HGLRC ZEUS VTX 2.5W High Power 5.8G Image Transmission Adjustable Power Aerial Photography Travel FPV black

i have had a good time with this one, but have not figured out how to get smartaudio, irc, whichever it uses to communicate so it is just manually programmed at 2.5w. it does deliver that though, at least when compared to another 2.5w vtx I had, the pax2

On 2.5W trees even buildings get penetrated… keep on low power until first arm or it’ll die with no airflow! Conflicting data as far as the protocol goes, it runs (SA2.1) smart audio not IRC Tramp like the hglrc website Says. I’ll buy one for every analog quad I got that has the room to fit it! it makes 800 mw and 1600mw seem like a joke! Please don’t buy them all up, leave a few for the rest of us lol. I leave this comment after having 4 so I feel informed enough to have an opinion… happy flying 5 stars

If you cannot get this working with ardupilot, here are the settings required: VTX_ENABLE 1 Must be on or nothing works SERIAL5_PROTOCOL 37 SmartAudio SERIAL5_BAUD 4800 SmartAudio baud rate SERIAL5_OPTIONS 68 Half-duplex + TX pull-down VTX_OPTIONS 96 1 stop bit + ignore CRC VTX_MAX_POWER 2500 Lets ArduPilot know the full range VTX_POWER 25 Start at 25mW for testing took me a crap ton of researching and work to find these lol. I thought it was basically bricked.

This is the first time I’ve ever encountered an issue with HGLRC stuff. I get horrible lines in my goggles, almost to the point of being unusable. Cam works flawlessly on a diff. vtx.. (so not in the camera or FC).. both work as they should. Can’t toggle pwr/band/freq with any of the buttons manually. Changes won’t stay using the BF OSD menu. And yes, that’s WITH the correct vtx table. And of course, I’m outside of the return period. As of now, it’s a 40$ paperweight.. and fwiw theres zero branding on this unit, makes me wonder if it’s actually an HGLRC vtx. Everything else I’ve got from them has their brand all over em, which makes this vtx a lil sus..

Works, I dunno about it being a real 2.5w but its cheap. No built in mic, runs smart audio 2.1. Use this table: vtxtable vtxtable bands 5 vtxtable channels 8 vtxtable band 1 BOSCAM_A A CUSTOM 5865 5845 5825 5805 5785 5765 5745 5725 vtxtable band 2 BOSCAM_B B CUSTOM 5733 5752 5771 5790 5809 5828 5847 5866 vtxtable band 3 BOSCAM_E E CUSTOM 5705 5685 5665 5645 5885 5905 5925 5945 vtxtable band 4 FATSHARK F CUSTOM 5740 5760 5780 5880 5820 5840 5860 5880 vtxtable band 5 RACEBAND R CUSTOM 5658 5695 5732 5769 5806 5843 5880 5917 vtxtable powerlevels 5 vtxtable powervalues 14 23 29 32 34 vtxtable powerlabels 25 200 800 1.6 2.5

Good long range flying with good penetration. Exelent price for what you get

Best VTX ever had I hate to say it but it beats out Rush Tank just for ease of use and never had a problem Great great VTX Highly recommended

this vtx is amazing for the price ,the vtx penetration is very good ,range is crazy long A VERY GOOD VTX i’ll probably get one for each of my long range drones