I'm Poopiehead and you're gonna learn something today. I recently did a test where I tested a whole bunch of
fpv receivers
LaForge before Clearview modules guys on sky o3 goggles in the akiles pro firmware and at the end of that test I said i'm not
Gonna pick a winner because you guys can see the results and you can decide for yourselves. Well now. I'm gonna pick a winner
Let's talk about the clear view first
the clear view did not mop the floor with the field and that's what you would expect for the price I
Think there are environments where the clear view would do very well
I see a lot of racers choosing to run the clear view and they're not throwing their money away for no reason
Some racers insist on flying the clear view
And it makes me wonder if the clear view would do much better in a very congested environment
Maybe one of these weekends when we've got a like a race going on ooh
April 21st is the multi GP qualifier?
Mm-hmm, maybe I'll do some testing and test it in a congested environment and see if it does a lot better like at a race
The other place where Clear View has traditionally done. Well is environments with a lot of multipath like inside a building
I've kind of joked that I think whoop racers are actually the best
customer for clear view because they're flying these these tiny
dipole antenna 25 milliwatts
They have a really terrible RF signal coming out of the tiny whoop and then they're in a building with a lot of multipath
They're the ones who could actually benefit the most from a clear view and my intestine vironment didn't have much multipath either
That being said my test environment is very similar to the kind of environment many of you guys are flying in and I have to
Say, I'm not convinced. There's a big benefit
especially given the price hike you know you're just
In fact the clear view in many situations had less range than the diversity modules even when they were on the Omni antennas it
Kind of had full drop out before well. They love Forge. We'll get to that
And I don't know why that is I've done tests in the past where the Clear View has done really really well
However, those were some of my earliest tests and for example. I was only flying one module at a time
I wasn't flying them all at once because I couldn't record more than one feet at a time and so I
May not have flown exactly the same path or there may have been other variables in my early testing
I don't know. I was also testing the Clearview ground station whereas, this is the module
Unfortunately when the ground station is on loan right now - heads up fpv he's using it - he's taking it - races
So I can't at this time do a side-by-side test of the module in the ground station which might be interesting
The LaForge if I had to pick a winner in this exact test it would be the LaForge
I've looked at the footage a lot, and I have to say a lot of times
I if there's not like a clear and undisputed winner I go well. I'm just not gonna call it
Some of you guys who watched my butter flavor versus beta flight test are a little annoyed at that tendency
But I feel like that we as humans have a tendency to
Underestimate the margin of error in testing to look at results and go oh and we focus on one and think oh
That's better and we're not really great at being objective about data
And so I try and be very generous with my margin of error and not call a winner unless I am really really sure
That there's a definitive winner and in a case like this
I really do feel like
LaForge was a definitive winner
there were so many cases where I was looking at the screens and the LaForge was clear and everybody else was breaking up if you
Look at when I'm coming back into range or when I'm going out of range. There's a lot
There's times when the LaForge is the last to go
It's the last it hangs on the longest and that was a little bit of a surprise to me because to be honest with you
in previous rounds of testing I haven't found though the forge to just kick the pants off of
other modules with similar hardware, but it seemed to do much better than the relay sees the
Neither relay CC Pro 58 module and the skies own
It did much better than the Clear View - although
I do have to acknowledge with the clear view one of the things that the clear view does is it?
never rolls the screen or has screen glitching has a very steady picture and
That's something that's kind of an intangible. That's a little hard to communicate, but I guess since I'm doing an editorial welcome
You okay?
Dude, like I really like flying with the clear view even though in this test
It kind of didn't even have as much range as some of the others because of the consistency of the picture
I'm not sure I would pay the price premium for it, but it is certainly something to keep in mind
All right
The sky zone's the sky zone's didn't have like great performance. It didn't have bad performance I
Feel like if you're gonna buy those sky
Zone's you're buying them for reason you kind of don't want a module right if you wanted a module. You'd buy fat
Sharks, so if you're buying the sky zone's the other RF performance is there it's okay. You're gonna. You know. It's not a bad choice
But comparing them directly against the fat the fat sharks on and in terms of just the RF performance is kind of missing the point
Lastly, then the Eocene pro 58 with the achilles
There's no question that this is a real rock star when you consider price versus performance in fact
It's probably the best on the market right now for
You get to spend to about 25 bucks for the module you're gonna spend about
5 bucks for the programmer to put Achilles on the module you're gonna spend I think it's 11 euros for the Achilles Pro
Firmware until the little light, it's it's paid license for the pro firmware and like 5 bucks
I guess maybe for a 3d printed cover. I don't know maybe even comes with that
You're in for about 45 or 50 bucks total the software is so full-featured
And and the performers their RF performance of the module is at least adequate
If not spectacular, I don't know, but it's at least good enough and for 50 bucks. You could do a lot worse
Last thing then what about Trudy y-you know
unfortunately with this test
Because I was using these 4 screens because I wanted I wasn't quite sure if I could trust the results of the DVR
I I was only able to test 4 modules at a time and as a result
I couldn't fit Trudy in I
Left Trudy out as I said because I've tested it against the forge in the past and they've always been really close
So
I have to say ever since LaForge the new firmware came out with the new animated user interface
I've really been loving it and every time I go back to my Trudy. I find the interface a little bit clunky and
So I've said I would probably pick the LaForge just based on that
although I
Think the real place where Trudi fits in is that it's a single module, and it fits really easily into goggles
There's no there's no wire running across the front with the internal and the external
install so it certainly is is great as a drop-in and
Now that I've seen LaForge do so much better than everybody else in this test
Maybe it would be worth it to go back and see if finally with v4. LaForge has done something to kind of come out ahead
But for the time being unfortunately we just don't have those test results for the Trudi nothing against the Trudi. It's a good module
I just had to make the cut somewhere
And I really wanted to test these new modules that I hadn't tested before so that's where I made the cut
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Ask me any questions. You got or anything you any of your thoughts about the testing
You what do you think do you all finally agree with me about this one. Do you also think LaForge one?
I feel like the results are pretty clear-cut
But I've always been surprised at other people's ability to look at the same data
It come to different conclusions, and that's why I just present to you the data and let you make your own decisions
But I also give you my opinion to see I haven't both ways. Thanks for watching happy flying
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