Another Wizard Arrives and I try the USB VTX Receiver

So Monty, a work mate, ordered a Wizard.  He got impatient waiting for the RTF to arrive, so he bought it ARF, bought the same Flysky FS-i6 with the FS-iA6B Receiver and a separate iMAX B6 Battery Charger and batteries.


I told him to get that charger as it was AC powered (unlike mine) as he wouldn't have a 12V DC Power supply that he could use.

Funnily enough the Charger arrived yesterday, and the rest (except batteries) arrived today.  I assisted him in getting setup by Hacking his Transmitter to enable all 10 channels as seen here in a previous post.  I then changed the receiver plug from the PPM plug on the front of the Flight Controller Board to the ibus plug at the back of the FC.  I hooked in CleanFlight and configured the Wizard for ibus.  This was now the second time I've done this for this exact Transmitter and Drone combination.

I gave him one of my batteries and told him to give me one of his new ones when they arrive.  I hadn't yet run the battery so apart from me charging it, it was brand new.  It was identical to the ones he had ordered.

We walked down to the local oval and I decided that I'd take my Android 5.8ghz USB Reciever to view the FPV on my Samsung Galaxy 6 Edge.  I hadn't used it yet so I was eager to play with that while he flew a little bit of LOS on the oval.

I got 2 screenshots of my phone in before the magic of the wizard's flight ran out.

Yes, an inverted landing.  Turns out this impact broke the VTX antenna plug, identically to how I did when mine landed after falling out of the tree.

This brought to an end the use of my phone to watch the FPV.  I didn't get a chance to test video recording.  The software linked on BangGood's site I couldn't get to work so I ended up getting both Easycap & UVC Player (FPViewer) and Go FPV from the Google Play Store.  When I plugged the USB Receiver in it fired up one of these apps and automatically tuned it to the channel within about a second so I don't know which of these apps I was actually using at the time.

I did however record some video just using the phone camera.  I disconnected the VTX cable so it wouldn't burn-out and Monty kept flying LOS testing some of the limits.

Monty agreed that he isn't ready for 4 cell batteries just yet.  We both have more learning and practise to do before getting to that stage.