=== Let's Drone Out — Episode 392 === Title: LDO 392 - Rating FPV Manufacturers Vol II Recorded: 2023-03-02 Hosts: Stephen "Belrik" Howell, Jack "Brightontillifly" Nash, Koel "Koala" Anderson, Wayne "CurryKitten" Andrews, Andrew "Frank" Hyams Guest(s): (none recorded) Total audience: 1,557 Platforms: YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJcxgJyhtnY); SoundCloud (http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1461363679-letsdroneout-ldo-392-rating-fpv-manufacturers-vol-ii.mp3) ===================================== LEGAL NOTICE: Any views expressed by any guests on this show are personal and may not reflect the views of the hosts, any participant of the show. [0.0] Jack: Hello, and you're listening to what drone out and special thank you to our lovely patrons that help donate [7.48] Jack: So that we could pay the editor to remove the swear words and silly things. We say [12.56] Jack: massive. Thank you to [14.32] Jack: Carlos campus art folk now Sam Dharma on with the show [51.54] Jack: Hello and [53.78] Jack: Welcome to another episode of lecture and out tonight. We are joined by [58.62] Jack: Everyone's favorite curry kitten. Hello. Everyone's favorite and favorite moustache Steven. Hello. Welcome a slightly sick, but [67.74] Jack: Always a pleasure to have on coal. Howdy and I'm bright to life lie [73.42] Jack: we are returning back to [77.78] Jack: Reviewing FPV companies or FPV products of manufacturers [83.62] Jack: The the legal notice is any views expressed by any of the guests on the show or personal or may not reflect the views of others [93.22] Jack: Don't forget this is all subject [95.86] Jack: Everyone's had their own experiences if you don't agree with this or you're questioning whether you know [102.5] Jack: The products are any good go out give them a try. See what you think other us ask other people we may be wrong [110.9] Curry: And it's it's fair to say people's mileage does vary whenever I do a negative review or a positive review [116.98] Curry: I do get comments saying I had the opposite experience. So it just goes to depend [122.74] Stephen: On what you're gonna spend all your time telling people on the internet that they're wrong. Life is too short [129.38] Stephen: Give it a try [131.3] Stephen: Okay with that being said is Jack ready to throw up a screen share there [137.06] Stephen: We can dive back into where we were last week and for anyone who missed that [141.62] Stephen: Last week was a chart where we had a bunch of brands and we were deciding [147.22] Stephen: Kind of where they ranked [149.7] Stephen: Some came off better than others. There are a few surprises in there battles were fought. I got rid of the ds [159.14] Jack: Level because I thought he's better and we kept saying [167.94] Jack: We we kept saying that term [171.3] Jack: way too much and it was [174.82] Jack: It was getting somewhat painful. So at the moment we've got acorn [180.98] Jack: acorn electronics [183.14] Koel: Who are they? Yeah, no comment. I have no no idea [187.78] Koel: unknown for me [189.46] Stephen: Who knows about them in the discord acorn? You haven't heard of acorn [193.22] Curry: Is nothing no i've heard of acorns which grow on trees. I remember those but acorn. No, what can I send this? [200.34] Stephen: Really? [201.22] Stephen: That they're huge. They're [203.22] Stephen: They're one of the few people that actually makes their own electronics and they do [206.9] Curry: Maybe this is the problem. They make the electronics and other people what batch them or what? I don't know [213.22] Curry: Yeah [214.82] Stephen: They've been around they're like one of the first people that did bill heli 32 escs [220.26] Koel: Is not the guy that's saying smack that all on the floor smack that wasn't it worth [226.34] Jack: Wasn't it that the company was it worth? [229.14] Jack: But did they make? [231.62] Jack: I'm sure they made worth it 32-bit escs and they done the whole [236.9] Jack: um led malarkey, you know RGB led [241.62] Jack: whatever and [244.58] Stephen: Really when before people had four and ones they were like doing really early bill heli 32 stuff [251.62] Stephen: They were famous for it [253.46] Jack: Yeah, they do a lot of flight controllers [256.5] Jack: The trouble is i was familiar with it because they were [260.18] Jack: They they were um [263.62] Stephen: Uh, i've sent you those logos by the way, but I did it in jax crash. So i was just gonna say your email [272.78] Stephen: Okay, so acorn are a famous brand. They're like [275.66] Curry: Up there with they just did escs. I I could say oh, maybe that's what I heard of them [280.94] Curry: Haven't heard of them. I don't do enough builds. But if you're saying flight controllers as well [285.34] Curry: I'm just premium. Oh here like [287.9] Stephen: They're they're in the kind of hundred pound flight controller sort of premium. Yeah, that's too premium for me [298.82] Curry: Yeah [299.78] Curry: Well, it's it's all unknown for me and cole but if you guys have used them, what's what's your opinion are they worth the money? [306.18] Jack: I haven't used them [308.18] Stephen: I've um [310.42] Stephen: They've always been too expensive for me. So i've not used them either. I go for the cheap shotty stuff [315.3] Stephen: But they're always on sale [317.54] Curry: They've got to be in eud and don't they surely if no one's got any direct experience [321.7] Stephen: And I know is that they do a lot of their own hardware and most other people are like oem through airbots [327.94] Stephen: So people like I flight and diatone don't build their own hardware [331.62] Stephen: Those guys are made by someone like acorn or airbot [336.18] Stephen: So like brands like racestar that you've heard of they don't actually make their own stuff [341.14] Stephen: These these are one of the guys that actually do do build boards [346.7] Curry: Well caroline is saying heard of them, but not lately [351.62] Curry: So are they you for all of us? [354.74] Curry: I'd say it's I mean, yeah, I think we we could have used them indirectly because maybe we have used their components but in other people's [362.74] Curry: oem hardware for example, but [365.3] Curry: They're still doing boards [367.3] Jack: Yeah, does anyone has anyone? [370.34] Jack: Are they made something else that I don't i'm familiar with? [375.62] Jack: Um, they're most think [378.1] Stephen: they're most famous for [380.42] Stephen: the original ak32 [382.66] Stephen: Like ak32 pin if you heard about that [386.74] Stephen: no [388.82] Stephen: I think they did the wraith as well esc [392.1] Jack: Yeah, that's the yeah the wraith esc's i've heard of [397.22] Jack: Which have been pretty good. I think i've actually got one in a wing [401.54] Jack: like it's they seem pretty strong, but i'm [405.38] Jack: I'm not [407.38] Stephen: They're just not budget like the stuff you you usually recommend jack is no offense [412.5] Stephen: It's kind of on the budget and it's a bit more like [415.86] Stephen: a bit more premium, I guess so [418.74] Stephen: You know people don't buy them because there's usually something cheaper like there's an akon 55 ambia cn sale at unmanned tech that's [426.56] Stephen: 81 quid and I think the one I bought was like 45 quid. So [432.02] Stephen: There's a fair cost premium on them [434.74] Jack: I I think they're probably a good beat here. I reckon [439.46] Curry: Can they be a beat here if we if no one's had any direct experience of them and nobody in the chat is particularly [445.06] Curry: Feeding back about them. It feels like it's an unknown quantity for me. Yeah [450.58] Stephen: I've had I had one and then I returned it because they changed the mcu type [455.86] Stephen: So I didn't end up using it [457.38] Stephen: I did buy one [458.18] Stephen: I just then sent it back because they changed the model of the microcontroller on the erc and I couldn't flash it [465.7] Curry: I don't know if that counts [468.02] Curry: I even I even think if if they're not one of the problems is if you're premium you need to be [473.94] Curry: somewhat above [475.62] Curry: Your your budget competitors and if if they're only on par then that that rates them down in my opinion [482.42] Curry: but because no one's really [484.82] Curry: Properly used them. It's it's [486.82] Curry: It's hard to rank other than you [488.9] Stephen: I think a lot of the people if you look on bardwell server people who spend a lot of money on fancy motors [495.46] Stephen: Like signature motors, they'd be more likely to end up with like an akon stack [500.26] Stephen: Because they are you know, they they do the big chunky fets. They do heat sinks on them and stuff like that [506.18] Stephen: I don't know if they're definitely better than eye flight and dieto and i'd say probably [511.06] Curry: Dominik's had one and he said they were okay [514.58] Curry: Seat here not amazing not bad either [517.3] Koel: Is the dominik racing in the middle of the road, I guess [524.7] Koel: None of us know enough to even spend more than [527.66] Koel: Two more minutes or two minutes that we've talked about it [529.74] Stephen: Sorry, so I do know that when I looked at am32 on their discord a lot of the crawler people are using them [538.38] Jack: So c we're going with c [540.86] Jack: Okay. Yeah [542.3] Stephen: Caroline says that they're all usa based which might explain a lot and yeah that would tend to jive with [547.9] Stephen: Seeing them talked about a lot on [550.06] Stephen: Freestyle pilots from the u.s [552.22] Koel: Although they very well could be s here, but because we don't know it's hard to place it with an acuity. Yes [559.86] Jack: Okay, well, okay moving on apd. So these are these people either [566.02] Jack: Yeah [568.66] Stephen: Yeah, they're the only people that do an esc over about [573.3] Curry: 70 amps the big escs that can take like 120 200 amps and run on [579.7] Stephen: Cse I think they're based out of australia. They're bloody expensive. They've got their own custom firmware on [586.74] Stephen: Um, it's very much a premium product, you know, 200 pounds a corner type stuff [593.54] Koel: Well unknown for me [595.78] Curry: It sounds a bit like fat shark [597.54] Curry: They did so well because they're the only people doing it so they can do what they like and there's no one [602.18] Stephen: There's t motor which no one uses for some reason they do agricultural stuff [607.22] Stephen: But no one seems to use them on x-class and everyone uses apd and for x-class racing. I'm sure if tony was on he [614.66] Stephen: Yeah, so we've got flight one clives here, yeah [618.66] Stephen: APD [620.98] Stephen: Bulletproof bulletproof expensive [624.26] Stephen: And then actually the only choice if you want more than 12s [627.38] Stephen: Like you don't everything else just tops out at 12s. So if you want 14s, it's apd [633.3] Curry: I I think [635.46] Curry: I then if if they're the eight because because they're the only ones it seems like they can't [641.06] Curry: Are people in the s rank they've shown themselves to be above everybody else [644.66] Curry: But when there's only one person doing it, it's like well, they're the only person you can't really [650.5] Curry: Let's not do this [651.3] Stephen: Apple reality distortion field just because it's the only brand that does this specific class of thing [657.54] Stephen: Are you there? [659.78] Stephen: I think a is fair to be honest just not s that's all okay [664.42] Jack: Uh beta flight [666.66] Stephen: Is that a brand? [669.62] Stephen: Because it doesn't make hardware [671.94] Koel: I didn't wonder that though when I was uh, yeah, why have you got the logo up there? [674.74] Stephen: You've got kiss kiss is firmware and hardware is beta flights just software [679.54] Jack: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean like the my argument was they had the beta flight board [686.5] Stephen: They didn't know [688.34] Stephen: That wasn't made by the beta flight project [691.54] Stephen: It was just kind of a dubious trademark infringement thing [695.38] Jack: And and they had didn't they have a beta flight bag at some point [706.18] Curry: It's a bit like putting you know open tx up there as a as a brand it's it's not really applicable [712.58] Koel: Well, you know when I was making the thumbnail for this week's um [716.34] Koel: I was making the thumbnail for this week's thing. I actually [718.82] Koel: Snagged the beta flight logo, but I was like wait a minute [722.5] Koel: This doesn't make sense. So I actually took it out [725.94] Stephen: Yeah, there's a beta uh beta flight [730.98] Stephen: Sorry, um, but the manufacturer id is fpvm [737.78] Stephen: What is the manufacturer id [740.34] Jack: Give me a second. I like to be honest. I I don't think like you've got to make something [747.06] Jack: You know, but they're still providing like [750.42] Jack: You know like firmware and they're still devs and you know [753.54] Jack: How much are they put in effort and it's the default? Yeah fair enough. You want to acknowledge the devs? [758.5] Stephen: There's people yeah, but like but in [761.46] Stephen: 20-hour weeks and don't get paid for it. So [771.7] Curry: I feel the problem with open source projects as brands [776.18] Curry: Is they jump up to s purely because the fact is like here's somebody supplying something for you for free [784.18] Curry: You can't you can't really argue with the value can you and so it goes way up, you know [789.46] Curry: You can you can argue that certain people have made life more difficult [793.62] Curry: But you know, you're not you don't have to use that there's someone else to use so [800.1] Jack: I can add fpvm wtf and I should really id now as well [805.7] Stephen: You know as dominic says and he should know the beta flight board wasn't a beta flight product and yeah [810.9] Stephen: Yeah, what about the holly fag furious fpv? [814.82] Koel: Like a bag. No, can you really like encapsulate a brand that only made maybe [820.66] Curry: Maybe as another podcast to say we're rating [824.58] Curry: Open source projects. Yes. Yes [827.78] Curry: Tell you what's what's best because we have to rate them against each other [833.38] Stephen: For the next show or [835.22] Stephen: something in the series [837.3] Curry: I'll put it as you for unknown. Okay, and that's kind of the claim is as as clean flight as well because clean flight [844.02] Curry: It wasn't the same as the the sp [846.82] Curry: f32 [848.1] Stephen: Board everything's got to be seen in the context of its time as well if a project stopped development [852.98] Stephen: Just because it's not fancy by today's standards. You've got to remember [857.86] Jack: Okay clean flight I know [861.3] Jack: darwin fpv [863.94] Jack: Unknown for me [865.7] Curry: Well, I've had one of them their quads [868.5] Curry: And it was it was uh average. It was just a little whoop, but they've they've done some other stuff [873.54] Curry: I think since then they've done some more right gear, but I haven't I haven't looked at any personally, but [879.14] Curry: Other people seem quite happy with it. I would put them [882.02] Curry: As a sort of c rating as like it's middle of the road. It seems all right [885.78] Stephen: Insane value if you're talking about value [888.26] Stephen: I think that they're shipping with some really weird looking motors like they've got these gray motors that [894.82] Stephen: Don't have the same standard mounting holes as everything else god knows where they [899.62] Stephen: Pardon me [900.82] Stephen: Where they got them from but the price point is coming in. I think they had a one quad that was 79 dollars as a bind and fly [908.5] Curry: That's it. That's why we've heard of them. It was it's because it was ultra cheap, wasn't it? It was like [913.94] Curry: Yeah, it's not amazing [916.18] Curry: But you'll get in the air for cheaps and it's not just going to blow up it's it's reasonable enough [922.66] Koel: Yeah, the baby if you can get a whole bind and fly for 96 dollars, that's the one that's the one [928.5] Stephen: I think they they originally had it for like 79 dollars [931.38] Stephen: But if you didn't want a board cam and you wanted like a decent modern camera added another 20 bucks onto it [937.54] Koel: Ah, yeah, you're right. That is the pro version, right? [940.98] Koel: Wow [943.06] Jack: Um, so what we started here [945.22] Koel: No, yeah, go on. Sorry guys. Oh, no, sorry, bro. No, no, it's okay. It's okay. Um [951.54] Koel: I mean for her value or budget I guess is probably up there, right? But I have no experience with it. So I don't know [960.5] Curry: And i've only flown a week which is okay, but you know, I hear good things about the baby if you take value into consideration but [969.3] Curry: Not not enough data from me to put them anywhere above [972.5] Curry: Like middle of the road sea raking rank ranking rating. Well, I guess all the bind and fly brands are kind of [979.54] Koel: They're on a pretty even playing field, I guess, right? [984.18] Curry: Well, I I argued for certain things should be higher but jack ignored me because he's deliberately winding me up on things [991.38] Curry: But yeah [992.66] Curry: Some some of the by the advisor [995.06] Curry: I will get out you [997.86] Stephen: Okay [999.54] Stephen: But you can't argue with the value it was a three inch as well like wood prices for a three inch. It's pretty good [1005.62] Jack: Yeah [1006.74] Jack: uh, so [1009.22] Jack: What we're going for [1011.22] Curry: see [1012.34] Curry: See I I say see middle of the road [1014.34] Curry: If if you're really taking value for money proposition to account you could bump them up [1018.9] Curry: It depends. I mean we're trying to look at that all in one. I I tend to feel middle of the road is about right for them [1025.38] Jack: Okay [1026.34] Jack: Um, right next one getting into big names now dji [1031.6] Curry: interesting [1035.7] Curry: It can't be an s-tier because they do too many things to piss people off that they're at their [1043.06] Koel: That's all. Wait, we have to don't listen to [1049.62] Koel: Are we strictly talking [1051.86] Koel: Fpv or are we talking about [1054.4] Curry: Drones in general because we're talking the entire brand and and they did some pretty good [1059.7] Curry: They got a lot of people into it with the flame wheel and the naza [1063.38] Curry: And they were a little more of a hobby brand then [1066.9] Curry: And look at the cinematography stuff. I don't think anybody comes close to them [1071.06] Curry: but [1072.02] Curry: they do these really annoying things like they don't make things compatible with other things even on that range of stuff and [1079.7] Curry: Their their fpv journey is is not necessarily engaged with the community. We've had the whole [1085.94] Curry: Yeah [1087.22] Stephen: Let's make a fancy battery. It's a proprietary battery and [1092.02] Stephen: Yeah, they only effectively they are the product in that space kind of like apd, right? They're good [1097.94] Stephen: But they're the only product in that space with there's competition from walk snail on the fpv side [1103.54] Stephen: but in the kind of camera in the sky [1107.3] Stephen: I mean you you're reviewing one of the competitors at the same price last week, weren't you curry and you're like [1114.02] Stephen: Oh, it's the same price as like a mavic [1116.5] Stephen: But it's just terrible in every aspect except for maybe its ability to [1121.7] Stephen: Give more momentum than a mavic and hurt someone if it falls out the sky [1125.94] Curry: Yes, because it's very heavy. So yeah, if [1129.14] Curry: They're sort of untouched. I think there's a couple of brands [1132.66] Curry: that come close to it, but they're not very big and [1136.1] Curry: That you just [1137.78] Curry: Their their sort of entry level proposition is low enough [1141.94] Curry: That it's it's kind of [1144.5] Curry: more people are [1146.18] Curry: Buying these instead of the sort of cheap over ends and at their sort of high end level [1150.9] Curry: Obviously, they're very impressive and you can see that you don't have to [1154.5] Curry: Do much watching of like tv shows to see [1157.3] Curry: dji [1158.82] Curry: stuff in the sky all over taking [1160.9] Curry: Uh [1162.1] Curry: shots of uh stuff and things so [1165.06] Curry: Yeah, if you just look at them from one point of view you could argue that like this is s rank [1169.54] Curry: This is untouched. But if you look at them as a whole you've got to bump them back [1174.26] Curry: For doing some pretty shoddy things with [1176.82] Curry: Yeah [1177.86] Curry: Not not thinking about customers at all. Yeah, they they they're not [1182.18] Curry: They don't give a crap about customers like oh if they want to upgrade to this next one [1186.58] Curry: Let's make sure that the batteries don't work [1189.3] Curry: Or the controller won't work and they have to buy whole new system all over again because that's their business model rebuy it my [1196.02] Koel: My sort of comparison with dji is they are the apple of the drone world where like you said [1201.7] Koel: You get a new model and your charger doesn't work or the battery doesn't work. Yep [1206.98] Koel: or you know, they've swapped the cable or [1210.74] Koel: you know and [1212.82] Koel: In the past their customer support was not the greatest and their um [1218.1] Koel: The repair sort of center stuff was really bad. I think it's gotten better. Although I don't deal with them anymore for that stuff, but [1227.3] Koel: Yes, for for in this like they are an industry standard nowadays, which could put them in s class [1233.78] Koel: but [1235.3] Stephen: Because obsolescence, right? [1238.26] Stephen: Yeah, like col you fly 4s if you decided to buy a 6s quad tomorrow [1243.14] Stephen: You could take your 4s batteries and fly them on your 6s fpv quad [1247.06] Stephen: Yeah with a dji product if you've bought 10 batteries for the last generation and you buy a new generation [1253.94] Stephen: Well tough luck, right? It's four stops obsolescence those batteries could be in perfect condition, but you're not going to be able to use them [1260.74] Koel: The other thing too is even the the rcs that they make. I don't know why they don't just make them [1264.9] Koel: Um [1266.34] Koel: Always compatible with every you know, every single quad or drone that they put out [1272.18] Koel: You know, okay, they got the phantom they got the big bulky ones [1274.9] Koel: Okay, that makes sense that it's not going to work with the next new technology [1278.98] Koel: well [1280.02] Koel: many two [1281.7] Koel: many three, uh [1283.86] Koel: The spark and the mini like they almost all have different remote controls. I know some of them you can sort of [1289.38] Koel: Interchange the the remotes with it, but some of them are like, okay, no brand new brand new controller [1294.5] Koel: It's like oh, right [1296.02] Stephen: Okay, and they let people discover which is compatible this this happened a lot with the fpv system [1302.18] Stephen: Where it wasn't really clearly advertised what product would work with what? [1306.26] Stephen: you've had people like man's tech and joshua bardwell and pavil speckowski and others who who [1313.62] Stephen: making coin off youtube ads because [1316.98] Stephen: The information about which dji product is compatible with the other product and on which firmware version just isn't out there [1324.34] Stephen: And it's that gaps filled by youtubers who make videos where they talk for five minutes [1329.06] Stephen: And the last 30 seconds are just like an excel sheet that shows you what is compatible with what else [1335.3] Stephen: Yeah, and that's that's kind of lame for a company as big as dji [1339.54] Koel: I would probably say [1341.54] Koel: it's a b [1342.98] Koel: but [1344.02] Koel: other people are saying c [1346.9] Curry: I don't know what if the thing is if you look at the brand overall if if you want to go out and [1351.62] Curry: Film something and get ultimate like your cinematography shots [1355.94] Curry: Then that's up there. But yeah [1358.74] Curry: They they come down as the sort of the company thing, but I think they're more than a minute of the road because they are [1363.86] Curry: Yeah, maybe be then [1367.3] Curry: The go-to for cinematography, aren't they if you want to try it in the sky [1371.46] Curry: Get a dji. Exactly. Well, it rhymes i've just made a tagline for them [1376.18] Koel: Well, yeah, it's [1377.86] Koel: It is I mean there are some other brands. I mean there's what is it parrot and then there's um [1383.94] Koel: Who's that other brand again? Um, the american brand that makes [1387.78] Stephen: Teal [1388.9] Stephen: They're going into defense. They're all about military now, apparently [1392.34] Stephen: Which one skydio? Oh skydio. Teal are going into well, there's skydio. I'm not sure they go into the military [1398.5] Koel: What's the the orange the big orange dji like drone? It's not skydio. It's um [1405.87] Koel: I can't remember what the other uh brand is. It's it's an american company, but I don't think we see them in the rest of the world [1411.63] Curry: They're not as dominant. They're just not even a big yeah, I don't think parrot still in the consumer market. Are they? [1418.99] Koel: Yeah, I don't think so [1420.83] Curry: And caroline's saying all tell is it all tell I have an ao drone from parrot [1425.07] Koel: That's exactly the drone i'm talking about is autel like i'll tell evo and whatever [1429.31] Koel: they're [1430.91] Koel: They're basically on the same level as dji except nobody. I don't think very many people buy them because dji exists [1437.23] Stephen: Yeah [1438.27] Stephen: so [1439.39] Stephen: If I search autel then I find like vehicle diagnostics as well. They're not even like the top hit for autel [1446.99] Stephen: so [1449.07] Jack: Yeah, sky stars are on b their their old logo [1454.83] Jack: By the way an abuse mark [1457.45] Jack: dominick is in e [1460.01] Jack: Um, their pdv is here. So they are here [1464.01] Jack: You tune into last week [1466.65] Curry: I think the other chinese manufacturer that were coming reasonably close to what dji could do with fimmy [1472.01] Curry: Who haven't heard of for a while, but they were doing some fairly good. Yeah [1475.45] Curry: Quads, I know [1477.13] Curry: And the rc had a couple I think caroline had one as well, which it seemed quite comparable to the dji as well [1483.85] Jack: Oh arm of tan. I forgot an arm of tan [1486.89] Jack: Um [1488.25] Stephen: It's okay. That's okay. We'll just continue to be additional [1491.77] Stephen: I think last time we only managed to put about [1494.33] Stephen: 10 of or 12 of these tiles up there. So we might not even get through the whole list. We'll see. Yeah, that's fine [1500.97] Stephen: Yeah, so we're on to ethics now. It looks like they're now a contentious one ethics like it's choice, but it's [1508.09] Stephen: It's basically other people's products in green [1511.93] Stephen: You know [1513.05] Stephen: He's not yeah, he's sourcing them and he's saying make me a green one [1517.77] Curry: I I haven't [1520.01] Curry: Had any ethics stuff, but it does seem to be an ethics brand [1524.41] Curry: Put on something else and sort of a special edition of something. Is that pretty much it? Do they do their own bespoke stuff? [1532.81] Curry: Who's a catalyst? [1534.57] Jack: Who's catalyst? [1536.09] Stephen: He's getting like bags and lanyards and straps [1540.09] Stephen: And gets them in the same color scheme and they're good examples [1546.73] Stephen: They don't make them they're they're hq props [1550.17] Stephen: Or hq props [1551.69] Koel: Yeah, I I use my parentheses on they make props. I mean the little prop tool is okay [1556.73] Jack: The prop tool was awesome. Cole your prop tool i've used that and it is nifty [1562.49] Koel: and it it's kind of nifty though, except it like [1565.85] Koel: Like stabs your hand though when you're doing it. So it's yeah fast [1570.89] Jack: Um, but it's something that won't get taken off you [1576.73] Stephen: It's like a curated list if you you know if you buy something from ethics you're not going to buy [1582.33] Stephen: Random garbage. It's going to be something that someone's used [1586.01] Stephen: And they believe that it's a good example of the product [1589.85] Jack: the [1592.33] Jack: Is [1593.69] Curry: Does it add value though? [1595.69] Curry: Are they literally just putting their name on it? [1598.01] Curry: Are they doing something to make it a special edition which adds value to it? [1602.89] Curry: Otherwise, it's just like it's ethics. It's more expensive free branding [1606.41] Koel: well, again, if you look at the like some older steel videos he talks about how like [1611.29] Koel: The reason why he even wanted to make that brand is because he wanted to make products that he likes that he would actually use [1618.25] Koel: And and that's it's basically it's like I need this stuff. I'm gonna make it if you want to buy it sure [1623.85] Stephen: It's curation [1624.65] Stephen: It's like I want to make sure that this stuff carries on being made [1628.33] Stephen: And the easiest way to get it is to place a bulk order [1631.53] Stephen: I'll take like five of them and the other like [1634.95] Stephen: 495 out of the bulk order i'm going to put on a web store and sell to people with my name on it [1639.45] Stephen: So, you know, there's a little cash. Yeah [1642.17] Koel: I mean there is he's just [1646.41] Jack: Solid they're curated right if not a [1650.73] Jack: Maybe I think curation counts for a lot to be honest do anything. Yeah [1654.49] Jack: I mean, this is okay [1656.01] Koel: So if I would say in general if you ask like [1659.53] Koel: You know the if you got a majority vote from the whole fpv community [1663.61] Koel: I bet you people would say that they love ethics period. I think people would just say they like it [1668.25] Stephen: The motor's got an absolute panning in the last chris rosser test. Yes, they were like the worst efficiency the worst talk [1675.29] Stephen: They were just very bad motors [1677.61] Stephen: But I fully believe stuff like the screwdriver set and the prop tool [1681.13] Stephen: He's thinking a lot more about the day-to-day usage of those and he's not going to sell something [1685.29] Stephen: If he takes it out to a shoot and it falls apart. So yeah, not not value for money true [1695.29] Stephen: He's finding something from like [1697.77] Stephen: Ali alibaba and he's getting it in his color with his name on it and that's cool [1703.21] Stephen: But you could find it cheaper for sure [1705.53] Koel: Yeah, you're paying for the name you're paying for the [1709.05] Koel: You're paying for the steel [1711.21] Koel: Whatever you want to call it like people are going to support steel [1714.41] Koel: They're going to buy ethics and that's basically what you're paying for [1717.21] Koel: So if you want to pay the for the premium you can do it, but [1721.77] Koel: Oh, I will say though. I actually do like the ethics sticky straps for the hero five session [1727.05] Koel: I did like that [1728.73] Jack: Yeah, yeah [1730.73] Stephen: Gaoi more than they're cheaper than what gaoi it's like uma god like uma god sells his super extra special sticky battery thing [1739.53] Stephen: Yeah, you know that he's not making that he's just finding the right content sourcing it slap a name on it. Yeah [1746.09] Stephen: Yeah [1747.45] Stephen: Okay [1748.97] Koel: Yeah, I mean [1750.25] Koel: I think there's gonna be a lot of differing opinions for ethics [1754.01] Koel: No, I think they're not bad. They're not amazing. They're they're good. They're fine. They're fine [1759.93] Stephen: And there's such a wide variety of products. It's really hard to conclusively say they're good or bad because it's a spectrum, right? [1766.17] Stephen: Yeah, okay. Okay. So what what do we have next? [1769.69] Jack: um, we have [1771.53] Jack: 550 [1777.61] Stephen: I know I don't know where you finding these brands jack [1780.89] Stephen: That's what's his face his brand the the one who keeps winning all the championships in the u.s [1785.37] Stephen: I've completely blanked on his name. Not van over the other dude. Damn it [1789.69] Koel: Oh, I know you're talking about but I don't know his name [1792.65] Stephen: Yeah, I did when I started speaking and then I just suddenly like [1797.21] Koel: His name completely. That's so where's the dementia? [1801.21] Stephen: Um, yeah [1803.37] Koel: Evan Turner. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah [1806.73] Stephen: Yeah, yeah [1808.73] Koel: Honestly, if it's not kiss if it's not impulse frames and if it's not t-motor motors, I don't know anything so [1819.21] Stephen: So that that is a thing that [1821.69] Stephen: He created this tiny little version of [1825.69] Stephen: One of the big drl frames and it's got this cute sort of plastic cover that goes on top [1831.05] Stephen: So it looks like a small version of the big quad [1834.49] Stephen: And that that is a 533 design like no one else is making that show again. Sorry. I've just increased your size [1841.77] Stephen: so it's [1842.89] Stephen: I I've just rested it on top there, but there's this special kind of arm cover bit [1847.69] Stephen: So it looks like a drl racer and it's got a 3d printed mount that goes on the front [1852.65] Stephen: So it looks just like a three inch version of the giant seven inch monster from drl [1860.65] Stephen: Um, and that's kind of cute [1862.81] Stephen: It's a neat idea [1865.53] Stephen: So he's got some stuff that he's rebranding like you can get orca goggles with his name on and you can get [1872.33] Stephen: Props and batteries with his name on but he is, you know making his own frames and stuff as well [1878.01] Jack: We're getting we we're getting a few [1880.89] Jack: He's five foot treatment ethics crunk saying it's f tiny trainer [1886.09] Jack: I'd bump ethics down. There's no way they could be in the same tier. That's true. I love the tiny trainer [1893.13] Koel: Yeah, that is a good point. Can ethics really be in the same tier as dji and fox here and [1898.81] Koel: and [1899.61] Koel: You know some of those other [1901.61] Jack: Way, there's no way like happy model or [1905.85] Stephen: Just because it's got steels name on it [1907.69] Stephen: I'd argue the kit is exactly the type of stuff you'd buy from ifly or diatone [1912.01] Stephen: You just think it's premium because it's got steels name on it. I think that's fair [1916.33] Koel: Maybe [1918.33] Curry: That's the sort of stuff [1919.61] Curry: I would personally bump down because I don't think it adds value by sticking someone's name on it and saying I recommend this it's like [1926.01] Curry: Okay, just publish your spreadsheet with what you think is good and we'll buy that if you [1932.81] Koel: Fair enough, yeah, yeah ethics can't be up [1937.77] Koel: Okay, that's uh, what's next [1941.05] Jack: Hack RC [1948.17] Stephen: Not that i've got i've got one board here on on the bench from hakasi and another one on order [1954.01] Stephen: They've been around for donkey's years. It's fortunate steven that you buy this thing every week. I know man. So, um [1962.89] Koel: Oh [1963.93] Koel: Numskull says the ethics mambo goes up to 11 though. But what about the radio master boxer which [1971.05] Koel: Well, you can't get your watch out radio master mambo [1975.77] Koel: Did I say that [1979.37] Jack: Man dom dominic clifton's kicking off about [1983.37] Jack: surely [1985.37] Curry: I'm very much on the save wavelength as dominic here. I don't I don't really I don't really get it [1990.17] Curry: It's it might be a curated list [1991.77] Curry: but [1992.41] Curry: It and I hate to sound corporate when I say things like add value because it sounds like one of the things like i'd get asked [1998.89] Curry: In some sort of review. Well, how have you added value to this? It's like well, you know, I wrote my name on it and [2004.33] Curry: Said yeah, look at this [2006.01] Curry: It doesn't it doesn't sound like they're doing enough at all [2009.53] Stephen: Yeah, so hakasi were one of those banggood brands like ishin basically [2015.21] Curry: Oh, I've got any of that stuff that's weird [2017.93] Stephen: and they were [2019.13] Stephen: So the reason I have them is because they were the only way I could buy stuff with an f7 on it [2024.09] Stephen: for a sensible price like an I got an f7 flight controller 20 mil [2030.25] Stephen: and a [2031.61] Stephen: 35 amp four in one 20 mil and the stack was like [2037.21] Stephen: I think it was 50 quid and I bought that [2040.89] Stephen: four months back [2042.41] Stephen: And I bought an all-in-one [2044.25] Stephen: At the same time as I bought the iFlight all-in-one and I got the hakasi one with an f7 [2050.41] Stephen: And it's got like a usb plug on a lead [2053.53] Stephen: That comes out the back and it's the same price as the iFlight f411. It's just [2059.69] Stephen: Slightly better value hardware [2061.61] Stephen: So if you want to like get an upgrade on the flight controller without paying any money [2065.45] Stephen: You can just get like the hakasi model and [2068.33] Stephen: Yeah, it's pretty good. What do you reckon then in solid? [2072.33] Stephen: C B [2075.34] Stephen: Probably a C [2077.9] Koel: The name suggests it's a E if it's a hack RC but [2083.66] Koel: It's a hack brand [2085.18] Jack: I don't I just don't have anything by them [2089.71] Stephen: But you're not buying a random rubbish. That's the trouble [2092.67] Stephen: Yeah [2094.03] Jack: hglrc [2096.91] Stephen: I have had quite an impressive fire with hglrc [2100.91] Curry: Yeah, I've heard my stuff has been okay so far. I'm just thinking how much stuff i've had from them [2107.15] Koel: I've got jacks putting it up to S tier [2110.91] Stephen: I mean it did really like it burnt the camera. It was big enough a big enough fire to burn the camera [2116.27] Koel: I think it's more like a h tier, isn't it? [2119.63] Curry: they [2120.59] Curry: They've recently i've had some [2122.91] Curry: Paranormal charging boards from them and the quad I got was reasonably nice and reasonably good gear [2128.11] Curry: But I don't think i'd put them [2130.59] Curry: Uh, I suppose they're kind of in the fox ear emacs category. I guess somewhere between a b and c [2136.67] Curry: I'd say on the on the sort of [2138.99] Curry: reasonably mid-tier end of the [2142.19] Curry: the sort of um [2144.19] Curry: pre-built ready to fly quads [2146.83] Koel: I don't know [2149.23] Stephen: Yeah crunk is wondering where's trash to caroline says d slash e and i'd say d slash e like mine caught fire [2157.55] Stephen: Really badly and it just burned up the whole quad i've [2161.87] Stephen: I've had a picture. I posted a while back and it was just it just charred the whole thing [2167.39] Stephen: Hey [2168.35] Koel: Well last week we had a dog here that jack just ever so uh, you know elegantly deleted. Yeah [2177.31] Stephen: I mean they're kind of off a piece with [2179.87] Stephen: Gep, rc. They don't make their own motors either. I think they kind of rebrand electronics. They're definitely not premium seems harsh [2186.99] Curry: It's interesting. We we have different experiences. This is the thing. So from my experience, absolutely fine actually pretty good [2193.07] Curry: Somewhere above um, you know middle of the road I would say but if you guys have burst into flames [2199.07] Stephen: But don't they make those like zu stacks or something and like yeah d I'd say below c below definitely below c [2206.91] Stephen: D d slash e I think is fair [2209.47] Jack: Okay [2210.67] Jack: Next we need cole screaming next [2213.71] Jack: Next now [2217.15] Jack: Impulse [2218.99] Jack: Yeah [2221.15] Jack: I've never had anything by the way to you guys get them all the time [2228.03] Jack: Two-year warranty [2230.03] Jack: yeah, um [2231.87] Jack: like [2234.11] Jack: Sean's great wheel customer service beautiful. I've only ever had [2240.03] Jack: great things quality carbon [2243.15] Jack: um [2244.91] Jack: light and hardware [2246.91] Jack: just great [2248.59] Jack: if anything [2250.19] Jack: Like they're just they're a bit slow to react because they haven't got anything that fits the oh three. Yeah officially [2259.15] Koel: And [2261.23] Jack: Yeah, you know and they're they're a bit on the expensive side but they've addressed they're kind of addressing that [2268.19] Jack: um [2270.67] Koel: I like them. Dom. I i'm don't [2273.63] Jack: if we move [2275.71] Jack: ethics down one more [2278.51] Jack: will you [2280.03] Stephen: Stop people. You don't don't run. They're absolutely on a rampage in the chat [2285.63] Jack: Someone needs to like rate limit crime just to calm them down. Right i'll move it i'll move it to d [2291.79] Jack: If you shut up, it will stay there [2294.75] Koel: The only way we're gonna keep it at d [2296.75] Stephen: Is that everyone goes and likes this video? Dom we're only a couple away from sp racing you you want to behave yourself, mate [2303.15] Curry: Oh, yeah, you gotta [2305.15] Stephen: Gotta watch it [2307.95] Stephen: All right now now here we are there's an interesting one [2311.63] Stephen: a garbage brand [2313.63] Stephen: That is incredible value and the of all the quads I own i've got like 30 plus [2320.35] Stephen: Jh emcu represents the largest fraction of them [2324.11] Stephen: I don't know if anyone else has a single board, but i've got in excess of [2328.75] Stephen: 10 [2329.87] Stephen: of these boards [2331.71] Jack: They they are so cheap. It is shocking [2335.79] Jack: and how [2337.39] Jack: They are [2338.59] Jack: Kind of circumnavigate by how cheap it is [2342.27] Stephen: Like it's like almost disposable on a good day. Yeah [2346.51] Jack: Like they almost get low on [2348.75] Stephen: It lasts just as long as any other board and sometimes you buy one and you're like, yeah, no one check this at all [2354.43] Stephen: This is a piece of crap [2356.83] Stephen: But they don't communicate with any of the projects [2359.07] Stephen: They're like i've heard them described as a secret chinese tribe who don't talk to outsiders [2365.55] Stephen: I fully put them down as as an e [2369.07] Stephen: If you look at their github repo, it's just a bunch of out of date [2373.63] Stephen: Like random firmware they've cooked up that works on their boards that was never officially released that they just take like [2382.91] Stephen: Weird hacks in it's like yeah, they're fully supported now [2386.35] Stephen: The beta flight the reason that you can use them is I wrote a bunch of targets for these boards because they were just so [2391.63] Stephen: Cheap I couldn't say no and ended up with a bunch of them and then figured out that they were all using like I flight targets [2397.87] Stephen: And so I had to go and like cook up a target [2402.03] Frank: This episode was recorded in front of a live online audience [2405.21] Frank: Downloaded and edited to make sense when it played audio only [2408.75] Frank: Censored to please the itunes people hosted on the internet forwarded through to your podcast provider [2413.53] Frank: Downloaded playing on your device and is now playing in your ears all thanks to our patreons [2419.31] Frank: Consider joining them and you'll also get other online benefits [2422.67] Frank: Find out more at patreon.com [2427.47] Koel: Next hurry up [2431.79] Koel: Because there's so many different types of so it's kiss [2434.83] Jack: Different company than kiss. Yeah wait for this. Wait, hurry [2438.83] Jack: Curry the chat wait just wait for the chat. Are you watching? [2442.03] Jack: They go down [2443.63] Jack: But kiss ultra [2445.47] Jack: Yeah, what was that? [2448.35] Jack: Are they two separate entities are they two separate companies? [2453.15] Jack: Will you shut up if I do it? [2455.63] Stephen: No, I want to know are they two separate companies or not? [2458.59] Stephen: What the deal is one place called kiss I fly to where you know, and then everyone had a hissy fit and now it's made by someone else [2464.51] Koel: But is anything fundamentally different between someone else? Let's let's let's say who it's made by holy bro fed her off [2472.75] Stephen: Alexander fed her up. Oh, sorry. That's fetec stuff. Isn't it? They're made by holy bro. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know [2478.75] Koel: I just like kiss and kiss [2480.91] Jack: customer service good [2483.31] Jack: Yeah, the the the v1 was pretty fragile, you know, but they've kind of fixed that with tvs diodes and stuff [2491.95] Jack: I know don's gonna be like [2494.59] Jack: you know, uh [2496.75] Jack: but [2498.83] Curry: No, no, no same company then you have to combine you have to take the crappiness of kiss with the apparent goodness of ultra [2505.39] Curry: smidge him in the middle [2508.11] Koel: There's just a huge two brand it's yeah, it's uh, that's that's a whole controversial topic anyway [2515.47] Stephen: I don't even know i'm i'm slightly confused. It all just says kiss to me [2519.63] Stephen: So I assume it's the same thing like if it's a different company, why didn't they just choose a different name? [2525.79] Stephen: Well, it just sounds like a board model [2529.55] Koel: Yeah, that's that's a big rabbit hole that we could go on for a whole episode to be honest if anything it's a fork [2536.43] Jack: Of it and they've had to keep the name [2539.63] Jack: because obviously [2542.11] Jack: His newly developed code trickles back down to kiss and this this was the firmware that kind of grew out of [2549.87] Stephen: like early base flight and clean flight and then went closed source and there's [2555.15] Stephen: some rumors that it's actually running kind of basically beta flight 3.1 3.2 level features the adaptive filtering there [2563.47] Stephen: And a 1k pit loop and it's just like really heavily filtered and that's why it's so smooth [2570.51] Jack: Um, I think it [2572.83] Jack: stems from [2574.35] Jack: No, no, no [2575.63] Jack: I think it stems from the multi-wee's days because have you ever flown anything multi-wee? [2583.23] Curry: But everything stems from multi-wee now. That's where the code base came from [2587.47] Jack: Yeah [2588.51] Stephen: Well, they claim they have these adaptive filters and adaptive filters were written in beta flight and there's some kind of like [2595.07] Stephen: Maybe it's a flight one type situation where they sort of yoinked a bit of code and not really, uh, [2600.51] Stephen: fessed up [2602.83] Curry: We're never nothing's close source [2606.67] Jack: Mark we can hand back on we'll ask him he will answer your questions. All right, I will I will get him on [2614.51] Stephen: Yeah [2615.55] Curry: Yeah, show us the code. Show me the code show me show me your repo. Let us have a look. We'll we'll decide [2622.91] Curry: Next [2628.67] Stephen: Wow [2629.79] Stephen: Now what have luminaire done lately? They're not relevant. They used to make really nice omni antennas [2635.55] Curry: What have you done for me lately? [2637.71] Curry: Exactly. This this is the question you've got to ask luminaire. We're a big mover and shaker back [2643.55] Koel: Back in the day. You want to see some luminaires? Oh, wait, is this gonna work? [2648.11] Koel: Well, here's some old luminaires. So that's upside down [2651.07] Stephen: Wow, those are old [2653.39] Stephen: That's really old [2655.55] Koel: This is some old [2656.91] Stephen: Yes, that's an I've got a luminaire omni on the first carbon fiber quad that I bought I bought after um [2664.11] Stephen: Having a bunch of whoops [2666.11] Stephen: That thing I put a little omni from luminaire on and it's still on [2670.43] Stephen: Luminaire but i've never bought anything else from them [2673.55] Stephen: It was a good antenna make 25 milliwatts [2675.87] Stephen: Promoters at one point right jack. Yeah. Yeah, but not any time recently like that was probably four years ago [2684.64] Jack: Yeah, yeah true d [2687.36] Jack: I think they fall into the same fat sharks. Yeah [2690.96] Jack: They were relevant. They're good. They're not crap [2695.36] Jack: I almost want to wait move jhe [2699.52] Jack: Up because they're so cheap. They're so cheap [2702.96] Jack: I don't think they're absolute [2706.0] Stephen: Like I was buying h743 all-in-one boards from them that were like [2711.58] Stephen: 45 quid at one point and they're they're good boards like i'm running two of them right now [2717.12] Stephen: They but yeah some i've also got one quad I was testing today. They just exhibits chaotic noise [2723.76] Jack: As good as emacs [2726.0] Stephen: Yeah, you want them? [2728.4] Jack: Surely see yeah [2730.4] Stephen: The trouble is with with luminaire if you search for their products then [2734.4] Stephen: If you just search like luminaire fpv all the stuff that comes up is really old [2738.72] Stephen: So i'm wondering what i've actually done recently they released anything [2743.68] Stephen: Okay next [2746.16] Jack: Oh, yeah, I think okay, uh orca [2750.08] Jack: I haven't [2751.68] Curry: Don't know can't afford the goggles [2753.92] Jack: Yeah [2754.88] Koel: I think anyone what i've seen and what i've heard [2759.2] Koel: they're pretty [2761.04] Koel: you know, they're pretty well respected I think but [2764.24] Koel: Weren't they supposed to make some hd system that just kind of like disappeared off the face of the earth? [2768.8] Stephen: There was a lot of hype. Yeah [2771.12] Koel: but I mean [2772.32] Stephen: one of the few european grounds [2774.64] Stephen: but [2776.0] Stephen: Has anyone reviewed the goggles i've heard they're good, but they don't have that great field of view [2782.7] Koel: Yeah, I don't really know. I remember I just remember hearing bachrinder saying he loves them and [2788.06] Koel: But now he's moved on I guess to hd zero. So [2792.22] Jack: All right, let's move luminaire up to c because apparently bardwell's frame is [2798.54] Jack: Made by luminaire. It's a qav. Yeah [2802.06] Jack: so [2803.18] Jack: Okay, you know [2805.5] Jack: So they are making new stuff. So we're wrong. We'll move that up [2809.9] Jack: Yeah, luminaire [2812.62] Jack: Orca have we agreed we don't know enough. We don't know. We don't know enough about orca [2818.06] Stephen: One product that's very premium and to be honest when I had the choice [2822.06] Stephen: I looked at the sky zones and they were 150 pounds less for essentially the same thing. So I went skyzone [2828.54] Jack: gusto solid b they have a power button [2831.9] Jack: um [2832.94] Jack: All right race star [2834.78] Stephen: No idea right racer star. I mean they're they're cheap. They're really cheap probably get pricey. No, no, nowhere near the top [2843.18] Stephen: That's cheap [2845.42] Stephen: Racer star [2846.78] Stephen: so I have one um [2848.54] Stephen: racist star product that I was trying to get working today a flight controller that works great with uh [2857.66] Stephen: Works great unless you try and read the voltage [2860.94] Stephen: meter [2861.98] Stephen: And it's accurate up to 4s [2864.46] Stephen: But by the time I plug in a 6s the battery is 23 volts and it reads 21.2 volts [2871.34] Stephen: That's kind of that's the the sort of quality level we're talking about here a bit dodgy [2877.18] Stephen: Yeah, it's down down down [2881.66] Stephen: Yeah, ee is good. Yeah, anyway seriously pro has anyone ever really heard of them? [2887.66] Stephen: But I don't think we're gonna get any comments from the chat at least no [2893.1] Koel: Um with a name like that they must be asked here don't dom says d [2909.02] Jack: Yeah, the spf3 I mean that was that was a life changing at the time [2916.14] Jack: But you then not he hasn't been sitting still [2923.9] Stephen: It was kind enough to send over a sample so he's got i've got one of the h7 rf boards with with [2930.14] Stephen: With a built-in express lrs [2932.78] Stephen: But you fly kiss jack [2935.02] Jack: Yeah, I know but no well [2937.1] Jack: Believe it or not [2938.78] Jack: Guess who flew beat flight this weekend? [2941.66] Jack: He got the little uh h743 slim up in the air. Yeah, it's a slim. Yeah [2946.86] Jack: And he's pretty good [2948.54] Jack: It was pretty good [2950.86] Stephen: Right. So yeah [2953.42] Stephen: Like kudos to dom because he's the only place in europe that you can get a flight controller from so [2960.06] Stephen: You know trying to skate uphill against the competition and low costs in china. Yeah, let's give him an a [2967.1] Stephen: all right [2969.26] Koel: Mads tax trying to put in cadex above dji seriously ballsy move [2974.54] Koel: Easy to complain about dji. I oh [2977.82] Koel: And I do know anyone they're top of their game and do sort customers out [2981.5] Stephen: Strong but if we're talking about fpv [2985.42] Stephen: Then dji is just trying to tell fpv what it should be and not listening to what fpv wants from the products [2992.54] Stephen: i'm sure they're great if you're a photography person, but [2996.7] Stephen: But when you put them against fpv brands like cadex who have a dialogue with their customers [3003.58] Stephen: Dji have a brick wall you can shout at [3008.35] Jack: I mean mad techs [3010.91] Jack: We can be wrong [3012.91] Jack: We our opinions can be totally invalid [3016.67] Jack: If you want buddy, send me a message on discord [3020.51] Jack: I will [3022.11] Jack: I can share this link and go through the list. I'd love to hear what you think [3027.63] Koel: Well, the other thing too is I mean the name of this video this live stream is rating fpv brand. So [3035.23] Koel: We did encapsulate [3037.07] Koel: The photography side of the of it even though the the title is fpv brand. So [3043.15] Koel: We are kind of like, you know [3045.63] Koel: teeter tottering on that fence, but [3048.35] Stephen: Mads makes a good point. I think if you were to talk about photography drones, they'd have to be s [3052.83] Stephen: But when you talk about fpv against an fpv backdrop, they can't be s [3058.27] Stephen: Yeah, but do cadex tell the truth [3061.15] Koel: Well does anyone yeah next okay. We got five minutes [3065.55] Stephen: serious [3067.23] Jack: I've never heard of them [3069.23] Jack: No, I haven't [3070.99] Koel: Unknown [3072.11] Koel: next [3073.31] Koel: What is that? [3074.99] Jack: A toolkit. I see isn't it? [3077.87] Koel: No toolkit. I see is later on [3080.19] Stephen: TCM mrc. I thought curry might have a oh great curry's dropped now [3084.91] Stephen: So they were doing a whole bunch of cheap quads, which I thought curry might have heard of [3089.15] Stephen: Um, they do cheap bind and flies [3090.99] Stephen: I think they're kind of similar to what dalwin fpv is doing but cheaper if you look at albert kim [3097.15] Stephen: He's reviewed a bunch of them and you can you know buy a five inch for kind of 180 american [3103.39] Stephen: um [3104.43] Stephen: The u.s [3105.55] Stephen: Yeah, but they're not very well heard of at all and obviously for low price. You don't get great components [3112.99] Stephen: I know [3114.35] Stephen: D permanent d. Remember e actually put e probably there because it is like bargain bin [3120.11] Stephen: It's like the isheen wizard level of quality, you know [3123.47] Jack: Okay, I know [3124.99] Jack: spedex [3126.43] Jack: speedix [3128.03] Jack: Yeah, they're pretty solid. They've got to be near. Yeah, right. I've used them b [3132.67] Jack: yeah, see [3135.15] Jack: B um good good eses menace [3138.91] Koel: S tier [3140.35] Koel: That's yeah. Yeah [3142.35] Jack: just [3143.71] Stephen: Listening to the community and actually getting feedback and putting it directly into products [3149.31] Jack: great antennas [3151.15] Jack: Branching out making stuff that filling holes in the market [3156.59] Jack: respect fossil [3159.55] Stephen: No, I don't even got tony on here i'm sure tony would say he's pretty great [3164.19] Stephen: And he's there at the events talking to people which is nice. I'll give him an a I don't know [3169.63] Stephen: I'd give him a b. It's just like not [3172.99] Stephen: I don't know. You don't so so tell us why you think it's [3177.39] Stephen: Talk about it. And if you persuade us it's a b we'll leave it there. And if not we'll can move on [3182.83] Stephen: Why do you think it's a b? [3185.23] Jack: um, they're not [3187.15] Jack: They're not making like, you know [3190.51] Jack: Uh, you know new new frames. They haven't kept up [3194.35] Jack: You know i'd love to have seen new designs from them. I admit a yeah fine [3200.11] Jack: But b as in they're not making the designs they've gone over to x class [3204.83] Jack: there's just [3206.59] Jack: You know the development's just a bit slow [3209.87] Jack: customer service [3211.55] Jack: S all day long marty and personal friend of mine all day long [3216.11] Stephen: I just I did look at their frames and I thought these look interesting, but the sort of frames [3221.47] Stephen: I would have seen sort of 2017 2018 [3224.99] Jack: Yeah 2016 2017 [3226.99] Jack: I just want I I just want to give them a bit [3231.31] Jack: Give them a b to like give him a kick up the ass [3234.67] Jack: So that he's to say try something new [3237.95] Jack: Yeah, I just want a fire output [3241.39] Jack: That's all [3242.67] Stephen: Like i'm, sorry marty. Maybe he's just having fun and he's just racing his stuff and he uh hasn't got the energy to go [3248.59] Jack: Whipping up new designs, you know and just little things like, you know [3254.59] Jack: He has taken my feedback after I scream at him [3258.27] Jack: so [3259.31] Jack: He's definitely [3260.99] Jack: He's a really strong b [3263.87] Jack: But if you make a new five inch frame you go up [3267.71] Jack: Time [3269.07] Koel: So we've done a few there [3271.95] Stephen: Azure props, I guess they're up there with probably hq where oh, yeah true. Is there anything to tell them apart from hq? [3280.43] Koel: They don't really know much about them. I actually have a pack of them. I've never flown them before [3285.23] Stephen: dal prop [3286.67] Stephen: I mean again with [3288.67] Stephen: Hq azure dal. I think they're all roughly interchangeable. They're all pretty solid. They're heavier [3296.7] Jack: So they you know, they did bring the first indestructible [3301.58] Stephen: I I I couldn't think what would tell them apart from the others to be honest like gem fan and that I don't know [3308.46] Stephen: Oh, man, I think the prop guys mostly have it completely down pat. They're not doing anything wrong [3315.5] Jack: Didn't we do [3319.18] Jack: Yeah, all right a [3321.34] Jack: they're in a [3323.98] Jack: Is dt [3325.9] Jack: Coles had one smoke [3328.62] Koel: Tony's had a load of them. So I never had an isdt. I had I had toolkit. I see [3334.22] Stephen: Oh, i've got an htrc. I think yeah [3337.98] Jack: isdt [3339.18] Jack: I think i've been pretty good at going [3341.5] Stephen: Yes, i've had an imax before everyone's had the imax b6, right? [3347.58] Jack: Yeah, all right. I've moved fossil back up to a [3350.54] Jack: A [3352.54] Jack: Solid b [3354.54] Jack: a a I reckon they're an a oh for beta [3359.18] Stephen: mads [3361.02] Stephen: You you you haven't seen that we've got jg mcu on here already, mate [3365.82] Stephen: Like we could just we just put them right next to there [3368.54] Stephen: Just just just park that right in line with jg mcu [3373.02] Koel: Or even lower than them, right? I think we did beat fp. I have had a nice fire with beta fpv [3379.1] Stephen: I've did we do it last few years? Yeah, i'm pretty sure we did [3382.38] Stephen: Let me put them in the dark shade. Yeah. Oh, they were on e yeah, you're right next to frisky frisky frisky [3391.26] Stephen: I can't stop putting them frisky now because i'm a member of the uh, what's it called frisky fan club discord? [3398.62] Stephen: Because that was their original name, right? [3400.7] Stephen: Before they had an english speaking person look at it and went maybe don't do that [3406.46] Stephen: but [3407.82] Stephen: skyrc [3411.13] Stephen: That's the one you've got that giant thing. Yeah, I think that looks looks like a beast personally [3416.97] Koel: Yeah, they make that big uh, that big black one and I hear it's good [3423.53] Koel: Yeah, does that look like a little wheel on the back or something like wheels [3428.41] Jack: no [3430.09] Jack: On the designer looks like sky the skyrc. I mean they're not [3435.13] Jack: They're really I think I think they're an a I think they're a solid a [3440.01] Jack: Don't they make that quattro right? That's the one right? Yeah. Yeah. I think they're a solid a somehow [3447.29] Stephen: Richard's dt are pretty good as well killed one [3450.97] Stephen: Yeah [3452.65] Stephen: I've got htrc [3454.89] Stephen: Um, but I don't have a logo for them mine's been really solid, but I don't think they're that well known a brand [3460.97] Stephen: toolkit [3462.97] Stephen: Toolkit wasn't that the one where cyclone? [3466.41] Stephen: The was it cyclone fpv the store who like looked at the entire stock of charges and they all had electrical faults [3472.65] Koel: Like 20 different toolkit rc charges. Okay, so I can chime in here because basically I have a b6 [3479.69] Koel: And I have two toolkits [3483.05] Koel: uh [3483.93] Koel: I have the one little single toolkit one and it works. I think it's the [3489.61] Koel: The the whatever the ac I can't remember which one it is but um [3494.65] Koel: There's supposed to be a light that comes up on it [3496.89] Koel: Well, that doesn't really work but the charger works fine [3500.33] Koel: And then the first toolkit rc when I had well [3503.13] Koel: it just randomly stopped working one day and it was like the first day I got it and [3509.77] Koel: I mean I got a replacement for it and an upgrade and it's been fine ever since so [3514.33] Koel: Yeah, i'd say you know b or c [3516.97] Stephen: Yeah, you want to have a vendor you can go back to the one of those brands like yeah [3520.73] Stephen: You can buy it [3521.61] Stephen: But you need somewhere to go back to to do the inevitable swap on one out of every four products. Yeah. Yeah [3528.57] Jack: see [3530.41] Stephen: I can't add it. It's png frank had one that wasn't sold it up correctly. I mean [3537.61] Koel: Yeah, immersion rc they're pretty top is [3543.61] Koel: I mean they're tramps. I like their tramps [3546.81] Stephen: Um, are they what are they doing now? Are they just did he basically sell the logo to orca? [3553.85] Jack: Yeah, they think that was orca. They've made the newest thing. They've made is they've made a better [3560.15] Jack: ay [3561.21] Jack: analog racing [3563.45] Jack: time system [3565.61] Jack: That's nice [3566.81] Jack: the [3568.09] Jack: the [3569.53] Jack: the uh [3572.49] Jack: Oh, what was it called the head you know the the dvr thing power play that's there that's come back into stock [3581.85] Jack: um [3582.81] Jack: ghost is amazing [3585.21] Jack: but the [3587.21] Koel: none of the lewis script works is it goes that relevant anymore though in the days of [3594.01] Koel: Of 2023 [3597.21] Stephen: The lewis script for ghost doesn't work on htx you mean [3601.13] Jack: Yeah, you know so you can't you know go into [3605.37] Jack: Well, I I haven't found a way where you could you know, like the lewis scripts in your radio [3610.97] Jack: Where you could change settings [3614.25] Jack: On your radio transmitter. Yeah on the transmitter. I don't that's what i'm missing. I wish kiss ultra [3621.93] Jack: like [3622.73] Stephen: Oh, you mean to change the quad settings so you like get a menu for the pits and things right? [3627.93] Stephen: Yeah, the reason that has been added in the latest version of beta flight, but what they had to do was to add [3636.31] Stephen: Multi-we serial protocol encapsulation for the ghst protocol, right? [3641.53] Stephen: Because trappy added it for crossfire years ago [3645.29] Stephen: And obviously that means it just works for things like express lrs [3648.89] Stephen: But it it now works for express lrs because we found that there was a buffer thing [3653.13] Stephen: I was like I want this to work. So I went to the express lrs devs [3656.25] Stephen: And went why is it not working and they're like, oh it's sending data too fast [3659.85] Stephen: And then it went to the beta flight guys and went it's sending data too fast. Can we like [3663.69] Stephen: Stop that and they went uh, and then what we don't know if it's express lrs or crossfire [3668.25] Stephen: So then I went to the express lrs guys and like how can we tell her it's express lrs and not crossfire? [3672.57] Stephen: No, there's a serial number. Okay [3674.57] Stephen: So the long and the short of it it's easier to fix up on crsf because that's been around for a while [3680.65] Stephen: On ghost that's a relatively new addition, but it should start to filter down. It's not impossible [3686.33] Stephen: It's just taking time to get through the software [3689.05] Koel: Okay. Yeah, I think a is is is fair for immersion. Do you want to read dom's comment? [3696.41] Koel: If something from immersion rc isn't good, it's not because they didn't try that's a fact [3701.05] Koel: Yeah, that's cool. Yeah [3703.69] Stephen: Yeah [3705.85] Jack: Wrong [3706.97] Jack: Yeah, that's strong strong. Hey [3709.37] Jack: Yeah, you know [3711.37] Stephen: I'd be tempted to put them higher. I mean I think ace [3715.13] Koel: Yeah, let's put them at the top. Yeah, they're that's pretty high up man. They got they got a they have a they've got [3720.01] Koel: Some great great products over the years [3723.05] Stephen: I can't I mean you can be nitpicking about ghost but compared to tracer. I mean it's just a different league from tracer, isn't it? [3730.89] Stephen: hobby king [3732.97] Koel: Well, that's a story, right [3735.77] Stephen: Yeah, they might be king and their giant metal container of dangerous [3740.97] Jack: I wouldn't put them e see i'd say they're a [3744.79] Stephen: Reasonable c so is turnigy a hobby king brand if we say hobby king, do we mean turnigy? [3751.45] Stephen: Because i've got a bunch of turnigy lipos [3753.93] Stephen: I mean I when I started out in the hobby [3756.09] Stephen: They were the lipos you could buy if you wanted something cheap. So i've got an absolute ton of them [3761.61] Stephen: um [3763.69] Stephen: Yeah, that's fair enough bees. All right. Yeah a lot of them puffed out. I don't think they're great, but they did the job [3770.65] Stephen: Tbs yes [3773.93] Stephen: S [3774.97] Koel: I would say a [3776.97] Stephen: There's been a lot of them [3778.49] Stephen: Right the last two radios they released have constant gimbal problems and then tracer is just [3785.45] Stephen: Not what it could be compared to ghost [3787.77] Koel: I [3789.45] Stephen: Want to see it definitely not. Yes, i'd say I want to say they're the top but [3794.25] Koel: There are a few different things. I guess that you could nitpick but [3799.37] Stephen: Crossfire is good. It's just like they've got they've got gimbals on the pcb for their radios and the gimbals just [3807.45] Stephen: Drift and then you try and recalibrate them and mads knows this like [3812.17] Stephen: I mean i'm calibrating the gimbals [3814.97] Koel: I I have a tango too and I haven't really had that kind of issue like I mean [3820.49] Stephen: Matt's had an issue when he moved the gimbal from 100 percent and as it went through the zero point down [3827.45] Stephen: Below the halfway mark [3829.45] Stephen: The value that the gimbal reported like jumped to 100 percent and then back to 50 and then back to 49 [3836.49] Koel: Yeah, i've never had that issue. I mean [3839.29] Koel: I I did have an issue recently where I was like, oh, you know [3842.33] Koel: What I haven't calibrated my gimbals in a while. So I decided to do it again and you know [3848.17] Koel: You have to be kind of be gentle when you do it because [3850.97] Koel: Because it's like plastic and whatever, right? [3852.81] Koel: So if you if you kind of push it too hard [3855.69] Koel: In the in the corner or whatever [3857.69] Koel: Well, then once you get once you get around to it [3860.09] Koel: It might not actually go back to 100 in whether it's the bottom of the corner or the left [3864.97] Stephen: So you see i've not had that problem at all with radio master. I've just beat the snot out of those things [3872.49] Jack: Yeah, they've added the new machine gimbals. I would say [3876.49] Jack: they're [3877.45] Jack: a borderline s [3880.73] Stephen: But so i've had tracer and tracer just irritated me like it didn't it did not live up to the hype [3888.25] Stephen: I felt like i'd been sold a line when I bought bought into tracer and I got like five receivers [3894.01] Stephen: And they're all out of the quads and just sitting in a plastic bag. I've got a nano and a full size tracer tx [3901.93] Stephen: And they're just sitting there wondering, you know, what am I going to do with these now? [3907.42] Koel: well [3908.3] Koel: Yeah, I mean [3910.46] Jack: You gotta remember those push buttons are the worst thing ever to happen to rc remote [3915.98] Koel: They've done so much for the hobby though. You gotta remember like [3919.34] Stephen: They've done. Yeah, but then you could say that a lot of other people like gem fan and people [3923.82] Stephen: I don't think they deserve to go up into s. Um, no, no, no, definitely not s but [3928.78] Stephen: I'd say the only brand that has their own line of weed grinders. I mean there's that [3935.18] Jack: I [3936.54] Jack: That's dear for me. It was it was the [3939.98] Jack: the fail safe in with crossfire [3943.18] Jack: In an open field that pissed me off and i've seen you fail safe twice for no reason [3950.38] Koel: Well, no, the reason was I had my radio set to the wrong region [3954.62] Jack: Oh, okay [3955.9] Jack: Do you reckon s then? [3957.9] Koel: No, no, no, I would still say that tbs is a leave it in a [3962.14] Jack: A is flattering them. I think this is just okay [3965.74] Jack: Right quick fire round rush [3969.34] Jack: Vtx is a good things [3971.42] Jack: a [3972.22] Jack: b [3973.82] Stephen: Yeah, I want them in a they're pretty good curry. Yeah, we really need curry there [3978.22] Koel: But I think they've done some cracking stuff. Here comes some some controversial ones now or some tea [3984.7] Jack: Hey [3986.14] Stephen: Um fat tech fat tech. I haven't built them yet. I did have like the worst [3993.18] Stephen: Worst experience when I went onto their discord [3995.98] Stephen: That's just like massive fan boyism and trolling. That was not good [4001.18] Koel: Yeah, fat tech. That's a tough one because [4005.64] Koel: I I don't actually i've never used their stuff. So I don't know enough but [4009.8] Koel: You just hear about a lot of their stuff. Maybe people calling it fry tech [4013.88] Koel: Or like, you know saying that their stuff burns up or just like it's like a religion [4019.72] Koel: That's all so it's a faith-based firmware. It's a really weird thing, especially with the whole kiss and fat tech, you know [4028.28] Koel: Butting heads and whatever. I mean, I don't know if they actually buy heads [4030.92] Stephen: But it's kind of like so jack have you flown fat tech because you've flown a bunch of kiss ultra stuff [4036.84] Jack: I've flown their eses [4039.4] Jack: And I get garbage out of their telemetry [4043.72] Jack: um [4045.0] Jack: I you know, like I'd that annoys me. Um, they've changed the [4051.72] Jack: They've changed their [4056.78] Jack: Accelerometer or whatever and people getting noise now [4060.56] Koel: Um, so now they have they're trying to get away from kiss. They're almost doing their own alpha firmware stuff. Yeah [4068.8] Jack: B I reckon but like that's being nice [4073.36] Stephen: Well, we have from crunk tier fat tech is trash tier kiss [4078.56] Stephen: Uh, yeah, I kind of agree, you know that [4082.4] Stephen: They're trying to that. These are the guys that are made by holy bro, right? [4086.32] Stephen: And it's nice that there's more firmware out there. There's variety for people who want to try the variety but [4093.12] Koel: Yeah, but then again isn't um [4097.84] Koel: What's the guy's name who does who's the original kiss guy that uh [4102.0] Koel: Felix Felix got Felix Nielsen. I'm the wife of Simon. Um [4106.56] Koel: He's the credit guy, right? So yeah [4110.0] Koel: Yeah, I don't know. It's just a weird and they've got that alpha firmware which is [4115.68] Stephen: Showing promise, you know, it's it's nice that there's an evolution and people not just staying where they were but [4122.16] Stephen: I've yet to build it and it's going to be [4124.56] Stephen: An absolute trial by fire because it's going to be a 10s five inch [4129.28] Stephen: So if anything does go wrong flames are going to happen. Yeah [4137.2] Koel: Flies fat tech [4139.44] Koel: Steel flies fat tech. I don't know [4142.48] Koel: how many other people fly fat tech but [4144.72] Koel: You know, there's people who seem to love it and who ran for the rave about it and it works for them [4150.56] Koel: But I guess like that could go with any brand right? It's like right [4154.24] Jack: The only the only person I'd move team over [4158.8] Jack: I know any arguments video aerial systems [4163.04] Jack: Uh, was it this weird transphobic comments? Yeah, it's not doing so [4168.0] Jack: If transphobic you're d [4170.72] Jack: Uh z z's pretty strong [4174.08] Jack: Ab yeah with rush. I think go up there with rush right brain fpv [4179.84] Stephen: Never heard of them. What do they do? [4182.08] Jack: All right. No, no idea either. Okay, that's it [4185.6] Stephen: No, you're asking for the brain fpv logo. I thought you had a comment on brain fpv. No, I don't [4192.4] Stephen: They're the ones that um [4194.24] Stephen: That dom did his didn't he do a pixel osd for them or something or yeah [4200.88] Stephen: They used the software [4202.88] Koel: I thought uh video aerial systems would be higher [4205.92] Stephen: Let's leave them leave them down unknown because I I don't own one [4209.28] Stephen: Maybe if curry owns some of the things down in the u-tier we can reevaluate later [4214.16] Stephen: Let's yeah, put brain fpv down there because [4217.76] Koel: What what yeah and video aerial system should not be that low. They are like pretty god tier almost aren't they? [4225.44] Stephen: Yeah, I mean he got he got snacked down for being just an absolute a [4232.08] Stephen: Right good good equipment, but the guy doesn't know when to uh, bite his lip [4237.92] Stephen: Yeah [4239.92] Koel: Yeah, good. You know, I like their mad mushroom. I liked their [4244.8] Stephen: What was it? Yeah [4247.52] Stephen: I be crazy, right? [4249.36] Stephen: Yeah, I was educated recently that I be crazy is is the guy and i've got you know [4254.8] Stephen: A bunch of the original tvs triumphs kicking around they're good, but the guy who makes them [4261.04] Stephen: Isn't a great person maybe [4263.84] Koel: C is kind of like but if we're judging based on character, that's not really like [4269.2] Koel: A way to judge a beat I guess [4271.44] Koel: Yes, I think that's fair. I mean I would put it to a but but b is a good happy medium [4279.42] Jack: All right, b [4281.34] Jack: Right. That is all we got time for. Thank you. Uh, you have been joined by everyone's favorite curry kitten who's left early [4290.14] Jack: steven [4291.42] Jack: Good night. Fairly. Well [4293.98] Jack: my buddy kyle [4296.06] Jack: See it [4297.58] Jack: And i've been bright until I fly this show has been sponsored and [4302.86] Jack: uh [4304.54] Jack: Supported by our lovely patreons. 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