or two if it use two. Thats the route im taking with a little time on the sim also. And for the tx16s you'll need a micro size module or jr size.
Crossfire and tracer are both from tbs, but use different hardware. Judging from the ps5 in the background, I’d suggest rather a tango 2 with crossfire integrated rather than a tx16. I‘m satisfied with my setup, and ELRS haven’t convinced me yet due to the setup hassle. Don’t skimp out on the price of the drones, as they tend to break faster. I’d go with a bind and fly like the Iflight Nazgûl V2 still as it’s lighter than the evoque and still comes around 300 Euro with the tbs nano crossfire receiver installed. Also buy early on a set of good Goggles as your experience will be way better and you won’t need to upgrade in the future. For the 300 Euro mark id recommend the Fatshark attitude V6.
Elrs set up is cake. The first time you have to type in your wifi password and your "bind phrase" then press flash, then it saves your settings so you literally just press flash each time you get a new module or receiver and you're bound. So much easier than crossfire minus the initial first flash. You should do it!
you can fly with every analog google with a analog drone and you can put a micro module in the transmitter elrs crossfire etc. And i can recommend the tinyhawk 2 freestyle or the darwin babyape 2 v2 pro
Tracer and Crossfire are both TBS but they are different in terms of hardware. You can't use a Tracer RX with a Crossfire TX for instance. The difference is Tracer is faster with less range where Crossfire is a little slower with more range. I've flown Tracer since the beginning and I've never had a failsafe.
You're doing great bro! I was just gonna suggest an analog drone for practice but then you mentioned it lol. Look at it this way, you've got great camera/production work already so you can just focus on flying now!
Crossfire is pretty tried and true system. I love using my tango 2 radios. Tracer is separate system that TBS has. It uses a different module than crossfire. Between the 2 I would go crossfire. 250mv at most is all I run when flying over water.
I'm in the same boat. You seem a lot more accomplished than me though. I want to fly more aggressively but am too afraid of crashing the expensive digital stuff. I'm thinking about a baby ape in the future. Looks like a good little ripper.
The lower speed crashes close to the ground wont really hurt anything besides a few cheap props, you can practice some freestyle without launching way up in the air. The baby ape would be great. Im gonna build a cheap analog drone soon, it will be my fist actual build and tune so hopefully it works out. ill make a video out of it.
Be strong, bro ! Use analog ! I do not see any benefits to use expensive digital video systems, next year you will searching a way to sell your "old" digital system and buying a new one for each of your kwads.
In your case... analog is cheaper! But youl need a pair with a diversity mod... Just buy a rapidfire diversity modual and retro fit them into the dji's would be your cheapest bet..! Otherwise youll have to buy some dominators... then by the modual... And also GET XFIRE...! Works great... easy to set up... and you will be fine with the mid micro transmitter modual which was $150 I believe when I purchased it...! And its now only $70🤯..!!
You don't NEED diversity. I fly an old fat shark teleporter with single antenna and it's fine for most stuff. I don't do LR and I don't fly many bandos, so not an issue.
tbs makes crossfire and tracer, tracer is 2.4ghz crossfire is 900mhz. Tracer is a new type of 2.4, it's better than like normal flysky 2.4 or something. It's built for super low latency for racers. Crossfire is for super long range 10mile+. I got burned on buying a tracer sixty9. I didn't know they came out with something new either and weren't compatible so I was like f it I'll just buy a transmitter too, it works really well. You can buy like a taranis from frsky with a module, I use a flysky elysium or nirvana, and sometimes a taranis x-lite. These are overkill for whoops though, you might consider just going elrs, you can get a betafpv elrs literadio 3 or something that would probably just work and be fine. If I was getting into things again these days that's probably the way I'd go. I got a bunch of deals on ebay for what I did though.
@@dinodexter1480 Lol that's on 2000mW, and crossfire uses the same frequency, and they hold competitions which they publish, which I doubt crossfire does...I would guess crossfire would exceed that given the same mw and competition.
@@maddercat Actually in the test he used 2.4ghz elrs and not on 900mhz he was on 500mw till 70km where there was a lot of rf pollution Also he tried crossfire which failsafed and tracer which failsafed even on „ludicrous“ mode. Why don’t you switch to elrs it’s cheaper faster and has more range.
@@dinodexter1480 I have like 10 quads, and several sixty9's that have integrated reciever/vtx where I can change power through my transmitter with them. I'd have to buy all new receivers for all of them, that's not happening. Crossfire's been fine for years for me, no reason to change. I've seen some amazing 15 mile flights with crossfire, I can't imagine needing to fly 100 km, let alone have any video signal or battery power that would come even close to that. if I ever get a wing that I'm gonna fly super long range I'd definitely get a module and a receiver for that but it's completely unnecessary for what im flying right now.
You can't mix Crossfire and tracer. Crsf is 915mhz and tracer IS 2.4ghz. so you have to match your module with your receiver. Crossfire tx with Crossfire rx. Tracer tx with tracer rx.
What you are asking is equivalent to "now that I know how to drive what kinda car do I buy" and you will get all kinds of different answers, however I will say this, dont go cheap on radio transmitter and video goggles. You cant drive without them so...If you go cheap you will be doing one of two things. Either replacing your equipment for the kind you should have purchased in the 1st place or consistently repairing or replacing you quad because you have crashed it thus never improving. Just my .02
