looks worse to repair than the mavic clones on banggood. applying device design to fpv ruins nearly everything good about fpv drones. with plastic and aluminum construction it's unclear why they didn't panel the chassis in glass to make it at least as durable as a dropped phone.
Thank you Livyu! I’m a bando flyer, so no interest in Ever owning a DJI drone, but it’s certainly interesting to see product engineering at DJI’s level😎
Wow! Can't believe DJI shipped you one to rip apart. Great to see how they're put together (if ever needed). Joshua Bardwell broke the arm on his already (DJI shipped him two FPVs). So, not to confident they'll stand-up to the majority of crashes...have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of rebuilt tutorials down the road once people start getting them in their hands. Again, thanks for the video!
Obviously, the main idea is to make you buy the more spare parts in one time lol These guys are gonna be rich if every single time you break just one little spot, you actually need to replace the whole body lol Thanks for the great tear-down as always! Happy midweek and stay safe during the human malware pandemic outbreak
You're 100% right. Why should anyone buy this? You'd have to have more money than brains for this purchase to make sense. It's an awful freestyle drone, not a good cinewoop. Who is this for?
Great video. Thank you. I was hoping you were were going to really tear it down. I wanted to see if I was able to replace the arm. I wanted to see how the arm was built. Thank you anyway.
Excelente video. DJI hace valer su nombre de nuevo con un dron muy bien construido. Excellent video. DJI asserts his name again with a very well built drone.
for us of great value cause my buddy had crashed his on day 1 and we needed this piece to make no more mistakes during "slaugthering" cause we sold the pieces already ... 1 arm broken and 1 motor with board and led and 1 cable loose which had stopped the whole drone from booting - but we learned that only while tearing it apart.
@@morelife9103 That's what I expected too, but then I saw Bardwell's crash, and things looked kinda mangled and didn't see any (simple) screws for the arms in this teardown either.
Excellent video. Would you dare to make another video but with the remote controller? I would like to know if this possible to regulate the tension of the sticks, since from what I have read, with the F1 and F2 screws that are behind the control, it can only adjust the vertical tension of the sticks (throttle and pitch). Thanks!
The arms are soldered to a 4n1 ESC? Wow. So the arms will be easy to replace for typical hobbyists - but definitely not the intended user of this drone.
Regarding your assessment of arm breakage, all of the videos I have seen regarding crashes showed that the arms would sheer off at the base (where they meet the body) rather than where the motor connects to the arm. It makes sense, because a strike to the arm would lead to more force applied to the body-arm joint. I wish this video showed a full arm removal.
Well be sure i will make a video about arm replacement :p well it looked like the most thin thing... but i did not thought about how crackable the plastic is :(
Nice video... I am a bit surprised that there are not some sort of quick connects to the arms/motors as these will most likely be the first thing to get broken. Thanks for posting up and tearing apart your new rig!
the gimbal design is not bad, it looks like they chose 1 axis to reduce complexity while still having control for the modes that need it. Hopefully it is not an expensive part to replace, like you said it may be caught in a lot of crashes.
No matter how many times we remind ourselves this as durable/sturdy/rigid, its insides just scream THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE CRASHED. It just looks insanely complicated for an FPV drone.
Curious to known if ESC are powerful or not (4in1 30A / 45A / 60A ?) and what are KV motors ? 🤔 Because 15min of flight and 140km/h with a 6s Li-Ion 2000mAh in accro mode.. it's pretty awesome !
Thanks Livyu! Everyone else is out flying, you're sitting there dismantling it! Brilliant! Hopefully someone will post a vid soon of just how crash resistant it actually is.. DJI after care is going to be busy, that's for sure.....🤨
first up, nice job dji, it looks a bit tougher than i thought. great teardown, i have unbearable curiosity about how things are built,so thanks for the teardown, hope you didnt have any parts left over hehe.
Great to see inside I have crashed mine about 4 times mostly due to it being so tall and keep hitting the bottom going through gaps the gimbal has been fine a couple was into walls . Biggest problem is disarming th motors in a hurry I hate the double tap to stop and I’ve got the pause button in stead of stop and it’s flew into stuff when I wanted to do a quick land. The range is great compared to air units tho . This will not replace my bashing quads but still a excellent drone.
Good to get your take. I picked it up to get started in FPV. It's like a bike with training wheels that you can eventually take off. And then eventually if you like it enough you graduate to something better.
@@wandertheworld3206 update mine is in bits 3 times it has sensor error and just drops it’s now my avatar and dji are being a real pain wanting me to use my dji care plus pay an additional £250 on top of the £299 I paid for the care to fix the drone witch should be under warranty I got sensor warning from the first time I plugged it in but unplug and plug in resets them and you fly normally until mid flight I get the message again and it falls uncontrollably . Hopefully it’s just my drone but annoyed with dji after sales as I have been very loyal dji supporter right back to wookong days
Great video! Thanks for the input.I was wondering, if its possible to place the dji components into another drone frame ? Would make replacement easier and cheaper.
I had on-flight adjustable tilting camera on my first ZMR250 - now the DJI has as well :) anyway, great teardown, and sems that DJ collect lot of good ideas (aerodynamics arms in direction of movement as well as frame is tilted to keeps PCBs and GPS leveled, front motors below rear ones, nice cooling... and looking to this Lipo socket, why we are using also + and - wire on balance leads as they are already on main socket
well, this battery is a smart one... it selfs balance. So this is why they don't have a balance lead. those 3 pins are for serial connection to tell the drone the capacity, temperature etc.
@@LivyuFPV yes sure, you told it that's communication wires, but I just gets idea to remove those 2 cables from normal Lipo balance leads, but there's probably reason to have that as "sense wires"
wish you would've said what size screwdriver you were using, especially with the Phillips screw where the first screwdriver was too big. I am not sure if i need to buy a 1.2mm or 1.5mm.. i will assume 1.2? maybe you grabbed a 1.5 initially?
Although I've no interest in buying this, it's very interesting to see the inside. It looks very nicely engineered (like Apple hardware). But the software needs to be pretty good, to keep it from crashing, especially for inexperienced users, everything else would be very frustrating.
It would be cool to be able to buy the gimbal and camera separate and use it on an air unit in a DIY quad. sure its fragile, but it would be cool to have adjustable tilt for a cruiser build. long range flying, can lower tilt when you get up a mountain for the way back.
at 17:45 you say to take out all the wires to replace motor. Can I just connect old wires to new motors wires? It's not a proper fix, but I did same kind on fix to my car's ABS and it works just fine. I just don't want to tear the whole drone apart to change one motor. And I have never soldered before.
Could you try to enforce to 2.4Ghz VTX for Japanese people? This is because 5.8gHz is kinda illegal in Japan and Drone will automatically set to use 2.4ghz in Japan region. I want to know if it's stable strong signal and acceptable latency for FPV goggles.
Hi there, I´ve been given a couple of units for preview, in a Spanish channel, and I´ve crashed one against a power line from the top part, so I was wondering to have a replacement for that top part where you have a roller bearing and the gimbal has been slightly damaged but I think that needs replacement
As always, great video. I'd like to suggest if you could compare the dji goggle v1 and v2 at the pcb level? There are lots of discussions about these two goggles and you can give us the true story behind them. Thanks.
I wonder if that ESC is actually getting a proprietary signal from the controller or if it is a running a standard protocol like PWM, D-shot etc. Would make upgrades interesting. Even now I can see people swapping out the original frame with a decent carbon FPV frame :D
Considering the bundle price of this drone it’s not a bad deal - though, be it that’s it’s FPV - you’re going to crash - seems like a lot of work to repair and downtime.
I was wondering if the motors had solder pads themselves. Might save some work having to fish the cables through the body if you burn up a motor in the front.
This looks so much harder to repair than a mavic, on a drone that will need to be repaired more often haha
It also looks harder to repair than a normal FPV drone and is defenetely more expensive.
Harder than your abs.. no 😘
looks worse to repair than the mavic clones on banggood. applying device design to fpv ruins nearly everything good about fpv drones. with plastic and aluminum construction it's unclear why they didn't panel the chassis in glass to make it at least as durable as a dropped phone.
@@nineh9739dont crash
Thank you Livyu!
I’m a bando flyer, so no interest in Ever owning a DJI drone, but it’s certainly interesting to see product engineering at DJI’s level😎
sefie drone level? cant wait for the "nice drone, my 8 year old daughter has one of those!!!!
Now that's what I call a PROPER unboxing. Thanks Livyu!
Wow. I don't love the external aesthetics of this quad, but it sure is beautiful on the inside.
Jup Bardwell already broke this shit xD
hahaha
Yes.. But Bardwell broke it on the body-side... lol. DJI sent Bardwell 2 quads.. 😂😂😂😂😂
@@OneOfTheRobs Still arm section... right where it connects to the body. I suspected that much tbh... as i;ve said :(
@@LivyuFPV But this crash was ridiculous for it to broke already...
@@RealKushrage yes.. he bumped into a tree not THAT hard
Wow! Can't believe DJI shipped you one to rip apart. Great to see how they're put together (if ever needed). Joshua Bardwell broke the arm on his already (DJI shipped him two FPVs). So, not to confident they'll stand-up to the majority of crashes...have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of rebuilt tutorials down the road once people start getting them in their hands. Again, thanks for the video!
I was JUST thinking THIS. And Livyu delivers!
this is the Best review IMO
Thanks for your working, and hope to see the teardown of the DJI FPV Remote Controller 2 in the next video
Nonwithstanding durability concerns, I have to say the insides of this thing look amazing. Outstanding engineering job.
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Detalii foarte importante pentru cine cumpără ,thank you 🙏
Very good and simply explained Tara down Thank You
Primul youtuber care a disfacut aceasta drona , bravo!!!!😀😀😀
Great job! Those two side panel antennas are for ADS-B.
Cool never thought of it but makes sense! Thanks!
Obviously, the main idea is to make you buy the more spare parts in one time lol
These guys are gonna be rich if every single time you break just one little spot, you actually need to replace the whole body lol
Thanks for the great tear-down as always!
Happy midweek and stay safe during the human malware pandemic outbreak
no worries, every other fpv user have 3dprinter, it only takes time to prototype some hardware :)
Great video - it was great to see the guts of this thing! Thanks for the video.
Wanted to see more on the air unit to see if they could be used in another FPV quad. Nice to have 4K recording on SD card Sioux a GoPro
Fpv beginner drone is good when it can handle crashes well and repairing is cheap and easy. So i think freestyle quads are still better option.
You're 100% right. Why should anyone buy this? You'd have to have more money than brains for this purchase to make sense. It's an awful freestyle drone, not a good cinewoop. Who is this for?
Great video. Thank you. I was hoping you were were going to really tear it down. I wanted to see if I was able to replace the arm. I wanted to see how the arm was built. Thank you anyway.
Excelente video.
DJI hace valer su nombre de nuevo con un dron muy bien construido.
Excellent video.
DJI asserts his name again with a very well built drone.
What an engineering 😏 so much movable parts in this small body hats off to the engineer's 👍🏻
Thanx for sharing and taking the time to do a teardown. Be nice to see more of these from you on other drones
Marvelous design by DJI 👍
Great teardown video! Interesting look at the difference in manufacturing. Thanks
Great video, I like how you tear down, discover, and show how it is made.
I appreciate that there's plenty of space between the pads on the ESC, even people who are new to soldering will do well with this one I think :)
Whoa this was so kool! I'm kinda surprised on how similar this is to the quads we build and fly every day.
Excellent breakdown, thank you so much! The engineers are very clever in design.
seems very compact inside, very exquisite design, very nice video...
Very thoroughly ( both technically & professionally ) explained as always Sir ... look forward to all your reviews & flights Livyu ... Thanks
for us of great value cause my buddy had crashed his on day 1 and we needed this piece to make no more mistakes during "slaugthering" cause we sold the pieces already ... 1 arm broken and 1 motor with board and led and 1 cable loose which had stopped the whole drone from booting - but we learned that only while tearing it apart.
I wish I can get my hands on a broken DJI FPV to make a Repair video... :)
Now it's official: DJI drones do have electronic components inside! I never thought about that, interesting! ;)
Am I right saying the arms aren't replaceable? Breaking an arm seems like you'd need a entire new body and to desolder and transplant everything...
they are replaceable... a little work... but it is possible
Dji know that people will be crashing them so they are definitely replaceable
@@morelife9103 That's what I expected too, but then I saw Bardwell's crash, and things looked kinda mangled and didn't see any (simple) screws for the arms in this teardown either.
5:40 you can see the line
Excellent video. Would you dare to make another video but with the remote controller? I would like to know if this possible to regulate the tension of the sticks, since from what I have read, with the F1 and F2 screws that are behind the control, it can only adjust the vertical tension of the sticks (throttle and pitch). Thanks!
Thank you Livyu! Very interesting video to see the inside of the drone eventhough I won't get it for myself.
The arms are soldered to a 4n1 ESC? Wow. So the arms will be easy to replace for typical hobbyists - but definitely not the intended user of this drone.
They will learn it
Regarding your assessment of arm breakage, all of the videos I have seen regarding crashes showed that the arms would sheer off at the base (where they meet the body) rather than where the motor connects to the arm. It makes sense, because a strike to the arm would lead to more force applied to the body-arm joint. I wish this video showed a full arm removal.
Well be sure i will make a video about arm replacement :p well it looked like the most thin thing... but i did not thought about how crackable the plastic is :(
Nice video... I am a bit surprised that there are not some sort of quick connects to the arms/motors as these will most likely be the first thing to get broken. Thanks for posting up and tearing apart your new rig!
Can you take it apart the rest of the way? Want to see the circuit boards, the IC’s and Chips. How they all connect together ect
will try when i get my hand on a crashed one :)
the markings on chips are most likely removed or covered with resin
Bummer! I would have liked to see a complete year down.
the gimbal design is not bad, it looks like they chose 1 axis to reduce complexity while still having control for the modes that need it. Hopefully it is not an expensive part to replace, like you said it may be caught in a lot of crashes.
Very informative, thank you for making this teardown.
Thanks for a teardown. A controlled one that is ;)
No matter how many times we remind ourselves this as durable/sturdy/rigid, its insides just scream THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE CRASHED. It just looks insanely complicated for an FPV drone.
Curious to known if ESC are powerful or not (4in1 30A / 45A / 60A ?) and what are KV motors ? 🤔 Because 15min of flight and 140km/h with a 6s Li-Ion 2000mAh in accro mode.. it's pretty awesome !
I only flew a max of 9 minutes. but this FPV drone from DJI is underpowered badly :( like 50% from what my normal 6s quads have.
everyone who receive this start flying.. you tear it down first !! Great !!
Thanks Livyu!
Everyone else is out flying, you're sitting there dismantling it! Brilliant!
Hopefully someone will post a vid soon of just how crash resistant it actually is..
DJI after care is going to be busy, that's for sure.....🤨
You should check Bardwel's review and crash... it doesn't take too much to lose an arm :D
first up, nice job dji, it looks a bit tougher than i thought. great teardown, i have unbearable curiosity about how things are built,so thanks for the teardown, hope you didnt have any parts left over hehe.
Great to see inside I have crashed mine about 4 times mostly due to it being so tall and keep hitting the bottom going through gaps the gimbal has been fine a couple was into walls . Biggest problem is disarming th motors in a hurry I hate the double tap to stop and I’ve got the pause button in stead of stop and it’s flew into stuff when I wanted to do a quick land. The range is great compared to air units tho . This will not replace my bashing quads but still a excellent drone.
Good to get your take. I picked it up to get started in FPV. It's like a bike with training wheels that you can eventually take off. And then eventually if you like it enough you graduate to something better.
@@wandertheworld3206 update mine is in bits 3 times it has sensor error and just drops it’s now my avatar and dji are being a real pain wanting me to use my dji care plus pay an additional £250 on top of the £299 I paid for the care to fix the drone witch should be under warranty I got sensor warning from the first time I plugged it in but unplug and plug in resets them and you fly normally until mid flight I get the message again and it falls uncontrollably . Hopefully it’s just my drone but annoyed with dji after sales as I have been very loyal dji supporter right back to wookong days
Actually the big question is... Can you put the parts on a carbon fiber frame?
Great video! Thanks for the input.I was wondering, if its possible to place the dji components into another drone frame ? Would make replacement easier and cheaper.
obviously that with a lot of work this is possible. But why? It does not fly all that great. I think it is a lot easier to build a normal fpv drone.
I had on-flight adjustable tilting camera on my first ZMR250 - now the DJI has as well :) anyway, great teardown, and sems that DJ collect lot of good ideas (aerodynamics arms in direction of movement as well as frame is tilted to keeps PCBs and GPS leveled, front motors below rear ones, nice cooling... and looking to this Lipo socket, why we are using also + and - wire on balance leads as they are already on main socket
well, this battery is a smart one... it selfs balance. So this is why they don't have a balance lead. those 3 pins are for serial connection to tell the drone the capacity, temperature etc.
@@LivyuFPV yes sure, you told it that's communication wires, but I just gets idea to remove those 2 cables from normal Lipo balance leads, but there's probably reason to have that as "sense wires"
Can't wait for someone to make a full carbon fibre replacement frame for this!! Would be a beast!
This is what I'm banking on. Maybe even a like... Rollbar style gimbal guard
Hahahaha Livyu is the king🤴 everyone promoting and Livyu will tear it down 💯👍❤️
You are SO FAST with this video. Great stuff buddy.. BTW, the big fan on top is for the VTX
yeah, I said it's the RF section. But not quite an VTX cause well it is a two-way transmission :P
I had some bad crashes, one really hard crash at top speed. Gimbal was not affected, only props.
hey man, great video! thanks for the sharing. Could you make another video for the remote control teardown?
Great video, a part 2 could be very interresting to understand how work the video transmission system and compare to the version 1.
Great vid. Thanks a lot
wish you would've said what size screwdriver you were using, especially with the Phillips screw where the first screwdriver was too big. I am not sure if i need to buy a 1.2mm or 1.5mm.. i will assume 1.2? maybe you grabbed a 1.5 initially?
Wow amazing 💖
Thank you for this great teardown of the new FPV quad! I'm subbing.
Thank you for the review.. Like it..
Really great work
Thats some solid engineering. DJI has not phoned this in.
I wonder, where they put the speaker. The one that makes futuristic sound on startup. 🧐
There is no speaker :) The motors are making that noise. In the most basic sense, a motor could be a speaker based on how both work.
Although I've no interest in buying this, it's very interesting to see the inside. It looks very nicely engineered (like Apple hardware). But the software needs to be pretty good, to keep it from crashing, especially for inexperienced users, everything else would be very frustrating.
It makes sense only, if we can buy spareparts. Normally not with DJI or not for a long time. My experiance.
Very great video 👍👌🔝
It would be cool to be able to buy the gimbal and camera separate and use it on an air unit in a DIY quad. sure its fragile, but it would be cool to have adjustable tilt for a cruiser build. long range flying, can lower tilt when you get up a mountain for the way back.
Awesome teardown 😍🙌🍀
at 17:45 you say to take out all the wires to replace motor. Can I just connect old wires to new motors wires? It's not a proper fix, but I did same kind on fix to my car's ABS and it works just fine. I just don't want to tear the whole drone apart to change one motor. And I have never soldered before.
Can. We get a dji air unit update that record s gyro/blackbox data over uart so we can stabilize in post thanks
May I say you're a doctor for Dji FPV? Just made the surgeries in it.
cool :) what did you changed?
I need a full tear down...
Could you try to enforce to 2.4Ghz VTX for Japanese people? This is because 5.8gHz is kinda illegal in Japan and Drone will automatically set to use 2.4ghz in Japan region. I want to know if it's stable strong signal and acceptable latency for FPV goggles.
A one crash wonder!
thank you
Excellent tear down sir!
Hi there, I´ve been given a couple of units for preview, in a Spanish channel, and I´ve crashed one against a power line from the top part, so I was wondering to have a replacement for that top part where you have a roller bearing and the gimbal has been slightly damaged but I think that needs replacement
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As always, great video. I'd like to suggest if you could compare the dji goggle v1 and v2 at the pcb level? There are lots of discussions about these two goggles and you can give us the true story behind them. Thanks.
I think I see solder pads 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Hey. Good job with the English. I don’t mind reading sub titles but I appreciate your effort. Cheers from 🇨🇦
Legend says this Drone never works again
Thanks, enjoyed that!
I don't want to buy it, but I want to try it. Bro😎👌🏻
Thanks
I wonder if that ESC is actually getting a proprietary signal from the controller or if it is a running a standard protocol like PWM, D-shot etc. Would make upgrades interesting. Even now I can see people swapping out the original frame with a decent carbon FPV frame :D
Would it be possible to take the electronics and put it in a custom made carbon fiber frame thats more FPV like?
Nice teardown ! Thanks !
AWESOME!
So if I took everything out and put it on a frame that can actually withstand a crash...hmmm
The only review I wanted to see. Thanks
thanks, great job!
Can we strip the gimbal out and use it for another drone? Is the vtx separate ?
Awesome.
Can u say the pitch circle of the motor three holes where the prop fits
Recon it’s possible to waterproof this quad?
Considering the bundle price of this drone it’s not a bad deal - though, be it that’s it’s FPV - you’re going to crash - seems like a lot of work to repair and downtime.
I was wondering if the motors had solder pads themselves. Might save some work having to fish the cables through the body if you burn up a motor in the front.