VISUO QUADCOPTER + Battery Mod Upgrade + Crashes + Killed MAVIC PRO
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Banggood wanted me to review a Quadcopter so I decided to turn this into another NERDVille project.
For less than £35 this was actually not a bad toy for the money. It'd make the perfect birthday/holiday present for children (or adults) and actually LOOKS like the real thing
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Yes Please make the video.... great and interesting content, very easy to watch. Thanks!
Yes, do it please.
You don't put a lot of videos out ,but most of them are very interesting and high quality content.Like it alot
Do the inventor designing in a separate vid ,more in depth , not necesary a tutorial but how you come from a idea to an object in Inventor (wath is your thought process ,is heat space, weight ? )
The bebefit would be you have more vids coming out on regular basis.
I think this is also good for the YT algoritm ,and they push your content more up (always good to gain more subs)
Like i said I love your content and style. 👌🏻 👍🏻
would be great to mod the cheap drone with a big battery, a 4k cam with gimbal, maybe stronger motors...all for cheap - just dreaming ;-)
When I started watching, I was sure to not buy it. But after seeing how well you customised it and it is affordable, I might go for it.
Battery upgrade was a great move.
At 3:30 you say it takes 1 hour to charge each cell. This is only a 1 cell battery. And you say to use the included charging cord because it contains balancing boards. You do not have to balance a one cell pack.
T & B IOWA the quadcopter comes with 3 cells...3 single cell batteries. Each take 1 hour to charge. Where’s your videos? I see no content on your channel? You seem to have a lot of experience and expertise...you should make content!
@@MALNTV What an odd reply. You only need to balance batteries containing multiple cells within the same package (battery). The clue is in the name balancing (of cells).
@@perica38 thanks...haven’t posted in 2 years. No longer create content..thanks
I loved this video. The flying music part was fun, but the mod portion made it amazing. Thank you for that
Thank you for the review/experiment, inspirational to see ingenuity at play. Very glad you managed to repair your mavic :)
Great vid!
I'm torn between this and the Eachine E58.
Both seem equally fun and cheap enough to modify without crying myself to sleep if I fry it.
This one appears to have 3x lift capacity over the E58 judging by the UA-cam reviews I've seen so far.
What a brilliant video! I really enjoyed watching your technical skills, the infos given, and the immense fun you and your son had, quality family fun! Hope he wasn´t hurt by the battery bang. I´m a beginner, my Visuo is in the post, and I´ll be happy to have half the skills of your son.
You could also make a housing that you can change out the 18650 battery. It would simply sit in the usual battery styled holder. You can just have 5 or more 18650 batteries at the ready to easily increase fun time (flight time) to around 2hrs.
If u wanna turn of the light, hold the r2 button so you can save battery and more flight time
Nice honest and fun review. Love the CAD and printing bit too. Your son is becoming a great pilot! Good work.
Just got mine in the mail. Found this vid before my unboxing, looks like good times ahead. Great mod! You can find 18650 Batteries at Vape shops. Keep up the good work :)
The controller is basically an Xbox controller which will make it easy for most kids to get used to. Your son has some serious drone skills. Keeping a none gps controlled copter corralled in a small space like that isn't easy. And flying it with a water bottle swinging around on the bottom is next to impossible. Electronics run on smoke and it looks like your son let the smoke out of the charger. I for one would like to see you modify the Mavic Pro batter. Great review.
@NERDVille Newer Visuo drones (starting with XS809S model) have 3.7V, 1800mAh batteries, which are actually two of these 900mAh in one thicker housing (the same width). What you think about modifying XS809HW to accept that kind of battery, which is widely available?
Superb video. I love the added value and need to see the Mavic battery mod. Make it soon!
im sure this uses coreless dc motors like mine which is great. open her up and upgrade the 2 dual mosfet chips for discretes. mine had 6 amp chips which did a spectacular smoke trail then a flip and dead. any low voltage gate mosfet will do but lower on resistance and steeper curve the better. 2 18650 should give more flight time than the equivelent weight of lipo on long flights. taking the crap camera off as its a waste of power. my next upgrade will be bigger motors and props or maybe double the motors for a 4 strut octocopter
Impressive performance for an inexpensive small "almost-replica" quadcopter of the DJI Mavic Pro. 👏 Excellent video and battery mod upgrade design! 👍 Keep up the outstanding and thoughtful video reviews for fans! 😎
Yeaaahh... AWESOME project and PLEASE put an 18650 on the Mavic... that will be reeeeally interesting... ohhh yeaaahhh can't wait =]
The only real reason as to why LiPo batteries are used in drones are because of the power density and output, the 18650 may have more power, but typically not enough output to power a large drone
You can power an rc airplace, but nothing more really when it comes to that
Whose say 18650 is not li-po battery, many fact are lot of 18650 battery have fake capacity so it's doesn't have enough power to lift drone but there is bigger problem for cheap drone have so weak Dynamo to lift 18650 battery 😑😑😑
That’s amazing that that drone weighs 35lbs.
I don't know who you are or what your passion is but I will be watching you for the rest of your life
Thanks a lot for this video. Just ordered this drone amd will do the 18650 mod right away. But since i have a lot of 18650 cells i will make it replacable. And let i connect to the bottom so that i can still use the original batteries.
Excellent mod. Cheers for the video.
That is an awesome upgrade, wouldn't it be great if quadcopters took 18650's like AA's....This quad also works great using a $15 usb powered wifi repeater and 2 devices for control (phone and tablet) and gets over 1km distance!
Cool episode boys. Good to see you back😀
Yes please to seeing more 👍
The quad is very durable, just be careful about debris in the cog, I had to take mine apart to clear debris out of the cog.
any chance you could publish the STL for the 18650 battery mod? Would love to upgrade this great little toy! Great review BTW
reVolting good idea. I’ll update this soon and add links to the description. I also created a new belly for this quadcopter which holds the upgraded battery.
While waiting for the STL... Out of curiosity... which CAD software you used?
I'd like to master that tool like you! :)
Luca Bongiorni I used Autodesk Inventor. It a more advanced version of Fusion 360. I just love using it. Making some mods to incorporate a TP4056 for charging. STL will be up soon.
NERDVille is Fusion license expensive? or maybe exists a free version for amateurs? :)
I'm also interested in the STL files. Will you be uploading it to Thingiverse, or did you already?
Awesome!!! In a price of mavic pro you can have a 31.4 those things, so when you crash one a month, you be able to play with it 2,616 years and no cry when you buy another one. :-)
I'm glad you mentioned using the USB lead that comes with the copter, there are quite a few videos complaining about battery failure due to using phone chargers, which I would have done had I not seen both your video and another, stating the issue.
Great review, getting one of these plus the extra batteries in a few days.
You could try doing the aerial mod, where the a small hole is drilled in the upper case to allow the aerial to be pulled vertical to allow better reception and using a wi-fi extender to give better range.
Interesting point about memory card issue, not seen that mentioned before, though seen plenty of comments about camera vibration.
Would love to see an episode building a range extending battery for the Mavic !
Great video ... i tried to mod my 8807w battery and it didn't work out... it was much easier to mod... and the reason it failed was because i used the lap top 18650 batteries because they are different to the power tools 18650 you need a high current output type for continuous current to run the motors.... and i have ordered some battery and hopefully it works...
The 8807 is a much better drone to mod as it uses a standard JST plug and the battery bay is very spacious to put a larger battery or 2 batteries to power a separate FPV.
Awesome video/review and comical to boot!!!
"I do let my children fly it, but I always have to carry a pack of diapers with me in the event of a crash" ROFL. I know the feeling. :)
Good effort sir. First time viewer here. I enjoyed the vid :) I was actually curious to try modify the battery in mine with an old Nokia style battery, they're the same voltage but far more mah. Also could use the charge pcb etc so I could charge the drone via the Nokia charger. Or a vape, some are quite cheap and could modify in the micro usb to not have to open the battery hatch any more, enough times and the connection is sure to snap. Any thoughts?
Great video. I would love to see how the mod for the Mavic goes. Thanks. Take care. Peter
a toy that doesnt even have brushless motors, so increasing the load, it puts a lot more stress on the motors.
So anyone getting this (and modding it), have fun replacing the motors every other month (been there, done it).
Spend 50$ on a RC Logger One, or 100$ on the RC logger EOE, much better investment than 30-50 for this.
Would be interested in seeing a battery mod for the Mavic...can it be done with all the smart battery functionality and two way communication from drone to DJI app?
How about replace the camera lens.maybe from smartphone camera lens?
just flew mine . its amazingly fun
Smart way! Thanks!
Hi, thx for great vid. Question: should I go with this one or perhaps Eachine E58? Want a small one for beginners. Thanks!
DJI mavic pro battery mod 🙌🙌🙌
Great video. I was looking for a cheap drone to buy for my kids and couldn't really find one until I saw your video I've already ordered one. I would also love to see you do a battery mod with the 18650s for the Mavic Pro. I've got one and love it but I wish it just had a little bit longer battery life.
You have cute kids that should grow up to geniuses ! Nice mod and great fly time gain ! I have 2 questions . 1. I have ordered this quad with 3 batteries . Would combining 2 batteries 900 + 900 = 1800mah give similar success in flight time ? 2. I have watched vids about adding a GoPro but they complained about the motors burning out due to added weight . Have you suffered any problems with the extra battery weight ? Thanks again for the well done video !
Yes if you put these in parallel you should increase capacity.
This is the big question...
can the visuo camera be upgraded with a Raspberry pi MKII camera module?
BTW thanks for posting this. I was looking for a cheep camera quad that could survive quite a bit of pilot error!
Adam Bryant
I am almost certain its not possible. I have a similar quadcopter and its really compressed. Wifi & camera & SD cars is all handled by one processor and built very compact. Send me your email address in PM and I will send you the photos when I took that quad apart.
Is the 3d mod u did was for a protected or unprotected 18650 battery-basically size of the mod?
I think that chip in the original batt was a BMS chip so you don't over-discharge the cell. Also, I'm planning to do this mod myself, but I'm trying to decide if I want to just replace the chip with a Aurora JHF3 so It has a F3 flight controller and I can use it with my Q x7 w a FPV cam mod, or to replace the whole power systems with actual brushless motors.
Min Jun Kim
Nope, it's just a silicon diode, to "protect" the battery from blowing up if connected to phone charger cable. Phone charger gives 5 Volts, diode makes 0.7 V drop, so battery is exposed to 4.3 V, which is still above 4.2 V which is absolute limit for LiPo battery.
@@aljaz55 I did a tear down on one of them. There are TWO control boards. In total, they contain:
4 x 8205A dual mosfet to prevent overcharge, overdischarge and overcurrent.
1 x K34 Schottky diode for fast forward voltage switching, possibly in conjunction with the J64A below.
1 x J64A Transient Voltage Suppressor for connection spikes and possibly back EMF from the motors.
I did a tear down on one of them. There are TWO control boards. In total, they contain:
4 x 8205A dual mosfet to prevent overcharge, overdischarge and overcurrent.
1 x K34 Schottky diode for fast forward voltage switching, possibly in conjunction with the J64A below.
1 x J64A Transient Voltage Suppressor for connection spikes and possibly back EMF from the motors.
Really enjoyed your video you also appear to be a too notch engineer
I think you should go all out DIY, and make a real cool FPV drone! :D
Hey there are 2 model in the Visuo Xs 809HW the 0.3 mp and 2mp so can you tell me what is the difference in then
It's still a pretty nice first drone
Great video, very innovative and informative.
For FUN, so many seem to have lost that in what should be a hobby (FUN)
I’m glad you see it this way. Some of the comments do seem to take this so seriously. Lol
Congrats. You are a genius!
Yup. Do that mavic battery modifications Please
nice review, and bonus mod!
beautiful video..lol..i brought this lookalike mavic air for my 11 yr old son... but i find my self flying it more since I'm new also @ drone flying... i guess its gr8 txt way while my REAL mavic is sitting here still in the box cause the weather outside isn't the best right now ...i guess i need the practice before i tackle my mavic drone..lol....thank u for the info... i learned a lot
Yep I am in the very same predicament too. I hate crashing the mavic pro.
can make a video of this drone upgrading the video camera, the motors and also the wifi range?thank you
Very fun And interesting video to watch great job
I think you would need better cells for the Mavic, those laptop cells are rated at just 2C.
Nice modification
.I wonder would you able to do some modifications on the camera.. if possible fit in a better camera quality into the video xs809. Thanks..
Hello sir, this great, I wish I see you doing the same for DJI Mavic PRO 2 that has a bigger battery case. Maybe you can buy one broken battery and open its case and try to fit other type of battery with larger capacity to extend the Flight time to 40-60 min, that will be great :D
FANTASTIC!!!!! What a coincidence I have a self-built all metal hotend 3D printer. I am considering three 10440 lithum battery upgrade without cutting the drone, or else if I have to cut it, using the latest Panasonic 3350mAh 18650 battery is worth a shot.
Would you mind sharing the .stl file of your wonderful battery compartment?
Can you mount a better camera on it and motors for the propellers there the modifications id be interested in
My friend had one of those l, they used a different charger and the batteries puffed up
i am not so shure about 18650 battery. I have this drone and i test the Voltage of both battery, and there is 0.7 volt in difference between. I tested more 18650 cells also newexpensive brand with hight power and 18650 have lower voltage themselves. I suppose it will work for a while but controller inside drone will cut off power as it reach the cutout voltage. I'll test...
Would you print one of those battery cases for someone
Been waiting for a decent mod video for this little quad, I’ve just ordered one for myself for a fun first ‘drone’
Can you have a look at getting a decent camera in there for me as your next mod :)
Do you manufacture a new bottom cover and these batteries?
It was more interesting the way you’re using a 3D CAD and printed it out. I know that CAD software cost to much. If I may ask, what software is that you have? Can I do self study to do 3D CAD? To do the the same way you did. Thanks to your interesting video.
Nice video bro, I have a question maybe u can halpme I try to upgrade a Battery in a little dron spider gw58 global its stock bateríe 500 mah 3.7 was dificulta to find, so I bought a 3.7 550 mah genéric, the first flight was nice 4 mins more than usual I plgged a conector to positive and negative point in fc, but after 2 flight bateríes seems fat and bigger as damage the dron dont flight again with those bats, only star lights try to run motors but nothing more but with its stock bateríes every its normal....i reconect the cables to main board but the same... Maybe those bateríes are voltaje low or what could be happen...really apreciate your advice to mod the original bats to a genéric, maybe the valtaje and mah are similar but bateríes es samller cound affect...?
Great dad 👍🏾
Very good thanks. Yes it is a great toy, and I liked your redesign. If you are thinking of getting a Mavic, get one of these first, crash the life out of it, and you will learn ATTI mode, and one day it will save your Mavic.Thanks, subbed.
Just amzing vid great job Ty 4 Sharing
Awesome video brother. Im a new subscriber. I was wondering if you might could do a video on the Ryze Tello. I've been working on adding an external light source. Using a small LED spot light from a headlamp I took apart. My electronics experience and knowledge is very limited and I am having trouble figuring out a way to run the light to the Tellos on board battery connector and have the light power down when the Tello is not in flight. Currently the light stays on the entire time the Tello is powered up. Anyway great video. Keep it up
I hope you made that upgrade for the mavic pro ..... great fun
except your crashed mavic ... feels like a blooding heart.
Definitely make a vid on Mavic battery upgrade
Great video. Keep up the awesome work.
great video - you could also compare the visuo to the Eachine e58 as a possible future video as they are both mavic clones. :)
I love the video. Straight to the point and very informal! I’m looking for a good first drone. I would like to get orbital shots. However I’m not trying to spend $1000+ Anything under $300?
Steeze Productions Hmmm, try something like the Hubsan 501S. I was also looking into drones under 300$ and honestly found this one to be the most balanced between the performance and the camera under this price. I'll be ordering it soon but look into the UA-cam reviews if this is something for you.
BigDwarf220 okay I’ll look into it. Thanks for the help!
Steeze Productions Alright, let me know how you have decided!
3 years later…
Hi I own a 8807HD wich is very similar to your VISUO. I have an issue with the 18650 battery, it lasts only few seconds (I assure you that it is fully charged). I made the battery mod using a 18650 with a JST connector soldered to it. The battery is charged with a 18650 charger modified with a JST connector. When connecting the battery, the quad flyes for some seconds then lowers its altitude and lands.....after a minute it flyes again for some seconds and lands again................Why is not working properly? Is there something I ignore? Thanks.
do u sell the battery cases you made for yours I have a similar magic pro drone that I orderd may be interested in a case for the battery mod and wondering what other kind of mods can be done to the mavic clone I ordered I just got it to get some overhead view to see terrain and stuff it actault looks like the drone at the end of the video the one with the camera that got broken lol
can this sort of mod work for an eachine e51 fpv quadcopter if so i would love to see a video to show same thanks great vid
Yes
Do you happen to have this battery for sale and available for this particular drone upsized the way you did in his video? Thanks
How did the battery upgrades for the mav go?
hi is there any way that I can get the 3d file for the battery case you made?
It is possible to install EIS program..
lithium ion battery have low discharging rate compare than lihium polymer...be careful when changing to this battery since different manufacturer have different discharge rate...mostly low disc rate...if ur lucky it mybe fly...if not it just spin and not fly little or not at all...
And that's why you don't do a Drone tug of war with a £300 Drone.
beautiful video and great drones pilot, a greeting from Spain.
Wonder if hg2 18650 brown battery be good? It's like 3000mah but I doubt amperage would be sufficient but if the new 20700 is like 40amp where the hg2 is 20amp and most of Sony vtc4 like 25amp but at the cost of reduced milliamps
Is there possible to ger the 3D printer sheet for the 18650 battery housing? Please :)
Visuo 1 - Mavic 0....LOL. My Visuo flew so well it got stuck in a very tall tree within 48 hours. So I ordered another one.
Please do things with stuff often... as you are very good at it.
Great work man.
Are you selling the 3D printed battery case? I am very interested
Great! You have done a nice video, but is still too technical for those people, like me, that have bought Visuo just for few money.
Can you move the camera from the control or cell phone? or do you have to do it manually?
Manually.
thanks for the great video. Instead of a fixed rechargeable 18650, what about a pop off lid, and a socket for replaceable 18650's. You could drop one in after another, and fly all day. I have dozens myself..... Would you share the .stl file? thanks, 2af