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There are lots of ways to get your quad back when you crash. But if your battery ejects, you're kind of screwed. Not any more. Hellgate buzzer, ViFly Finder, and FullSpeed Lucky Box Beeper are self-powered LOUD buzzers that you install on your quad. When the battery ejects, they start buzzing and tell you where it's at.
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[@JackbearFPV]

"Hey I'm in your trunk! I lost power!" Now that was funny!!! 🤣😂🤣😂

[@Smt_Glaive]

The first quad I made was around 400$ .. I lost it during the 4-5th flight on the second day...( Noobie)..😂😂 Kept looking for a week and then found it in a sugarcane field. HAPPIEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE.

[@reckonsin_fpv]

I lost a $225 drone The first day flying it out in a open field. The grass was long and And I still haven't found it after a week. This gives me hope I'm going back today and looking again. Thanks for giving me hope that I might find my drone again. lol

[@acain6803]

@@reckonsin_fpv did you find it?

[@reckonsin_fpv]

No I never did find that drone. But I did replace it and have gained a couple more since then. Every one of my drones have a lost beeper on it now. Well except for the really tiny ones.

[@Gereon_]

I know this comment is old, but isn't it insanely dangerous to just abandon your quad in a freaking field? I have heard of an incident where a lost quad got caught in a harvester causing the LiPo to blow up and literally burn down an entire field.

[@aymen3962]

@@Gereon_ yeah I also lost a drone in a parc… there’s probably millions of drones lost all over the world

[@mshane86]

I just bring my dog, he always finds it then gets rewarded handsomely. The hard part was teaching him to show me where it is rather than retrieving it but it only took a day of poor flying... Then he trained my friends dog. Way more expensive but if you have one already maybe try it out.

[@fz8964]

I hope you could make a video of it someday ,that should be fun. I've a dog too(amstaff), but I don't want to end up losing both my dog and quad.:)

[@noname-wo9yy]

until your dog enthusiastically pieces the battery.

[@gautamkrishna7421]

@@noname-wo9yy once i was too lazy to try and put a c clip on my motor after taking it apart and the bell came off during a crash. Woulda never found it. But thankfully, a dog was following the entire time and pointed it out to me

[@user-pv3dz3qu5u]

You can even train your dog to 'find' others drones. Even they never lost them :-P

[@chiefshalot2986]

Drone finding dogs lmao I need one lol

[@MrHugs17]

The long beeping runtime is the biggest factor for me. I fly mid-long range over southeastern forest canopy. The thought that I can come back the next day, and it will probably keep beeping is a game changer

[@juangassa]

Joshua, you can find your quad with the coordinates on your DVR if you have a GPS

[@licensetodrive9930]

I once saw an eBay listing for a 'drone that had been left out overnight in the rain', it was obviously something the seller had found because the picture of it showed the battery was still plugged in!

[@FilipRadelic]

I went with Fullspeed Lucky Box mostly because it was the cheapest but I also liked that little menu where it lets you select how long after losing power it arms and how often it beeps. It also has the audible battery level indicator when you connect it back to power which I thought was cool but really isn't all that useful because unless it was sitting in the field for hours or on your shelf for weeks it will always be full and this way I just wake up the entire building if I plug it in at night while working on my quads (also turned off all beeps in BF other than RX_SET and RX_LOST) :) The led is also nice addition if your quad lands in a way that it's visible. Would be great if it had another one on the opposite side so that you could mount it in a way that one led is visible from each side of your quad. Anyway it's good to see competition heat up like this. I never lost a quad but definitely wanna reduce chance of it ever happening and this is a great and a cheap way.

[@gus8378]

A good idea might be to put reflective tape on your quad. Even if you're out of power you could use a flashlight or your phone to find it

[@ryanrings7391]

I literally just lost my quad after watching this video.

[@jordanjjn]

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[@feldrik]

I've got a hellgate buzzer and it is a lifesaver. I broke my xt60 connector on the PDB side in summer and couldnt make the buzzer to stop in the field and in my way back home because I could'nt put power in the FC anymore, until I got back to my work table at home ;-)

[@snailfpv]

Feldrik you can disarm it by connecting a 5V pad on a buzzer with thw actual buzzer smd unit +pad on its bottom left corner ie with tweezers. Need to add this to the manual though. We omited the button so it wont get pushed by accident by a piece of scraggle or anything else during a crash. Same reason for not having a jst plug so it cant get disconnected easily.

[@feldrik]

That makes sense but I didn't had anything to reach directly the buzzer at the time. I will add something to my backpack for sure in the future. Thank you

[@feldrik]

I think I will solder a litlle jst connector in addition directly to the buzzer to plug a little 1s Battery only to disarm it in case of trouble. Will it make the job?

[@feldrik]

No problem at the time, I will see in the future if it is the case ;-)

[@K_Nasty]

I have the "v2" coming and they listened to you . thanks

[@bastija6058]

Thats right "First 30sek on 40dB and than it crushes Ur Ears I think xD

[@Big_Red_Wade]

Took me and a mate 35 mins and it was 15 meters away lol

[@SirFrag32]

Been there before. Lost mine in tall grass and was practically stepping on it when i found it, lol.

[@cannibalholiday]

I was really surprised how they can vanish. I was 10 feet away from one in a field that was cut down about 4 inches high and it was practically invisible.

[@chiefshalot2986]

Been there many times. The best thing from experience is to. Sit wait relax breathout the negative vibes then when the emotion has passed laugh it off and then you can find it easier.would seem to work. I always get mad or frustrated this hobby is supposed to be fun lol

[@Thisguyandhiscamera]

I feel your pain. Lost my tiny hawk freestyle in just med height grass at a school yard. Five minutes into the search, the lawnmowers came out. I now have a buzzer.

[@michaelreagan2028]

I have used the Hellgate and the Vifly. If you have the room, definitely get the Vifly. It is LOUD!

[@TechnicallyTom]

The Vifly’s volume can be annoying close up, but here’s where it can save your quad, especially if you are flying DJI. There is a bug with the air unit where recording on the air unit will intermittently prevent the OSD elements, both DJI and Betaflight from updating correctly. The items that fail to update are for voltage and current. It’s really easy to end up with a low battery without any indication in the OSD. The Vifly will warn you of low voltage and because it is so loud, you will be able to hear the warning further out. This has save me from dumping my quad in the water at least once.

[@Thisguyandhiscamera]

00:17 "Come help look you Bastards" Hahaha! (I know the feeling)

[@nevinleiby]

If you have video at this point, it’s very helpful. Disconnect the omni attenna and see if you can get video with your patch. Then, take your patch and shield it with your hands and point the patch antenna around - walk towards the direction with the best signal. Once you’re reasonably close with great video, pull all of your attennas off - repeat. It can get you to within a few feet - GPS module from ublox. I have one, but havent tried on my quads until I build my long range. - Bring a bike. I strap one on my car and it’s amazing. Ride around and look in open grass or good for bandos to park out of the area and bike in. - Ive been trying to get a model together that straps a rxsr or transmitter right onto the battery. It works, but I havent figured it out completely. Therefore your battery would be transmitting it’s own signal and you can use your transmitter as described above **to locate your battery**. Therefore, you’d have a LONG time until you’d loose your rssi signal and buzzer which can help you get close to your quad. To use, switch from the model that you fly with to your model bound to your recovery transmitter. i.imgur.com/QCmwBti.jpg

[@rudedog5150]

More great input. so simple to do also. Thumbs up

[@GeorgeCooper_LoneWolf]

I picked up a Hellgate Buzzer months ago and I must say it has saved me a lot of headache. I put it on my 3inch and I'm Bloody glad I did. The only downside is I paid around £30 and you can pick them up now for about £13 But what ever one you get, you will be happy you did. Nice JB

[@AndyPorter79]

If this isn't in your cart before the BNF you choose, you need to start over from the beginning. Best fpv product ever

[@milspecfpv]

I've been flying for 3-4 years now and didn't know about that FatShark feature. I learned something today!

[@milspecfpv]

The auto record feature......

[@ElyPenner]

Lost my drone yesterday and spent half an hour looking for it in knee high grass, wet with rain. So I'll be investing in one of these now. Cause we walked about 6feet beside the drone the first 2 minutes of searching.

[@kb3guz]

I put 1/4” x 1/4” or larger pieces of good-quality reflective tape on all sides of my multi-rotor and fixed-wing aircraft. Makes them relatively easy to find after sunset with a spotlight - even in tall grass, brush, trees, etc. The spotlight will light up the reflective tape if/when the light hits it. Works amazingly well. Practice with it before your drone goes missing. I'm also experimenting with $2 Bluetooth ”keyfinders” from Banggood, etc. and free or low-cost Bluetooth transmitter locating apps. Some key finders and apps work better than others. The Bluetooth devices are low power, but they have unique IDs, which facilitates tracking your own device amount other devices. The Bluetooth key finders and apps can help you know when you are within a couple hundred feet of your quad - then use the spotlight.

[@jeremyking7790]

I like your reflective tape idea . I never thought of it but it would be great once the sun goes down as long as you have a general location .

[@rklauco]

Yeah, I had 2 of them on my desk while my quad crash-landed into a sunflower-field. Backwards, so the dvr was of no help. After 2 hours, hair full of spiders and t-shirt full of various bugs I found the quad, luckily. The same evening I wired the Vifly (cost less than $5 now, btw). Today, I had 3 smaller mishaps, one ending in cornfield with broken battery leads. Thanks to this, finding the quad was a piece of cake - my daughter found it in seconds. No more flying without it, ever :)

[@KremerFPV]

I measured the noise level of the Vifly in my review - it was 10db louder than the Hellgate and it's definitely sounds much louder (Even too loud on my bench 😛). The only drawback, apart the argument that it took some inspiration from the Hellgate is that it's much bigger. Thanks for the informative review (as usual) Joshua.

[@dontaylor8103]

I just watched 17:23 minutes of buzzers. My motivation? I fly high overhead my and neighbors house. Then the battery flew out when it went behind a tree and my sightline was temporarily blocked for a few seconds. Darn. Lost the quad. Deep in the woods behind the houses across the street. No buzzer. No joy. No find. Will wait till all the leaves and grasses die down. The look again. Sigh. Should have watched this vidio last week. Not this week. Hahaha. Thank you JB!!! Love your stuff.

[@timk8021]

Probably going to jinx myself but, I’ve stopped installing buzzers all together. Can’t remember last time I had to look for a quad. Yep, just jinxed myself. 😵

[@topcatgc1]

THNX JB, I HAVE HAD THE HELLGATES IN ALL MY QUADS FOR 3 MONTHS, SAVED ME MANY TIMES, EXCEPT IN WATER

[@brianroberts5740]

I love to learn things!!!! Personally I've never lost quad( oh, and I think you're the first I've seen use the word " quad " instead of " drone" because they're NOT drones. Drones are autonomous and don't require a pilot. At least that's how I see it. These little buzzers are just what I need then I can keep saying it. Thanks. Great review. And I did learn something. I'm getting a few of these.

[@jklong03]

I love my "model finder" mode on my Eachine Pro58 w/Achilles V1.8! Of course not if battery gets ejected, but if not it has directed me very accurately in the correct vector. I also just set my buzzer for any failsafe, and switch transmitter off if I can't see where my quad landed (all too often I am afraid 🤣)

[@andreaskrause]

Ordered the buzzer and some sticky-pads. Thanks for the video!

[@fpv_austronaut]

First I got the hellgate buzzer for my "midrange quad and I put it into my "things to test" box. Last friday I lost my quad in the forest, the strap was ripped off and only caused by fortune I found the quad after 2 hours. First thing I did was to hook the hellgate buzzer up in this quad xdNow I ordered 3 more different lipo driven buzzers (clones) because I can (do not want) to afford hellgates in all of my quads.These buzzers are very helpful and not that much bigger than standard buzzers. So they are going to be my standard in future.

[@KingFPV]

Excellent. lol at 11:53. I need to grab a few hellgate buzzers & it is nice to see comparisons of others bc I wasn't even considering anything else. I used my DVR footage & the almost marco-polo method with the directional antenna on my goggles you mentioned earlier in the video to locate my drone 4,000 ft up the side of a mountain & after that immediately installed 2 of the loudest buzzers (not FPV-specific) I could find. When the hellgate buzzer became available I knew I wanted to scoop up a handful bc even as a freestyler with short ranges lately, there is still the threat of getting lost in tall grass, weeds & underbrush as well as an ejected battery. Thanks, JB.

[@tinman7743]

Still in mourning with the loss of my quad . Vilfly will be a future purchase. Nice video. Hindsight is a wonderful thing !

[@JoshHowell_profile]

I added a button to my HellGate and it's the best of both worlds. One big issue is if you fry your FC and don't have a way to disarm the buzzer, adding a button to the HellGate (short buzzer + to 5v) you can disarm the buzzer without having power to the buzzer.

[@bernharddiener2735]

13:38 it will never be triggerred for 30sec because it is only triggered for the short duration of a single beep itself. you would need to programm some more complicated stuff like if the beeper is off for less than 1sec between the beeps, it counts as one activation. And if that is true for more than 30sec, it gets louder to full volume.

[@califpv]

Have this on 2 of my micro 3"ers has helped me a couple of times

[@jeff7397]

Thanks, definitely picking this up. On monday I spent 2 hours in terrible conditions looking after the battery was ejected.

[@FubarFpv]

Love my Vifly finder!! It’s literally saved me hours of searching for lost quads loads of times already!

[@ignisnatus3839]

I would buy the VIFLY. I prefer the louder beep. I'v lost a quad before, and its heartbreaking. If you fly around woods, or tall grass, you need one of these. I'm waiting for RDQ to get them in so i can order one. Also the ability to buy one, and put it on the quad I'm using at the time, or just not use it at all, is a major bonus.

[@benaresq]

One other quad finding idea that I've read about but never implemented is reflective tape on the frame and go back at night with a flashlight.

[@thesoundlab6858]

I recovered my quad out of the Ohio River by using my goggle recording the following day. ALWAYS run you dvr. I also use Vifly too. There are 2 versions. Josh is showing the totally self power version. The wired one in is smaller fyi. Keep up the good work Bardwell

[@HighVoltageMadness]

Dvr is useless if the reason you crashed was a video loss.

[@trelaskillz4283]

This was very beneficial for me. I appreciate the comparison. As a new pilot... I’m always worried I’ll loose my quad but I haven’t had to look for it any longer than 5 minutes. I normally have a landmark while flying that will get me close enough to spin the props as necessary to get its location. However, if landing in high grass or maybe a group of trees.... a buzzer probably would help.

[@jyunte]

JB... You don't need to turn off the receiver to configure the DVR to always record. Just turn on the DVR by long pressing the button, then long press it again to get to the menu.

[@bintelfind]

you have to turn off the rx.... technically it would work but you dont see the menu... so whenever you want to access your menu's in the fatshark goggles you have to turn off your rx in order to see the menu acutally... otherwise you'll just see white noise.. - at least for dom v3 and earlier..dunno for hd3 and hd0

[@jyunte]

bintelfind OK, but it's not required for the HDO. Seems Fatshark updated something!

[@fpvwing]

That intro... I nearly cried...

[@1etunimi1sukunimi]

Another epic video. Gotta love it. Heyyyy!!!! I'm in your trunk! Also respected the moment when you gave the buzzer some cpr to "revive" it! =] Every reviewer I've watched had problems shutting these bastards down and that's the main reason I didn't get one yet. I hate loud noises and if I get it after every flight, nightmare.

[@LeonMatthews]

The HellGate was NOT the first product like this, Screamy was. Such a great idea, and it was Open Hardware (and firmware) to boot. I backed Screamy on Kickstarter way back in 2014. They cancelled it after Hobbyking agreed to manufacture the device, and I bought a couple from them. I think they went for USD$25 or so. Unfortunately there was a manufacturing fault and the buzzer was really quiet in the first batch of units. The reviews were universally terrible and the product sank and the company seems to have disappeared. Nice to see that their idea lives on, however! Check out this video from Hobbyking in 2015: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGman3ifhrKMq8k Kickstarter project: www.kickstarter.com/projects/1626733924/screamy-a-durable-lost-uav-alarm?ref=discovery&term=screamy

[@sleepyheadfpv1507]

Leon Matthews I was thinking the same, but he didn’t say the first ever drone buzzer. Just one that is that loud and that tiny self powered.

[@tobiasworner5106]

@@sleepyheadfpv1507 not the first buzzer... But the first loud one with battery 15:36min

[@Martin1519]

I need this, last time my quad dropped from the sky I couldn't hear my beeper until I was only a few meters away!

[@tjburke79]

I have a hellgate and it has paid off more than once :-)

[@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?

[@rudedog5150]

Great idea

[@lovefpv7786]

Brilliant, I just thought along the same lines as you did. You could put any kind of beacon (a telemetry RX) onto the balance lead of the battery, no other modification required. Just make sure it's secure -- are there any latching XH receptacles?

[@KingFPV]

Great idea!

[@muratturel]

Superb logical idea... but what if the quad is out of range of the receiver/transmitter? I have been using a lipo tester connected to the battery.

[@nevinleiby]

Murat TÜREL It more along the lines of easily improving what we have. Nothing 100% retreivable. The whole setup is smaller and easier to mount and deal with than gps, etc. It gives you more range than any beeper. Id like to think that gps would be ideal, but it involves alot more steps, antennas, potential subscriptions, cost and complexity.

[@arycave]

After 1 year of buying it. They replaced every one that arrived dead. Totally I've had 4. 1:4 is a working one. I had to shoot a video to proof that they were really dead because they have requested it. They have had very bad QC, i dont know if it improved since because I won't risk buying it again. But the one working really paid for itself after my quad stuck at the crotch of a pine tree over 80' up at night. I located it far from distance by its blue LED beacon. Next morning it was still tiredly chirping. And no, it is not more loud than others.

[@user-pv3dz3qu5u]

Man, you are definetely best narrator on youtube :-)

[@dubbydub9245]

Have you ever lost a quad? 😢😭😭😭

[@licensetodrive9930]

Little known fact about the analogue output of Fat Shark goggles when you're playing back DVR footage - it only outputs NTSC, even when you're playing back PAL 25fps footage. But when it's outputting the analogue signal from the RX module it outputs PAL from a PAL camera and NTSC from an NTSC camera.

[@touchthesun2448]

great video...as usual! I need to put one on my readers...no more asking Google "where are my glasses?" I can put one on my CAT TOO! His collar supports 6S

[@dutchmetalmaniac]

is that a 6s 10000mah?? poor cat!

[@TheKrisBunch]

Yeah. Turn down ESC delay to 1 min. Turn up beeper volume on esc to max. As long as your battery doesn’t eject you should be good. Another trick for battery retention is to insert tooth pics into the XT60 plug on the quad and then break them off.

[@plompib]

This is a must. Just lost my quad.. the battery didn’t detached it just went dead before I could get close enough to hear the built in buzzer :(

[@rizeglass]

I have been flying for years and never knew about auto recored on fatshark dvr. Thank You

[@cmtetaboaco]

the Vifly is the best! I want a buzzer to buzz loud! as loud as possible, I lost a quad already, and you never know when it will happen!

[@madfictionfpv8246]

I agree with this. Where I fly there are dirt bikes and hard to hear a small beep. I need volume. I lost a quad with my gopro once, never gonna happen again.

[@cmtetaboaco]

@@madfictionfpv8246 now I want to try the Flywoo that comes with 2 buzzers!

[@mjbrennan99]

Enjoy the videos. I think the community needs you to take a hit and give us actual run times for the beeping.

[@madtoffelpremium8324]

I just lost my quad in a forest a few days ago, my next one is definitly getting one of these.

[@gavachkin]

I bought fullspeed, and do not regret it. Put it on the 110mm frame, it was difficult to have access to the button had to split the buzzer and battery and distribute them on the quadcopter.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

For what it's worth, the fullspeed also can be disabled by the plug/unplug method.

[@marinehm]

I did lose my quad in a row of dense trees. This would have been nice to have. It was on my wish list. New quad had it before the camera. Generic Hellgate buzzer for added insurance. I want at least another 1,000 or so crashes before I lose another drone. But, building them is fun!

[@austinsmith9413]

I have lost my quad in the exact same tree like 4 times. It's not even that tall of the tree. It's just blends in very well.

[@ayrow69]

LOL. This video was a lot of fun to watch. Love your candor, Joshua. :-)

[@BigAlFPV17]

I'm going with the ViFly buzzer. Very well explained with that & the other 2

[@tonyhorton6752]

Ordered my vifly today good job on video as usual buddy 😁

[@taufekshariff8114]

Hi JB! My name is Taufek from Malaysia. Been watching your videos for quite some time and today, after watching this video...yeah...i've learned something new for retrieving a lost quad. I have built four quads so far and have lost three of them during some crashes. Since i'm left with just one quad, i've placed an order for the buzzer and hopefully i won't lose it this time around if i crash again. It's so heartbreaking to lose the quads one after another. I wouldn't understand the part of the dvr you mentioned in the video as I do not own a goggle because I fly LOS only. It's so disheartening to lose your precious quad especially for someone who is on a shoe string budget like me. My quads were the realacc x210 frame kit by banggood as they were the best i could afford. No camera, no vtr and no goggle as this frame kit flies beautifully, Los only. BTW, this is the first day of our festives season in Malaysia and most countries of the muslim world. Come to my house and I'll treat you with the best meals like lemang, ketupat and rendang... I've enjoyed most of your videos and will take the necessary steps to install a buzzer as you recommended in this video. Thank you so much bro for sharing this info. Taufek Shariff

[@jfh667]

(1) Hell gate now has a v2. Substantially bigger, a lot louder. (2) Hell gate is simple and direct. Im sure id get use to the others, but i like simple and direct. (3) Ive never lost my lipo on my QAV-R. I lose my lipo ALL THE TIME on my QAV-X.

[@BengalCatChilli]

Dvr and a buzzer saved me the other day. Xjb was 30m up a tree. Had to climb to get it and drag three brooms tied together up with me 😂

[@masterrc_student4259]

Great comparison. Racers can benefit from the small one.

[@radioactive9002]

Thanks for teaching me something new I did learn today thanks josh I'll definitely will be buying one of these

[@2strokeme64]

Another tip to avoid un plugs, run the pig tail inside the battery strap. ( use plenty long pig tails)

[@butteredbutter420]

i definitely learned several things today. thanks jb

[@GlowShow5113]

Bardwell you should do a flight video with the trailer park boys theme music playing. Lol. The end of this video gave me the idea

[@ZylonFPV]

I didn’t realise you could set the fat sharks to auto record all the time! That would have helped me that day when I lost a quad for 3 days 😛 I like the buzzers. The hellgate seems good but I see a problem.. if you disarm it by plugging in power, what happens if your quad has damage to its power system? What happens if it got wet and you don’t want to plug it in? The vfly is super loud which is good, I guess I would have to disable all beeps in betaflight though if I wanted to use it without getting deafened

[@CockroachFPV]

Awsome buzzer. . I totaly get one

[@Maxpakts]

I dont like the Hellgate Buzzer with the replug disarming. I would rather not have to reconect it with another 6S spark after every flight. A local guy recently lost his battery at a crash in the field and we could not stopp his hellgate buzzer during the whole search with a lot of people as we brougt no battery. Slightly annoying!

[@graydi66y]

Should have a smoke stopper on hand.

[@brennanlarnder7692]

I use a ublox gps and always record so when if it goes down and i lose it i can go back to the video and see my last coordinates before it went down and put it in my phone and go within 5 feet of it.

[@bastija6058]

Nice, thaught it World be as easy, than I lost mine in a field and realized that 1. Dji Goggles dvr has nothing recorded. Second lost on a nothing day I realized that dji dvr does not record the GPS coordinades in dvr Video.. -.- I online Flunder it with Beeper.. and a lot of stepping thrugh the fields because the Beeper was so quite.. (without ejecting the lipo ) sry for the bad English

[@bastija6058]

I heard that tbs tango can save coordinates too, this would be nice

[@DarkOman]

I lost my quad once (found it the next day) with the broken arm and chopped wire. Places I fly are quite difficult for searching the lost quad so for me this item is vital. Already have the loud one. More weight but even with the battery attached finding the fallen quad is much esier cause of loud buzzer

[@tylerfoulds5720]

You had me laughing out loud watching this when you got to the ViFly...

[@Kevin.OBrien44]

I lost my eachine wizard on my grandparents roof and never got it back. I don’t know if this buzzer could of helped 😂 Edit) I got it back with hooks on my new build!!! And amazingly It works fine besides the water damaged camera lens

[@Kevin.OBrien44]

Anthony Flores I got a ladder and was about to go get it then my grandma came outside ant told me it was to dangerous to get

[@DanielKalanja]

Last time i nearly lost my kwad. My video antanna was bad placed and i had total lost of video from one second to the other. I had just a draft guess where it could be grounded. Bad timing also for my loc8tor (drone finder) because my loc8tor battery was dead... The grass was more then half a meter high - nearly impossible to find anything in there. So lets activate beeper i thought, but the only thing i could hear where birds, and grasshopers, but no beep from my drone. Yea my remote beeped too because i also lost receiver signal more or less. After running around searching where it cold be i rememberd to use RSSI signal to bring me back to my drone. Due to a broken antenna on my receiver (lucky me) i had nearly no signal on my remote...just if i putted it over my head then i got a small signal...turning around to find where the best RSSI signal comes from and walked this way. Checked signal streangth all the time, if it goes up walk further, if it goes down rescan area where best signal comes from. Walk along that path and finally between bird an grasshopper sound i could hear a tiny beeep beeep from my drone....i followed it and got my drone back! WOW i was happy. RSSI is for me now one very very important stuff - saved me alot of money!

[@XZLR8N]

My Hellgate buzzer ripped off the other day...so I just chucked it in my neighbor's yard and let it beep. It finally died in the rain today.

[@michaelmatthews6421]

lol

[@MCsCreations]

That's the best prank ever! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@UAVfutures]

reading this really made me laugh haha thanks

[@danman7665]

awsome prank!

[@xxKrisKrossxx]

I'm convinced my last quad passed into the upside-down, because I never found it ☹️. Definitely putting one of these my current build.

[@SirFrag32]

How about just make it be full volume once it detects the quad has stopped moving? I've seen some buzzers do that by default.

[@frasersteen]

Literally hooked up a vifly buzzer to a jb v2 fc today. Could have done with this vid 5 hours ago man! I have to say I don't find the vifly that loud outside, it's a proper PIA when you are working on something indoors but outside I could actually do with it being louder.

[@OswaldBeef]

Thumbs for every successful video “granularity” hunt we’ve had :)

[@OswaldBeef]

Vifly r220 m2 owners will need this when they try using 4s and Tri props.......piss me off I heard about over amp issues in said normal scenario years ago...and it’s still there. Best part of any vifly is the buzzer LOL thanks....ok I’m feeling better weeeeeeeee

[@snailfpv]

good luck holding a button on a buzzer installed inside your quad :D also thanks for acknowledging the OG status of the HellGate buzzer ;)

[@justapropfpv2137]

Thats what I was thinking should have been motioned. Otherwise good review. I was wondering the differences between them. Don't really want to dismantle my quad to get to the buzzer every time.

[@MartinWolker]

The cheaper ones works tha same as the original by connect battery again too. The button is only for extra option to disable it.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

All of the modules in this review can be disarmed by plug/unplug method.

[@justapropfpv2137]

Cool. Thats good to know. I have been tempted. Especially as its a case of "I told you to get one" with the boys I fly with. I am wondering about sticking it in a 2,5inch for that time you land it in a tree. Hard to find them when they drop. Is it worth the extra weight and space?

[@snailfpv]

Joshua Bardwell yes but having a slightly different second intervals.

[@cfanyu6422]

bought one of these, seemed to work fine hooked up to an ESC with a battery, nothing else. I then hooked it up to my F765 - it then displayed the equivalent of 'servo chatter', beeping randomly and loudly. I returned it to amazon.

[@Hyperlow]

My experience so far.... Hellgate: ideal for smaller, or Hyperlow builds. VIFLY: larger but prefer it in being able to shut it off with its button.

[@Vaughnboilore]

I bought this buzzer today after watching this video btw😬😁

[@drsstc]

Keep a 5.8GHz 12.5dbic Helical and DX800 in the tool box as found many a quad with the narrow beam (30%) of the helical.

[@HighVoltageMadness]

I need this. I almost lost a quad and the only reason i found it was the battery was still connected so i found it with RSSI. Had the battery ejected i wouldn't have found the quad.

[@furulevi]

How to Auto start recording on the Skyzone SKY02S goggles??

[@cannibalholiday]

I saw where the damn thing when down and I still haven't found it two months later. And joshua has seen me gripe about the bloody thing almost daily for almost a month of searching after :P

[@MCsCreations]

JB, imagine if your quad end up stuck in one of the trees and it's getting and... Well, it's going to have to stay there for the night. Now imagine it again, but with the VIFLY buzzer! 😂😂😂😂😂 It definitely wouldn't work!

[@RCnerd74]

Very good rescue tool... as long as you do not crash into deep water or other places where you cannot reach your drone anyways😁

[@RudyNortz]

I just bought the ViFLy 2 and to be clear the LOUD buzzer only works if the battery is ejected. You can't activate the LOUD mode with a switch on your transmitter. It only works when the battery is ejected. Correct me if I'm wrong please.

[@lithiumfpv9254]

The only thing I don’t like about the hell-gate is the way to turn it off, cause what if your battery leads are ripped off or any wires to the buzzer.

[@troutbum8699]

I guess that’s the lesser of two evils. I’d rather have a found quad that I can’t shut up then a lost quad I’ll never see again.

[@lithiumfpv9254]

troutbum86 RDQ sells a wireless one that goes off after 30 sec it there is no motion. 🔥🔥🔥

[@a_dog_and_a_man]

Try to find your Quad 100 meters from your position in long gras with a hellgate und try it again with a vifly finder. Indoor vifly is to loud but outdoor exactly right.

[@lwg66]

I’m probably going to get heckled for this but I usually get out my RF explore with beam antenna and walk right over to it and pick it up. The beepers are great if you eject a battery but if you’re flying with 10-20 other people the RF explorer is the only way to go find the quad in the woods or you wait until dark and it gets quite and then you can hear the beeper. On other note pay attention to the solder iron temp I bought some HellGates when they first came out, I didn’t check my temp and lifted a pad ..

[@X02AC3]

Rdf is an extremely effective method of finding something especially with a good triangulation app, you can get within a couple feet of the target.

[@aymen3962]

@@X02AC3 i didn’t understand.. how can you do that ?

[@Flybrei]

Thanks for info👍