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Changing LIPO battery connectors

First question came to our minds is, really it is neccesary to change my battery connectors? Is it usefulll? Have any sense? Easy to do?  This question, like most in the RC hobby, could be answered the same. It depends . We would like to introduce you some posible situations to understand why could be interesting to make the change. Maybe you have began in RC some time ago with planes and now you are interested to fly with quads, but plane batteries are mount  different connectors. Could give second chance to your old batteries just swapping connectors. Perhaps you have bougth some new batteries, announced in a big photo with a XT-60 connectors. When these batteries arrived home you noticed that connectors are T-connectors and it was indicated in the webside, just below of the photo. You obviously need to change these connectors. And the final situation. You are navigating in internet and, checking your most visited webs, you have found a really crazy offer of batter...

Racerstar BR2205. Maybe the best low-cost racing motors

Looking back, in previous post, we were discussing about another low-cost brushless motor with great cost-benefit, RCX1804. Following with this premise, we are going to annalize perhaps the next step to our quads. Obviously, RCX are great motors to begin with, but you will like to improve the time you get more experience flying. So, it's natural to look for powerful motors to get faster flights. Racerstar BR2205 2300kv Taking this into account, we are going to introduce you the BR2205.  Once they have been tested, we can conclude are awesome motors to going faster. Those racing motors allow to save a considerable amount money without renounce to have a good performance.  Same brand offer two diverse power options: 2300kv and 2600kv. First one are the most extended and my recommendation, being so much easier to find. In terms of prices you could find it around 38/40€ in Europe and 28/30€ in China. Each motor is delivered in it's own red ...

Adding external DVR to FPV goggles

Being FPV lovers as we are, FDFlyers team know how only a small group of lucky people could have a Fatshark FPV goggles. Keeping in mind cost, you should valuate pros and cons a lot before purchase it.  Therefore, we love to get you cheaper alternatives to fly FPV, improving our basic goggles performance. So, we are going to introduce you how we join VR-007 Eachine goggles to Eachine ProDVR. Note that other alternatives are also valid to do it but we really feel this is one of the better one. VR-007 are used by our side some time ago and it works really acceptable, despite of his price. Obviously “premium” skills are not included (DVR, diversity…), and this is the main reason to set some improvements. This way these basic goggles would be stepping up to next level. What DVR is? DVR means, literally, Digital Video Recorder. It’s a very simple box capable to record digital videos. To our interest, very useful video recorder, directly from FPV camera. There are two ma...

ND filter. Preview

Going ahead with reviews we have finally received ND filter. It’s not tested yet but I would try to show you my very first lookup. ND filter As discussed in the previous post, it is an alternative complement to sports cameras, different from the UV filter. Remembering UV one, it doesn't affect the images or logs at all, but I have noticed it's very useful in protection performance. ND filter,  instead , set some slight changes to video records. Protection performance is the same as UV, but introducing some improvements, such as jelly effect narrowing, for example. As is known, jelly effect is the feeling of keeping the trembling in the video recordings. First lookup Contrast inbetween is very evident in first view after checking these filters (ND and UV), due ND filter present a smoked plastic cover while UV it’s totally transparent. ND filter (left) vs UV filter (right) Manufacturing instead it’s almost the same. Both filters are almost twins...

Sports Cam & UV filter

I would like to analyse this little UV filter to begin with reviewing section. This one is one dedicated to Sports cameras, as SJ4000 or similar. It's a small and low cost UV filter, easy to plug in with a little inside gummy ring. Crystal quality, obviously is not so good in order it is a very cheap spare part. Anyway, it doesn’t affects to camera lens view. UV filter & W9 sports cam Stronger enough to endure with regular impacts of the quads, may bear also with a couple of hard shocks (Fortunately, I have not tested yet). Then, probably you should change it, but your lens would be protected so far, for sure. Furthermore, if you are thinking in use it far from drone activity, be sure will be useful. It’s more discreet way to protect your camera lens from dirty particles than waterproof case usually are included in cameras packs, as could happens in locations as beaches.  Functionality Keeping in mind main functionality is UV rays filtration in you...