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I fly FPV drones, I have one very similar to that size. running a 1s 300mah lihv I get about 3 to 5 minutes. 5 minutes damages the battery. but the tiny lihv ne

I fly FPV drones, I have one very similar to that size. running a 1s 300mah lihv I get about 3 to 5 minutes. 5 minutes damages the battery. but the tiny lihv never liv long enough anyways. I'd expect it to get close to that time, but it has so much more plastic around it. but then again it's not transmitting video.

slg 4y ago
That matches with the estimate in another comment chain[1]. That is low enough that listing it will likely be off-putting to many potential customers. It is why I think it is misleading to try to hide that number with a more opaque metric. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31195956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31195956
mrfusion 4y ago
Can you recommend a good starter FPV drone?
- saidinesh5 4y ago
  The standard advice is: Buy a transmitter and practise for like 5-10 hours in the simulator before pulling the trigger on a real one. Radiomaster Zorro, Jumper T-Pro, TBS Mambo are some good ones. Go directly for ExpressLRS/TBS Tracer long range protocols so you wont have to worry about your quad falling out of sky because of range issues. If you want something that is more "ready to fly" (goggles, quadcopter, transmitter combo) You do have more choices these days: 1) On the more expensive end - You have DJI FPV combo [1]. Is supposedly very beginner friendly. https://store.dji.com/product/dji-fpv?vid=101601 https://store.dji.com/product/dji-fpv?vid=101601 2) On the low end - Something like this https://www.getfpv.com/emax-tinyhawk-ii-freestyle-micro-brushless-fpv-drone-rtf-bundle.html https://www.getfpv.com/emax-tinyhawk-ii-freestyle-micro-brus... The problem with these ready to fly combos - especially on the low end (analog video) is that, you end up getting very toy like transmitter and goggles, that wont be of much use for you once you want to buy/build more quadcopters. So I highly recommend getting the transmitter and goggles separately.
  - ge96 4y ago
    Commenting I like the bicopter design has advanced features like follow user mode and long flight time
  - mrfusion 4y ago
    Thanks! My preference would be to start really cheap just to see if I like the hobby and want to stick with it. I don’t think I’d mind buying a better transmitter later.
prox 4y ago
So how does this drone stack against the competition? I know nothing about this field and I expected a price around a 100 mark. 250 sounds like a lot.

slg 4y ago

That matches with the estimate in another comment chain[1]. That is low enough that listing it will likely be off-putting to many potential customers. It is why I think it is misleading to try to hide that number with a more opaque metric. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31195956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31195956

mrfusion 4y ago

Can you recommend a good starter FPV drone?

saidinesh5 4y ago
The standard advice is: Buy a transmitter and practise for like 5-10 hours in the simulator before pulling the trigger on a real one. Radiomaster Zorro, Jumper T-Pro, TBS Mambo are some good ones. Go directly for ExpressLRS/TBS Tracer long range protocols so you wont have to worry about your quad falling out of sky because of range issues. If you want something that is more "ready to fly" (goggles, quadcopter, transmitter combo) You do have more choices these days: 1) On the more expensive end - You have DJI FPV combo [1]. Is supposedly very beginner friendly. https://store.dji.com/product/dji-fpv?vid=101601 https://store.dji.com/product/dji-fpv?vid=101601 2) On the low end - Something like this https://www.getfpv.com/emax-tinyhawk-ii-freestyle-micro-brushless-fpv-drone-rtf-bundle.html https://www.getfpv.com/emax-tinyhawk-ii-freestyle-micro-brus... The problem with these ready to fly combos - especially on the low end (analog video) is that, you end up getting very toy like transmitter and goggles, that wont be of much use for you once you want to buy/build more quadcopters. So I highly recommend getting the transmitter and goggles separately.
- ge96 4y ago
  Commenting I like the bicopter design has advanced features like follow user mode and long flight time
- mrfusion 4y ago
  Thanks! My preference would be to start really cheap just to see if I like the hobby and want to stick with it. I don’t think I’d mind buying a better transmitter later.

prox 4y ago

So how does this drone stack against the competition? I know nothing about this field and I expected a price around a 100 mark. 250 sounds like a lot.