Dissapointed with my Evo range
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HiloHawaiian
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My only comment would be anything over a mile is impossible to keep in visual range, as we are all required to do, does it matter that much?
Last week, I got the chance to see an Inspire drone shooting a marketing video. I asked the pilot what he likes in a drone. Range never was mentioned. He wanted precise control, ease & consistency of flying specific routes. Even flight time wasn’t a big deal after 25-30 minutes. To be fair, compared to our flying, these shoots are well planned and therefore pretty short — less than 10 minutes...
Last week, I got the chance to see an Inspire drone shooting a marketing video. I asked the pilot what he likes in a drone. Range never was mentioned. He wanted precise control, ease & consistency of flying specific routes. Even flight time wasn’t a big deal after 25-30 minutes. To be fair, compared to our flying, these shoots are well planned and therefore pretty short — less than 10 minutes...
NewZona Rides
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I would add that a guy flying a Inspire 2 likely doesn't think about range at all since he has it in spades. Drone range is not just about flying far away. It is mostly about never loosing signal at a inopportune moment. Behind objects or flying low to water. Losing signal at off axis angles is also improved greatly in DJI products. With the Evo you pretty much have to always point your antennas at the drone even at short distances. The Evo is an improvement over the XSP signal wise but still way far behind a lot of DJI drones.
DJI is better in getting farther out however the EVO kills it in get HIGHER. 2600ft AGL makes it a good mountain explorer\search drone. You cant do that with DJi since the software will limit your altitude and the max setting that you can accomplish is 500m about 1000 ft less than the Evo.
Get a 4Hawks antenna. I have win out over 6500 m with the antenna and only came back because of the battery.
thanks but im not into modding my drone! im no technician,and for that i buy a mavic zoom!
I have a question
IF you lose signal ...is it within the Evo's design to RTH automatically ?
I have not ventured far with my Evo because of my location...NYC
I will be in the Adirondack Mountains area of NY this summer ...nothing but wide open space
IF i am out far..a mile or more,i lose a signal Will it do an auto return to home ?
Thanks All
IF you lose signal ...is it within the Evo's design to RTH automatically ?
I have not ventured far with my Evo because of my location...NYC
I will be in the Adirondack Mountains area of NY this summer ...nothing but wide open space
IF i am out far..a mile or more,i lose a signal Will it do an auto return to home ?
Thanks All
yes, as soon as it disconnects, returns to home, dont worry! when its near enough you will be able to control it again, remember to press the pause button long enough for the RTH to cancel
Had I not had my head up my a** I could have gone further, as you can see signal was acquired as soon as bird rose, do realize this is a very busy residential/commercial area with massive wi-fi volume everywhere around you.
hi, yeah! didnt try yet pointing them downwards, but yes, try everything! also tried, 5 10 20, and different types of transmission settings! what do you use?
A simple parameter mod can eliminate that 500m height limitation on any DJI aircraft, except the Mavic 2, and that will be fixed shortly.
You might not need to mod it. Range test after the antenna replacement by Autel resulted in over 3 mile range with FPV video. However, upon heading back because of the battery, signal was lost, RTH began, and telemetry continued to be displayed without ANY FPV for over 5 minutes! something odd going on! FPV video was not restored until I remembered how to cancel RTH with the Pause button. Weird!
Smooth and 5 are recommended. Antennas down will be necessary to attach any wind surfer, but you will need a windsurfer design that won't fall off with gravity. They make some that use rubber bands for resistance that I just received.
Haven't pushed my evo to the limits, max that I been out is ~1.5 miles (no disconnects). I had P3 Pro before. One think I definitely can tell that evo has much better/stronger range, for my P3 Pro the limiting thing was range for evo it is battery.
Few things I don't like about evo are: sloooooow, cant turn off gps mode and still images ar marginal quality.
I would like to fly ATTI mode by choice. If it flies slow, you should try turning off your obstacle sensors, also there was someone else that had an issue with the speed only going 5 mph forward, they returned it and the other one was fine.
Good thought on "turning off the obstacle sensors".
I wish that obstacle sensors could be turned off once for all flights. Currently I have to turn them off for every flight, little annoying.
I modded my Evo RC to accept the Titan Drones amped antenna system. It was easy peazy.
With this setup you can take off the front panel, which has the amps and battery, and just connect the antenna directly.
With this setup you can take off the front panel, which has the amps and battery, and just connect the antenna directly.
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No problem with range on EVO over non-congested wifi area. See recent 4 mile out 8 mi total flight (still with full signal when I turned around) - telematics included. Yes you will get weak signal at times but signal bounces right back (never adjusted antenna from takeoff to full range). Point antenna down and put onto tripod pointed direction of flight. Even rigged something to hold throttle forward so I could just pay attention to flight and telematics (see pic below). I do this at night with strobes attached to keep vlos whole time - this once did during day to record the journey.
