The SMARTEST power cable in FPV
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Very nice idea. I have a couple of suggestions for a new version:
1) Use the balance lead so that it doesn't need to guess about the cell count - This also means that it can judge the charge state on the lowest cell rather than the pack voltage.
2) When the cell voltage gets extremely low, pulse the output voltage between say 8.4v and 7.5V, that will make the battery gauge in the goggles "flash" which should really bring it to your attention.
3) I don't know if you're already doing this, but make sure that there's a minimum output voltage which it can't go lower than so that you don't get a goggles "brown-out".
+1 for DIP switches! 😉 I’ll buy one of these and try the beeps, although I think I prefer to be able to look at a few LEDs. A voltage readout might be nice, if you can get a tiny segmented display.
I picked up this cable last week. It is great. Thanks for making a premium product with unique features.
The DJI Fpv goggles only go down to 7.4v, whereas this cable goes down to 6.2v. That leaves a lot of unused capacity especially if you have li ion packs. I wanted this product to exist so much about a year ago, glad you guys made it!!
Please either make a 3s/4s output range one or make output configurable.
Id totally go for little dip switches to set input and output ranges.
I bought the one mentioned in the video by TBS like 2 months ago lol, I've been so happy with it and it actually does have an LED indicator on it, green is basically full, green and red is mid, and red is low, doesn't beep for a warning tho. Very cool to see a more feature packed version now available!
+1 for a braided cable. Love the idea of the scaled voltage.
What would be nice with this product is if it had 6 LED lights on the connector and 1 tiny button which allows the user to select how many cells there are. Pressing the button would cycle through the LED lights/number of cells you will be using which would take the guess work out of the goggles if it's using a 5 or 6s battery.
Yeah race day quads already has a battery indicator you can push a button on to test the battery.
Why not have what you're talking about on the opposite side?
it would be better to list the cell count as binary with 3 LED's. That's what some smart dischargers do. It works well.
001 : 1
010 : 2
011 : 3
100 : 4
101 : 5
110 : 6
Yup people with hearing loss 😱
@@kibbycabbit ahh.. Hearing is overrated. 😁
Are you referring to the content to the video or the fact that the pack can blow up on your head?
Which most people don't do.
I don't do that.
Do you do that?😱
@@MadDragon75 haha no.. I’m deaf ;)
Brilliant, Joshua! Great work! 😃
I'm going to try to get one!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Ordered two one for me and my son. Very smart idea. Thank you for your ingenuity. Have a blessed day.
I use a braided cabel which I ordered from TBS, had to get a color I didn't like but it works. If you had a version with quality braided cable I would definitely upgrade to this one! Thanks again JB, we appreciate all you do for the community!
For real this is a awesome tool to have and thank you for trying to make fpv easier for us! Definitely picking one of these up💯
Looks smart to me! I'm gonna pick one up. I like the thought that went into the product! Thanks Joshua!
Thank you so much for making new things for the fpv community
Love it. Sounds perfect as is. Added bells & whistles optional but I like simple functionality. Brilliant solution!
I would love one of these if it had the braided cloth wrap on it. It's cool that it senses the voltage, but I'd much rather select what I plugged in.
Can this cable stay plugged in to a battery but not the goggles and it not drain the pack?
I ordered a couple of these - they arrived last week. One of them was DOA, so I contacted NewBeeDrone support. They replaced it immediately, and shipped the replacement the same day. Great support!
Joshua.... great product!
I just ordered one.
A voltage readout would be icing on the cake.
After crashing and badly damaging a 7 inch long range quad I just finished building because I didn't check my goggle pack voltage before flying, I just put my pre-order in for this! I don't run in to this problem very often, since I have a few 2S and 3S packs just for goggle use, but having the output voltage scaled down based on input voltage going down is a great idea. $15 isn't bad at all. Thanks JB and NBD!
This is a cool idea. I stopped using the goggle batts years ago. Have a 2000mah 3s pack that sits in my pocket. Makes the goggles much more comfortable to wear, especially at events when you have them on your head all day
Rc car battery i got 2 - 5200mAh lipos for $20
Genius! I love it. Shocking no one has already done this.
This looks really nice! I've been using the USB-chargeable Fatshark batteries for a while for ease of use, and it seems like they've started holding less and less charge lately. Glad to see a good alternative adapter that takes 6S. Does the adapter board itself give a low battery warning when the pack is getting low, or does it leave it up to the goggles to start chirping? Depending on how well this works I wouldn't mind paying a few extra bucks for a premium version.
Ah man, this is so sick JB!!! Ordering now!
I just ordered one right now! Thanks for this!!
Cool power cable. I typically run 2s lipo / Li-ion packs attached to the goggle strap. But if they die I'll switch to a lipo in my pocket. This seems a much better / safer alternative to the power cable I'm using at the moment. Thanks Joshua. 🤓
Thanks Joshua, I just ordered one to try out
WELL DONE!! Great solution.. Just bought two. One for each of my FS HDO2s Thank you! -John
Will that plug work with the g2 because it’s a smaller end then the v2
I like it. When I need a new one I will give this a look.
I use the Furious one and highly recommend this sort of device over the uncomfortable battery pack. I must admit the NewBeeDrone one looks a lot similar and more pleasant without the intermediate power buttons and screen and the price is very attractive.
Last time I used the flight pack with a long cable I walked away with the battery still in my pocket dragging my DJI goggles across the parking lot. To this day I use the supplied pack with my goggles
brilliant idea, love it!
100% would pay good money for this and a braided version with a readout on it. Make it. We all need and want one. Will be picking this up Friday if they are still in stock
I have an old goggle cable and I don’t know what is made of but it is rubbery and super flexible and not stiff. Is it silicon? I don’t know but it was the most comfortable. It never had kinks
Dude. That's aweome. Great work, man.
Hi Joshua, that is, what we waiting for... I hope we get it in germany shops too
Awesome. Can this handle the power needed for a set of goggles plus an HDZero VTX?
So would a 4s or 6s 1500mah last longer than a 2s 18650 pack? Since There are more available watt hours, or is the regulator a drain as well?
Any tips for my 5s battery that keeps showing up at 6s? Battery is at 3.89 voltage and i cant get it to register as a 5s. Is 5s not on a battery voltage that it will read?
It’s probably been mentioned in the comments but I’m not going to dig through them all, but now with hdzero/Sharkbyte vrx’s, wouldn’t this cable be better if it had two output connectors? I have skyzone o4x and Sharkbyte VRX and the dual output cable that came with the Sharkbyte is crap, I can hook a 4S or 6S to it and the screen goes blank (shuts off) after flying one or two packs. The xt60 end is warm and I assume it’s a bad regulator. I don’t want to use two cables and two batteries if I don’t have to. Should I try a new Sharkbyte cable and hope it works better?
Very nice! Purchased.
Is the module without the XT60 socket & housing small enough to hack into say Fat Shark goggles for example?
Awesome! Great idea!
Kemosabe, That's a great Idea for a power cable. I see it having a decent following.
Nice it does work great. Tried it on my power supply. I bought 3 and yes I would get 3 more of the premium ones
is there a way to use with radiomaster zorro ? I always forget the 2s battery when out flying😅 need a cable to plug in partially discharged 4s and 6s packs 😊
That's genius!! and the price is fine!! I would like to see this product coming to EU stores! I will definitely purchase this!
Great product. The only thing I still have that takes 2s that I would need something like this for is my Radiomaster Zorro, and that takes a balance lead input or usb-C. These days there are a lot of things that take usbc in for power. Is there something like this that could output usbC? Or 2s balance lead? I don't know if any safe converters exist for that...
I always have anxiety over my controller battery more than anything.
Some googles go dark at low voltage without prior warning (skyzone02c)..Does the cable also beep when the lipo is at critical low voltage? (depending on the number of cells he guessed at startup)
Could it also make sense to create a Step-Up booster to boost a 1cell like 18650 to 2s voltage? (Or do the LiIons cells get overwhelmed by the drawed current?)
I had a little 1s plane where I liked the simplicity that 1s systems and these hub-chargers come with - so one could use these 18650-single-chargers
I use an old 3s 1500mah pack and it actually straps on the goggles itself. And i soldered my own regulator cable to step the 3s voltage to a steady 12v and also with a "balance" lead for the fan. To deal with the issue of potentially overdischarging it i use one of those cheap cell checkers that can be programmed to beep at a 3.8v or something and have that plugged into the pack and keep it velcroed to the side. Work's great and stays all attached to the goggle strap. Since the actual pack itself is a lipo i charge it like all my others but don't have to worry about storage voltage and stuff since it isn't going to see any flight anymore. It also lasts forever I've never actually had it run out on me but the beeping cell checker is nice peace of mind.
I need to do this because my goggles don't give me any idea when it's low . It does shut off before it drains the battery to much but that's just the thing .they just shut off and im left flying blind. Idk why skyzone wouldn't give you a warning first.
I built a belt clip that holds 4 18650 batteries using some mouser parts. It lasts a couple months for me (weekend flyer). Even if i get to the field and the batteries are low, i still get a couple hours. Thats perfect for me. If i were a serious all day flier that might not work. Your cable is much lighter than extra 18650 batteries so thats pretty nice. I can see some people getting this just as a backup solution. Neat stuff.
This will be great product to have, I will need one for the googles. 2 and the Avata that only supports 2s as far as I know, but has to have the smaller port for the goggles, I will get one normal one just for the Avata, and maybe you can make it beep when the voltage is low?
Very nice! Good idea. Does it exist with a splitted cable for both Sky04x and HDZero vrx??
I love it. I use my HdZero power cable even when I'm flying analog. If you do fixed output make it so the balance plug is used to give a low battery warning like the Lipo alarms that you had to use before RC car ESCs had low voltage cutoff.🥳
I’d be interested if it had a visual indicator of battery state, that’s why I use RDQ goggle batteries. It’s nice to just push a button and see if I need to charge a battery.
Hey, that's a cool idea. I wonder if it would it be possible to use the balance connector instead of the xt60 to power the goggles? Then you could be 100% sure how many cells there are. I wonder how many amps the balance connector can handle.
For the older fatsharks it needs a barrel to barrel and fan plug adaptor. Does one come with it?
Will this work with the DJI new goggles and a a premium one with USB-C power input would be great.
Looks pretty sweet! I've been using the newbeedrone USB-C to barrel cable with a 10400mah fast charging PD power bank on my DJI V2's that's the same dimensions as a fatshark battery. Works great at 12v output and lasts about 4 hrs.
Great idea
ordered this for my new fatsharks!! cant wait to use it!!! in response to the end of the video, it be nice to have a small voltage readout since some of us wouldn't have a voltmeter to check it with?
I love this!
Awesome product JB! I would definitely buy one of these but would also spend more an a braided/premium cable!
Sold out, I guess they like it. I will buy one when they come back in stock. Having this flexibility not to have yet another special pack to charge will be great, and always having a pack on hand to run my goggles if it has an XT60; ya it's a great idea.
great idea, especially for adventure fpv'ers, i use old packs to charge healthy packs in the field it would be cool to have one of these do 12v output too, maybe both is possible, price sounds great.
I have been flying with 4 cell LIION packs. I recently got frustrated at the reliability of the ones I was buying and started making my own. On my packs, the power cable goes along the side of the pack under the heat shrink to improve durability. This cable would work with my packs but would not be ideal since LIION cells can discharge lower before being damaged. I have the same issue without a regulator in the cable but what would be ideal for my use would be a cable that had a LIION setting or maybe a voltage warning built into the cable with a consistent voltage output.
Hi Joshua how are you ???
How about the furiousfpv cable the red one? Is that not good to use??
Yes, I want one of these. Great idea. Looks to be already sold out though, so I think people like it. I would love a power switch on it, but not like the SYK cable that you have to hold for a set amount of time. I just want to immediately switch it on or off. I own two SYK cables and hardly use them any more because I hate having to hold it to turn it off or on and you never know if you did it long enough because there is no tactile feedback which you need while wearing goggles, and that situation happens a lot at races when you are in a hurry. I would love a version that also works with HDZero with a switch because as much as I love the HDZero cable, I wish I did not have to unplug it to turn off the VRX. Anyway, yes I would also buy a more premium version, especially if it had an instantaneous on/off switch. Actually I would buy at least two and recommend them to everyone.
nice ;) has it 2 outputs? for goggle and hdzero? and you could also make a "pro" version with sleeved cable, power button, cell count led´s and a usb port to charge phone or gopro ;)
"you can use any of your flight packs 4S, 6S you name it" - instantly bought one, trying to figure out whats wrong and i get 6 beeps instead of 5. 5s not supported :p lol also tried a few of my other 4s and 6s flight packs and only get a black screen on goggles for some reason. what's the lowest per cell voltage this will work with for each battery. so lets say using a 4S pack on storage voltage (3.8v), will it scale down to something usable on goggles or not? would be good to be able to use my li-ion packs as well but i guess if it scales down according to lipo it will cut out when theres still plenty left in a li-ion
No one has the fat shark compatible packs in stock any where, this came at the perfect time for me. Is it possible to get batt info in goggle on the hdo2?
What a great idea!!
Great video, and product, I definitely think it's worth that price, especially if it's as durable as it looks, I might have to pick one up. What gauge wire did you end up going with? Also, my IT skills are shite, so this is truly out of curiosity if you're allowed to say, did you and NBD use an algorithm, or code, similar to Betaflight's battery tab, because I've noticed that if I use a fully charged battery when testing voltage or batteries on BF, it thinks I have the next higher cell battery sometimes.
Very nice, and I've been looking for something like this, but a power switch would be the bigger selling point for me. Its both convenient and a more effective way to manage my charge. If I can just quick click the goggles off when I'm not using them I don't even need special features to stay ahead of my rate of battery consumption. You did good with this. I'll probably buy one. But just something to think about for version 2.0. And yes, braided cable too.
I built one of these with an old 16x16 flight controller (with ripped out pads), led lights and buzzer that came with an old whoop. And a BEC of course. And two switches for dealing with hdzero too.
I've been meaning to upgrade the old USB cable i used to make it to a more fancy braided cable but I'm too lazy. So I'll probably get to it when this cable breaks off.
I was also meaning to write custom code to make it more battery efficient, but the Emuflight/betaflight on the FC is good enough so far.. (Thank you Joshua for the tutorial on how to set up LED strips in betaflight!). I already get low battery alarms and the LED lights change.
the voltage readout would be a nice feature, and a good working power button is nice too.
Actual innovation. Well done
idea for cable version 2.0 -- multi-position pot or switch with detents for 2-6 cell values?
I love the idea. Trying to preorder now. Pro version - Braided cable and when it hits a calculated 3.5 v per cell I want to hear your voice say “Abort!” 😂
Great idea! I made one by 3D printing a box with my FPV logo cutout and LEDs behind it so it glows through. Its pretty cool but it doesn’t have that smart conversion feature. I was going to include a LED indicator for battery level and a USB power port
Would definetly like to see one with a 2s balance lead for the fan. Great product though!
Great idea
Yes Voltage display please. Will this work with DJI Goggles 2?
Great idea to be honest 👍 I'm still using ev800 box goggles so prob not for me but credit to ya and newbee drone ❤️
Great thing. I would love to have a led indicator of cell count detected. No irritating beeping. Maybe red green blue 3 stage charge state status, but optional. Maybe 18usd with these futures?
Awesome product/idea. Add more features like read out displays on both ends for in and out voltage readings. Also braided and short cable options. I will buy it, even if 30 40 bucks if it has all the nice features. Would be cool if you could configure input voltage to what ever you want. So add a buck/booster in between with readings on both ends. Add different connector option on both ends as well and then you really have a cool product that can be used multiple ways.
Love it! I would like to see color choices. Simple led voltage level is enough too
ON/OFF switch!!
This is a GREAT product!! I will be getting one
Any chance it gets distributed elsewhere? Newbeedrone shipping is prohibitive or us to the North...
Would like to know if there is an solution to use this with HD zero?
Honestly I think this was a fantastic business decision. This totally replaces the 7-9 power cables that are cluttering up my bag.
Great idea! I ordered 3 for my goggles!
This is awesome it makes the goggles thinks it's got a 2S plugged in! Love it!
I'd rather pay more for the extra features, big ones for me are a power switch and Voltage readout mainly why I've stuck with the furious fpv cable but the power button on those is horrible. Would it be better to be able to select the feed Voltage either through an options menu or toggle switch? That way it's on the user to ensure it's setup correctly.
Is this cable made of PVC with the welded seal down the middle?
Really like it, a little readout on the connector like on the Speedybee adapter would be a great idea. But a braided cable version is not very desireable, they tend to be too stiff and get dirty very quick. They only look nice when they are new.
I will definitely be getting one of these but one thing I think would be nice would be to just be able to set it to 6s or 4s and have it remember what you use so that you do not listen for the beeps every time you plug in.
I use the FuriousFPV - Smart Cable V2 for my dji goggles v2. It has screen, beeps when lipo is low, shows voltage, etc. But its 50$ now, and when i bought it, it was 25 or 30 i think. Its very nice but expensive now. Maybe make something like it but with lower price possibly?
Great idea, but like some of the other comments, I also would like to see a more premium version with a digital readout and an on/off power button.
Not stupid at all JB. Those other cables you're talking about, I've never even heard of them. I will buy your cable for sure.
I would use it seriously ! I've been always looking at my DJI FPV v2 goggles ordinary battery to be in a good level to continue and fly but with this I would charge a old batterie pack and I would have more time.without worrying ... At least I could use a xt60 battery not empty I use but some purpose to be a goggles battery !! It gives an alternative or a main plan but either way I love it .
Existe algún adaptador para no depender de Baterías en Goggles dji v2?