Official P4 Range Leaderboard

JakeMaxxUAV · May 14, 2016

Ramphex said:
Nope. MaxxUAV IteLite DBS Antenna from Jake, the boss.

Gotcha!

diajavier · May 14, 2016

How you get 31 minutes flight??????

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UnknownCaller · May 14, 2016

Fredz said:
Maxamps 2800?

Yeah Max Amps 2800 mah with what I'm running now I think 35 maybe 36 minutes is what I get if I ran it completely down to zero but everything I'm running is old my Max Amps are over a year old. and the DJI battery I'm running has over 35 discharge is on it so with a fresh sets you're probably looking at another minute or two who knows maybe more.

UnknownCaller · May 14, 2016

Phantomfreak said:
Wow.. 9 miles one way. I've done 9.4 miles on my P4 in one flight- but in total flight distance! I see you have the terminator, but how did you mod your battery? I don't think a stock P4 battery could manage past maybe 10 miles at most..

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thanks my battery mod was done by Paul Shaffer at fpvcustoms.com he does a good job I'd recommend his work to anybody. one thing I like about the way he did mine is xt60 leads coming off the drone are adjustable length not all the batteries on the market today are the same length sometimes they're two inches long sometime there 6 inches by having an adjustable lead you can retract the cable inside the Drone you can make the leads just long enough to reach the connection. I would like to think that reduces drag a little bit not having 5 inches of cable hanging off the back of your drone. here some pictures of my bird.

Ramphex · May 15, 2016

MaxxUAV "Clean Install" Installation Guide If anyone is interested in my still picture install guide for the "Clean Install"

TheLightSpeedz · May 15, 2016

UnknownCaller said:
thanks my battery mod was done by Paul Shaffer at fpvcustoms.com he does a good job I'd recommend his work to anybody. one thing I like about the way he did mine is xt60 leads coming off the drone are adjustable length not all the batteries on the market today are the same length sometimes they're two inches long sometime there 6 inches by having an adjustable lead you can retract the cable inside the Drone you can make the leads just long enough to reach the connection. I would like to think that reduces drag a little bit not having 5 inches of cable hanging off the back of your drone. here some pictures of my bird.View attachment 53796 View attachment 53797 View attachment 53798 View attachment 53799 View attachment 53801

So what's your total flight time with that setup? So when you don't have the saddle batteries on, you just leave the leads hanging off the Drone?

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UnknownCaller · May 15, 2016

On my Nine Mile flight I got up to 34 minutes and 13 seconds but I still had some more battery left I think I get about 35 min maybe 36 min I actually leave everything hooked up and I just charge it when I use it. Even after modifications the bird still fits in the styrofoam case it came in with the batteries on so I just leave them on all the time I guess I'm lazy.
I always fly with the saddlebag batteries on but like I showed in the other picture the cables actually retract up into the Drone they don't hang out all that far.

TheLightSpeedz · May 15, 2016

Jake unboosted maxxDBS 20,080

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GadgetGuy · May 15, 2016

UnknownCaller said:
On my Nine Mile flight I got up to 34 minutes and 13 seconds but I still had some more battery left I think I get about 35 min maybe 36 min I actually leave everything hooked up and I just charge it when I use it. Even after modifications the bird still fits in the styrofoam case it came in with the batteries on so I just leave them on all the time I guess I'm lazy.
I always fly with the saddlebag batteries on but like I showed in the other picture the cables actually retract up into the Drone they don't hang out all that far.

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That's awesome! Thanks for sharing the photos! My FPVCustoms.com battery modded P4 arrives tomorrow! So glad it will still fit in the case with the MaxAmps still strapped on. I keep my P3P externals permanently strapped to my P3P, too, and just back the bird up to the M100 charger for the connections for charging. Excited that Paul also gave us some removable slack on the P4 XT60 connector wires, so we aren't straining the internal wiring, pulling the connectors off after flight! Great mod design!

rbreban · May 16, 2016

What do you guys call boosted? An regular antenna or a powered antenna?

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GadgetGuy · May 16, 2016

rbreban said:
What do you guys call boosted? An regular antenna or a powered antenna?

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A transmitter antenna mod (DBS-02, FPVLR v2, or one of the newer ones) with two externally powered 2.5A to 5.0A amplifiers added to it, one on the control side and one on the video FPV side.

DanielMyst777 · May 18, 2016

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My max range using the ITElite DBS MaxxRange antenna with two Sunhans 3W amplifiers and thick cables ~3.5 miles out (~7.0 miles total with the return trip). You can see I have to deal with lots of neighborhoods, interference, and leaves on trees. Got this nice setup from MaxxUAV.com! Jake's service is awesome! Incredible customer service and speedy delivery times!

FlyingBeaver · May 19, 2016

I'm new to the drone world and I have really gone for the long range/long distance with the Maxxuav.com boosted (a plug for Jake awesome customer service). I now find myself running out of battery before signal. So I got on Solidworks and designed a battery adapter for the P4 that allows for 2 extra lipos without any modifications to the drone. I am in testing now and would like to get some feed back on a price point from everyone. Thanks Matt

Deleted member 27337 · May 19, 2016

P3P, Maxxrange panel unboosted

JakeMaxxUAV · May 19, 2016

FlyingBeaver said:
I'm new to the drone world and I have really gone for the long range/long distance with the Maxxuav.com boosted (a plug for Jake awesome customer service). I now find myself running out of battery before signal. So I got on Solidworks and designed a battery adapter for the P4 that allows for 2 extra lipos without any modifications to the drone. I am in testing now and would like to get some feed back on a price point from everyone. Thanks Matt

I'm curious as to what you've come up with. I'll shoot you a PM.

JakeMaxxUAV · May 19, 2016

tonyt76 said:
P3P, Maxxrange panel unboosted

Welcome to the leaderboard

Fallguy · May 19, 2016

FlyingBeaver said:
I'm new to the drone world and I have really gone for the long range/long distance with the Maxxuav.com boosted (a plug for Jake awesome customer service). I now find myself running out of battery before signal. So I got on Solidworks and designed a battery adapter for the P4 that allows for 2 extra lipos without any modifications to the drone. I am in testing now and would like to get some feed back on a price point from everyone. Thanks Matt

Trying to figure how you can hook up 2 extra lipos without any modifications. I'm intrigued , but unless you use the exposed port , how can this be done without drilling into the P4 body ?

Deleted member 27337 · May 19, 2016

JakeMaxxUAV said:
Welcome to the leaderboard

Yay! Now of course i'm going to try and crush this number haha.

Altaman · May 19, 2016

Here is my furthest distance:

App - DJI Ultimate Flight
Drone - Phantom 4
Antenna - ITE-DBS02 unboosted

As per healthy drone verification max distance was 18,159 ft & total distance was 36,648 ft.

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