I've gone from a taranis lite to the Mambo and tracer and I love it. I'm only 5 months in to this hobby so not a lot to compare it by but as my second only radio I personally can't fault it.
A shame they don't (yet) do it with Crossfire, main reason I went with the Tango II. Also the build and finish quality is a shame. I find the Tango II great and clearly a better build than the Mamba. Nice video Ian. Be nice if TBS gave their thoughts on your findings.
Hey due to quality of build, I had weird problem! Don’t know if anyone had the same symptom as mine: quad kept turning left (yaw) I spent hours and hours trying to find a source of why my quad kept doing that. Reassembled my quad more than once. Re-tuned PIDs many times and changed filters without success. Ran stick calibration. All perfect at 1500us for center. Didn’t help. Opened up black box and it showed I had yaw stick at 1480us value while flying! Went back home and confirmed it was still at 1500us. WHAT THE WORLD…. At end, I gave up and pressed power button to power it down and I saw stick value actually flickering on Betaflight transmitter tab! I paused and pressed on TBS logo. It did that too! Tried pulling hook. It also did it! Ahh.. hanging by lanyard was the culprit. So what I will do with mambo for daily, use trim until movement stops. Remember… it’s made of plastic. Trim will vary by environment. Please share your experiences!
I have seen something similar. I could not get it to calibrate at all on one day and it kept showing large jitter. In the end I rebooted and it was fine. I think there is a bug in the stick firmware. I’m going to talk about this this week.
@@MadRC Seems to be some there are handful units with bad PCB. I got my last week and did firmware update right after unboxing it and it bricked. Found about 3 other people with same issues. TBS will be sending replacement.
Looks to be a good radio but switch replacement etc could be a problem unless you are really competent with soldering and de soldering ! 🤔 So for me I will pass on the Mambo as I have broken switches before on my Tx’s but they have been easy to replace 🎮 ,
I've been using it on the Sim, haven't got Tracer in a Build yet... My Shoulder buttons are stiff and stand was a touch lose.. TBS took care of it. What I really want it the Tambo or Mango Crossfire and Tango in one unit maybe ELRS... Tango2 build quality Mambo Screen and grip size.
I really don't like the way they added the switches to the PCB. I know why they did it: less connectors = cheaper to produce. but it feels cheap and toy-ish.
My only concern is replacing them should one break. It’s going to need a lot more playing and finding to get something to fit. You could though just lower the pins and wire it anyways. It’s a neat design and saves them cost and manufacturing time. .
Another bad point: no trainer port in case you want to use a headtracker to air ppm signals.
Look at the PCB more carefully.
@@riggermortisfpv526 I just read the user manual...
I want to get this over my TX16S, it being a bit smaller and less switches I like that more. and the module bay means I can fly whatever I want.
Great video Ian! Well done! Love my Mamba - it is now my daily driver… I already had the crossfire module… So happy tracer was included…
Telemetry has been an issue… even after the firmware upgrade to fix it :-/
I've seen side by side size comparisons between this/TX16S/DJI radios. How about the TX12?
I've gone from a taranis lite to the Mambo and tracer and I love it. I'm only 5 months in to this hobby so not a lot to compare it by but as my second only radio I personally can't fault it.
Can you tell, if the single hall sensor gimbals (like TBS has) any better than traditional dual halls ones?
How are ergonomics for a pincher ... and in comparison to the Radiomaster TX16S?
Would it compare favourably (build quality wise,gimbal quality too) against a Taranis X9D Plus SE?
Really nice review! Thanks for that. So now I know that I keep using my Tango 2...👍
hope TBS can hear this review 😁
Yeah let’s hope they bring a crossfire version out ..coming from a Tango 2 I’d just like a bigger radio all compact no extra module ... good info 😊👍
What is the range of this radio
I've using this tbs mambo not perfect but. Very nice
How far the range sir??
A shame they don't (yet) do it with Crossfire, main reason I went with the Tango II. Also the build and finish quality is a shame. I find the Tango II great and clearly a better build than the Mamba.
Nice video Ian. Be nice if TBS gave their thoughts on your findings.
Hey due to quality of build, I had weird problem! Don’t know if anyone had the same symptom as mine: quad kept turning left (yaw)
I spent hours and hours trying to find a source of why my quad kept doing that. Reassembled my quad more than once. Re-tuned PIDs many times and changed filters without success.
Ran stick calibration. All perfect at 1500us for center. Didn’t help.
Opened up black box and it showed I had yaw stick at 1480us value while flying!
Went back home and confirmed it was still at 1500us. WHAT THE WORLD….
At end, I gave up and pressed power button to power it down and I saw stick value actually flickering on Betaflight transmitter tab! I paused and pressed on TBS logo. It did that too! Tried pulling hook. It also did it! Ahh.. hanging by lanyard was the culprit.
So what I will do with mambo for daily, use trim until movement stops. Remember… it’s made of plastic. Trim will vary by environment.
Please share your experiences!
I have seen something similar. I could not get it to calibrate at all on one day and it kept showing large jitter. In the end I rebooted and it was fine. I think there is a bug in the stick firmware. I’m going to talk about this this week.
Excellent
Have you updated the firmware on that Mambo?
I did when I had it but not recently, why ?
@@MadRC Seems to be some there are handful units with bad PCB. I got my last week and did firmware update right after unboxing it and it bricked. Found about 3 other people with same issues. TBS will be sending replacement.
@@FlyturboKwad wow not seen that. I did the same as you update after I had it but I was good. Let me know how you get on with the new board.
Looks to be a good radio but switch replacement etc could be a problem unless you are really
competent with soldering and de soldering ! 🤔
So for me I will pass on the Mambo as I have broken switches before on my Tx’s but they have been easy to replace 🎮
,
I've been using it on the Sim,
haven't got Tracer in a Build yet...
My Shoulder buttons are stiff and stand was a touch lose.. TBS took care of it.
What I really want it the Tambo or Mango Crossfire and Tango in one unit maybe ELRS...
Tango2 build quality Mambo Screen and grip size.
You upgradet it wrong!!! You must do firmware updates on Agent M !!!
You can use either, yes there is a bug in agent X but that is being worked on.
June 2023, TBS abandoned development. No updates. FreedomTX still not merged to OpenTX/EdgeTx.
Yea it’s a joke now.
totally agree according the power button. I hate it
I really don't like the way they added the switches to the PCB. I know why they did it: less connectors = cheaper to produce. but it feels cheap and toy-ish.
My only concern is replacing them should one break. It’s going to need a lot more playing and finding to get something to fit. You could though just lower the pins and wire it anyways.
It’s a neat design and saves them cost and manufacturing time. .
I guess the v2 will come with crossfire
but is there a V2 to expect ?
i would love a v2 til 1 watt crosfire
Very disappointed with this radio after 10 years left RC helicopter. Can’t compare with the old JR with quality and manual structure.