GEPRC Vapor 5" vs. 6" -- under $250! But which is better?

[@sayyay6230]

Glad to see Some new offerings in 6inch. 6 inch are under valued IMO, The additional weight carrying ability, higher cruising speed while maintaining agility is so nice. Also there are some great 5.5inch props too. 6inch is a great for mid range acrobatic flight. 7 inch needs a decent investment in batteries, they sacrifice agility, I like to hike to fly and they don't pack as well and you have to carry that battery weight. 7inch are typically dead cat (for props in view reasons) and i personally don't really like the feel of dead cat frames. Thanks for the review JB.

[@krisgleave]

I bought the X6 on Ali Express in the Black Friday sales for £250 UK including shipping WITH O3. Bargain! I think it’s ace but one issue with the FC. It doesn’t allow you to connect to your computer and power the receiver too, you need a battery. Contacted GEPRC and they said it’s just that FC as it doesn’t support it due to a diode. They didn’t include the Moderna antenna on the Ali Express version for some reason but I contacted them and they sent it out for free so now I have the Moderna antenna too. Really nice drone I love it and fly with 1850 GNB HV and get a long flight time too.

[@demetriusdamarcusbartholom5700]

Drop the link!

[@demetriusdamarcusbartholom5700]

Oh wait... Black Friday sales. Oof

[@krisgleave]

@@demetriusdamarcusbartholom5700 it’s gone up now but it’s reduced again next week but it’s about £305 I think. Black Friday had an extra £50 off if you spend over £300.

[@andymattock397]

Watching the video, I noticed the 03 had a bung in it and I thought mines missing I'll order some of those from the guy who does the 3D printing for me. 1 minute later in the video, you pulled yours out and chucked it.! Thanks for saving me a few quid

[@Sek101]

I have an affinity for 6" quads, ever since building an Eachine Tyro 119 along with your build guide. Interestingly, the guts of that quad lives on in another frame, fc and esc still kicking...

[@JPspinFPV]

Been a while since I've seen a JB product review, takes me back. I still fly my old Roma F5 along with everything else. RIP Diatone.

[@nikhayes3396]

I heard blunty say that like 90% of his tech calls are people that buy something and instantly go trying to update fw and whatnot. I have only bought a few bnf quads, but Just since JB blows over it, What you should always do first, connect to betaflight and go to the CLI and run Version, Status, Dump all and copy all of that into a word doc. Clear the cli and run diff all and copy that into a word doc, Should make a folder in your documents called "drones" and save all of this info there. I also just keep my OSD preferences in a word doc, and paste that into cli and save, and fly it as is at least once or twice, just in case you get one that is DOA, if you try to return it, and they see you have made changes to the firmware, or ESC firmware you could have some trouble returning it. That way, if something does happen you have everything backed up. I highly doubt you can buy a BNF today that has really old FW on it, but if you want to go to emuflight or something like that, you can typically copy paste your diff all into the emuflight CLI and save, after you flash fw and it should be good.

[@jiatan_fpv]

Since BF doesn't lock the bootloader you can even make a copy of original firmware using STM32CubeProgrammer. That way even if the manufacturer used their own fork because the support isn't in a Betaflight release yet, you'll be able to revert to a working firmware.

[@GarethDix]

You’re going to put blunty out of a job with logical info like this

[@MCsCreations]

Fantastic flying and review, Joshua! Thanks!!! 😃 Merry Christmas! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@DroneDocs]

Wow impressed with the Vapor 5! Also noticed my Volador II X5 with all the prints and 4 sets of LEDS comes in around the same weights some how. No Batt is 463g With Batt is 690g (GNB 1500mah HV) Build is FlyFish VX5 II SpeedyBee F7 v3 Stack DJI O3 Foxeer Datura 2207.5 1960kv

[@DroneOn]

I like the battery pads that like, diatone used to have that had like a basketball rubber texture... Often, late at night for hours I would just rub on my pads and think about flying.

[@uborkaFPV]

holy ur cameras and the drones is insane quality

[@macius0-n]

your vids make my day better

[@spb1179]

When you do a full throttle punch out, it will perform significantly better if you have forward momentum. Try and cancel that out and go from hover. Helicopters have a rating for max ROC at a specific forward speed.

[@Firewolf-9389]

thanks so much josh you brought me into fpv

[@TopG-FPV]

GEP RC CUSTOMER SERVICE SUCKS!!!! Good equipment but I bought a brand new stack and the fc came DOA! They told me to go jump in a lake. Would not replace or return my money. Can’t buy from a company like that!!!

[@greenthumbfpv]

Yeh I was a fan until I had to deal with their customer service dept. They refused to cancel my order (as tax was made clearer) and informed me I'd have to pay £150 to cancel/return a quad. It hadn't been dispatched yet

[@DanieleBordignon]

The infamous cable protectors! lol

[@MooeeJoJoJo]

Bro put throttle mid at 65- 70 and up your rates a little , I fly 6 and five inch all the time 6”inch is my favourite and is definitely 90% as snappy forgot to add .. bi blades for the 6 inch give you more throttle range and snappyness so you don’t hit full speed so instantly giving you that odd feeling

[@MooeeJoJoJo]

But yeah not at snappy but 6 inch is for flow 5inch is like hardcore snappy freestyle,

[@lemonsquareFPV]

Yooo, someone that knows what they are talking about! My rates are tuned for every build. I have them so they all feel basically exactly the same, in the real world. People seem to not realize that setpoint FC rates and reality are not the same. I need different rates even on the same prop size platforms, depending on geometry, motors and prop style. Let's me fly super consistent when switching builds, and removes adjustment time and over/undershoot. Also Ethix K2s are my favorite 6" freestyle prop.

[@gpaull2]

All of my GepRC quads freak out when they bump something, and go shooting full throttle in a random direction until the idle switch is cut. Please do a video on how to fix this. It’s dangerous, and ridiculous that even the quads with prop guards aren’t set up to bump into things.

[@FelipeCristancho]

vapor X6 12min with p28a 6s1p mid range. 15min with p28a 6s2p and go pro 11 on it ❤

[@NRG_FPV-po4rx]

hell yeah a new budget drone keep it up bardwell thanks so much such a help

[@urbexandmystery]

Best Drone Nazgul 5 inch and 4 inch!

[@RizHassan]

JB, there is a Arduino headtracker on your goggles, what's going on...what's happening! Are you up for formation flying like we do at LFERC?

[@96Last1]

no that's a bdi digiadapter for analog

[@RizHassan]

@@96Last1 No, its not. Look up Badass Gimbal head tracker. I have one that I use.

[@boccatxrx5023]

Not sure but i think it might be for his FPV gimbal crawler..?

[@steriospeaker]

I have a basic question from a relative noob: what is the advantage of getting a drone bigger than the Mob 8 I already own? It just seems more expensive, more dangerous to fly, and easier to break? My Mob 8 goes pretty darn quick already, and I ‘may’ have flown it at least 500m in range, which I consider decent for a FS drone. So why would I benefit from getting a 5 inch? Are they more fun, or what? Thanks all 🛸

[@pelerinc]

More mass = fun to flick around and do tricks. Caveman like power. Also, ability to carry a GoPro (or whatever). Each size/platform has its pros and cons. Lately, I really like my 3" toothpick. They're cheap, batteries are cheap, quiet, and almost as fast as my 5".

[@Lukie5453]

I just bought the X5 3 days ago and im still waiting for it to come in shipping

[@DanielAx]

"GEPRC Dampftestbericht" - stop this translation madness KZbin, I speak english too, leave me alone.

[@j.scarpa6201]

What about 6 vs 7 inch quads? Looking to build a long range cruiser with heavy batteries and an action 4 but stuck between these 2 prop sizes

[@lemonsquareFPV]

7/7.5" at a minimum. I love 6", but it does best in either flowy freestyle or high speed chase stuff. Did half a dozen 6" long range builds, including the KOLAS folding frame, but it's just too small of a prop for carrying bigger batteries.

[@adarbertoluciano7045]

Awesome video thanks 😊

[@DanieleBordignon]

What's the white box on the goggles? A patch?

[@DudeWithFPV]

23:30 here ESC_SENSOR is important?

[@1111sharky]

would you recommend the 5" geprc vapor-d5 analog or the iflight nozgul eco?

[@DrEvo1983]

I bought the frames and did my own build

[@EthanLee-go9lp]

Should I pick this up if I just got a good pair of analog goggles, or stick with tinywhoops and lr until I get DJI?

[@xxxxxx-l6z]

build ur own

[@VinydFPV]

Get rc is doing this to compete with the ECO line from iflight... wich is a good thing! 👍 😊

[@TheTechWrap]

Whats that white component in goggle

[@nicholasiotti3672]

What do u have attached on the googles at the start of the video?

[@Kartoffeln59]

Hello, how can I pay you to help me fix my drone, and how?

[@TopG-FPV]

What do you need?

[@bspringer]

What is a steam test report? (German KZbin auto-translation of the title)

[@MitsukiHashiba]

Denke das ist von KZbin so gemacht. Er hat wohl native Übersetzung des Titels bei YT eingeschaltet.

[@X0X0LFertilizer]

Have the DJI 03 X6 coming in a few days, ordered it as my first drone.

[@LowetheTechGuy]

What battery are you running in each?

[@tomkoller749]

5 for freestyle 6 for long range 🤜🤛🤟🥰😊

[@lalbal731]

SHOW US THAT O4 LITE

[@miestermind]

LOL you rock. also "someone" is vacuuming LOL

[@Homemcardoso]

CPU load 62%??

[@GZC_FPV]

Because of the cost of high performance when flying, the general situation will not have any impact on the flight

[@HelloDonkey9]

Talking about geo fencing 😂

[@seandaugherty2033]

See you ain't that good 😂😂😂😂😂😂 just kidding you rock.

[@squarepebble]

Please stop the IA language generation, the french version is really bad. Better have proper subtitle than bad voice. There is zero emotion.

[@willcubemakes]

I'm pretty sure KZbin is rolling this out automatically

[@xedoken]

first

[@VinydFPV]

Gep rc stupid spell check 😢

[@CostaFPV]

Kkkjk JB in portuguese sucks 😂

[@DrEvo1983]

I have two of those… don’t like em

[@Krizon4]

WHY would flashing via passthrough be pain in the A ? It is most reliable and easiest way to flash Rx, and you really should show this, instead of messing with receiver with old deprecated firmware.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

There are all kinds of quirks that make passthrough not work for a lot of people. You need Telemetry turned off, I believe? And then the timing of the bootloader window. And if the RX powers on from USB, you have to solder the bootloader pad or push the bootloader button. It's just a lot of variation that makes it hard to tell people how to do it reliably. Whereas the web browser way works basically the same, every time.

[@LehtusBphree2flyFPV]

Trump and his stupid tariffs are making everything more expensive. He did this last time and we thought it was a chip shortage it was tariffs

[@HOSS3822]

Trump isn’t in office yet? He didn’t do anything