Folds, Under 250g, & 30min Flights? - DarwinFpv FoldApe4 Drone

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@chrisbee5481 8 ай бұрын

Converted my foldape4 to a freestyle ripper. Analog, took gps off. Replaced for a smaller antenna. 110g dry weight. Changed the props to gemfan 4024. Drilled the props to 2mm hole and made it press fit. Flys so much better.

@jorge6281955 8 ай бұрын

You should keep gps, to Rth in case

@chrisbee5481 8 ай бұрын

@@jorge6281955 To be honest you most probably wont really use this for long range. It doesn't have a built in current meter. So you have to estimate how much is left in your battery and find the perfect point of return. No one will long range that. Also the cruising speed is pretty slow. It's not that powerful and has very low pitch props.

@Goycrow 5 ай бұрын

Which battery ampere dor freestyle? 650, 850, 1050, 1300?

@chrisbee5481 5 ай бұрын

@@Goycrow tattu 3s 750mah rline or similar. The 550mah was too light and too heavy 3S didnt feel good either. 65g lipo is perfect. 130g lipo kills the performance.

@Goycrow 5 ай бұрын

@chrisbee5481 how much time flying freestyle with the 750? Im thinking to buy some 850 and one 1300 to do a long calm fly

@SLPFPV 7 ай бұрын

actually folds up so nice

@warmachined3472 7 ай бұрын

I love it it's the exact opposite of what I built. I built mine with 70mm EDF motors, it's six lbs and has a five min flight time.

@ejongiron 7 ай бұрын

So I just ordered this in analog. Besides my mini, mini 2, and a couple micro rtf fpv this is my next step I feel. I have the binding process down but am a little intimidated with the betaflight process. Any tips or tricks you can give to a newbie? Any changes I or settings I should make as a beginner? Thank you I appreciate your videos.

@patrickpendergast898 6 ай бұрын

What would be better for long range cruising? The flywoo explorer 4, rekon4, rekon35, or this foldape4? In analog of course.

@DomsaywuuhFPV Ай бұрын

Love your content brotha. I’ve owned my Foldape4 for a few weeks now and I absolutely love it. The GPS is a bit quirky at first but as long as you’re powering the quad up via micro USB for a few minutes prior to flight, you’ll have SATS locked. Tested GPS rescue and everything. Got about 1.8KM of range fairly easily.

@GearZenChannel Ай бұрын

In CLI set vtx_low_power_disarm=until_first_arm Sats acquired faster and rescue works great!

@DomsaywuuhFPV Ай бұрын

@@GearZenChannel Dang, I’ll try this asap. Thanks for sharing !

@gregorydahl 13 күн бұрын

I have a 2 Watt tx booster and a walksnail 1s and an frsky rxsr rx that would fit in mine . I'm expecting my fold ape in a few days . I got the analog because i didn't know or sure what 03 no 03 version meant . I think 03 no 03 means no vtx or ant camera . Maybe an 03 vtx plug . Maybe myine has elrs in it ?

@gregorydahl 13 күн бұрын

Ps you showed me how to bind my bugs 3 to my tx . Is there a way to get the low rc signal to beep ?

@wowarmy8154 4 күн бұрын

No 03 means there is no dji 03 air unit comes with the drone, and the foldape4 comes with ELRS receiver so if you wanna use frsky you gotta solder it yourself

@jorge6281955 7 ай бұрын

I'm definitely getting it, Great for the price

@glossyfpv1155 8 ай бұрын

Love the folding design coming to diy builds. DJI has cornered the market for too long. glad people are still making analog quads and expanding that field instead of just hopping on board digital and everyone switching.

@aksas6428 3 ай бұрын

Let’s see the go pro on it how did you mount the go pro on it?

@jorge6281955 8 ай бұрын

Man I like it, Now I have to decide from the Tern LR40 to this one, Which this one is cheaper.

@edevane-valencia-productions 6 ай бұрын

Just bought it as my first drone ^_^ Looks very promising. I went on their website and used a 6% discount code, also got the RTF kit + 2 more batteries & propellers

@timechaser4313 8 ай бұрын

Darwin just keeps knocking it out of the park! Awesome review Justin! Keep your chin up brother!!

@TheAerialAddict 7 ай бұрын

Great review video as always, Justin. You put a lot of time and effort into making these videos, and it is appreciated! This drone ticks a lot of boxes for me and I am hovering over the “Buy” button, but I find it interesting that the internet gets all excited about a tiny foldable drone with a 20 minute flight time (although I have yet to find a video of this drone ACTUALLY doing 20 minutes in the air) for the price point it is being offered at. When compared to say, the DJI Mini II, the DarwinFPV 4 inch FoldApe (who names these drones!!??) is really quite expensive and somewhat underwhelming performance wise. I can fly 22 minutes easily with my Mini II with a little more than 80 battery cycles on it, and it is loaded with (reliable) features that work really well. (Great GPS, downward sensors, ability to do basic mapping in Litchi, just NOT FPV!) Not to mention, it came with a transmitter, a really nice leather case, extra blades and three batteries. I really feel like these FPV drones are overpriced for what they are. I have been really keen to get back into FPV(I was flying FPV before drones were even a thing, really), but getting into the pure part of the hobby is financially daunting considering one needs to buy goggles, a transmitter, batteries, a charging system and then try and find a drone that will be fun to fly for more than 4 to 6 minutes. I actually recently bought the DJI FPV drone, and while I really wanted to build something and make it my own, it was just so much easier to plunk down the cash, and voila. I have goggles, a transmitter and a drone that just works and is actually a blast to fly. And, it flies for about 15 minutes at my lazy flying speeds. Yep, a POTATO that weighs nearly as much as a car, flies for 15 minutes! But it is NOT under 250 grams and that really limits the places one can fly. At least, it does here in Canada. The Darwin FoldApe looks to have a good setup for fairly long flight times and stable, fun to fly flight characteristics. I just wish it wasn’t nearly $600 for the drone and a few batteries. I only paid $650 for my DJI FPV drone (used only a few times) and it came with goggles, a controller and three batteries.

@dronecamps 7 ай бұрын

Maybe you can get mine for a good price! “Nice Price”

@TheAerialAddict 7 ай бұрын

@@dronecampsabsolutely! Let me know....😊

@dronecamps 7 ай бұрын

Send an email to dronecamps @ gmail

@DanialADHOfficial 20 күн бұрын

how much payloadd weight do you think this drone cana carry?

@Secretagogue 7 ай бұрын

No buzzer?

@woutersmith7616 7 ай бұрын

Hi. So what is the use of the Gps on the Foldape4? I am confused🤔

@jorge6281955 7 ай бұрын

Gps is to save you if you loose video, and to return home if you also loose video if you can regain video.

@woutersmith7616 7 ай бұрын

@@jorge6281955 Thanx🤠👍🇿🇦

@gregorydahl 3 күн бұрын

You get gps speedometer , altimeter , distance to home , gps rescue , return to home , direction home arrow . Lots of stuff . My fold ape just got 29 satelites cold start inside in minutes with battery power only from a usb plugged into my little phone battery using speedy bee betaflight for android . Other gps drones get intermittent satelights 11 or 12

@HuskerTheCat 7 ай бұрын

can i upgrade the VTX to something better to fly longer range or is the size too restricting?

@DreamFlyEcuador 8 ай бұрын

It's funny but when the caddx ratel broke on my baby croc I changed it to a nano 3. Through the wider fov I absolutely started exploring more. I bet the ant camara has a wide fov! Nice!

@daffes 2 ай бұрын

Is anyone else having issues with walksnail VTX overheating on this unit? It's scary to fly now because I never know when the video will suddenly shut down. I tried to minimize the time that the battery is on before taking off, I have enabled low power mode when disarmed and I have tried multiple batteries from 750 to 1250 with multiple discharge rates. I also reduced the VTX power to 200 without success. A few extra details: - I have a cinelog35 v2 also running walksnail that is not suffering from overheating - The bottom of the battery strap touches the VTX, not sure if this is contributing, but it's the default strap sent by them - Florida warm weather - Initially it would only shut down if I took too long to take off, or was hovering slow on the heavy battery, today it turned off even after doing a bunch of acro maneuvers - Usually after a few seconds on the ground it recovers the video signal - For the first few flights, I'd see a VTX warning and VTX temperature, I think the gauge might have died, or it disappeared after I updated betaflight/the vtx, I haven't been able to add it back on the OSD

@collegesynewave 5 ай бұрын

This one or the baby ape rtf kit?

@LaMakinaFotonika 6 ай бұрын

great video! Could you recommend a battery for maximum flight time? any 18650? Are 18650s lipo? Do they load the same? thank you

@dronecamps 6 ай бұрын

4Sp 3000mah liion

@LaMakinaFotonika 6 ай бұрын

@@dronecamps thanks

@cch201992 8 ай бұрын

Ok that's smaller than I thought pretty cool folds better that the fractal design wingman. I like the wingman it is cool but doesn't really fold that much smaller than when it's open plus like you said those motor wires are a pain to deal with when folding because you need extra loose wire in order for the drone to fold. With all of that said innovation starts somewhere so hopefully they find good solutions for all the issues brought up 🤷🏻‍♂️

@BrandonBennett-c1o 8 ай бұрын

Great, as always!

@Drone_Journey Ай бұрын

why did you put that plastiv stuff around that little white antenna beside the big one? do you have any clues how to improve range?

@SteadfastRC 2 ай бұрын

I want to get one of these and put my own analog vtx and camera in it, would I be able to do this if i order the "no 03 " version that doesn't come with any video gear or is this version a dji specific thing?

@fusiondecor 7 ай бұрын

Before I order, I always check if there are spare parts or even frames only are available. I do like this folding frame, but there seem to be no spare parts or frames only available, so this is a no go for me.

@dronecamps 7 ай бұрын

There will be frames. They make tons of parts. Give them a little time.

@epiphany187 7 ай бұрын

I just got this drone how do u attach the 18650 batteries?

@Bollibompa 6 ай бұрын

Velcro

@zenlucille 8 ай бұрын

Dropkick Murphys, awesome band !!

@taylorowen7558 8 ай бұрын

ohh Shit..... DROPKICK MURPHYS!!!!!

@PatrickBoudreaux-vy8xx 2 ай бұрын

What radio did you use

@jorge6281955 4 ай бұрын

I just bought this Darwin 4, How do I bind it to the zorro master radio?

@Leemaw 8 ай бұрын

Great review.....is the 03 version compatible withe the DJI remoter controller 2..?

@dronecamps 8 ай бұрын

It should be. 👍🏻

@beimanuel942 7 ай бұрын

both dji fpv comtrollers work, motion controllers do not

@Taylor-ix6rh 7 ай бұрын

Yes

@genefoxgreenmountaindroning 8 ай бұрын

Looks like a cool little quadcopter for the money are you using analog

@Kyeguy1 7 ай бұрын

How do you get the fold ape to bind to elrs? It doesn't seem like there is a wifi option like most other receivers. I'm running elrs 2.4 at 50hz. Any tips to get it to bind to my controller?

@surfnskate3137 6 ай бұрын

Try to plug and replug the lipo three times (keep it plugged in with the third cicle), then it's in binding mode and it should connect to your remote

@Mupshot 8 ай бұрын

I like it regardless of the foldability. Im not convinced that being able to fold it is worth having multi piece props or having to remove screws to fold it. is there a place to put the screws when its folded so you dont lose them? although I guess having the option is nice, so long as the frame is rigid when you are flying.

@MrPhilbautista 8 ай бұрын

The Chinese way is to keep the screws in the plastic baggie they came with. The American way is to buy a tin of mints, throw away the mints, then keep the screws in the tin.

@jorge6281955 7 ай бұрын

Question, Can you put other props on it, I don't like does props. Thanks

@dronecamps 7 ай бұрын

Yes you can

@jorge6281955 7 ай бұрын

@@dronecamps what do you recommend