What can you do with a 10W (10000mw) VTX - the Akk Alpha10
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- Akk recently released some extremely high powered VTX's, going all the way up to 10W. So it only seemed reasonable that I'd have to try one out (actually 2, as I also had the 5W version)
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I love this stuff, Takes me back to my career as a teacher, god i miss it, exellent, !
We had to put 2 gps at each corner of an tc losi and this could calculate the drift and then the MSc students would scale it and run a simulation, was a brilliant project!
I love the idea of teaching things through practical experimentation - so much better than the plain theory
@@CurryKitten yep, i miss that career, i couldnt wait to get to work some days!
Fantastic ride and testing, Wayne! 😃
I've never tried to run over big grass like this... It's really hard! 😬
I've been far, but I don't have much idea of how much, because I've never used a GPS... But it definitely sounds like a great idea!
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
It is hard isn't it. Anything involving being that close to the ground it really quite difficult!
@CurryKitten There are 2 things that might help: putting the camera over the car, instead of inside of it... And a servo gimbal. Because then you can look up, down and to the sides.
I wonder if your home arrow was having issues because you were unable to go directly forward to begin with. • Notes from Betaflight…..without a compass, the quad 'learns' the heading of the quad from the direction of travel over ground from data provided by the GPS. The craft must be travelling at least 1-2m/s, in clean nose-forward flight, for at least several seconds, before its attitude can be correctly determined from GPS data alone. Always fly dead-straight after take-off, in clean pitch forward flight. If it is windy, fly directly into the wind, or directly with the wind, so that the flight path over ground matches the orientation of the quad.
Check that the arrow rotates and points to home after short period of straight flying like this.
Typically some 30-50m distance is required. If not, return, power cycle and try again.
Yeah - I kind of read it. Obviously BF wasn't ever designed to run on a car, and I wonder if simply adding a compass will give a proper direction. Which I might try on the 1.2G setup
@@CurryKitten I was wondering if you could just push the car along or hold it in your arms for the first couple of metres in a really straight line, and see if the accuracy is improved maybe? Worth a try before you swap out to one with a compass.
Looks like great fun. Thanks for the show and tell
Fun, if a bit disorientating, cheers :)
Camera on a stick would really help you out with navigation! Great fun video. I want to make a betaflight truck now!
Perhaps I should carry a small quad on the rooof so I can take off to inspect my surroundings :D
@CurryKitten yes, BF AIO works!
Have a look at some of my vidoes, where I used a BF AIO to provide the arming signal to the Vista and O3 on my EDF and plane.
Kinda expensive way to use an AIO for just for the arming but it works!
I previously used it on my 64mm Rafale with BF AIO and Vista (crashed and burned last year) and recently my PA-18 Super Cub with BF AIO and O3. Had an 80mm F/A-18 with Inav with O3 but removing it and just using a BF AIO soon.
Very interesting idea indeed... I'm going to try something like that with rc cars! 😃
Interesting - so the Vista & O3 need an arming signal... to presumably start recording. There's a setting in Walksnail where you don't need a signal - I figured DJI would at least do the same. I have to say, that if you are going to put an FC in your planes for doing the arming, you might as well run iNav and have some decent OSD & flight modes? Whilst I find iNav a pain for rovers, it's pretty easy for plane setup
@@CurryKittenI’m new to Inav but it is more of a pain to fit the large Inav stack in a plane and getting the CG right with all the camera, gimbals etc, unless it is an AIO (not many AIOs are supported by Inav unfortunately).
What I found so far, the Vista can be powered without a signal (just turn off the low power mode option) but the O3 would need a signal (or get a Seeeduino to provide the signal but no OSD). Also, not all Inav OSD items are supported by the O3. So currently, I’m now using an O3 which gets signal from a BetaFPV SuperP 14Ch ELRS via a cheapish GEPRC G4 AIO.
Reminds me of my old 100w CB Burner....
I found my old 500W 27Mhz burner out the loft still got it ...
@@mabbs2757 The good old days.
BF needs to travel in a straight line at a certain speed before that arrow works. Not sure the minimum m/sec but a car should be able to do it.
Yeah - I'd read this and thought I have enough speed to do it. The GPS I'm using actually does have a compass in it (although not wired) but I'll have to check if betaflight will actually use it for the home arrow
@@CurryKitten Lots of improvements in 4.5 too.
Does anyone do a 10w vtx in the 900 meg range? This looks like it would be suited for flying low over forested regions, or through the trees, or through obstacle courses without many drop outs.
i use a caddx ant aio camera on 2 servos to fpv crawl
I would have a pan tilt setup in this car, but my view is pretty restricted by being inside the cab
Great job CK ... Just a thought but how about trying it in a boat water is flat right ?
Water can be flat (unless you have waves) it's also very wet though - which doesn't play nicely with electronics. Would be something fun dto do, I wish there was a really nice flat large lake around my way, but instead we have quite a rough sea
Drone with repeater in the sky distance savior
Yeah - it's a nice way of extending range, but wouldn't be appropriate when we're looking to see what the increase in power can give us
All that green foliage is like a giant signal sponge on 5.8G... The 1.2g setup should be better on far less power....🤔😏🇬🇧
Agreed - this is pretty much what I expected, but was in part for people that think you can just throw power at something to fix it
i use a 1 watt rush tank in my crawler and can go 600 yds to woods clear but go behind my shop ,, terrible
Yep - 5.8 just doesn't like things in the way!
You are mistaken that is't a VTX that's an Ofcom alert device.
Unless there are crews of ofcom people randomly souring the woods and fields - I think we're ok for this testing :D
@@CurryKitten yeah your not harming anyone where you are plus’s your on the ground worse possible transmission situation