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Nope, this is the Losi Lasernut. I used the Fireteam for the HEQ Gimbal.

Yup! I just mostly dislike the controls of an air radio when driving a car. I’m also a career drone pilot and if I mess with my muscle memory too much it’s a bad day at work lol. A lot of peeps don’t mind driving cars with air radios though and there’s a lot of good tutorials out there too 🤙

I can’t think of any single antenna version of Walksnail.. But the v2 kit should be solid. I would expect it to be very similar to the DJI v1 Air Unit’s range, and definitely better than most Analog set ups 🤙

Yup, so as of today you have to get a “CRSF to PWM converter” and solder your 915mhz ELRS receiver to that. You’ll get a lot of channels (like 12 iirc) but it’s a bit of a hassle. I’m not sure if any 915mhz ELRS receivers with ‘native PWM’ will come out anytime soon; but this is how you do it for now ^

Thanks dude! I tried that a few years ago and it was cute lol. It’s not possible on DJI or Caddx’s digital videos systems currently, and I’d way rather have their range, latency and resolution 🤙

You can do a repeater with analog, or a HDMI out with Walksnail. But my current go-to system is DJI and there’s not really a good solution to get your antennas higher, without some drawbacks. Also, the other comment about the ground station / repeater you left: I’ve got information about it sprinkled in a few videos, here n there. I still haven’t made a complete, direct video just about that but it is the works. I really should see about hiring an editor, it’s already all filmed pretty much 🤙

@ChaddRainsFPV do you have a video for mount you made for your porch to send signals?

@@policeswat64 That’s the repeater video I was talking about in the last comment. I have info about it in several other videos, but I don’t have one video that it explains it well just yet.

@ChaddRainsFPV well ill be for sure looking out for it. Thank you for all the great content! And I would buy a fpv kit if you sold one 😁

@@policeswat64 You can email me and let me know what all you would like! I don’t have a ton of time these days but I have a couple people looking for full FPV kits and I may do a group build. My email is in the description of a lot of my videos. Oh, and thank you for the kind words I normally reply to people’s comments and then I never hear from them again haha!

I have an email posted in the description of most of my videos. I may do a limited run of PNP kits for people 🤙

@@ChaddRainsFPV How much are you selling it

@@ChaddRainsFPV I like to put on my Arrma Vorteks 3s... If I send you the car can you install it I'll pay for it...

I recommend a separate 3s LiPo battery and my O3 Armer for power distribution 🤙

@@ChaddRainsFPV is there a link for the armer? I’m trying to put an o3 on an airplane

@@ChaddRainsFPV email sent 🫡

Thanks man! That is a Losi Lasernut. Perfect for FPV RC imo 🤙

@@ChaddRainsFPV Excellent. Thank you. 😎

Hey dude! My recommendation is: Don’t. It’s been beaten to death that amplifiers are the wrong move. You can get a better VTX, better (more sensitive video receiver), better / taller antennas or even a relay setup with analog, but amplifiers are almost always a waste of money. They burn up and often need an attenuator to work correctly 🤙

@@ChaddRainsFPV Thanks man for the tip, thanks

Hey John! Yup! They will be the same price. I will get a little more free time in the coming weeks and will have them for sale directly, but the two shops that have committed are actually two of my most trusted, so I totally recommend them 🤙

Yes! You can email me to buy direct or you can check GetFPV or ProgressiveRC in the next week or so (email in the description) 🤙

Took some time to get production rolling. Got GetFPV and ProgressiveRC carrying it now; they should have it listed soon 🤙

GetFPV will be carrying it soon they just bought 50. Same with ProgressiceRC. I’m not a full blown RC company I’m just some dude working 2 jobs plus making YT videos. Needed some time to get this going 🤙

For sure! I actually have a video coming out in the next week or so where I revisit 5.8ghz and see if I can get it to beat DJI Digital FPV in range. I will make sure to get a close up of my whole FPV setup 🤙

It’s best to keep it between 2s and 4s lipos. ~7v-17v 👍

I use my product, the O3 Armer. It activates the full power output and allows for easy connections 🤙

@@ChaddRainsFPV can you guide me? i also want to install dji o3 on my nitro car! Please! Thanks

I just shipped all the units from our last batch, so I’ll be responding to emails in the next couple days. Thank you for being patient! I prefer the O3 and DJI Goggles 2 or Integras. But they are only compatible with each other. You can’t use Walksnail with DJI, and vice versa. I will be testing the Walksnail GT to see how it is as soon as I can!

@@ChaddRainsFPV Hey brother, thanks for replying back. Alrighty sounds good. I will wait until your email before i buy anything. Its your videos which got me interested in this hobby and i already appreciate you a ton.

Thanks for sending this over! The fix for the Caddx gimbal doesn’t perfectly translate to the HEQ, but I’m sure there is something to be learned by both companies from this fix. They are both trying to lock the yaw axis, and resulting in jitter. It looks like Caddx has a work-around (that kind of limits the use of the gimbal and requires some fancy configuration to be done, as per BonafidePirates video). I think both companies could implement this in the their app, so you could toggle this as a setting and not require any input to the gimbal or special configuration from an FC. That is my hope, anyway!

Right on! In my newer videos I have my contact email. Shoot me a message and I’ll reply with links and tutorials 🤙

@@ChaddRainsFPV Hey, thank you so much. I most definitely will. Thank you again.

Done!

FPV Cars are getting good these days!!

It’s just back ordered at the moment. Got a lot going on with the latest batch of O3 Armers. I will respond to everyone once this latest batch ships. It’s hard to keep track of things when I don’t have a “store” / website. So I can only reply once I have everyone from the last batch taken care of. *Also, a few shops will have these in stock pretty soon too. It’s just a slow process, getting this product to the point where it’s easily available, like the big manufacturers 🤙

Shoot me an email and I’ll make sure you get one. But yup you have a couple options with crossfire. Technically, you can use the 8ch PWM adapter, and the gimbal can use 3 of those channels directly off of your receiver, just like that. But you can also take set crossfire receivers to output sbus, and some other converters do Sbus to PWM. You can actually tap right off the Sbus line and the gimbal has a port for that. So if you needed 8 channels on your rig, plus the gimbal, you can do that (11 channels, basically). Hope that made sense brother, typing this out while partying with the fam hahah 🤙

@@ChaddRainsFPV So I got this thing earlier and just finished setting it up and I gotta say I'm pretty happy about it. I drove it around the living room a little and was surprised how stable it is..The calibration process was a little iffy but it managed to basically look where I wanted it and allow me the movement control. I guess I can't complain that there might be some jitter issues considering how easy of a setup process they made. Sucks that it's dark already cause I have to wait til tomorrow go to try it out in the woods. IDK exactly how they want to lock the YAW but I just upgraded the firmware. How did you go about calibrating? I already had it all mounted so I sort of just awkwardly tiled the truck around, having to sometimes manually move the yaw by hand to get it to look a certain way for the calibration. Just sort of held a consistent straight forward direction on it for that calibration hoping it would make it a centered home. Only problem I've seen so far is it wanted to very slowly drift by tiny amounts to the left when I have it just sitting there. It's easy enough to hit a 'Home' button to bring it back any time I want but IDK what causes it. In that regard I suppose one easy fix via EdgeTX (if it allows it) would be to mix in that Home channel being pressed basically any time the steering or throttle channel is used and just get used to only looking left or right when stationary. Anyway I got it all trimmed and running like I had my rig before but just with this badass looking gimbal and I can't believe how easy it was.

@@Magneticitist Aw dude that's awesome! They told me calibrating was already done on my unit so I actually haven't redone calibration at all. Guess maybe I should stop being a lazy bum and try that huh 😂 But really I'm glad you're digging it so far. I'm still waiting on a response / firmware from them, but I'll do some more testing. Looks like I'll be giving walksnail a go after putting them off for the past couple years 👍

@@ChaddRainsFPV Man the only thing I didn't think through was the going uphill and downhill scenarios. I guess there are ways around it with more complex controls but I'm just gonna have to keep that Home button clutch for now. Why Walksnail though?

There is only 3 signal wires from the gimbal, and one is a black ground wire. There is only one “4 wire harness” with red, black, green and yellow. The ez start manual shows where to plug this in at 🤙

I did notice that mine had some drift, but I considered it very slight. What type of vehicle were you using it on, and what type of speed were you getting? I really appreciate the feedback!

@ChaddRainsFPV I have ancient Hong Nor x2 Pro buggy with Hobbywing 6s 150A esc, speed wise can't say as I haven't measured it but probably around 50mph. Weirdly the drift is only present on new firmware with fpv mode on but old firmware has jitters. I guess drift can be fixed with another firmware update if they do release it.

@ChaddRainsFPV "edit: I do still have yaw twitch. Roll and pitch is fine, but yeah yaw is an issue. If you hear back from manufacturer about this please do let me know.

@@BeyondGravityFPV Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm trying to figure this out. So basically it seems like when not locking the Yaw axis, it's relatively smooth and everything seems fine except for in certain situations when you get major twitches. However in FPV mode locking the yaw, you get the drift from home and it does the buggy twitch thing a lot more right? But this buggy twitch still does exist no matter what?

@@Magneticitist Let me try to clarify this a bit, stock firmware vibrations on pitch and twitches on yaw. Fpv firmware only yaw has twitch. Both fimwares try to follow centre on yaw, there is no way to really lock yaw, it aways moves to some degree. On fpv its more limited to how much it travels but it still moves (not to mention it has like 5 degree fee movement both directions so it struggles to centre). In general i have tested this gimbal for several days recently and few times it tottaly lost level, like gyro didnt know what was happening. Strange and it definately needs tweaks from firmware side. Also it would be great to have more options like how much power goes to motors speed of the movement in angle mode etc.

I’ve gotten it out a mile so far 🤙