I have explored the x350 Pro for about a month and tested it with Mission Planner. I must say the X350 Pro flies very well, pre-tuned. It Loiters perfectly out of the box. Last year I built three APM F450 and it was nice for a change to have a RTF.
The x350 Pro Flight Controller Devo M, has a variation of Arducopter in it. I have included a video recorded the first day I hooked up the x350 Pro to Mission Planner and sure enough, it did every standard thing with the Mission Planner. Attached here is copy of the Full Parameter list extracted using Mission Planner. param-full-list-qrx350pro.txt
Included in the x350 Pro combo, is a Devo F7 radio transmitter, but I have tested it with my FrSKY Taranis and X8R and it works just fine (if you rather buy the BNF version). The x350 Pro is capable of handling the 6 flight modes and 2 optional switches. I tested some basic waypoint routes and it flies just as well. The only thing, out of the box, without any modification I am not able to add telemetry module or osd. However others have managed to solder them on. I was told a newer version will be out and will include OSD soon.
The FPV videos shown here were filmed using the iLook+ 1080p. I have the original iLook and iLook+, both version released under a span of 6 months. I will definitely recommend going with the iLook+, as it makes a world of difference between the two. The iLook+ comes built-in with a video transmitter, sized to be a GoPro so you can also use it with other gimbals. Some people call it a FPV backpack, and have been packing them into a box to make it easily swappable for the convenience. I have not flown beyond any further than what is shown on these video, but it definitely has some range using a Fatshark goggle or the F7, more than enough to film a football field and baseball field. The signal strength of the video is on the side of the short F7 antenna. For the Fatshark I use the matching 4 lobe skew planar wheel . The G-2D gimbal is definitely lighter than the gimbal i purchased off eBay and a lot more refine.
All in all, a quadcopter to consider for a BNF at about $310 at www.bg.com/x350pro/bnf. The 5200 mAh LiPo gives me about 17 minutes of flight time or more. The original battery can be expensive.
size comparison between gimbals.
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I have been playing around with my X350 Pro, 3D Telemetry radio 915mhz and ground planner. I am having some success with the Telemetry. But I have just a few questions. I have the Devo F7 radio with gimbal and iLook. Can someone tell me if I have any extra channels so that I can activate my mission? And how would I set a switch to do this. Also once I click the switch will it just start the mission even if I am in the air, and will it keep continuing on to each waypoint or do I need to flip the switch each time?
Thanks
Grandpa Jake
Hi noel,
I just received the ordered X 350 Pro via RCmaster. After the ordinary compass calibration I realize, that the GPS seems to have outages i.e.some time the sats nr is > 7 .. 8 (seen in the MP) and LED on the Quad and sudenly there are 0 sats (according to MP) and no flashing of the LED on the right of the Quad for some minutes. Afterwards the sat counts repeats to increase towards 7 ... 8 for some time. With ublox I have never problems at all the same place (Western of Switzerland).
I wonder if this behaviour is also observed by others due to a bad GPS or lower quality compared to ublox types. By the way could one replace the built in GPS by a ublox type? Is this supported by the Walkera software?
Regards
Hans
I just bought the Walkera X350 Pro for the purpose of playing around with Mission Planner and some Telemetry flights. The Devo-M controller that it comes with matches some of what I see here, but it does not talk about V1 or V2 as being able to work. If anyone could shed some light on this mod it would be such a great help. It seems they are not using the CTS from this diagram and I can not find out if it does work, will it only be to view the mission or make changes.
If someone has succeeded in modifying the X350 Pro to use telemetry please share it along with what should be ordered. I am good a testing and soldering, just not experienced with the inner workings and technology to do this on my own.
Grandpa Jake
for those thinking of using the Taranis and x8r BNF x350 Pro. The x8r SBUS will not communicate to the devo-m DATA BUS, so you may end up using 8 servo leads or connect the channels you intend on using, the good old fashion way.
If anyone has succeeded with the Walkera X350 Pro and installing the Telemetry please share what you did. I should be receiving my new X350 pro this coming week. It is being sent directly from the company so I am not sure just what controller is inside. They told me it is the most updated. I have seen where others have installed an earlier version of the 3drobotics telemetry, but I was hoping to use the new style if it will work. I would like to know if either or both will allow not only to monitor what the quad is doing, but to be able to send changes back to it while it is on the mission. Any help would be very much appreciated. Also any links to what I would need to order.
Take Care
Grandpa Jake
Devo-M controller
http://walkera-fans.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/walkera-devo-m_00...
I am looking for the guts of this multirotor and flight controller - X350 Pro and Devo-M Controller.
I found in this site - Achtung! Alles auf Deutsch. Not the photos though :-)
http://walkera-fans.de/x350-pro-und-devo-m-von-innen/
Hey, has anyone tried these clones with our software? We would appreciate someone to try it out and let us know does it work out of the box. Let us know and we will send you thanks in a form of our UgCS Team polo! ;)
Is this mutlicopter (i.e. Walkera QR X800 FPV GPS QuadCopter) better than Quanum Nova APM-powered copter?
Why?
Hans, I have never tried it,so I am unable to give you an accurate answer.
probably yes, like most devo transmitter. If you can move the spring over, just go to System and change Mode to 2. Devo transmitters are popular for modification. There is a community of developers that modifies devo transmitter, even changing it to multiple protocols (dsmx/dsm2) without changing hardware. Here is a link to the video project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNGDE60l74k and post your question at deviationtx.com maybe someone there can tell you.
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