DJI Mavic Mini - Range Extended TOO FAR
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- I certainly didn't expect this result when range testing the DJI Mavic Mini.
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The Mavic Mini is such an impressive little piece of tech. I got nervous flying one for the first time because it was so lightweight and tiny, I didn't want anything to happen to the little guy! But apparently it can handle a lot!
"I can still see it" is called CYA.
I won't say how far I had my mini go, but it was a lot further, one thing I will say Ken coming from P4 and Mavics to the Mini which as you know is 249g you have to be careful , the slightest bit of headwind on the return journey, it can really lag you down and finish off your battery. I've seen loads blaming the Mini for falling out of the sky, it's down to pilot error, not allowing enough time to get back through a headwind which a P4 or Mavic would generally tear through...
“Far out”. dude, good to see Dana again also
And as always I love watch you and Dana out filming. You guys are a hoot
🤓👍👍👍👍
You’ve got the coolest friends Ken. Always a good time hanging out with some buddies and doing some droning.
I completely agree!🤓👍
I always select a manual channel with the Mini. Usually Ch.153 is clear. Remember that the European Minis also operate on 5.8GHz CE power as well as 2.4GHz, and not just on 2.4GHz FCC like they do in the US. That way, we get less interference from home wifi routers that predominantly pump out 2.4GHz signals.
Took mine for a range test (I don't do them as a rule and always fly VLOS) out in the middle of nowhere and got out to 2.57 miles with those exact parabolic extenders on.
El Smeghead wow that’s really far.
Zilla's Pit BBQ It really was in the middle of nowhere, totally flat farmland as far as the horizon in every direction.
@@El_Smeghead Your's is a europe version with wifi extender? reached more than 4km?
Chris Ishere Yes. Had ideal conditions. Low KP, zero wind, zero WiFi/radio interference, and direct radio LOS. The trick is to start low and gradually rise up as the signal starts to break up, keeping the “extenders” angled straight at the drone, and keeping the drone pointing away from you. When I returned I mistakenly yawwed a 180 to return and immediately lost connection so pointed it back away from me and flew backwards to maintain a connection. I have to admit to being quite shocked myself as I was only expecting it to get to 8-10,000ft, if that! Maybe DJI mistakenly sent me an FCC model (?) but it does say CE on the controller label.
@@El_Smeghead will try a range test but here is Mauritius due to confinement, I'm block at my place. And many wifi pollution in the surrounding. Do you experiencing any gimbal issue in high wind?
You can check my last video posted relating a gimbal issue in windy situation
Nice! Good to see you and Dana out again
Finally someone does a "range test" responsibly! Nice job Ken (and Dana) :)
@@MikeKinney8675 Notice I said "responsibly". There's no possible way you had VLOS on a Mavic Mini at 2.3 miles unless you had a spotter or two along the way. We've got to be more responsible than this or the FAA is just going to keep slapping more regulations on us.
Great video Ken...I have the Mini and those boosters.
You’re right; the Mini does great in WIDE OPEN areas, and will go well beyond VLOS. BUT (and this is a big BUTT) if you are around buildings (such as a downtown) the signal reliability drops WAY down and the MINI will drop in and out of connection...(VERY scary).
I flew downtown, around buildings, and monitored the connection signal-strength icon on the controller and it was “red” a lot. I then used the antenna “boosters” on the same flight path, and I did have stronger signal with fewer “lost connections” so it seems to help.
Caution: One risk is that the boosters FOCUS more signal directionally, so one has to be more diligent in POINTING the antennas AT THE DRONE. If the boosters are pointed straight ahead and the mini is above, beside or behind you... signal drops way off and often lost.
these guys are like Homer and Peter doing tandem
More like Clark Grizwald and Cousin Eddie
Nice test ken you have to try with the boosters (that would be interesting 👍) ken heron videos are so much fun
Yes the Mavic Mini is special little drone, punches well above it's weight! Great video guys
Do you recently update to v0500 and get this error?
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Nice flight, that's the future of drones, small with the ability to do what the big ones do 👍🏾😎👍🏾
There's nothing like a healthy dose of fresh Ken and Dana to put your mind at ease and ready for a good night's sleep. FWIW, I wish the Air was always that solid. I never fly out off site but just knowing that it could is a good thing. Might end up with one yet. You just keep dispelling myths about this little Drone, Ken can't wait to see more. I would have like to known your battery usage on this flight as well.
Thanks Harry!
You can see the battery level in the telemetry overlay. 👍
The Mavic Mini has great range, that's for sure. And it was great to see Dana again. Stay safe my friend.
Mini is my first ever, even down on my neighborhood street if I take it up to near 400 altitude I can get nearly 3000' out, houses and 100' trees. Open fields 5000' can be attained, if going that far DO pay attention to which way the wind is going : ) ... nice vid thanks for sharing.
Hilarious as well as very informative Ken love your videos subscriber for life my mini is on the way.
mini kicked butt in this one lol! great video Ken! now that you mention maybe hitting the salt flats....that would be a really cool test for ranges on drones! would make for some great content!
If the leaves were on the trees you wouldn't have gotten as far without going higher. Great job Ken.
I've always wanted to see a mavic mini range test!!
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Wow great test!
wow! i bought this one! I am so excited to get my hand on it! this video makes more excited for it!!!! thank you
I used to go to one of those school things.
You guys so fun 😄
I got the range for 1 km in the urban zone .
very good video, thanks Ken! ;)
Yes, top!
Thanks guys!
VLOS ?? "I don't want to cross the road if there's a car" ( but will fly beyond the line of site, he he he..). Good job Ken.
Nice Test my friend 😎👍🎬
Nice!!! Can't wait till I get one!😎
"I can still see it....." jejeje
In a galaxy far, far away, was where the Ken mini was found. Range extenders put into light speed. Great video Ken and Dana. Great test and thanks for sharing.
Wow, I was getting nervous, at 3:26 it looks like you were about 2 seconds away from passing through those electrical wires (you might have been high enough to clear but it sure looks like a maybe), then just as I was getting ready for the hit/drop you stopped and announced you’d return to home. Phew! I know from experience those are almost impossible to see on a phone so good job avoiding them. Nice vid, always entertaining to watch your stuff. thx!
I was just thinking the same. Do you think Ken even notice them??
Jimmy Lugo ... I don’t know if he did. I have flown in similar circumstances only to discover at home on the footage that there was a wire hanging lower than the rest of the group ... scared me, so now I just make sure I am at 150ft or more unless the terrain is elevated as well. That is probably why it startled me because I’ve been there. LOL
Great test. Nice to see Dana back. Might have to get me one of them there Mini's once I pas my 107.
I don't think I've even had the range extenders out of the box. Don't need them. Thanks for the video, good to see Dana again also
I was getting some interference with my Mini and utilizing these extenders has certainly helped.
Excellent!
Great video! Always love your content Ken! I've had my Mini at 1.9 miles over the lake before I was worried about signal. I'll have to try the boosters and see if I can reach the claimed 3 mile range
Holy smoke Ken! That little Mavic Mini will fly to the moon with the boosters on⚠️😯😁😎👍
DANA ..... welcome back oh hey Ken sorry what’s up lol. Good job I just picked up a mini that was impressive.
Those range extenders are for the European market. I got 1 mile range with no problems with them and only half without. Fri-Ken fantastic!
Thanks bud!
I read somewhere that it helps turning the mobile fone wifi off. If you use Android you can get something like tasker to turn wifi off automatically when you open DJI fly app.
nice tandem in any way singing,w/ back up comedy or else haha nice video range testing for mavic mini like it
Oh wow I'm very impressed about this drone I should really buy one then that's insane love the video Ken u should test 2 different drones and see how far they both can go tag a nother a friend and fly with you n see what's the distance is like
I was just thinking about Dana a few weeks back. I hadn't flown my original Mavic Pro for a long long time so I dusted it off charged it up and ran through 4 batteries. While packing it up I noticed I still have the clear covers on the remote, Both front and narrow strip by the antennas.
Thought Dana would be proud :)
You left them ON?!!
NOOOOOOO!!😝
Nice video!!!!
Cool to see Dana again, Hey Dana! Think your description might have been a little misleading. Thought it was going to crash, or at least you were going to lose it. Nice job Ken.
Well, I didn't hear/ see the "Buh & Bye" on this video... You're slackin' Ken... LOL! JK Thanks for the range test video. Good Info for this type of location...
Good to see you with Dana again. That was an excellent test. Great little drone but it's tough for me to see that little bird at a distance. My P4 is much easier to see.
Great video, U guys crack me up!
Did you have any compass/magnetic alerts by taking off from the bed of the truck?
No. Just make sure you calibrate it away from any metal before launching from a vehicle.
Wow...thanks for this video
You bet!
Thank you Jesus for such great range, its a miracle and I touched the screen and felt my own Mavic Mini range extended as well
Ya'll are great! Keep up the good work :)
"GIMI THAT FIMI" KEN!!! 2nd video.
I'm a new Dronie in this cool aerial world and new owner of a Mini. Your videos crack me up. 🤣😂
From what I've seen you will for sure need the extenders if you try flying in noisy areas and we are for sure lucky being on FCC mode here 👍👍
Going back to my P3S days, mine would barely go 750-800Ft in noisy areas but it would easily go 4 times that far when I was out away from cities...
Always good to see Dana!!!
SCROLL-ed to your old Phantom 4 Range Test video but had to come back here to comment on it 🤪
COMMENT, I miss Wild West Flying Days 😁
Hey Ken , great location ! Go back in the opposite direction 3,700? and have a visual observer with a microphone at the location you are at in this video and you have the “ spotter “ follow the drone in this same flight path possibly that same 3700? feet if not more until your spotter can no longer see the drone from the end of that 3700? feet from his new location . On the return flight the spotter could also retrieve the drone to you after you land it ...
Aerials402 great idea
Thanks for saying so Zilla , it took me a few times to try to explain it so someone can understand it ...
Someone told me for better range to manually choose channel 165 (urban environment) and I did. I was totally surprised especially since 165 at the time didn't even register as having much of a signal.
Yo Ken, do you enjoy going "buck" wild? Lol. The more mini videos you do the more impressed I become. I can't wait till I can afford one. Would love to get some great aerial photos. Hope your staying safe and be well. Bah and Bye!
Thanks Shawn!🤓👍
@@KenHeron your welcome Ken. 👍
The Salt Flats was where I've flown my Phantom 2 the furthest. Made it past 1,000 meters until the video started getting fuzzy and blacking out. I have one of those ImmersionRC 500mw video transmitters on it. Lot of my flights with the Phantom 2 were sloppy because I had to keep the directional antenna on the video monitor aimed directly at it and had to keep adjusting it in mid-flight.
My mini went almost 4 miles away and still had camera visual and control of the mini I absolutely love my mini. It was the perfect fron to start my camera drone
G'day Ken. Great vid as always! Do you know if range extenders are available anywhere for the P4P+ Obsidian (colour)?
Link in description:
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@@KenHeron Thanks Ken. Vividaerialrc site it down at the moment... they're moving space. I'll check back later. Stay well.
dana hahaha fighting the wind,somebody would..cracked me up hahahahaha
I took my mini out 10,042 feet before you have no idea man that little guy is amazing
Hi Ken. Interesting video. Felt sorry for Dana, he was saddled with your humour!
Take care, stay safe and catch you later. Peter.
Hello ken I’m from India learning alot of things about drone from you specially I learnt that RTH should be at the maximum altitude which we have flying through
I wanted to know I have never lost signal till yet if druing RTH signal lost drone gets crashed how we come to know??? Or any idea about that
Anyone that has a drone has crashed it. Including me!
Ken what accessories do I need to get with the mini?
Got my DJI Mavic Mini CE, to go 1600m out on a highly urbanized area, with my 3D printed true parabolic boosters. By the way the one you have is not a true parabolic reflector. The other right piece does not have the correct focal point because of the offset of the antenna. Please do not judge for I do not live in your FAA country. Haha
3D Printwiz I had 2100m with stock
@@southcoastsledders866 CE? Though I think it's range is highly dependent on altitude though.
Well in Canada and 100ft or so above sea level
@@southcoastsledders866 I don't have a choice right now due to quarantine. I fly from my backyard and with a lot of obstacles like fences and houses. I have to use a ladder to get an LOS of my drone. But I can still get to 1.6 km.
Yeah this was a couple months ago
Beautiful lil thank .
Was really great to see Dana again! Even though that was a long flight I would have still liked to have seen the distance with the range extenders just to see if there was any difference at all. Hope you and Dana and your familys stay safe during all this crazyness. God bless, thanks for sharing !
I’ve had negative results using similar parabolic reflectors with my Mavic Air. If I recall correctly it could only fly about 2/3 the distance with the reflectors in a suburban environment.
Had my Spark out 4000 ft in the middle of nowhere. Then I blinked and couldn't see it, so I hit RTH. I knew where it was and could see there was nothing around it, but all I needed was for video to drop out or ATTI mode to engage. Yea, keep it where you can see it.
Ken sniff Herron. 😎 that’s really good singing. Now you’re finished that is. Ha ha!
U should of been a rebel ken, soo many people do a distance range. We need one from u sumtime.
Ask and you shall receive:
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Impressive range on that Mavic Mini Ken.
How can you see so far. The mini is really small. Even at 50 meters (200ft) away, I lost sight of Mini and had to depend on visual on the screen....
It was tough. Gotta squint a bit!
I managed to get the Mini up to 639 meters, without losing sight, but once I took my eyes off to see the controller (due to signal loss notice), i lost it visually. Really gotta look hard... forgot that in RTH it will fly higher, so i was looking at the same spot looking for a spec in a white cloud spot. CE version in a big city, lots of interference here.
Too far isn't far enough Ken.. c'mon.. Great Stuff as always . 🚀
Those boosters work great. For my spark at least
the Mavic Mini stopped recording the photos at any resolution on the phone, it records the movies but not even one, I tried even with the remote and the Mavic Mini on, and they are not on the phone, what's up?
You could be running out of space on the phone.
@@KenHeron 128GB ... 60 GB free .... 🤔 Try Ken there are more friends on the DJI forum, talking about it !!
I think I have pushed those boosters to their limits on my last video.
Isn't the factory range 2.4miles. out the box? I'm thinking of buying one
Yes. But I'm not allowed to fly beyond VLOS.
I had no idea the mini was so good!!
Robert Patton Do you think that’s far Someone else went 18,000 feet
Lol! Dad jokes were appreciated!
With the covid crisis going on do you know if the local government let you go out and fly due to stay at home recommendations ?
What is that golden thing?
Ken, GIMI that FIMI
Would love to see actually how much farther the range would be for the Mavic Mini with the extenders? Possible?
It would go WAAAAAY beyond VLOS.
Perhaps it would be best to fly such tests upwind?
Is it a CE or FCC Mavic Mini? (Europe or USA version)
USA
@@KenHeron OK. Thanks for the reply 😜
Dustin Dunhill pushed one of these out to like 15000 feet in Hawaii. The battery died right when he got it back. Impressive indeed!
Been thinking about getting one
Wonder if you could put one of these on a taranis radio for flying FPV drones and extend the range? Hey Ken wanna ask some of your fpv buddies and report back? I'd really appreciate it! Also I'm sold on the Mini when all this blows over before I buy anymore FPV stuff I'm getting back in the DJI game as well! Have big plans for the mix of footage I'll be able to achieve with both worlds! CHEERS!
Hey Dana.
Welcome back.
Wondering when you’ll be on TNL again since you’re probably not touring these days.
Great 👍
GIMI
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Wow.. good little performer this Mini.
If you take binoculars with you and can see the drone through them, wouldn't that still be considered line of sight?
You cannot use binoculars to maintain line of sight. However, you can use them briefly for situational awareness. This according to the FAA.
@@KenHeron Seems kinda like BS by the FAA. If you can enhance your line of sight, it's still line of sight. But what do I know? Thanks Ken. I had not seen that anywhere.
Yeah, the FAA'S logic doesn't always make sense.
I love Dana’s faces he makes at the camera. I’ll have to get one of those FAAHQ shirts! I work at the FAA Southwest HQ in Fort Worth.
DANA!!!!! So great to see Dana. Been suffering from
anti-Dana-titus! Missing him on TNL but guessing he will not stay awake for a 150 minute show. Nice flying there champ! You are sounding sniffily Ken. Hope you’re taking your Vitamin C three times daily!!! Dana too!!!It Duke’s up your immune system. A good thing at a time like this. Be Safe Guys!!!
I'm a little horse lol Great test buddy
sir my drone is outdoor GPS word is good and show ready to go
but indor dont show to ready to go indor is show
no positioning atti
plz help sir
You're downward cameras should keep it stable indoors. I filmed inside many places and didn't have any problems. Give it a shot!
Hehe nice to see Dana out and about. Hey, did you guys drive separate?? Or was this pre-covid invasion? Anyhoo, yes that little drone is fantastic.
i am really interested in purchasing this drone, do you think i should? let me know.
You won't regret it. 👍
You are in an area of less interference , so yeah your going to go beyond LOS easily ..LOL Cheers love your channel ! Thanks