I give up

It became clear to me, I don't know anything

I expect that this forum contains people who do not understand or do not know how to give advice

I expect that man will be excited at first and want to try everything
Man does not know what he/she wants and there is no one to advise him/her in correct way

I have paid nearly $600 so far and have not been able to fly yet
It includes a drone, drone parts, batteries, a soldering kit, blade, a frame, conpys, chargar and more

I bought a Mob7 and it was bad because the VTX broke and AIO not good
If I had bought something else, like the Beta 75 Pro, for example, Where external VTX is better
I hope it won't be ruined like this

I have learned to pay extra money and not to repair or soldering anything
I can't soldering or I suspect my soldering kit is bad

Every piece I buy comes after a month and I don't fly, and I just pay and wait and the piece is ruined
Instead, the kit is very comfortable, i think all togather

The diamond arrived and I said I would try soldering it, but after 9 hours of torment between it working and not working, I expect that I have ruined the soldering area and it has become difficult to soldering in the required area.

I have learned to buy a RTF kit instead of soldering, or to buy parts that I can install instead of soldering. I am not good at soldering, and I do not want to waste time soldering.

I don't know what I will do with the parts I ordered and how I can install them to build cine8

I give up and I don't know what to do 

:_(

Regards,
Noob dreams of becoming a FPV pilot

Not everyone is a Tony Stark with building/soldering/repairing, at the beginning... it takes time to get good at anything.

It's ok to walk away for a time too.

Get other folk's take:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_q...er+fpv+kit

...but seriously, if you want to have any future in this hobby, you must conquer soldering. Thick flux is your friend (gobs of it, part/pad soaking/drowning in it), 63/37 solder is too... then the actual soldering iron. Digitally controlled, accurate temp, decent quality doesn't have to cost a bunch: miniware ts101, shop around for price. Wouldn't hurt to get a medium chisel tip for too...

Patience is always desperate when required right now this minute...

...but totally worth waiting for:

.. don’t give up.. TRUST ME!! Here is why… FPV has.a STEEP learning curve..you WILL break lots of stuff, and burn up many components.. but it pay off in the end!! and at one point you will look forward to crashing / repairing stuff (minus the $)..
Be patient, it’s gonna take time… if I can survive this thing ANYONE can..
I couldn’t afford to get started in this hobby but located a full setup from a guy on Facebook that had “given up”. I watched a lot of videos, read a lot of forums, and EVENTYALLY got the quad airborn (non-acro).. flew as much as I could since my old laptop couldn’t run any sim..
Fpv IS as awesome to fly as it appears to be.. but it does take lots of “stick time” and patience..
Your ahead of me in this learning curve you located this forum

Find someone to do the soldering for you. That is the immediate solution to your soldering woes. Have them solder up the stuff on the new build. At the same time, buy practice boards and use them. 30 mins a couple of times each week. Buy some (cheap) components and build something, like a radio or Led visual type project, a project unrelated to FPV and more related to improving your electronics and soldering knowledge.

Maybe lose the Cinewhoop or nothing mentality. If you bought a BabyApe, you could be in the air flying pretty quickly and they are cheap quads. It runs on 3S. It gives you stick time and right now that's all you need. But when you break it, you need to be able to fix it. So back to the soldering.

When you look at buying a quad, you need to look at how modular it is. The downside to highly integrated circuits is they are a pig to repair, so buy stuff in future that isn't so integrated. So if you break the VTX, you simply buy another and replace it.

But also accept that things are going to go badly from time to time. At that point you need to walk away for a few days and do something else.

(11-Jan-2024, 08:41 PM)Pathfinder075 Wrote: Find someone to do the soldering for you.  That is the immediate solution to your soldering woes.  Have them solder up the stuff on the new build.  At the same time, buy practice boards and use them.  30 mins a couple of times each week.  Buy some (cheap) components and build something, like a radio or Led visual type project, a project unrelated to FPV and more related to improving your electronics and soldering knowledge.

Maybe lose the Cinewhoop or nothing mentality.  If you bought a BabyApe, you could be in the air flying pretty quickly and they are cheap quads.  It runs on 3S.  It gives you stick time and right now that's all you need.  But when you break it, you need to be able to fix it.  So back to the soldering.

When you look at buying a quad, you need to look at how modular it is.  The downside to highly integrated circuits is they are a pig to repair, so buy stuff in future that isn't so integrated.  So if you break the VTX, you simply buy another and replace it.  

But also accept that things are going to go badly from time to time.  At that point you need to walk away for a few days and do something else.

Can I send you the pieces to you, and you can soldering them for me? I would be grateful to you

If you want money in return, tell me?
What is your opinion?

(11-Jan-2024, 07:36 PM)Rob Axel Wrote: .. don’t give up.. TRUST ME!! Here is why… FPV has.a STEEP learning curve..you WILL break lots of stuff, and burn up many components.. but it pay off in the end!! and at one point you will look forward to crashing / repairing stuff (minus the $)..
 Be patient, it’s gonna take time… if I can survive this thing ANYONE can..
 I couldn’t afford to get started in this hobby but located a full setup from a guy on Facebook that had “given up”.  I watched a lot of videos, read a lot of forums, and EVENTYALLY got the quad airborn (non-acro).. flew as much as I could since my old laptop couldn’t run any sim..
  Fpv IS as awesome to fly as it appears to be.. but it does take lots of “stick time” and patience..
  Your ahead of me in this learning curve you located this forum

Thank you for your encouraging words

But now I want to fly and I can learn soldering later
I'll see what I can do

(11-Jan-2024, 07:33 PM)skywanderer Wrote: Not everyone is a Tony Stark with building/soldering/repairing, at the beginning... it takes time to get good at anything.

It's ok to walk away for a time too.

Get other folk's take:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_q...er+fpv+kit

...but seriously, if you want to have any future in this hobby, you must conquer soldering. Thick flux is your friend (gobs of it, part/pad soaking/drowning in it), 63/37 solder is too... then the actual soldering iron. Digitally controlled, accurate temp, decent quality doesn't have to cost a bunch: miniware ts101, shop around for price. Wouldn't hurt to get a medium chisel tip for too...

Patience is always desperate when required right now this minute...

...but totally worth waiting for:

Haha, yes, indeed, Tony Stark is the only one capable of building/soldering/repairing 


Soldering requires experience and good tools

If you're anywhere near the middle of the USA, I'll happily get everything working for you. I enjoy soldering and it's fun to find ways to get things working again. Heck, it would be fun to go fly too!

(11-Jan-2024, 10:29 PM)samysh Wrote: Can I send you the pieces to you, and you can soldering them for me? I would be grateful to you

If you want money in return, tell me?
What is your opinion?

You haven't read any of my threads. :/  I have destroyed a flight controller, elrs rx and stripped the pads off two FC.  i am definitely the last person you want to send anything to.

Ask around your town and see if anyone flies planes or has model cars.  Also see if a right to repair type shop exists or an electronics shop.  Ask at the local college.  There will be someone who does electronics, there always is.

As to soldering requiring experience and good tools.  Yes and no.  To get experience, you need to practice.  Good tools are semi required.  Right now you are probably unsure if you want to do this indefinitely, so buying a Hakko would be unwise, but if in a year you are still really into it, buying a proper soldering station might be a good idea.  Until then, maybe grab a Sequre iron.

https://www.unmannedtechshop.co.uk/produ...on-b2-tip/

Some good quality solder, not that TBS crap (of which i have some and it's like soldering with treacle), but some Loctite or Kester.  Some good quality thick flux, ideally rework flux/gel.  The main thing to remember.  If you tin a pad, wait for the part to cool down.  I think that is how I fragged my FC.  I tinned a number of pads back to back.

(12-Jan-2024, 12:24 AM)Suros Wrote: If you're anywhere near the middle of the USA, I'll happily get everything working for you. I enjoy soldering and it's fun to find ways to get things working again. Heck, it would be fun to go fly too!

This is very nice of you. I live in Sweden. How about I pay the costs of shipping of sending it to you? And you pay the costs of shipping (As a favor from you) of sending it back to me when you finish it?

(12-Jan-2024, 12:25 AM)Pathfinder075 Wrote: You haven't read any of my threads. :/  I have destroyed a flight controller, elrs rx and stripped the pads off two FC.  i am definitely the last person you want to send anything to.

Ask around your town and see if anyone flies planes or has model cars.  Also see if a right to repair type shop exists or an electronics shop.  Ask at the local college.  There will be someone who does electronics, there always is.

As to soldering requiring experience and good tools.  Yes and no.  To get experience, you need to practice.  Good tools are semi required.  Right now you are probably unsure if you want to do this indefinitely, so buying a Hakko would be unwise, but if in a year you are still really into it, buying a proper soldering station might be a good idea.  Until then, maybe grab a Sequre iron.

https://www.unmannedtechshop.co.uk/produ...on-b2-tip/

Some good quality solder, not that TBS crap (of which i have some and it's like soldering with treacle), but some Loctite or Kester.  Some good quality thick flux, ideally rework flux/gel.  The main thing to remember.  If you tin a pad, wait for the part to cool down.  I think that is how I fragged my FC.  I tinned a number of pads back to back.

I live in a ghost town here where only bears live haha, I don't think there are people who can do that, but I will also ask

(12-Jan-2024, 12:36 AM)samysh Wrote: This is very nice of you. I live in Sweden. How about I pay the costs of shipping of sending it to you?  And you pay the costs of shipping (As a favor from you) of sending it back to me when you finish it?

My main issue with long range shipping is that I don't know the current condition of the equipment, and I actually have a pretty limited budget. There's no telling if it will need additional parts, and international shipping can be quite costly. It may even end up being cheaper overall to buy a fresh flight controller. If those problems didn't exist, I'd happily agree.

I do think it is worth persevering to learn to repair things yourself. There will always be a future need to repair or build in this hobby. Sadly you can't outsource it all. I am still new and am only just getting more comfortable soldering. I had to file the tips of some of my soldering heads to make them small enough to solder whoop pads. At first I thought I was just too unsteady to solder, but smaller tips made a world of difference.

https://intofpv.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=4955

i was active member in the past, an experienced pilot from sweden, maybe you can contact and try to get support to get airborne

^^^hero status right there^^^

cool beans