This quad recently got a big price drop and is now right around $230.00 for the highly modifiable open source version shipped free! Here’s the link: If you were looking to buy this, you might want to jump on this deal soon.
First ever FPV and it was at night! Yikes! Steady shot on Sony is off (will be turning on next session), Gimbal needs some configuring to fix bounce at rotation extents. I’m sitting in the park (small red light in blackness of soccer field) for this one and couldn’t see the ground from the quad’s view with my goggle on so I had kinda of a bounce crash at the end. Not sure why but I’m thinking it was because I was in manual mode, it was a bit windy and I wasn’t on the throttle enough. No damage. Gimbal screws just came a bit loose. I’ve since made some mods to gimbal and landing gear to absorb shock and keep the camera up higher off the ground. I’ll have some daytime vids up soon which will show the kinks all worked out. Using quanum fpv goggles. I’ve installed telemetry on the quad and am linking it to my Nexus 6 for audible flight info mounted to controller. I have tapped into the video TX for audio which has a microphone on board and I’ve rigged up the goggles with a headphone jack so I can hear the same audio heard in the video in my headphones while flying. Next up is to install OSD (on screen display) module and a power module so I can have a HUD on the FPV with all the flight info like altitude, airspeed, distance from launch, direction to lauch, voltage, etc. This is a great project and i’m learning alot along the way. I purchased the CX-20 Open Souce (highly modifiable) version from gearbest.com and am happy with the quality, shipping time and customer service. This is a great introductory 350 (phantom) sized quad to get started on for less that half the price. I’ll be putting up some vids on tutorials of setup and how to install all the mods soon…
Let me know if you have any questions
My other CX-20 Videos:
CX-20 Quanum Nova QuadCopter Drone Stock Range Test 1.4 Miles In the Clouds of Maui Hawaii FPV :
Cheerson CX-20 Quadcopter Drone Mods – Telemetry, Power Module, OSD, FPV Testing and Crashing :
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Nice video! I like your videos reviews and mods for these quads. I have a
Syma X5 and the Cheerson CX-20, not sure what version though. Do you have
a fix/mod for the landing skids on CX-20? Mine snapped on the first
landing (rough first flight). Thanks.
Hey Danno, there are many options for landing gear. You should subscribe to
this CX20 forum for many ideas and solutions:
I am user rc808hawaii on the forum. I have a pic on that page of my DIY
solution but there are many more choices.
Hey Dustin,the transmitter touched base today,waiting for another charger
for my jjrc because the battery was heating up the other chargers wire for
some reason.Also ordered 2 more batteries.I ordered the tarantula x6 also,I
think the Cheerson cx20 is my next quad in June,banggood has it for
$234.00.
Thanks Dustin,looking forward to it.
+Sterling Clerk Right on. I hope my TX comes in soon. Maybe it’ll be
waiting for me too when I get home from work. 🙂 Get yourself a quality
smart charger if your going to be into R/C for the long run, and it sounds
like you are. The X6 looked pretty cool. Saw a demo on youtube for it,
congratz. That’s a good price on CX20 but be wary of which model you order
as some have said banggood sent them the wrong model or something. Make
sure you get the “Open Source Version” for an incredible amount of mods you
can do to it (link in description of where I got mine and use Code also for
discount). I’ve got mine almost completely tricked out with all the mods
and will be testing this weekend if weather holds up. Also putting some
videos together of mods, review and flight for the CX20.
This quad recently got a big price drop and is now right around $230.00 for
the highly modifiable open source version shipped free! Here’s the link:
If you were looking to buy this, you might want to
jump on this deal soon.