Akk Ultra wide-band 5W VTX
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- Опубліковано 9 лис 2024
- The previous AKK 5W/10W VTX's I looked at were very powerful, but a little difficult to mount on a regular quad. This new 5W version, aside from having an ultra-wide band from 4.9Ghz to 6Ghz, also has standard 30.5mm mounting holes so is much more quad-freindly. Let's install it and fly it!!
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Fantastic flying and review, Wayne! 😃
Pretty interesting VTX indeed... And pretty strong!
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Cheers MC - hope you are well!
Pretty cool stuff.
Very interesting review. Beautiful skies and water. Too bad the wind was so high and I’m sure the winds were even greater aloft. One thing that comes to mind with the dodgy ERS numbers. I had a similar problem that I had talked to you about a very long time ago and in my drawer way too many spare parts I had another brand new radio, master ERS and I switch them out and everything changed for the better. I’m not sure if you recall regarding that issue. And I wonder if the receiver is just not up to snuff?? I hope you have the opportunity to do some repetitive flights out of that area. I really enjoy the view vicariously.
Could be a dodgy rx. Trouble is that without the ELRS power on the OSD (like I had on Walksnail) it was difficult to establish where the issue was. So I'll definately fly that one again there (hopefully in less wind)
my guess is the little black thing on the wire is a voltage regulator for if you use 8s etc
I think it's only spec'd up to 6S - maybe, I don't think I can be bother to cut the heat shrink off to look though :)
@@CurryKitten does it not say in the manual?
VTX power does not increase range significantly until you double the power, even then its not a big increase, its just where it starts to be noticable. Inverse square law.
Where high power vtx comes into play is with signal penetration. If you want more range its best to move to lower frequency systems, those will go for miles
Yes - and I've talked about this previously. With that said, lower frequency stuff is not really that necessary these days. The 100km flight on ELRS was on 5.8 (albeit with impressive rx antennas) and although it was sketchy at very long range, it was golden up to around 60km. In my experience, high power on 5.8 doesn't help much on going through solid objects unless you are really close to it.
I watched this
Well done!
I want this…..but i dont need the heat from the NSA 😂
You definately don't want to play with the 10W VTX I looked at last time then !
@@CurryKitten id be afraid to grow a “3rd testi” at that wattage. Which reminds me….I need to go get one of those farad beanies. 🤣
The black thingy looks like an inline fuse to me...
Yes, that old R9 not performing at all...I can go 2 kms on 25mw on my TBS Crossfire...LC filters usually run both power and ground through them...The diagonal lines are almost certainly ESC noise....Had to laugh at your cows fan club.....lol...🤔😏😂🇬🇧
Perhaps - although it's been absolutely fine before. I'll do some more tests, but I can swap it over to something more official. The cows love me, they follow me around the field when I walk through it :)
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Manufacturer need to stop giving those pigtails with high watt vtx. They raise the swr enough to fry the rf amplifier. Direct antenna connection is the best way.
There's very few VTX's that have an SMA adapter coming out the back now. Manufacturers (decent ones at least) do test SWR using their pigtails
you sound totally ignorant
Odd illegal (in us) frequencies it seems.
Even 25mw is "illegal"
Happily you can set this to normal (legal) frequencies - but yes, it is a bit of an odd concept
@@CurryKitten I suppose they could cover legal frequencies in other countries. That would make sense.
put crossfire and 50 and that will solve the problem elrs is nice but it open source and even with radiomaster quality will be an issuse just like my boxer experience took them three times to get me the radio without problem were as my tbs tango and mamba radios worked with no problems, and i have had more elrs receivers go bad on me than tbs crossfire.
You say opensource like it's a bad thing lol the majority of our hobby is open source and that's the only reason it's gotten as far as it has. Also you're the odd duck majority of people are extremely happy on ELRS maybe you were using Matek receivers lol.
There's nothing wrong with Crossfire, but the power of a community developed project like ELRS really shows what can be done. It's features are really going way beyong what Crossfire can do right now. As for this quad, it just needs some investigation - you'd have seen the other footage with another ELRS receiver on 10mw having a fine old time, so it's just a case of checking out where the problem is on this RX
Am I being dumb, I thought 25mW was the UK 5.8ghz max permitted?
He was on private land in Mexico 👍
Wait till u find out 25mw is "illegal" in the US
25mw is indeed the limit in the UK (on the ground - interestingly it's different on the ground) But I'm a realist. Does anyone outside of racing fly at 25mw. The answer 99% of the time is no.
Yup you are
More than worthless at 5w, illegal in most places unless your OSD is showing your licensed call-sign.
In many places it is - hence the call to check your local laws
Even 25mw is illegal in most places