Never Lose Another Drone | HELLGATE VIFLY FULLSPEED BUZZER

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There are lots of ways to get your quad back when you crash. But if your battery ejects, you're kind of screwed. Not any more. Hellgate buzzer, ViFly Finder, and FullSpeed Lucky Box Beeper are self-powered LOUD buzzers that you install on your quad. When the battery ejects, they start buzzing and tell you where it's at.
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@JackbearFPV 5 лет назад

"Hey I'm in your trunk! I lost power!" Now that was funny!!! 🤣😂🤣😂

@mshane86 5 лет назад

I just bring my dog, he always finds it then gets rewarded handsomely. The hard part was teaching him to show me where it is rather than retrieving it but it only took a day of poor flying... Then he trained my friends dog. Way more expensive but if you have one already maybe try it out.

@fz8964 5 лет назад

I hope you could make a video of it someday ,that should be fun. I've a dog too(amstaff), but I don't want to end up losing both my dog and quad.:)

@noname-wo9yy 5 лет назад

until your dog enthusiastically pieces the battery.

@gautamkrishna7421 4 года назад

@@noname-wo9yy once i was too lazy to try and put a c clip on my motor after taking it apart and the bell came off during a crash. Woulda never found it. But thankfully, a dog was following the entire time and pointed it out to me

@user-pv3dz3qu5u 4 года назад

You can even train your dog to 'find' others drones. Even they never lost them :-P

@chiefshalot2986 4 года назад

Drone finding dogs lmao I need one lol

@Smt_Glaive 5 лет назад

The first quad I made was around 400$ .. I lost it during the 4-5th flight on the second day...( Noobie)..😂😂 Kept looking for a week and then found it in a sugarcane field. HAPPIEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE.

@reckonsin_fpv 3 года назад

I lost a $225 drone The first day flying it out in a open field. The grass was long and And I still haven't found it after a week. This gives me hope I'm going back today and looking again. Thanks for giving me hope that I might find my drone again. lol

@acain6803 3 года назад

@@reckonsin_fpv did you find it?

@reckonsin_fpv 3 года назад

No I never did find that drone. But I did replace it and have gained a couple more since then. Every one of my drones have a lost beeper on it now. Well except for the really tiny ones.

@Gereon_ 3 года назад

I know this comment is old, but isn't it insanely dangerous to just abandon your quad in a freaking field? I have heard of an incident where a lost quad got caught in a harvester causing the LiPo to blow up and literally burn down an entire field.

@aymen3962 2 года назад

@@Gereon_ yeah I also lost a drone in a parc… there’s probably millions of drones lost all over the world

@MrHugs17 5 лет назад

The long beeping runtime is the biggest factor for me. I fly mid-long range over southeastern forest canopy. The thought that I can come back the next day, and it will probably keep beeping is a game changer

@juangassa 5 лет назад

Joshua, you can find your quad with the coordinates on your DVR if you have a GPS

@licensetodrive9930 5 лет назад

I once saw an eBay listing for a 'drone that had been left out overnight in the rain', it was obviously something the seller had found because the picture of it showed the battery was still plugged in!

@FilipRadelic 5 лет назад

I went with Fullspeed Lucky Box mostly because it was the cheapest but I also liked that little menu where it lets you select how long after losing power it arms and how often it beeps. It also has the audible battery level indicator when you connect it back to power which I thought was cool but really isn't all that useful because unless it was sitting in the field for hours or on your shelf for weeks it will always be full and this way I just wake up the entire building if I plug it in at night while working on my quads (also turned off all beeps in BF other than RX_SET and RX_LOST) :) The led is also nice addition if your quad lands in a way that it's visible. Would be great if it had another one on the opposite side so that you could mount it in a way that one led is visible from each side of your quad. Anyway it's good to see competition heat up like this. I never lost a quad but definitely wanna reduce chance of it ever happening and this is a great and a cheap way.

@gus8378 3 года назад

A good idea might be to put reflective tape on your quad. Even if you're out of power you could use a flashlight or your phone to find it

@K_Nasty 4 года назад

I have the "v2" coming and they listened to you . thanks

@bastija6058 2 года назад

Thats right "First 30sek on 40dB and than it crushes Ur Ears I think xD

@FubarFpv 5 лет назад

Love my Vifly finder!! It’s literally saved me hours of searching for lost quads loads of times already!

@feldrik 5 лет назад

I've got a hellgate buzzer and it is a lifesaver. I broke my xt60 connector on the PDB side in summer and couldnt make the buzzer to stop in the field and in my way back home because I could'nt put power in the FC anymore, until I got back to my work table at home ;-)

@snailfpv 5 лет назад

Feldrik you can disarm it by connecting a 5V pad on a buzzer with thw actual buzzer smd unit +pad on its bottom left corner ie with tweezers. Need to add this to the manual though. We omited the button so it wont get pushed by accident by a piece of scraggle or anything else during a crash. Same reason for not having a jst plug so it cant get disconnected easily.

@feldrik 5 лет назад

That makes sense but I didn't had anything to reach directly the buzzer at the time. I will add something to my backpack for sure in the future. Thank you

@feldrik 5 лет назад

I think I will solder a litlle jst connector in addition directly to the buzzer to plug a little 1s Battery only to disarm it in case of trouble. Will it make the job?

@feldrik 5 лет назад

No problem at the time, I will see in the future if it is the case ;-)

@Thisguyandhiscamera 4 года назад

00:17 "Come help look you Bastards" Hahaha! (I know the feeling)

@ryanrings7391 5 лет назад

I literally just lost my quad after watching this video.

@jordanjjn 4 года назад

@furkan10ky 4 года назад

@kennyfication88 4 года назад

@kaspermarte 3 года назад

@@kennyfication88 F

@topcatgc1 5 лет назад

THNX JB, I HAVE HAD THE HELLGATES IN ALL MY QUADS FOR 3 MONTHS, SAVED ME MANY TIMES, EXCEPT IN WATER

@KingFPV 5 лет назад

Excellent. lol at 11:53. I need to grab a few hellgate buzzers & it is nice to see comparisons of others bc I wasn't even considering anything else. I used my DVR footage & the almost marco-polo method with the directional antenna on my goggles you mentioned earlier in the video to locate my drone 4,000 ft up the side of a mountain & after that immediately installed 2 of the loudest buzzers (not FPV-specific) I could find. When the hellgate buzzer became available I knew I wanted to scoop up a handful bc even as a freestyler with short ranges lately, there is still the threat of getting lost in tall grass, weeds & underbrush as well as an ejected battery. Thanks, JB.

@1etunimi1sukunimi 5 лет назад

Another epic video. Gotta love it. Heyyyy!!!! I'm in your trunk! Also respected the moment when you gave the buzzer some cpr to "revive" it! =] Every reviewer I've watched had problems shutting these bastards down and that's the main reason I didn't get one yet. I hate loud noises and if I get it after every flight, nightmare.

@ayrow69 5 лет назад

LOL. This video was a lot of fun to watch. Love your candor, Joshua. :-)

@BigAlFPV17 5 лет назад

I'm going with the ViFly buzzer. Very well explained with that & the other 2

@andreaskrause 3 года назад

Ordered the buzzer and some sticky-pads. Thanks for the video!

@trelaskillz4283 5 лет назад

This was very beneficial for me. I appreciate the comparison. As a new pilot... I’m always worried I’ll loose my quad but I haven’t had to look for it any longer than 5 minutes. I normally have a landmark while flying that will get me close enough to spin the props as necessary to get its location. However, if landing in high grass or maybe a group of trees.... a buzzer probably would help.

@tonyhorton6752 5 лет назад

Ordered my vifly today good job on video as usual buddy 😁

@radioactive9002 5 лет назад

Thanks for teaching me something new I did learn today thanks josh I'll definitely will be buying one of these

@Big_Red_Wade 5 лет назад

Took me and a mate 35 mins and it was 15 meters away lol

@SirFrag32 5 лет назад

Been there before. Lost mine in tall grass and was practically stepping on it when i found it, lol.

@cannibalholiday 5 лет назад

I was really surprised how they can vanish. I was 10 feet away from one in a field that was cut down about 4 inches high and it was practically invisible.

@chiefshalot2986 4 года назад

Been there many times. The best thing from experience is to. Sit wait relax breathout the negative vibes then when the emotion has passed laugh it off and then you can find it easier.would seem to work. I always get mad or frustrated this hobby is supposed to be fun lol

@Thisguyandhiscamera 4 года назад

I feel your pain. Lost my tiny hawk freestyle in just med height grass at a school yard. Five minutes into the search, the lawnmowers came out. I now have a buzzer.

@butteredbutter420 5 лет назад

i definitely learned several things today. thanks jb

@jklong03 5 лет назад

I love my "model finder" mode on my Eachine Pro58 w/Achilles V1.8! Of course not if battery gets ejected, but if not it has directed me very accurately in the correct vector. I also just set my buzzer for any failsafe, and switch transmitter off if I can't see where my quad landed (all too often I am afraid 🤣)

@jeff7397 5 лет назад

Thanks, definitely picking this up. On monday I spent 2 hours in terrible conditions looking after the battery was ejected.

@michaelreagan2028 5 лет назад

I have used the Hellgate and the Vifly. If you have the room, definitely get the Vifly. It is LOUD!

@GeorgeCooper_LoneWolf 5 лет назад

I picked up a Hellgate Buzzer months ago and I must say it has saved me a lot of headache. I put it on my 3inch and I'm Bloody glad I did. The only downside is I paid around £30 and you can pick them up now for about £13 But what ever one you get, you will be happy you did. Nice JB

@tinman7743 2 года назад

Still in mourning with the loss of my quad . Vilfly will be a future purchase. Nice video. Hindsight is a wonderful thing !

@milspecfpv 5 лет назад

I've been flying for 3-4 years now and didn't know about that FatShark feature. I learned something today!

@milspecfpv 5 лет назад

The auto record feature......

@user-pv3dz3qu5u 4 года назад

Man, you are definetely best narrator on youtube :-)

@dontaylor8103 5 лет назад

I just watched 17:23 minutes of buzzers. My motivation? I fly high overhead my and neighbors house. Then the battery flew out when it went behind a tree and my sightline was temporarily blocked for a few seconds. Darn. Lost the quad. Deep in the woods behind the houses across the street. No buzzer. No joy. No find. Will wait till all the leaves and grasses die down. The look again. Sigh. Should have watched this vidio last week. Not this week. Hahaha. Thank you JB!!! Love your stuff.

@rklauco 4 года назад

Yeah, I had 2 of them on my desk while my quad crash-landed into a sunflower-field. Backwards, so the dvr was of no help. After 2 hours, hair full of spiders and t-shirt full of various bugs I found the quad, luckily. The same evening I wired the Vifly (cost less than $5 now, btw). Today, I had 3 smaller mishaps, one ending in cornfield with broken battery leads. Thanks to this, finding the quad was a piece of cake - my daughter found it in seconds. No more flying without it, ever :)

@TechnicallyTom 3 года назад

The Vifly’s volume can be annoying close up, but here’s where it can save your quad, especially if you are flying DJI. There is a bug with the air unit where recording on the air unit will intermittently prevent the OSD elements, both DJI and Betaflight from updating correctly. The items that fail to update are for voltage and current. It’s really easy to end up with a low battery without any indication in the OSD. The Vifly will warn you of low voltage and because it is so loud, you will be able to hear the warning further out. This has save me from dumping my quad in the water at least once.

@timk8021 5 лет назад

Probably going to jinx myself but, I’ve stopped installing buzzers all together. Can’t remember last time I had to look for a quad. Yep, just jinxed myself. 😵

@tjburke79 5 лет назад

I have a hellgate and it has paid off more than once :-)

@thesoundlab6858 3 года назад

I recovered my quad out of the Ohio River by using my goggle recording the following day. ALWAYS run you dvr. I also use Vifly too. There are 2 versions. Josh is showing the totally self power version. The wired one in is smaller fyi. Keep up the good work Bardwell

@HighVoltageMadness Год назад

Dvr is useless if the reason you crashed was a video loss.

@Flybrei 4 года назад

Thanks for info👍

@nevinleiby 5 лет назад

If you have video at this point, it’s very helpful. Disconnect the omni attenna and see if you can get video with your patch. Then, take your patch and shield it with your hands and point the patch antenna around - walk towards the direction with the best signal. Once you’re reasonably close with great video, pull all of your attennas off - repeat. It can get you to within a few feet - GPS module from ublox. I have one, but havent tried on my quads until I build my long range. - Bring a bike. I strap one on my car and it’s amazing. Ride around and look in open grass or good for bandos to park out of the area and bike in. - Ive been trying to get a model together that straps a rxsr or transmitter right onto the battery. It works, but I havent figured it out completely. Therefore your battery would be transmitting it’s own signal and you can use your transmitter as described above **to locate your battery**. Therefore, you’d have a LONG time until you’d loose your rssi signal and buzzer which can help you get close to your quad. To use, switch from the model that you fly with to your model bound to your recovery transmitter. i.imgur.com/QCmwBti.jpg

@rudedog5150 5 лет назад

More great input. so simple to do also. Thumbs up

@ElyPenner Год назад

Lost my drone yesterday and spent half an hour looking for it in knee high grass, wet with rain. So I'll be investing in one of these now. Cause we walked about 6feet beside the drone the first 2 minutes of searching.

@kb3guz 5 лет назад

I put 1/4” x 1/4” or larger pieces of good-quality reflective tape on all sides of my multi-rotor and fixed-wing aircraft. Makes them relatively easy to find after sunset with a spotlight - even in tall grass, brush, trees, etc. The spotlight will light up the reflective tape if/when the light hits it. Works amazingly well. Practice with it before your drone goes missing. I'm also experimenting with $2 Bluetooth ”keyfinders” from Banggood, etc. and free or low-cost Bluetooth transmitter locating apps. Some key finders and apps work better than others. The Bluetooth devices are low power, but they have unique IDs, which facilitates tracking your own device amount other devices. The Bluetooth key finders and apps can help you know when you are within a couple hundred feet of your quad - then use the spotlight.

@jeremyking7790 5 лет назад

I like your reflective tape idea . I never thought of it but it would be great once the sun goes down as long as you have a general location .

@califpv 3 года назад

Have this on 2 of my micro 3"ers has helped me a couple of times

@AndyPorter79 Год назад

If this isn't in your cart before the BNF you choose, you need to start over from the beginning. Best fpv product ever

@ignisnatus3839 5 лет назад

I would buy the VIFLY. I prefer the louder beep. I'v lost a quad before, and its heartbreaking. If you fly around woods, or tall grass, you need one of these. I'm waiting for RDQ to get them in so i can order one. Also the ability to buy one, and put it on the quad I'm using at the time, or just not use it at all, is a major bonus.

@taufekshariff8114 5 лет назад

Hi JB! My name is Taufek from Malaysia. Been watching your videos for quite some time and today, after watching this video...yeah...i've learned something new for retrieving a lost quad. I have built four quads so far and have lost three of them during some crashes. Since i'm left with just one quad, i've placed an order for the buzzer and hopefully i won't lose it this time around if i crash again. It's so heartbreaking to lose the quads one after another. I wouldn't understand the part of the dvr you mentioned in the video as I do not own a goggle because I fly LOS only. It's so disheartening to lose your precious quad especially for someone who is on a shoe string budget like me. My quads were the realacc x210 frame kit by banggood as they were the best i could afford. No camera, no vtr and no goggle as this frame kit flies beautifully, Los only. BTW, this is the first day of our festives season in Malaysia and most countries of the muslim world. Come to my house and I'll treat you with the best meals like lemang, ketupat and rendang... I've enjoyed most of your videos and will take the necessary steps to install a buzzer as you recommended in this video. Thank you so much bro for sharing this info. Taufek Shariff

@TheCatsa 5 лет назад

Thanks again buddy!

@rizeglass 5 лет назад

I have been flying for years and never knew about auto recored on fatshark dvr. Thank You

@frasersteen 5 лет назад

Literally hooked up a vifly buzzer to a jb v2 fc today. Could have done with this vid 5 hours ago man! I have to say I don't find the vifly that loud outside, it's a proper PIA when you are working on something indoors but outside I could actually do with it being louder.

@fpv_austronaut 5 лет назад

First I got the hellgate buzzer for my "midrange quad and I put it into my "things to test" box. Last friday I lost my quad in the forest, the strap was ripped off and only caused by fortune I found the quad after 2 hours. First thing I did was to hook the hellgate buzzer up in this quad xdNow I ordered 3 more different lipo driven buzzers (clones) because I can (do not want) to afford hellgates in all of my quads.These buzzers are very helpful and not that much bigger than standard buzzers. So they are going to be my standard in future.

@Raven187FPV 5 лет назад

Dvr and a buzzer saved me the other day. Xjb was 30m up a tree. Had to climb to get it and drag three brooms tied together up with me 😂

@sharksfan2011 Год назад

Love your channel Joshua, thank you for all the time you spend on putting these together. I am an absolute noob here, have a TinyHawk II Freestyle and this thing is small, but large enough to fly outside at parks without bothering people. Unfortunately, it is a momma to find in the grass, and lord help us if I ever crash in a field. The buzzer on the TH is not very loud at all and I’m wondering if you have any experience with this quad and whether the tiniest of the buzzers above would work ? I will buy the buzzer in a heartbeat if you think it will fit. Thanks in advance for your help. Oh, p.s., in order to go from 25mw to 200mw you have to push and hold a button (incredibly hard to get to) on the board to bump it to 200mw. Would there be a way in your opinion to desolder and bypass the button leaving it in 200mw 100% of the time? Again, thanks in advance for your help.

@brianroberts5740 3 года назад

I love to learn things!!!! Personally I've never lost quad( oh, and I think you're the first I've seen use the word " quad " instead of " drone" because they're NOT drones. Drones are autonomous and don't require a pilot. At least that's how I see it. These little buzzers are just what I need then I can keep saying it. Thanks. Great review. And I did learn something. I'm getting a few of these.

@touchthesun2448 5 лет назад

great video...as usual! I need to put one on my readers...no more asking Google "where are my glasses?" I can put one on my CAT TOO! His collar supports 6S

@dutchmetalmaniac 5 лет назад

is that a 6s 10000mah?? poor cat!

@masterrc_student4259 5 лет назад

Great comparison. Racers can benefit from the small one.

@fpvwing 5 лет назад

That intro... I nearly cried...

@cmtetaboaco 5 лет назад

the Vifly is the best! I want a buzzer to buzz loud! as loud as possible, I lost a quad already, and you never know when it will happen!

@madfictionfpv8246 3 года назад

I agree with this. Where I fly there are dirt bikes and hard to hear a small beep. I need volume. I lost a quad with my gopro once, never gonna happen again.

@cmtetaboaco 3 года назад

@@madfictionfpv8246 now I want to try the Flywoo that comes with 2 buzzers!

@JoshHowell_profile 5 лет назад

I added a button to my HellGate and it's the best of both worlds. One big issue is if you fry your FC and don't have a way to disarm the buzzer, adding a button to the HellGate (short buzzer + to 5v) you can disarm the buzzer without having power to the buzzer.

@KremerFPV 5 лет назад

I measured the noise level of the Vifly in my review - it was 10db louder than the Hellgate and it's definitely sounds much louder (Even too loud on my bench 😛). The only drawback, apart the argument that it took some inspiration from the Hellgate is that it's much bigger. Thanks for the informative review (as usual) Joshua.

@Vaughnboilore 5 лет назад

I bought this buzzer today after watching this video btw😬😁

@cannibalholiday 5 лет назад

I saw where the damn thing when down and I still haven't found it two months later. And joshua has seen me gripe about the bloody thing almost daily for almost a month of searching after :P

@tylerfoulds5720 4 года назад

You had me laughing out loud watching this when you got to the ViFly...

@xxKrisKrossxx 5 лет назад

I'm convinced my last quad passed into the upside-down, because I never found it ☹️. Definitely putting one of these my current build.

@psdisme 5 лет назад

Hey Josh, have you heard of the TBeacon quad finder? Would love to see you do a review on it if you haven't already.

@Martin1519 5 лет назад

I need this, last time my quad dropped from the sky I couldn't hear my beeper until I was only a few meters away!

@mjbrennan99 5 лет назад

Enjoy the videos. I think the community needs you to take a hit and give us actual run times for the beeping.

@bernharddiener2735 2 года назад

13:38 it will never be triggerred for 30sec because it is only triggered for the short duration of a single beep itself. you would need to programm some more complicated stuff like if the beeper is off for less than 1sec between the beeps, it counts as one activation. And if that is true for more than 30sec, it gets louder to full volume.

@marinehm 5 лет назад

I did lose my quad in a row of dense trees. This would have been nice to have. It was on my wish list. New quad had it before the camera. Generic Hellgate buzzer for added insurance. I want at least another 1,000 or so crashes before I lose another drone. But, building them is fun!

@R.Ch.Experiments 5 лет назад

Appart that I learn from this videos, I laugh from them like hell... :D

@benaresq 5 лет назад

One other quad finding idea that I've read about but never implemented is reflective tape on the frame and go back at night with a flashlight.

@vasilisfellouzis 4 года назад

Hi Joshua i got one of these 1s buzzers and i am going to put it on a Sussex f4 flight controller but i has 3 wire on the buzzer and the on the fc i only see a B+ and a B- We're dos the 3rd wire go? Thanks in advance!

@licensetodrive9930 5 лет назад

Little known fact about the analogue output of Fat Shark goggles when you're playing back DVR footage - it only outputs NTSC, even when you're playing back PAL 25fps footage. But when it's outputting the analogue signal from the RX module it outputs PAL from a PAL camera and NTSC from an NTSC camera.

@OswaldBeef 5 лет назад

Vifly r220 m2 owners will need this when they try using 4s and Tri props.......piss me off I heard about over amp issues in said normal scenario years ago...and it’s still there. Best part of any vifly is the buzzer LOL thanks....ok I’m feeling better weeeeeeeee

@gavachkin 5 лет назад

I bought fullspeed, and do not regret it. Put it on the 110mm frame, it was difficult to have access to the button had to split the buzzer and battery and distribute them on the quadcopter.

@JoshuaBardwell 5 лет назад

For what it's worth, the fullspeed also can be disabled by the plug/unplug method.

@pablofpv 5 лет назад

Another good video👌, others have made but you have covered in more detail and done comparisons. I use a Drone keeper Mini (Google Nichemall)1st gen ,possibly the 1st on the market? Expensive at the time but it payed for its self many times over! It can be used independently and or wired, it has a motion sensor built in. They now have a 4th generation vision $22? These are not clones and are original and probably spawned the idea for the development of the Hell Gate? The reason they did not storm the market was due to couriers unable ship lipo batteries as this was build in and cost was prohibitive to use DHL who would ship? The new version have small coin cells and/or option to wire them in.I have no connection to the company. It is possible to make one with an Arduino nano or similar smaller programmable controller, but it is actually quite difficult to get it that small(I have built one). I think a better option would be to develop a timer version you could change the duration of when it goes off, 1 button to switch on/off and program and usb chargeable, no complication very small, no motion sensor, no wires, cheaper and it fits on a battery strap, you move it around quads, so you only need 1. It would be pretty easy for someone all ready producing these to build.(I have played around with this but not had the time to finish).

@aaronjohnson4093 2 года назад

Do you have to connect the ground wire when your hooking these things up? How would I install this on a Emax Tinyhawk freestyle 2?

@DarkOman 5 лет назад

I lost my quad once (found it the next day) with the broken arm and chopped wire. Places I fly are quite difficult for searching the lost quad so for me this item is vital. Already have the loud one. More weight but even with the battery attached finding the fallen quad is much esier cause of loud buzzer

@bleeksbentbits3150 5 лет назад

Changed out buzzer/beeper in my ET100 hoping to improve my ability to hear it over my industrial deafness, all to no avail... Im told it's louder but can't hear it myself.... I COULD hear the FullSpeed during your clip but not the ViFly, perhaps its the microphone failing due to pitch & volume, or it could be my ears.... Have considered plumbing in a reversing buzzer or a small motorcycle's tiny horn to a larger quad- I just wish all these buzzers & beepers were of a lower pitch as the freaquency most currently use fall in the range of all the other whistles, pops, buzzing, ringing & various other noises that make up the cacophony of tinunus..... Thanks again & I'll give the two cheaper units a try & see if I can hear them...

@Kev74 5 лет назад

great video mr. bardwell. question...i run the spracing f3 fc, it has pos and neg for buzzer setup, but the vifly comes with 3 wires, red, black, yellow. where does the yellow go? not quite sure how to solder this in. love what you do for the community. thank you. 👍👍

@JoshuaBardwell 5 лет назад

www.viflydrone.com/viflybuzzer.html Please refer to the wiring diagram here. Yellow goes to buz-

@ls1chevy2 4 года назад

Hey Joshua, question about buzzer Vifly Finder 2 ,,, I fly my drone at sunset a lot, and lost my drone at dawn, If i buy this unit and lose it after sunset how long do i have to find it before the buzzer goes into night hibernation? i would rather not leave it over night it rains out here all the time lots of passing showers in Hawaii. Yep I lost the Holybro cinewhoop, but Im about to order another from RDQ

@scooterfpv8864 5 лет назад

Genius . Nuff said .

@Quad8ightMix 10 месяцев назад

hi sir,is there a chance to connect a buzzer to speedybee flex25 using the external port connector installed on its unit(as there is 5v port for camera),thanks for your response 😊

@hsinyen6942 5 лет назад

Dear Joshua, want to install VIFLY Finder to CL_Racing F4S FC. It has BB+ and BB- on the backside of F4S, but can't find GND on the backside. Do I connect Gnd on the front side or use anything on the backside? What will happen if I don't connect GND at all. Thanks.

@kensteele3363 4 года назад

can i just use this on my regular drone (mavic)? maybe strap it on and the set off the buzzer and go flying? when it returns, shut off the buzzer. is it too loud just to go flying with? if the mavic goes down, it's already beeping.

@mrrose832 5 лет назад

Hey Joshua, did you cancel the Dronedrop and Kwadbox unboxings?

@chatmatchamp 5 лет назад

Sweet video! Might look at the vifly due to it being so loud. Does it work off of its own battery voltage? Reason im asking is a I have a pre1.3v of your JBF4 board (love it and the layout) and the buzzer cicuit seems to be defective since i can only manage 2ish volts off of it, giving me a weak buzzer.

@JoshuaBardwell 5 лет назад

Yes, vifly has built in battery just like the others.

@jcfpv3454 4 года назад

Thanks

@nevinleiby 5 лет назад

My idea is to focus on recovering the BATTERY of the quad. If you can find the battery, you'll probably find the quad. The battery will give days of power if not weeks without some microscopic battery. So I've been messing around with mounting my old r-xsr's and binding a locater model that can find my battery. You only need battery power to the rxsr to bind to it - no FC logic needed. At that point, it's just adding a buzzer by whatever means. Technically, it should be possible to do a transmitter + buzzer combination that you could use your transmitter to locate. Make sense?

@rudedog5150 5 лет назад

Great idea

@lovefpv7786 5 лет назад

Brilliant, I just thought along the same lines as you did. You could put any kind of beacon (a telemetry RX) onto the balance lead of the battery, no other modification required. Just make sure it's secure -- are there any latching XH receptacles?

@KingFPV 5 лет назад

Great idea!

@muratturel 5 лет назад

Superb logical idea... but what if the quad is out of range of the receiver/transmitter? I have been using a lipo tester connected to the battery.

@nevinleiby 5 лет назад

Murat TÜREL It more along the lines of easily improving what we have. Nothing 100% retreivable. The whole setup is smaller and easier to mount and deal with than gps, etc. It gives you more range than any beeper. Id like to think that gps would be ideal, but it involves alot more steps, antennas, potential subscriptions, cost and complexity.

@adrianau4246 2 года назад

Hey also for the Vifly finder you said not to hook up the yellow wire ? Will it still work on the switch? Can you explain the differences between having it soldered up and not having it soldered( yellow wire)

@adrianau4246 2 года назад

I thought yellow wire was to do with battery charging for its ground..?

@tonifespada 5 лет назад

Hi Joshua, do you know if there is any GPS/GPRS solution to geolocate a crashed quad? Something like the"Where is my Android?" function for smartphones. Thank you for the vid, I do learnt something. Regards.

@JoshuaBardwell 5 лет назад

Yes, these exist. I don't have a recommendation though, but I can confirm they exist. Best solution for that is to put a GPS sensor on your quad and send GPS coords back to the Taranis via telemetry. Or put the coords in the GPS. This way when you go down you will know the coords and you won't have to put any GPRS radio on the quad.

@VIFLYDrone 5 лет назад

VIFLY is considering to interagte GPS with the sound together in the new product.

@arycave 3 года назад

After 1 year of buying it. They replaced every one that arrived dead. Totally I've had 4. 1:4 is a working one. I had to shoot a video to proof that they were really dead because they have requested it. They have had very bad QC, i dont know if it improved since because I won't risk buying it again. But the one working really paid for itself after my quad stuck at the crotch of a pine tree over 80' up at night. I located it far from distance by its blue LED beacon. Next morning it was still tiredly chirping. And no, it is not more loud than others.

@jyunte 5 лет назад

JB... You don't need to turn off the receiver to configure the DVR to always record. Just turn on the DVR by long pressing the button, then long press it again to get to the menu.

@bintelfind 5 лет назад

you have to turn off the rx.... technically it would work but you dont see the menu... so whenever you want to access your menu's in the fatshark goggles you have to turn off your rx in order to see the menu acutally... otherwise you'll just see white noise.. - at least for dom v3 and earlier..dunno for hd3 and hd0

@jyunte 5 лет назад

bintelfind OK, but it's not required for the HDO. Seems Fatshark updated something!

@LeonMatthews 5 лет назад

The HellGate was NOT the first product like this, Screamy was. Such a great idea, and it was Open Hardware (and firmware) to boot. I backed Screamy on Kickstarter way back in 2014. They cancelled it after Hobbyking agreed to manufacture the device, and I bought a couple from them. I think they went for USD$25 or so. Unfortunately there was a manufacturing fault and the buzzer was really quiet in the first batch of units. The reviews were universally terrible and the product sank and the company seems to have disappeared. Nice to see that their idea lives on, however! Check out this video from Hobbyking in 2015: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-687nEiQMYug.html Kickstarter project: www.kickstarter.com/projects/1626733924/screamy-a-durable-lost-uav-alarm?ref=discovery&term=screamy

@sleepyheadfpv1507 4 года назад

Leon Matthews I was thinking the same, but he didn’t say the first ever drone buzzer. Just one that is that loud and that tiny self powered.

@tobiasworner5106 3 года назад

@@sleepyheadfpv1507 not the first buzzer... But the first loud one with battery 15:36min

@chrisbarratt3790 2 года назад

I know this video is a few years ago but is the Hellgate buzzer still being made? I can't find stock anywhere.

@OswaldBeef 5 лет назад

Thumbs for every successful video “granularity” hunt we’ve had :)

@adrianau4246 2 года назад

What if my flight controller has a built in mini buzzer(same one that is used once batt is plugged in. Also have that set on a switch for buzzer as of now.) & I add another one Do both go off ?

@austinsmith9413 4 года назад

I have lost my quad in the exact same tree like 4 times. It's not even that tall of the tree. It's just blends in very well.

@lwg66 5 лет назад

I’m probably going to get heckled for this but I usually get out my RF explore with beam antenna and walk right over to it and pick it up. The beepers are great if you eject a battery but if you’re flying with 10-20 other people the RF explorer is the only way to go find the quad in the woods or you wait until dark and it gets quite and then you can hear the beeper. On other note pay attention to the solder iron temp I bought some HellGates when they first came out, I didn’t check my temp and lifted a pad ..

@X02AC3 2 года назад

Rdf is an extremely effective method of finding something especially with a good triangulation app, you can get within a couple feet of the target.

@aymen3962 2 года назад

@@X02AC3 i didn’t understand.. how can you do that ?

@bastija6058 2 года назад

Dji dvr doesn't save the GPS coordinates :/ 🤔or I don't know how. Beeper saved my chimera4" about 3 times. Wouldn't it be nice if tbs tango could direct u In the way to the receiver (when lipos not elected)? Is there a way?