The MUST HAVE FRsky Taranis Mods
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- After many weeks of contemplating whether to paint my radio or not, I decided to make it look and preform the bestI could.
Starting with the epic flat chestnut paint job and the RG316 coax cable RPSMA adaptor mod. coupled with a high quality 5dbi antenna the range is seriously impressive now. the added range makes even a stock Taranis look like a Orange DMSX module.
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Thank You Mr Steele. Your video was very helpful. I did the mode yesterday with RG316 like you suggested and used the length you recommended. First antenna that I could find laying around was 9dbi WiFi antenna. SWR was flipping between 0 and 1. Did a range test and was very happy with results. I am glad that I ran into your video, not someone else s, otherwise I would have used wrong size and length of the coax and would have been plagued with SWR and RSSI issues, like most people have.
Hey Steele, really liked how you wanted to make the community active. I don't fly quads but I hope to get into it after I graduate. Keep up the good work!
Nice to see that someone is talking about Finland :) Im here and i hope better weather because i want to FLY!! i just ordered alien 5" frame and all stuff in it and i cant wait to get that! Its nice to watch your videos and think you are awsome guy!!
nice info on this on, Mr Steele. Once I build my fpv racer, I would love to fly with you. I appreciate what you do for the quad community, keep flying high!!
amazing video Steele you are making some amazing content recently! love the new taranis by the way.
Steele! STEELE!!! Hey man. Thanks for the video. Just wanted to say that you're going to be really happy with these antennas that Alex is sending you. I just built one and my rssi readings are ridiculous. I'm getting 80's - 90's in spots where I'd be in the 60's with the 5dbi mod, or 50's with the stock antenna. All hail the folding dipole. It's sick.
+Scott DeMaio hahaha dude I'm pumped !! Just opened up a whole new realm of antennas for Alex to make lol. The folder dipole looks so sweet
Sweet hack for the prop adapter! I also dig the time laps in the corner.
Prop Adaptors!! Nice one. Well you sold me on the Antenna and Coax Mod. Fantastic test man
+BMSWEB haha you need it. THOMAS will be able to race to the moon
Mr Steele what kind of prop adaptor did you use here?
Man thanks so much man all ur video have help me i really cant wait to make a allen. I love everything fly it amazing
Big Kudos Steele, for making this a global competition & inspiring us all !
Your Taranis re-build is another great example of your awesome skills, eye for detail & pursuit to take things to the next level.
I was totally thinking the same thing about thicker cable + right length. Was also thinking of modding a thicker coax on my TBS Unify Pro too.
Just got to find some of those Aurora 9 Gimbals & deliver to Australia now :)
+David Martin thanks David. I like pushing things to their limits and beyond. I'm glad you enjoy watching :). Shouldn't be too difficult to get some gimbals to straya
Thinking I need to get Chad to bring these + some Thunderpower Adrenaline Lipos back with him on his next return trip :)
Let me know if you have any suggestions on how I can repay him for the favour ?
Thx for the antenna cable recommendation, I had the smaller cable and it sucked. SWR was 16. Upgraded to the RG316 and all is good now!
+SAS fpv hell yeah man. Awesome!!
Great mods radio looks amazing.
Awesome Mr steele your builds rock as good as your flying and singing too of course lol
+Farmer thanks man. Kind words :)
Wao I got in to the store u guys got some serious kitsch in 5here I'm glad that I check it out.
Hi, I would just like to thanks for your videos, you inspired me into getting an FPV drone, its difficult to get them here in Mexico where I'm from, but will definitely get one! i have a cheap Cinewhoop squirt that I got right after I saw your first video, keep the awesome videos coming! thanks
I've been rocking the antenna mod for about a year now, and I have to agree it's sweet as hell! just be careful with how the antenna is pointing when going long range! sweet ass paint job man! I've been wanting to do the same but haven't had the effort. seeing how sweet your taranis looks though... I have to now! awesome videos man
+Adam Komarek Thanks man. I actually was lazy myself and didn't want to do it. But I bought another shell for 15$ lol and experimented with than since I don't have to take my radio apart and be down for days it made like easier. Thanks for watching
Thanks 4 sharing ...i lost my rc link on hawaii luckily next to road so did'nt had to climb ;) Talked with Dane Maxwell about this mod ...He told me most of the Hawaii guys use this when they are cliff diving ....but it's always nice to see that it works also ;) Build time now ;) Take care
+Harley FPV cheers man. Glad you didn't lose a quad. Dane is a great guy. I miss all of the Hawaiian guys ughhh
that was helpful. just bought my first taranis :))
Thanks for the info man!
sweet set up I bought the spektrum dxe6e no one ever told me about this set up .
Very nice job on the paint it is really a great color...I am going to do my Taranis using Hydro Swirl Painting...Guess I will have to do a vid of that...
Great test, thanks
Mr. Steele, if you recommend any particular antenna and cable, could you please provide links to where you purchased them? Thanks!
That time lapse was so adorable dude
That time I live 5 mins away from VAS. Started doing research months ago and getting into the hobby and found that out... the more you know.
Cheers Steele! Love your vids
+TM1ke thank you :). I enjoy making them for you guys
Great video ! I realized the painting of my radio control on my channel RUclips in french
FrSky just released the M9 gimbals for the Taranis. They use hall effect sensors instead of pots and the build quality is pretty decent for the money. I have only had mine a couple of weeks but I really like them so far.
Heyy man, thank you soo much! Im the second winner!! Im so happy!!
+ElGranainoFPV haha. Congrats Jorge. Your props went out today they will be there in a week or so :). Enjoy
When I did the antenna on my 7e, I made up a plain wire 1/4 wave whip to put in the old plastic antenna shell. So when I take off the 5dbi, I screw on the whip, and it looks indistinguishable from stock.
Excellent vid
wow thats so awesome!
To remove hotglue just use a single drop of alcohol, it will come right off with no trace left!
muh1h1 wieso zur Hölle bist du in jedem Video das ich schaue?
I love isopropyl alcohol, it has so many uses, it's crazy.
What kind of alchol ??? edit your comment it is useless
@@leoetcheverry9685 all the substances commonly refered to as "alcohol" work. Rubbing alcohol, ethanol, isopropal, etc.
Oh look you showed us your battery straps! Nice Taranis too, I wish I could afford one, I'm stuck with my Spectrum DXe for now though lol
+sigma7 lol. Those straps are secret. Don't tell! Taranis are fairly Cheap save your money. It's worth it
wowza. worked great
brilliant vid,great mods
+Simply RC thank you !
14:10 was pretty cool. on/off haha nice. ill have to try this with my shape shifter to see how far it can go. but im gonna ride my fourwheeler not walk haha im lazy!
grats to the winners!
7:34 ! THE KISS!=)
Nice mods!
That was quick!
cool the quads n stuff.. give love to old school dudes. stuff for planes and plane like stuff
Nice Mr. Steele, I love your channel. I'm a brazilian one and will visit your country... Certainly one day
+Flavio Henrique BRAZIL!! I would love to and hope to one day soon.
Steeeeeeelee, ordered everything, its all here. Can you please tell me when measuring out the cable with the with the RP-SMA, do you measure the 84mm from very end of the RP-SMA?? My apologies if this has already been answered.
Wow this makes me wish I had a Taranis instead of my new Spektrum. those mods make it a truly amazing transmitter... still in awe by that improvement on the range...
+Rude FPV I know. That was my first time doing a legitimate range test with that setup vs a stock radio. And I was blown away
Steele, do you measure from the bottom of the rp-sma connector (including the crimp ferrule in the 84 mm) or do you measure from the bottom of the crimp ferrule? Also why 84mm? Is it out of phase with the 2.4 ghz signal or something?
Better than heating up hotglue to remove it: Touch a drop of denatured alcohol and it will just pop off clean. If you get a tin of denatured alcohol from home depot for a few dollars, it will last you basically forever.
+Sam Maghsoodloo basically FOREVER lol. Love that. Thanks man. I had no idea
is it 84cm from the end of the rpcma or the length of the coax cable?
Just subbed, great info. New to the sport.
Word of advice: solder the negative first, i almost ripped the antenna pad of because i had trouble with my stiff cable (bought the wrong one as well). The negative pads are way bigger so you won't rip them.
EVEN BETTER: use a ufl smd antenna connector so you can swap later (if ever needed)
Hey, thanks man. I just learned a few things. 👍😊
+Mad Marc good :). That's what I aim for
What's your number one most asked question? Besides what's your pids. 😃
They make a really nice glossy Carbon Fiber looking complete top case half for 39.99 also. I am waiting on the new Hall effect Gimbals for mine to change it over with the top case and antennas. A better speaker is a cheap but much needed mod I bought also.
Steele -would be a life saver if you could link the nut you are using on the switch. I lost mine and looking everywhere? "taranis switch nut" ??got any links
+UAVfutures radio switch caps on EBay. Check that You should be able to find some colored ones lol. A lot hobbies has replacements if you buy s new switch. The switches are cheap
Sick Taranis dude
+PauK thanks man. I really like it
You could use your RF Explorer 6G combo spectrum analyzer (windows program) to help with your 2.4 GHz distance testing too.
Where did you get the antenna 5dbi? And will it work on taranis qx7?
just as i was watching 8 minutes of boom..a new video pops up,,,,,liking the look of the taranis
+damon barnes that's a good thing right lol
of course haha i was running out of videos to watch
To make it flush i cut a 5 inch propp and filed it flush.. drilled a bigger centre hole and used a file.. took like 15min of filing.. a bit of work but it was fun : )
Never let that girl go, she looked SO bored while you were modding the radio but she still stuck around, that's a keeper. :-)
Yeah, I was thinking of an antenna change up but wondered what configuration would be good for drone operation. I was thinking if you wanted max distance in operation if a Yagi would be best since it creates a beam output vs an omni output. For the transmitter part on the handheld wouldn't be a problem but the transmission on the drone might be a problem unless a better collector antenna to receive weak signals from the drone can be used to boost your range significantly. That would be a cool test to see.
thats nice of you
greats from germany dude!
Modding my qx7 and this brought me back here
'Nother awesome video sweets! Keep it up please!
+Chrissi Bentley haha thanks Chrissi I really enjoy making these videos. I'm glad you and so may others find them enjoyable
Cheers :)
Oh a winner neighbour Latvian!
Greetings from Lithuania
+Pionell Winters :)
Lithuania Latvia and Estonia is beautiful countries with unique languages and culture. It's shame that Russian empire had to try to destroy culture in this countries for a centuries
+Tomas Kasanicky well that's not a problem now!
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So this might be a dumb question but:
Since it is not recommended to replace the internal Tx antenna, should I buy an external XJT module to fit in high gain antennas?
Were those your new motors that I saw on that Alien at the end of the video?
And dam!!! You are right I can't find those gimbals available anywhere.
love your giveaway message! good way to influence your viewership
+g2h0 :). Thank you it was fun.
Nice video Steele. In some of your videos I saw you using a TBS Crossfire TX/RX. Why do you prefer modify your Taranis to reach greater distances instead of using TBS stuff? It doesn't fitted this purpose?
Was that 84 mm to the tip of the connector? or the cable length under the connector? Because i did the mod with the thicker cable and now my SWR went from 0 to 18-20, now is this bad?
I used the adaptor from what u used for wireless adaptor cards.. 0 signal loss with that
Hi Mr Steele. Love your videos, thanks for sharing :) Please, could you tell the model of the gimbals you use? Most of the videos I've seen were about M9s
"i'm not gonna fly today....uh...yes I am" LOL
---------CORRECTION!!! 3.2 inches is actually 81.28mm so which length do I actually use???
Hey, I'm doing the mod now and I'm curious where are you measuring the 84mm from? Are you measuring from the nut or from the end of the bottom of the connector? Idk if I'm explaining this right lol
MrTimmyGT 2 years and no answer.
What version of the Kiss FC firmware adds that SOS beeper you showed at the end of the video? I've looked at their changelog but don't see it mentioned anywhere.
With Dshot
Alex greve is the man! He did the mod on my terrines with the cable and sma port and all that, and he didn't even go 316 on that cable. Its that super duper fat stuff he uses on his helical antennas. Works great! I also use one of the 2.4 ghz clover leaf antenna with it.
+shaneman27 haha heck yeah. I tried the clover leaf in a range test. And I prefer. My 5dbi whip right now. I never have issues with orientation of my antennas that the clover leaf would help with
Mr Steele yeah I doesn't really improve range much maybe a little, but what I have seemed to experience is it helps with penetration. I flew a wing with an x8r in it to about 1.7 miles before getting rssi low. I don't think I got quite that far with the stock.
And I just remembered something. Right before Flite fest you had a periscope going until like 4 am and I commented something that I didn't expect you to see but you did and I said my name is Joe but it's Shane and you just kept calling me Joe and then when I met you at Flite fest you are just as funny as you are on camera. 😂 I'd love to see you again sometime In the future.
as unlikely as you think it would be-
just imagine that someone rolled up and grabbed the quad and made a getaway
and you're just down the road watching helplessly
i keep a hawk's eye on my gear when in public space. you have balls of ...
Thanks for the nice tip :)
+Leslie Jhun anytime
I am wondering about the co-ax cable measurement for cutting. Are you measuring just the cable or is the connector included in the measurement. Thanks for the great videos.
i finally need to get rid if my dx8 even with 2W wifi extender the range/penetration is bad.... will probably do the same mods THX.
+crash dummy yup. I had a Jeti with a 800mW booster and it still sucked compared to the 100mW stock antenna Taranis. Mini quads require different needs than LOS plane flying
Good range test. Mine does not get anywhere near the distance in 'Range' mode. You say stock receiver, which stock receiver is it. Cheers
7:34 pause it...... doing other kinds of mods i see o.0
So I finally got around to doing this, I also used the more difficult RG316 coax. So attempt number one I left the taranis circuit backboard in the taranis frame and ended up screwing it up :( I'm an experienced solderer, but even still. I put a little too much strain on that tiny antenna signal pad and it ripped off the board. Had to order another backboard ($70 :( )
Then, attempt number two was much easier as I had the backboard taken out of the frame.
Mod successful now. Zero SWR.
A good wifi booster and a patch antenna will make your stock radio perform like a UHF!
What happens if I happened to cut the cable shorter than 84mm? Stupidly I flipped it to 48mm in my head :) Everything appears to work really well, anything I should be concerned about?
Hey guys, I'm new to drones and I can't get FC to recognize my stick movements. Betaflight 3.1 is set to RX/SBUS and turnigy controller set to PWM/SBUS. Controller seems to bind to the drone, but not getting any power to motors. Betaflight does not recognize my stick movrment. pls help!!!
interesante tema sigue subiendo este tipo de contenido
Will check for that Peter antenna !
+David Lougedo DAVID!! You need it. All the 360 flips will flow once you have it
Mr Steele 😬😋😋
Is it 3.2 inches including the sma brass? or just to the base of the it?
Hi
I've got a question, you said to cut the Wire to 84mm, but from where exactly did you messure that 84mm?
7:10-7:55 - you're a lucky man...my girlfriend would never have that much patience
Hello Steele, I’m doing your antenna mod on my Taranis X9d plus and I wonder if I should remove the UFL connector to directly solder my coax (RG316 with rp-sma connector ) to the board or should I let the board as it is and solder a small piece of original crappy antenna with UFL on it to my RG316 coax.....(but it will be hard to keep the shield around the coax around d the solder.......and will look crap....
I tried to dismount a ufl connector to mount it on the RG316 but it’s too small and parts breaks as soon as you "unbend" the very thin tabs. Any advice? Thanks for your help. Aurélien, France
coming from the cb radio world, we use ferrite on cables to clean up signal. Would ferrite be of any help for the fpv cam signal?
haha do not know if this is due to my question last video but sweet thanks very much!
+Charlie Plunkett anytime
Mr Steele haha just watched your first flying videos you've come a long ways in the last two years
Hey i would like to know, if there is any difference in range between the eu and the international version? Thank you!
Hi mate do you have a link for the switch caps ? I have searched and can't find them anywhere :(
Cheers Steele
Aurora 9 gimbals, or Hall effect ones?
They are both pretty easy to get for me
Can you do a video about Power Distribution Boards (PBD)? There's a lot of crappy ones out there. Some have different features like BECs, OSD, LC filters, and different power ratings Which mini PDB do you like to use?
Steele gonna fly the quad to the moon O.O
+The_Vortex I'm trying lol
Hi @mrsteele ! Did you ever get some range issues some time after using this 5dbi antennas ? Having some range issues xith my XJT module and x4rsb. It's just appears , changed my antennas to new ones, but rssi still really bad, range is only 500ft now. I read that some trouble could happen when using this mod on XJT , something like the RF was de calibrate itself, only fresh flashing / factory reset could fix it ??!