Currently, X220S is USD33 more expensive than X220, and the important improvements (that matter to most pilots) are: better FPV camera, durable VTX, and maybe the rear buzzer+LEDs. The other components e.g. F4 FC, taller motors, 5051 props, Runcam 3 mount, Pagoda antenna, etc, do not significantly impact performance. If you can afford the additional cost, go for X220S, otherwise you should be fine with X220. Hope that helps!
Thank you! 😀 I stop at when the OSD says 14.0V while in flight. When it lands and at rest, voltage raises to around 15.0V, which is the recommended "storage voltage" for 4S.
Hi! I have a question: short the SBUS pads to use SBUS protocol, means to solder up the second and the third pad together? And as you get the RSSI signal, you have on your osd the battery voltage too? Thanks!
If you have OSD, then you will be able to configure it to display lipo voltage, flight time, RSSI, etc. It has nothing to do with xm+ or not. It has to do with the OSD supported features. Typically, you can get all these values easily in OSD, with XM+ or any other receivers.
Thanks for your excellent review! I'm finally setting up my X220s and this was so much help. One quick question, my XM+ doesn't seem to be giving RSSI to aux 12/ch16 like yours? I set it up how you showed, is there any reason you know of why it wouldn't work? Thanks again!
Some XM+ comes with old firmware that doesn't support RSSI output. You need to flash it with your TX, and the steps are very easily found. I showed it very briefly in Part 2 of my FuriBee X215 Pro series.
After my reply to you, I examined my capacitor mod again. I realized I made a huge mistake on how I had connected the capacitors! I will revisit the capacitor mod again and will report back. Thank you for your reminder; I would not have identified my mistake if not for your reply!
Hi!!! I'm sorry to disturb you for an old video but i just bought the same quad and i have a question about the stock cam: do you know if it's possible to connect an osd board to tune the camera settings (for example to enable the WDR)? Thank you very much for you help and very compliments for your videos and your channel!!!
Hi, thanks for your message, I'm not disturbed! :) I don't think it's possible to change settings because there isn't any OSD ports exposed on the board. Unfortunately, this is a basic camera with minimal features; we have to live with its limitation.
I actually got alot of my knowledge from project blue falcon. Watching his technical support and tutorial downloads are the reason I'm as far along in the Fpv world as I am . Watch his films and you will be amazed of how much you can learn and achieve and be able to help others achieve there goals also. Im hear for you if you need anything else. New build, set up esc especially 32 bit. Flight controller set up, betaflight conf. 3.2 etc. I'm hear for you if needed.
Don't get me wrong, but I do watch a lot of technical videos, and that's why I had done the capacitor mod in the first place. If you watched Joshua Bardwell's video, you'll see he swears by *adding a capacitor to each ESC* instead of just one at the battery leads, which you had suggested. He explains the reasons succinctly in his video. The problem here was my *carelessness* rather than my lack of knowledge. Your reply triggered me to check my capacitor mod, and then I uncovered my mistake.
I'm finally getting into FPV after wanting to for so long, so i'm still in very newbie stages, but I just bought an X220s off Banggood (waiting for delivery) and it seems that it doesn't come with a receiver..? I have a Flysky FS-i6 which came with one in the box, from memory it was pretty large. Can I install that one or am I going to need to order something smaller?
I'm new to drones. I was thinking of picking up the x220S . I have a FRsky tyrannus qx7 controller coming in. I was pairing it with a xsr receiver. Is the install the same ?. Sorry to seems like a newbie question but I am a newbie.
oh, I have another question. I saw on the RTF that It comes with an iRangeX iR-A8S receiver but I already have the classic FlySky FS-i6 with the FS-i6B receiver. I can bind them with the X220S ARF? Are my FS-i6 tx and FS-i6B receiver compatible with the Ómnibus F4?
I'm not familiar with the TX and RX, but from the specifications, FS-i6 and, FS-iA6B, iRangeX IR-A8S, are all using the same RF protocol, so they should work with one another. In other words, you can use your FS-i6 TX with the IR-A8S receiver. If you want to use FS-iA6B on X220S, you have to confirm that FS-iA6B supports PPM, and know how to connect that to the flight controller. I only got SBUS working; while I'm sure PPM works, I don't really know the exact connection. Please ask Banggood Customer Service to be sure.
another amazing review! well done as usual! so i had my flysky x6b and it fell off and got cut and its offically gone. i had a flysky a8s sitting around which isnt the best but its better than nothing. got it bound to the tx but no matter what it wont show any commands on betaflight. i tried everything and its shit
Fyre SG I got the x220s already but on my second battery I didn't tighten down the ziplock on my Rx and it fell off and got launched. so now I'm out a good fly, gas, an rx. went home to put my spare A8s on and it won't bind for some reason. it's showing it's connected but no signal on betaflight no matter what I do. any idea if I need to do anything with the rssi channel? it's currently disabled
I'm not familiar with FlySky stuff so I can't give direct help. Since your TX says it has detected the RX, that means they are binded. I'd guess the RX mode on the FC is wrong: configured for PPM but RX is actually SBus? Other than PPM vs SBus, check if it should have been iBus too.
Fyre SG the rx is setup in ibus and also on betaflight. I soldered the fc for sbus, do u think maybe I need to solder it for ppm since I need ppm enabled on my tx for ibus to work? I'm gonna give it ago lol
When you say you turn it on, do you mean you go to the Command Line Interface, to run commands to turn on the barometer? Even if the barometer is "bad", it would not affect flight unless its at altitude hold flight mode.
Great video taht help us a lot !!! I've got an issue with RSSI signal which is not available ... and I've got teh same config tahn you with FRSKY XM+ receiver .... I chosse channel 12 (AUX) meaning it's scanning channel 16 but nothing ..... :(Could you please help me to solve this issue ?? Thanks !
You may have a XM+ receiver with OLD firmware. Even the XM+ on the new Furibee X215 Pro came with old firmware. Please flash your XM+ with your transmitter. There are plenty of videos on how to do it. Good luck!
I watched a video of Travisgrindal where he says that there was a re-start of the 5 engine and how it remapping led strip for B06. I did some testing and it worked. With the update of betaflight to 3.2, there was a change in pin allocation for the led strip to B06.. Thanks.
i dont get VFAS on my Taranis tx can you tell me what to do? vbat does display in goggles but sensors dont pick vbat ive even left it for 10 minutes to see.
Sorry, I am not familiar with configuring telemetry, which will provide voltage status on your TX. I avoided setting up telemetry by simply relying on OSD (i.e. goggles) for all my information needs. In fact, I find this much better than the voice read-out from my X9D+.
Actually, the frame is not 100% carbon fiber from what I read in a lot of places... that's why it seems to break so easily. I'm new to FPV drones, considered buying a Wizard 220S but a lot of people on the internet advice to stay away from them, especially if you're beginning and might crash a lot.
This is true, but this is not a huge deal. It's cheap, and it breaks, but that may not be a bad idea to some. Newbies do crash hard, but sometimes they do that over soft grass, or sometimes they get lucky, and get away without breaking the frame. In this way, the impact of the inferior frame is mitigated. Crashing and breaking don't just occur to newbies. Advanced pilots tend to break parts *more* than newbies because they do riskier moves, and fly much faster. Personally, I did lots of aggressive moves with my X220S, and I crashed it a lot. The arms survived fine but the not the top plate. All in all, I wouldn't say discourage newbies to X220S.
Fyre SG OK interesting to know about good pilots breaking more parts because of speed and risk taken. I think I'll go for a Furibee X215, but maybe I'll try the wizard in the future.
Fyre SG I've seen the issue about the FPV lines but seems easy to fix. Are there other issues? And yes I'll definitely order some spare parts, whichever drone I finally choose. It's a hard choice, I've been reading and watching reviews for several days. Spent hours and hours and still can't decide! Also I've been told to begin with a micro like the lizard 95 because it doesn't break even if it crashes. But I won't be able to later put a camera on it if I want HD footage :/
The main issue is the VTX lines, and is easily fixed. The other issue would be the arms breaking on a hard crash, but that is normal; just get spare arms. To be honest, the best way to start is to learn with a "tame" micro. Lizard95 is not exactly tame because its props are exposed. You should really go for platforms with rings protecting the props, e.g., Inductrix, Aurora 90, etc. Not only will you not hurt anyone, you will have more confidence, less stress while learning, and allows you to concentrate more on flying.
Im not the expert but I think mounting reciever antenas the way you did is wrong. It is 90degree angle, but they are pointing towards, they should be pointing outwards to be effective.
This saved me hours..days and a month to find out the board needs to be soldered bridged to SBUS...thanks air man whoop let's get airborne
Thanks for this Video. It helped me a lot!
Great video . wonder if yoy still flying the x220s now.
No. I fly Wizard TS130 instead. It's below 250 grams, and doesn't need registration.
@@fyresg hi there, like to lean more from you. if u able to meet over coffee.
Wow... an upgrade to the quad I was about to buy! I Guess I have to wait for the second part, to decide which is better...
thank You!
Which other quad are you comparing to? I probably can provide some feedback.
Fyre SG the original Wizard X220 😅
Currently, X220S is USD33 more expensive than X220, and the important improvements (that matter to most pilots) are: better FPV camera, durable VTX, and maybe the rear buzzer+LEDs. The other components e.g. F4 FC, taller motors, 5051 props, Runcam 3 mount, Pagoda antenna, etc, do not significantly impact performance. If you can afford the additional cost, go for X220S, otherwise you should be fine with X220. Hope that helps!
Fyre SG then I'll go for the 220S, thank You so much :)
great video! many thanks. your video is a huge help.
Awesome review sir! At what cell voltage do you stop flying a battery and put it in the charge pile?
Thank you! 😀
I stop at when the OSD says 14.0V while in flight. When it lands and at rest, voltage raises to around 15.0V, which is the recommended "storage voltage" for 4S.
Fyre SG thanks so much sir!!!
Hi! I have a question: short the SBUS pads to use SBUS protocol, means to solder up the second and the third pad together? And as you get the RSSI signal, you have on your osd the battery voltage too? Thanks!
Yes, that's what shorting it means.
I don't understand your second question.
@@fyresg the second question is a newbie one, I mean: does xm+ let you know via OSD lipo voltage, and other parameters as fly time?
If you have OSD, then you will be able to configure it to display lipo voltage, flight time, RSSI, etc. It has nothing to do with xm+ or not. It has to do with the OSD supported features. Typically, you can get all these values easily in OSD, with XM+ or any other receivers.
@@fyresg thanks a lot :)
Thanks for your excellent review! I'm finally setting up my X220s and this was so much help. One quick question, my XM+ doesn't seem to be giving RSSI to aux 12/ch16 like yours? I set it up how you showed, is there any reason you know of why it wouldn't work? Thanks again!
Some XM+ comes with old firmware that doesn't support RSSI output. You need to flash it with your TX, and the steps are very easily found. I showed it very briefly in Part 2 of my FuriBee X215 Pro series.
Installing a 400-1000 low ear cap. On battery will do away with the lines from ⚡ spike. Everytime
After my reply to you, I examined my capacitor mod again. I realized I made a huge mistake on how I had connected the capacitors! I will revisit the capacitor mod again and will report back. Thank you for your reminder; I would not have identified my mistake if not for your reply!
Hi!!! I'm sorry to disturb you for an old video but i just bought the same quad and i have a question about the stock cam: do you know if it's possible to connect an osd board to tune the camera settings (for example to enable the WDR)?
Thank you very much for you help and very compliments for your videos and your channel!!!
Hi, thanks for your message, I'm not disturbed! :) I don't think it's possible to change settings because there isn't any OSD ports exposed on the board. Unfortunately, this is a basic camera with minimal features; we have to live with its limitation.
I actually got alot of my knowledge from project blue falcon. Watching his technical support and tutorial downloads are the reason I'm as far along in the Fpv world as I am . Watch his films and you will be amazed of how much you can learn and achieve and be able to help others achieve there goals also. Im hear for you if you need anything else. New build, set up esc especially 32 bit. Flight controller set up, betaflight conf. 3.2 etc. I'm hear for you if needed.
Don't get me wrong, but I do watch a lot of technical videos, and that's why I had done the capacitor mod in the first place. If you watched Joshua Bardwell's video, you'll see he swears by *adding a capacitor to each ESC* instead of just one at the battery leads, which you had suggested. He explains the reasons succinctly in his video.
The problem here was my *carelessness* rather than my lack of knowledge. Your reply triggered me to check my capacitor mod, and then I uncovered my mistake.
I'm finally getting into FPV after wanting to for so long, so i'm still in very newbie stages, but I just bought an X220s off Banggood (waiting for delivery) and it seems that it doesn't come with a receiver..?
I have a Flysky FS-i6 which came with one in the box, from memory it was pretty large.
Can I install that one or am I going to need to order something smaller?
I should add, its the FS-iA6B Receiver
Hello i have a Wizard Monster XD.
I want ask you one question the stock camera have a mic? the audio is connected to the vtx?
No audio from camera, no audio input on VTX, and VTX has no microphone.
Hello, very nice video, what are your pid for the x220s wizard please?
I showed my PIDs in Part 2 of my Wizard X220S series.
Merci beaucoup pour les informations 😆
I'm new to drones. I was thinking of picking up the x220S . I have a FRsky tyrannus qx7 controller coming in. I was pairing it with a xsr receiver. Is the install the same ?. Sorry to seems like a newbie question but I am a newbie.
The installation for FrSKY XSR is almost the same for FrSKY XM+, except how you attach the red-white-black wires from the FC to your XSR.
oh, I have another question. I saw on the RTF that It comes with an iRangeX iR-A8S receiver but I already have the classic FlySky FS-i6 with the FS-i6B receiver. I can bind them with the X220S ARF? Are my FS-i6 tx and FS-i6B receiver compatible with the Ómnibus F4?
I'm not familiar with the TX and RX, but from the specifications, FS-i6 and, FS-iA6B, iRangeX IR-A8S, are all using the same RF protocol, so they should work with one another. In other words, you can use your FS-i6 TX with the IR-A8S receiver. If you want to use FS-iA6B on X220S, you have to confirm that FS-iA6B supports PPM, and know how to connect that to the flight controller. I only got SBUS working; while I'm sure PPM works, I don't really know the exact connection.
Please ask Banggood Customer Service to be sure.
Fyre SG thank You very much again, Fyre SG 🙌
Hello. Congratulations on the video. I'm having a problem with the LED strip that is not working the programming. could you help me?
Does it light up at all? Did you follow my steps at 11:34 of this video?
yes, i follow your steps in video,but the led strips don't lightin. I believe need instruction in CLI
my betaflight version is 3.2. Thanks!
another amazing review! well done as usual! so i had my flysky x6b and it fell off and got cut and its offically gone. i had a flysky a8s sitting around which isnt the best but its better than nothing. got it bound to the tx but no matter what it wont show any commands on betaflight. i tried everything and its shit
Thank you. 😀
Are you planning to get this X220S and recycle your A8?
Fyre SG I got the x220s already but on my second battery I didn't tighten down the ziplock on my Rx and it fell off and got launched. so now I'm out a good fly, gas, an rx. went home to put my spare A8s on and it won't bind for some reason. it's showing it's connected but no signal on betaflight no matter what I do. any idea if I need to do anything with the rssi channel? it's currently disabled
I'm not familiar with FlySky stuff so I can't give direct help. Since your TX says it has detected the RX, that means they are binded.
I'd guess the RX mode on the FC is wrong: configured for PPM but RX is actually SBus? Other than PPM vs SBus, check if it should have been iBus too.
Fyre SG the rx is setup in ibus and also on betaflight. I soldered the fc for sbus, do u think maybe I need to solder it for ppm since I need ppm enabled on my tx for ibus to work? I'm gonna give it ago lol
If I remember correctly, RCmodelsReview covered this in his latest video on X220S. Could you check it out?
Hello! I turned barometer betaflight on. Other people do not turn it on. Bad omnibus F4 V4 barometer?
Leave it on or turn it off?
When you say you turn it on, do you mean you go to the Command Line Interface, to run commands to turn on the barometer?
Even if the barometer is "bad", it would not affect flight unless its at altitude hold flight mode.
No!
Betaflight -> Configuration -> System Configuration -> barometer "ON"
Restart, and "Baro" icon active
Oh, I assumed that wouldn't work. I'll it later. Thanks for the tip.
I'v noticed people target there x220s to airbotf4 , i have the ARF and targeted it to omnibusf4sd, is there not much difference between the two ?
Oh! Do you have examples who are the ones having X220S with FC with the BetaFlight AirBotF4 target?
Great video taht help us a lot !!! I've got an issue with RSSI signal which is not available ... and I've got teh same config tahn you with FRSKY XM+ receiver .... I chosse channel 12 (AUX) meaning it's scanning channel 16 but nothing ..... :(Could you please help me to solve this issue ?? Thanks !
You may have a XM+ receiver with OLD firmware. Even the XM+ on the new Furibee X215 Pro came with old firmware. Please flash your XM+ with your transmitter. There are plenty of videos on how to do it. Good luck!
hello my friend, finally I managed to make the led strip work in beta 3.2.
in CLI: resource MOTOR 5 NONE resource LED_STRIP 1 B06 resource LED 1 B06
Thanks for sharing. How did you find out this is necessary?
I watched a video of Travisgrindal where he says that there was a re-start of the 5 engine and how it remapping led strip for B06. I did some testing and it worked. With the update of betaflight to 3.2, there was a change in pin allocation for the led strip to B06.. Thanks.
i dont get VFAS on my Taranis tx can you tell me what to do? vbat does display in goggles but sensors dont pick vbat ive even left it for 10 minutes to see.
Sorry, I am not familiar with configuring telemetry, which will provide voltage status on your TX. I avoided setting up telemetry by simply relying on OSD (i.e. goggles) for all my information needs. In fact, I find this much better than the voice read-out from my X9D+.
Do i have to flash RX, FC or ESC?
If so, can you explain briefly how? Thx
You don't have to flash anything if you're not comfortable to do so. I showed the steps in my video so I don't have to explain again.
Fyre SG ok, i thought that xm receiver had to be put to the latest firmware or something
My wizard will arrive next week :)
So will it work well with the stock firmware? Sorry for the questions but i'm a noob
It may already come with the latest firmware. If it doesn't, then it will still work, except it does not provide RSSI output, which isn't a big deal.
Everything stock will work, stock.
Actually, the frame is not 100% carbon fiber from what I read in a lot of places... that's why it seems to break so easily. I'm new to FPV drones, considered buying a Wizard 220S but a lot of people on the internet advice to stay away from them, especially if you're beginning and might crash a lot.
This is true, but this is not a huge deal. It's cheap, and it breaks, but that may not be a bad idea to some. Newbies do crash hard, but sometimes they do that over soft grass, or sometimes they get lucky, and get away without breaking the frame. In this way, the impact of the inferior frame is mitigated.
Crashing and breaking don't just occur to newbies. Advanced pilots tend to break parts *more* than newbies because they do riskier moves, and fly much faster. Personally, I did lots of aggressive moves with my X220S, and I crashed it a lot. The arms survived fine but the not the top plate. All in all, I wouldn't say discourage newbies to X220S.
Fyre SG OK interesting to know about good pilots breaking more parts because of speed and risk taken. I think I'll go for a Furibee X215, but maybe I'll try the wizard in the future.
There are some issues with X215 Pro. I've done a couple of videos on it. My friend broke the arm of his X215 Pro, so you might wanna get some spares.
Fyre SG I've seen the issue about the FPV lines but seems easy to fix. Are there other issues?
And yes I'll definitely order some spare parts, whichever drone I finally choose.
It's a hard choice, I've been reading and watching reviews for several days. Spent hours and hours and still can't decide!
Also I've been told to begin with a micro like the lizard 95 because it doesn't break even if it crashes. But I won't be able to later put a camera on it if I want HD footage :/
The main issue is the VTX lines, and is easily fixed. The other issue would be the arms breaking on a hard crash, but that is normal; just get spare arms.
To be honest, the best way to start is to learn with a "tame" micro. Lizard95 is not exactly tame because its props are exposed. You should really go for platforms with rings protecting the props, e.g., Inductrix, Aurora 90, etc. Not only will you not hurt anyone, you will have more confidence, less stress while learning, and allows you to concentrate more on flying.
Im not the expert but I think mounting reciever antenas the way you did is wrong.
It is 90degree angle, but they are pointing towards, they should be pointing outwards to be effective.
Pointing inwards is the same as pointing outwards because they are on the same x,y plane.
@@fyresg I see, then it might be different story with two antenna on Transmitter, I believe it matters there.
nice review.
perhaps 5s....
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't have any 5S with me, but I'll definitely get one to try on my X220S!
umm.. AWESOME!!!
Wah, someone cut off the branch that forms a gate coming out of the tree!
Yes!!! That's not all - the "branch gate" at Margaret Drive is also gone now! Looks like NEA is hard at work.
Is it the same procedure if hooking up xm+ and the normal x220?