Good day! Today I'm going to upgrade my FPV goggles from my Aomway Commander V1s,
which I've been using since early 2018, to . . . my Aomway Commander V1s
with the ImmersionRC RapidFire module! Whaat?!? You can do that? Sure you can! In fact,
you can use a RapidFire module or just about any receiver module like the Foxeer
Wildfire, Clearview, Furious FPVTrue-D module . . .
you get the idea. In fact it doesn't even have to be with the Aomway Commander V1s
like I have. It also works for the Skyzone goggles like the 02C, 02X or
the 03Os. It may work with others that have an a/v input as well. All you need
is this $10 Skyzone module adapter which I've got links to in the video
description below. So today I'll go over the ImmersionRC RapidFire FPV goggles
receiver module and show you how I've updated my FPV goggles with it using
the Skyzone module adapter. I'll do a before and after upgrade side-by-side
flight comparison with and without the RapidFire module to see if this upgrade
to my Commander V1 FPV goggles is going to meet my needs or if I'm going to be
looking for an entirely new set of goggles this summer which I can still use the
RapidFire module with. Sound good? Then give it a "thumbs up" below, share the
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TMac FPV channel - your home for your "Journey to Better" FPV fun, flights,
and racing stuff! Alright here's what my Aomway Commander V1 goggles looked like
before I make any modifications to it. On this side over here I've got the MenaceRC
Periscope antenna and on this side here I've got the TrueRC crosshair
antenna. Of course all the products I'm going over today I'll have links to in
the video description below iIf you're interested in checking those out. So this
is what we're starting with. Then I'm going to introduce you to the Skyzone
receiver module adapter which will go on the side of the Aomway Commander
goggles. This you can get for around 10 US dollars and, once again, link's down
below. This goes to your AV in jack of your goggles, which on the Aomway
Commander is underneath. This plug goes to the DC In
of your goggles, which on the Aomway Commanders is right here. This is
where your lipo battery for your goggle's power plugs into. Of course what goes
in the module bay is my ImmersionRC RapidFire. Alright let's put this
together. The Skyzone module bay comes with a
couple 3m velcro pieces you stick on the back of the module bay itself and also
one on the side of the goggles. That's how the module bay gets attached
to your goggles. Let's go ahead and take the antennas off.
I like these TrueRC crosshair and the MenaceRC periscope antennae as
well. There's one. Set that aside. Take this off.
We'll set that aside. Now this is going to go on something like this. So
this can get inserted into the AV in right here. So let's go ahead and plug
that in so we know approximately where this is gonna sit. It looks like I'm
gonna have a gap there so I'm gonna have to put some sort of thicker velcro tape
or something on like that. I might have to put a couple of layers of velcro tape
on that. So let me go ahead and figure that out.
Alright I think what I'm gonna do is instead of trying to set the module up
here like this with this big gap, I'm just gonna slide it back and you see the
gap gets very narrow that way. When I put the velcro with the fuzzy
velcro on the back of this, then it should fit flush enough on the goggles.
So let's go ahead and give that a shot. Take the fuzzy part of the velcro, peel
the backing off. Let's stick this on the adapter like that. Then we'll
put this on the goggles. We'll go ahead and attach this like that. Doesn't
seem like it's going anywhere. Then we plug this into the DC in. Now
we get our RapidFire. Unbox this.
They give you two different things - the receiver module comes in this one. This
other one's for older version Fat Shark goggles. Take this off. Pins. Now this
module bay fits just about any type of receiver module (or any receiver
module as far as I know) I just decided to get the RapidFire.
Oh look! These should fit nicely right here. Okay, I need black ones. Plug this
into here. Let's take this out and plug this in. I need an adapter - like a
ninety degree adapter for that. Let's see what we've got. There we go. Alright, that's what
it looks like so far. Looking good! Let's plug it in and see what the module does.
We take a look at the side of the module and the first thing we see is that we've
got our frequency up top. We've got bands on the first row and channels on the
second row. Now one thing to note is you have your normal six bands - IRC/Fat Shark,
Race band, Echo, Bravo, Alpha, Lima and eight channels. Those six bands and
those eight channels give you your normal 48 channels. But you also have
another band over here called X band. That's what's called your "Favorites
band" where you can insert specific channels that you like to use on a
frequent basis into this favorites band. So you can have a mixture of channels
from any of these other bands. As an example, you can have Fat Shark
4 as one of your channels. You could have Race band 3 as another one of
your channels. That way the channels that you normally
use you can just go to your favorites band and click on one of those channels.
This is a joystick right here. You can change your band and channels using this
joystick like this. If you go right or left for the joystick, it changes your
band. If you go up or down it changes your channel. Now what's also nice about
this is you can still use your band and channel button on your goggles to change
the band and channel while you're viewing the goggles as well. Good stuff!
Now I just wanted to show you how to get into your favorites band and put a
specific frequency that you want into your favorites band. So scroll over to
the band X. Click on it. Then you go over to your Tools menu and click on
favorites. It's highlighted right here with this little dot. Press that.
There's 5800 is the first favorite that I've added, which is Fat Shark 4. Let's
say we wanted to add. . . I don't know B 3, 5771 as our second favorite. We scroll down
to favorite 2. Click on that. We want to change that to 5771.
To customize it we move the scroll wheel over to the right. Then we go up and
down with the toggle to change it. So let's go to 5771, press down on it,
move the toggle left to exit. Now we see we've added 5771 as the second channel
to our favorites band. That's how the favorites band works. Alright there's
just one more feature I wanted to show you before we go outside and do our
side-by-side comparison test of both with and without the RapidFire module.
That's the spectrum analyzer. As you can see I've got the RapidFire module
set at 5645. To enter the spectrum analyzer, you press down on the joystick
and scroll over to tools. Here you see spectrum analyzer. Press down on the
joystick and it will scan the particular band that you have
selected in the module. You change the bands by going up or down. So I've
selected to scan the Fat Shark band here. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to
connect my quadcopter that the VTX is set at Fat Shark 4 (F4)
or 5800 MHz. So when I do that, this spectrum analyzer should pick it up.
Let's see what happens. I'll need to put this down so I can power on the quad.
Here you see it's detected the VTX signal from the quadcopter on this band.
Now if I wanted to change my channel, which you saw previously was not on
Fat Shark 4 on the module, all I have to do is to press the joystick.
It goes to that channel. Move the joystick to the left to exit out. Press
down and it automatically switches to 5800 MHz which was the peak frequency
that it was at when it detected the VTX channel using the spectrum analyzer.
Pretty cool stuff huh? All right let's go take a look at our side by side
comparison flights. All right I'm gonna launch and go through a gate and then
around a flag in my backyard. Pay close attention as I approach the metal garage
door which is gonna be on my left. At that time, the length of my house is
gonna be directly between me and my Rattler quad. We're coming up on it here.
It looked to me like the RapidFire did a much better job than the internal
receiver of the Aomway Commanders.
What do you think? Let me know in the comments below. So that's my FPV
goggles upgrade with the ImmersionRC RapidFire module using the Skyzone
module adapter. Let me know in the comments below your thoughts on both the
RapidFire module and the Skyzone module adapter. Make sure to hit the like
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check out these next. Thanks for your time! I'll see you next video. Clear skies friend!