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Upgrade goggles and better wind resistant tinywhoop?

Mobula8

Hello,

I initially thought tinywhoops would just be a stepping stone until I got good enough for a 5”. But I’m realizing now that tinywhoops are actually a lot of fun. I don’t really worry about crashing because they’re durable and inexpensive. I bring them to the park with my kids and fly around while they play. They’re just so easy to take anywhere and fly whenever I have a few minutes.

I also originally planned to move to O4, but analog turned out to be way better than I expected in real-life goggles. It honestly does the job more than well enough for me.

I’m also realizing that 5” drones require a lot more space, planning, cost, and overall commitment.
I bought a Meteor75 Pro and a pair of BETAFPV VR04 goggles as a cheap starter setup.

After about 20 packs on the Meteor75 Pro and having way too much fun, I think I might actually stick with analog tinywhoops for the long term.

I find the Meteor75 Pro a bit too big for indoor flying, so I just ordered an Air65.

So I have three questions:

  1. The Meteor75 Pro handles wind better than I expected, but I live near the coast and it’s almost always windy here. Would a Meteor85 2S or a Mobula8 handle the wind significantly better, or is the improvement pretty minor? If not, what would you recommend that still keeps the “fly almost anywhere” convenience of tinywhoops while remaining relatively inexpensive and noticeably better in the wind?

  2. My BETAFPV VR04 goggles aren’t bad in terms of comfort or image quality, but I have nothing else to compare them to. How much of an upgrade would something like the HDZero BoxPro or Skyzone Cobra X be?

  3. Should I wait before buying more tinywhoops? Has anyone regretted investing in them because they eventually moved on to bigger drones, or do you still find yourself flying tinywhoops regularly even after getting larger quads?

Thanks!

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u/Upper-Software1774 — 2 hours ago
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Is my VTX broken or not a good spot ?

Hello, I'm fairly new to this passion, but so far appart from SIM or flying 10cm around I can't realy fly that much as you can see in the DVR. I keep seeing clips from ppl with the same quad, they go high up, somewhat a good range, indoor etc etc ...

meteor75pro

pocketmaster 2ghz elrs

Iflight analog goggles dvr with rhcp albatross antennas.

I tried everything I think, dissassembled the canopy, everything looks fine on the FC.

any suggestion to why I get huuuge distortions, noises, statics when flying ? Or I'm stuck to fly a mosquito near me.

Concerning the core temp I used 6 lipo's before the recording, and no, the basketball didn't hit

u/crankybuttsteve — 1 hour ago
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Need for clarification.

Should there be continuity between cam and gnd pads? I asked this in my previous post but none of the replies answered this specific question. It bothers me greatly because for me it suggests some mainboard problem.

u/RocketGentleman__ — 5 hours ago
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Problem with BetaFPV Air65's mainboard

Hi guys, just wanted to ask if some of you might have ideas about my problem.

I crushed my air65 race on some telephone wires, after the troubleshooting this is what i know:

problem:

it transmits analog video to the goggles but only the osd, no camera feed. The board heats up to 70degs even when iddle, the part that is heating up is the 5ghz amplifier.

what i checked:

there are no visible issues with the board apart from dented buck(?), yhe part with red dot, there is continuity between cam and ground pads.

link to the resolution: https://www.reddit.com/r/TinyWhoop/s/tlxMuiLrhe

u/RocketGentleman__ — 7 hours ago
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Fact check: you can now switch between 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio on the VR04 Analog Goggles!

One of the biggest complaints about the BetaFPV VR04 Analog Goggles was that you couldn't switch between 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratios. It turns out that's no longer the case. Newer firmware versions now include a Scale option that lets you switch between them.

The catch is that BetaFPV still hasn't published an official firmware update method for existing VR04 Analog Goggles. So if your goggles don't have the option yet, there's currently no official way to update them. I've reached out to BetaFPV support to get this cleared up.

My quick guide showing how to change the aspect ratio: https://blog.musadigital.nl/posts/how-to-change-aspect-ratio-on-betafpv-vr04-goggles/

u/musa11971 — 7 hours ago
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Air 75 II camera connector issue

Hey Guys, after a recent crash my air 75 II camera connector fell of, so I soldered it back on but I still don't get any image in the goggles. Can anybody help me please? Btw the red antenna also broke and I soldered it back on, I hope everything comes out fine. The video of the crash is in the comments

u/BeautifulProposal470 — 3 hours ago
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Finally reached the podium!!! 3rd place 🏆

Feels goooood, damn when I think that one year ago these guys were 10-15s faster than me... And now my best qualification run (first part of this video) is less than 1s from the 1st!

u/7374616e74 — 8 hours ago
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Meteor 75, first flight outside

First drone here. Yesterday, it was my first flight outside after 1 hour flying inside. Unfortunately, it will be also my last fly with it as I managed to lost it.

I wanted to try it outside with more space than in my home, so I went outside at the top of an hill without too much vegetation.

It was a *bit* windy. Not so much to me, but there was definitely some wind.

Started the whoop, forgot to immortalize by recording the flight. Full throttle for 2seconds. Then I was totally disoriented and had absolutely no clue where I was. I stayed flat but the only things I was seeing was the sky. Unlike in my home where furnitures help to positionnate in space.

10 seconds after launching my wife told me: you're going far away. Still no idea where I was. 2 seconds later some snow on the screen. Then no signal after 5 seconds. I disengaged, set the bipper. Wife saw it, before diving, above threes that were 400 m away.

I searched for some time but dit not found it... Lost in the wild.

I had no idea of what I was doing. Punished.

Anyway I found this fantastic for the couple of hours I was inside. And the same is on it's way.

See you soon.

Equipment was : meteor 75, radiomaster pocket and betafpv vr04.

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u/nodenope — 11 hours ago
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Help with “runaways” please

Here’s my motor and pid settings if that helps to see. My air75 ii pretty often has what seems to be a runaway, the runaway warning does not appear on screen but the drone will begin to tumble mid air and after a second or two I’m able to regain control and continue flying as if nothing happened, most of the time it seems to happen when I cut the throttle after blipping it to the max real quick for a stunt or something, and just sometimes it seems to happen randomly

u/omgdrips — 12 hours ago
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Bought 2s frame for mobula 7 because there weren’t any 1s in stock. Ideas how to secure the battery?

Hi! I’ve tried putting 2 batteries, but they were too fat, no clue what to do, nowhere to get 1s

u/Azkicat — 10 hours ago
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Throttle “Stuck” and can’t figure it out.

*I TRIED THIS WITOUT HOLDING IT ASWELL DOES SAME THING, JUST HELD IT BECAUSE I CANT RECORD ME FLYING EASILY

So just bought another new air75 and when I set it up and tried to fly it it was flipping over instantly and saying runaway so I went into beta flight and the flight controller was all wack in the 3D model so I adjust that so the 3D model accurately represents how my drone is oriented. But still like the video shows I arm it motors start normally then when I throttle up and back down it just keeps going up and only stops when I disarm it so I had to catch it out of the sky. It doesn’t spin or do anything other than shoot up.

Here’s some things I’ve already tried/looked at
- Checked the motor and propeller direction physically and on betaflight. My motors are set as reversed because of propeller direction.
- checked to make sure the receiver throttle in betaflight was acting correctly, going from 1000 up and then back down to 1000.
- adjusted the 3D model, had to adjust alignment with the yaw setting to 225 for it to act correctly.

Please help this is super annoying and have tried and watched many videos. Feel free to ask any more about what I’ve done as I may have missed things I’ve tried. Thank you!!

u/Wilbarr — 19 hours ago
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Firefly 1.8 hover throttle much higher after AIO replacement

I replaced the AIO on my Flywoo Firefly 1.8 because I was having RX loss issues with the original board.

The quad now flies smoothly, but the hover throttle has increased a lot. With the old AIO it seemed to hover around 40% throttle, while with the new AIO it is closer to 55–60%, and the climb performance feels much weaker.

Props are correct, throttle reaches 2000, motor output/throttle limit are 100%, and the motors don’t get hot.

Has anyone seen something similar after replacing an AIO?

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u/pysnak — 10 hours ago
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I am starting fpv and don't know where to start

I have never even tuched an fpv drone in my life. So I was thinking of getting a meteor 75 pro kit but I also saw that there is an HD tipe of the meteor 75 pro but it is 100€ more. So I need someone to tell me what is better analog but cheper or HD but a bit more expensive.

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u/Mastodont900 — 19 hours ago
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How to get ELRS 2.4 protocol on Pavo Pico II SBUS?

Hello Guys!

I recently bought my first TinyWhoop but at my local store only the SBUS version was available and I previously got my RadioMaster Pocket with ELRS... Is there any way to use it without soldering anything? If I have to solder, what do I need to?

I read some pages... some of them tells thats firmware and on the otherwise tells that is a hardware feature.

Has anyone else had this problem?

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u/Swimming_Possible746 — 13 hours ago