Affordable Lost Drone Buzzer - Works When Battery Is Thrown

Links:
www.fullspeedrc...
www.gearbest.c...
Normal Buzzer I use:
www.banggood.c...
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[@nickschendel9880]

Finally someone else is making something like this and at a significantly better price. The hellgate looks pretty awesome, but that's still pretty pricey for what it is. Yes its going to save you some major $ if it can help you find a lost quad, but if you have multiples and you want to add one to each build its going to get real expensive quick. This is much more reasonable.

[@hypurrfpv9483]

I have 2 of the more expensive buzzers and they work great. Just this weekend I got a ~ $400 quad with a GoPro attached stuck high in a tree. Of course the battery came unplugged but luckily the buzzer was going and I was able to find where it was and retrieve it. I see many comments about how they are too expensive and they wouldn't buy one but the $30 I spent on one just saved me about $500-600 dollars. I didn't put them on my small quads or my racers, just my big freestyle quads that are more likely to get stuck at a distance. I'm so glad I bit the bullet and made the purchase. Also, having to press a button to turn it off makes placement harder. With the more expensive ones (Hellgate) you can bury it in the build and it turns off by plugging in for a couple of seconds so you can place it anywhere because no button to press.

[@LewisLeeFPV]

Hypurr FPV the Full Speed Lucky box buzzer can be also turn off through plug in and disconnect the battery

[@dronereviewman9580]

I like this!! Even if the battery gets thrown it beeps!!! Well if you can get it to work!!! Great channel Andy!!! 3rd time is a charm!

[@b0rnt0bealive]

Hello Andy, i'm currently bulding a long range quad and i've bought hellgate buzzer at high cost. I.ll buy the one you review for my next build for sure, Thank you. For crossfire you should not mount the antenna like this, when the quad pass from right to left(or left to right :)) from you, there's a deadspot and you will get weak signal even with strong vtx power. + both end of antenna is near carbon arm wich is conductive and near motor noise. A good way to mount it is verticaly. I know you will say "i'll break antenna every landing cause the bottom part." This is why i prefer the soft version of antenna. Krazy FPV and Joshua Bardwell explain how to mount it. You have a lot more experience than me but i'm currently installing crossfire on my long range build and this is what i learn from other pilot. Thank you for your work i follow you daily and you help me a lot in my choice in this hobby. Cheers.

[@billsomrak]

Very handy little item. As you said, the setup can be a bit fiddly, but, I guess you only have to deal with that once. This would really be helpful when flying the smaller racers .. 2 " to 3" class .. if you're flying over grass. I know I've spent a lot of time walking around trying to find a quad lost in the grass. Thanks for the review. Cheers.

[@AlabamaBassPlayer]

This is a much better buzzer then i have seen. If it works.

[@Heiple2007]

I think there is some good uses for this little gem. I know I myself would most likely have another $300.00 worth of drone/camera if one of my quads had had this baby on it before it hit the bushes. Think I'll have to pick up a couple. Thanks Andy, nice work. Jeff

[@shozzy69]

Good piece of equipment I can now see them making more of these and the price coming down

[@aarong.4691]

Dang. When I clicked I only saw affordable drone and the 10 dollar sign. Awesome review and product anyway!

[@CoppertopFPV]

You can buy the vifly finder for £11 from unmannedtech. It's twice as loud as the £30 hellgate buzzer. They also have a cheaper (but bigger one) for about £7.

[@ThePrzno]

So far, hellgate buzzer is best, no issues+no buttonn, works automatic and well, saved my quad few times!

[@Droning-ON]

Still a lot for a buzzer but better than hunting for hours in the 35c heat and still not finding the quad 🤑🤑🤑 good review dude!

[@AndyRCchannel]

thanks Ash I agree. The hellgate one is like 38 dollars!

[@timrodriguez1]

Holy cow, I could have used this yesterday....lol I spent an hour trying to find my quad after my battery was ejected. I heard of another option, but it was around $25 and way too expensive for a buzzer. So, this is a good option. 👍

[@nichill33]

thank you Andy for finding this. I recently lost a new 230 in 4' deep grass with an ejected battery. I think I had a gyro issue, as it was determined to continue in one direction. so I lowered and hit my kill switch not realizing how deep the grass was, looked for hours and nothing. :( so I built a 210 5 inch, now if I could only find a good place to buy batteries in Canada, got hit with tariffs last time I ordered from HK

[@carlgray4160]

Race Day Quads Is Were I get My Batteries.

[@didactylos4diddy474]

Looks like and is set up very similarly to the hellgate LDA. Since I lost a quad I've looked at a few of these and, although harder to mount, I still prefer the Drone keeper as if will fit in/on both planes and quads and is thus more universally useful. Even my bigger toys will carry it. _Not had to use it on the rc truck yet but now I'm fpv-ing that I might have to make another mount_ :D

[@kramersteensymes3523]

I have thrown many batteries, Great idea.

[@nevinleiby]

My idea is to focus on recovering the BATTERY of the quad. If you can find the battery, you'll probably find the quad. The battery will give days of power if not weeks without some microscopic battery. So I've been messing around with mounting my old r-xsr's and binding a locater model that can find my battery. You only need battery power to the rxsr to bind to it - no FC logic needed. At that point, it's just adding a buzzer by whatever means. Technically, it should be possible to do a transmitter + buzzer combination that you could use your transmitter to locate. Make sense?

[@daveday5507]

Congratulations for having the guts to show how it DOESN'T work. It makes programming a Taranis look simple.

[@AndyRCchannel]

Thanks Dave I'm hoping they improve it

[@lykenth08]

I had an idea like that watching your last video but it was much simpler and could be attached to anything, like the gopro, battery or quad lol - shame this one doesn't work well.

[@GeorgeCee]

nice review. I'll also stick with my hellgate buzzers. They work much better without the need to push a button on the buzzer. :)

[@BadChizzle]

I lost one in an orchard a few days back... and I swear the sprinklers were following me, man! Was weird!! Anywaaaay... luckily my Buddy found my quad for me, or I might still be looking. I was so far from where it actually went down that it’s a joke. He’s all, “what color was the one you lost?” I said, “red and black.” Then he answers, “ is that it on the back of my truck?” I looked and there it was!!! I had been looking for about 45 min. And he found it in five. Ha ha ha I say... friends are better than beepers, but imona still get one! 😂

[@AndyRCchannel]

Ah glad you got it back. yes always best to have a friend to help haha

[@BadChizzle]

AndyRC Yuuuuuup! Thanks!!

[@primitivocruz]

now this is realistic, i wouldn't pay $30 for a freaking buzzer

[@silvio2402]

Lipo Killa its 10$

[@LewisLeeFPV]

Thank you Andy

[@DerHeilendeLotus]

With shipping, it's $18... Banggood is coming out with something aimilar, forgot what it's called though.

[@Rich-TeaFPV]

I thought this was a CurryKitten video for a second there 😁 great review Andy 👍

[@psydafke]

Richard Warwick nah, then it would have the “Beavis - I’m the great cornholio”-intro 😂

[@CurryKitten]

I'm pulling my t-shirt over the back of my head next time :)

[@3000gtwelder]

Great video man! I really like the idea of a button to turn the thing off, I wish the HellGate had this! People say it is great that it does not have a button, I guess they never crash in water lol. I don't know about you, but I don't want to have to plug my quad back in when it's wet, just to turn off that annoying buzzer! Did you have it soldered to 5v, ground, and buzzer on the KISS FC?

[@BillMRC]

Hi Andy, good demos mate :-), pity this is not universally compatible.

[@Jesse-Rodriguez]

Good review. I'll stick to the hellgate. Button wouldn't be accessible in my build

[@yodayedi2325]

Great review, very good explained. Thumbs up! Sometime its a pain going through the manual instructions, this time not with your vid. :-)

[@Silor]

This is a great advert for hellgate buzzer. The thing you reviewed is like a crippled version of it

[@AndyRCchannel]

they both work the same. its just no one fitted the hellgate to these Fcs

[@DanielBrassard]

I’m not sure I 100% buy this “some fcs but not others” thing. One wire to 5v, one wire to ground, and one wite to bz (0V sink)... what about that is fc specific. I think it simply works sporadically. If that *is* something you can make fc specific, you need to really work at it.

[@Silor]

Seriously the button and menus is worse than a Unify. And the buzzing duration is incomparable as well. The biggest magic of hellgate buzzer is it's seamless button less operation. Noone has managed to copy that yet.

[@ruftime]

Be interesting to compare against the hellgate buzzer we got in the kwadbox

[@BirdlessFlight]

Heh, I'm using a Hellgate on my KISS V2 build just fine...

[@mariussthlm]

Birdless Flight i got Hellgate on Kiss v1 too , works exactly the same as Betaflight. I gues this is some issue with this particular buzzer.

[@ThePrzno]

So far best of them

[@christianprogrammer9131]

Finally got deeper into your video ---- so what gives with that last example its not supposed to have any motion sensor like the drone keeper mini/micro ... this thing is MIGHTY fiddly

[@johnshusdock411]

From full speed the shipping is $8.00 US!

[@danielraymond9395]

If only I had this 4 days ago. Lost my tiny tricopter after I lost video.

[@AndyRCchannel]

oh no :(

[@PlainVlogs]

Nice video Andy

[@ToddTube1]

I think I'll stay with the Hellgate 30 bucks to save a 400 quad is worth it to me.

[@miguelhurtado3873]

Very interested video Andy, I just lost my drone half an hour ago, I look for it more than an hour but NO drone. I wander if you or anyone can tell me if this buzzer will work for my other drone? Eachine wizard x220 V2? Also a GPS

[@MrMrluo]

I am new to FPV , in the past 6 flights I crashed 3-4 times lost a brand new battery and almost didn't find both 2 of my quad . I get so worried after 10 minutes of searching for them . So I was thinking if there is such thing as this buzzer out there .

[@taufekshariff8114]

What if the battery did not get disconnected? Will it still beep during a crash? I have lost three quads for not installing this buzzer and they were very disheartening. Tq

[@christianprogrammer9131]

Drone keeper Micro since the mini is no longer available is NOT A VIABLE Option at like $20 USD even though it uses a motion sensor too bad I liked my drone keeper mini-s even though they were not zip tie friendly ...I would just mount foam tape over them to protect the units ..

[@madera412]

Can this be used in a fix wing ... If so what would you recommend the set-up be.

[@loiczeq5551]

I bought it yesterday :)

[@LewisLeeFPV]

Jakub Woś Thank you

[@loiczeq5551]

Lewis Lee FPV ? ?? ;)

[@LewisLeeFPV]

Jakub Woś here is Lewis from Full Speed

[@loiczeq5551]

Ok I didn't noticed :)

[@briancourtice2858]

Can somebody please tell me how best to wire a Lantian 110dbi buzzer to the mamba FC? Thanks!

[@ivangutowski]

OMG typical, I just spent £25 on the helgate buzzer after being annoyed at the price. Then a week or so later the exact same product comes out here for a more reasonable price. Thanks for letting us know though.

[@RCinginSC]

I guess I don't know enough about how this product works but it seems like once the battery is thrown, it's basically hooked up to a dead FC. How does it know the difference? Also, I assume it still works as a lost model alarm triggered from radio. You didn't show that.

[@RCinginSC]

Scoot Roter ...I did watch the whole video and I know it had its own battery. You didn't understand the question.

[@sunrizer]

Interesting video! The question is: would this work with an kakute aio v1.3? Thanks

[@vanhuet74]

Anybody know how to connect this to a arttower f4 plus FC? I cant figure out were to solder it!??

[@krssnoop]

Does anyone know if it will work with butterflight?

[@ReeferNoob23]

Maybe you need to arm it first?

[@sambutcher4344]

Great video - really informative. I’m building a long range 300mm fpv drone with a Naza V2 FC. Is there a way of making it work with that?

[@AndyRCchannel]

I think this is just for betaflight style copters :-( thanks

[@gavinvales8928]

What's that first frame?

[@Zillawill]

Haven't finished video yet but Andy can this be used without a fc? I'm wanting to get a hellgate for my expensive planes in case they go down, but with these being much cheaper I could afford to put 1 in each of them rather then hotswap hellgate, how does loudness and battery life compare also?

[@AndyRCchannel]

They work with flight controllers only

[@coconutmage]

Just installed mine and still doesn't t work as supposed to. Same long sound draining the battery and a pain to turn it off. I should have stay away from these and payed the 20 more bucks for the original , my 2cents.

[@ChrisRiley3D-Everything]

i ordered one 3 days ago to put on my xjb 145 ,now i am scared it wont work right after watching you try it on your batman quad.

[@sebastiansombra]

Nice review! Its amazing how these things are getting cheaper and cheaper as there are more options in the market. I wonder how cheap they can go considering they need at least a Lipo and some sort of IC to work! I am currently building the DIY option that Oscar Liang posted in his blog (oscarliang.com/diy-lost-model-alarm/) which, although is way simpler (doesn't have as many options), depending on what parts you already have, it could be cheaper and you end with the satisfaction of building it yourself.

[@mattyg19821]

I've had LOTS of crazy crashes, but haven't thrown a battery yet. Am I in the minority here then?

[@RCinginSC]

Matt Gough ...I'm with you. I use quality silicon mat with quality rubberized straps. You'd need a pry bar to get that battery out.

[@CoppertopFPV]

RCing in SC if you fly through trees sooner or later your battery gets disconnected.

[@mrazalisalleh]

Hai bro..can this buzzer put to kingkong 95GT..

[@bobsterit]

Can you say How Loud is this.. is it any louder than the normal buzzer?

[@AndyRCchannel]

Same as the buzzers found on micros. Pretty loud

[@Matt-xy6cf]

i bought a geprc baby crocodile 5 and this mofo keeps beeping for 30min now with battery unplugged. any way to stop it . has this big beeper unite behind gps module and pretty sure the damn thing has a battery in it.

[@Matt-xy6cf]

There was a button i pushed and it stopped. haha niceee. And yes handy if losing the mofo. Now i have a crossfire question. quadcopter is in my home family room. i get in my suv and drive to other side of condo area and no matter if on 250mw or 1w power the bars on my radio go from full to instantly none and fail safe at about 500ft away. that seem normal? has to go through my home through another condo 100ft away from me then through my suv.

[@cozzy206]

Still going to stay with my Dronekeeper but thanks

[@rcpete7055]

What esc's are you using here Andy? The light up ones

[@AndyRCchannel]

Kiss 24a thanks

[@iulianbe]

I have this buzzer and it is nice and compact but it starts beeping after 5-6min of flight (during the flight). Does anyone else has this issue ?

[@AndyRCchannel]

That will be low voltage alarm on the copter

[@iulianbe]

@@AndyRCchannel I haven't connected the buzzer lead. I am using original buzzer for battery alarm. I am using the self powered buzzer only for finding the quad when the battery ejects.

[@mariopuzo4509]

Lmao we sell buzzers w/out a 90 mAh battery for 95¢ where I work.theyre high bucking the **** out of ppl

[@johnshusdock411]

That's $8 to ship to the US!

[@AndyRCchannel]

you can get free shipping from gearbest and soon banggood

[@johnshusdock411]

thanks Andy!

[@GeorgeCooper_LoneWolf]

I have the original Hellgate Buzzer looks identical part from the Hellgate cost me ( £24 ) kiss my ass Hellgate this just shows you ripped me off. In my opinion