Hahaha, exactly. Can you look at your VTx and see what connector it has? It looks to have burnt at the resistor like an open connector
VTX caught on fire yesterday, anyone know why?
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tylorwashere
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Like this angle?
tylorwashere
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I couldn't really get my phone camera to focus but you can see that it has the male part.
Hmmmm, maybe the smoke really was magic then hahahaha. Running out of possible causes. Did the specs provide an optimal voltage rather than a voltage range?
tylorwashere
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No just 7 to 16v I believe
Altsickeness
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I had about 3 hours into shopping for 2 10 foot cables that would have the correct RP-sma/sma and trying to understand the male/plug, female/jack terms vs. what I needed. I finally had to draw pictures and label them, and refer to it while shopping to figure to it out.
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Altsickeness
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Doesn't this China stuff just go up in smoke sometimes? I had an ESC ignite and I still cant see where I might have slobbed solder on it.
Sometimes, usually some sort of defect. As for looking for SMA and RP-SMA parts make sure the description, specs, and pictures match. Some sites provide the wrong info. I just ended up buying some SMA to RP-SMA and RP-SMA to SMA adapters to help for when that happens.
Altsickeness
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Good idea. I've accumulated both kinds of antennas now because of different receivers and transmitters. They should just pick one style and make our lives easier.
Hahahaha, yes, the whole reason that we even have RP-SMA stuff was the FCC's attempt to keep users from extending the range of their wireless routers by means of antennas and amplifiers. Not too long after that RP-SMA became just as popular and now we are left with two connectors that are just as common as each other.
Like a torx bit vs a security torx.
tylorwashere
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So I can plug a cloverleaf into my wifi router?Hahahaha, yes, the whole reason that we even have RP-SMA stuff was the FCC's attempt to keep users from extending the range of their wireless routers by means of antennas and amplifiers. Not too long after that RP-SMA became just as popular and now we are left with two connectors that are just as common as each other.
Like a torx bit vs a security torx.
Yeah, but with little gain. You'd also need a right hand or left hand polarized antenna for the receiver.
tylorwashere
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So my phone just has a dipole antenna like built in?
Perhaps not like you are used to, it is more of a 2 dimensional pad, usually zigzag shaped, coil shaped, or some repetitive pattern on PCB or a thin clear circuit paper.
tylorwashere
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Hmm. So if I wanted to increase the range on my router, I could put a clover leaf on it and put a repeater in my yard with a cloverleaf rx, and a dipole tx, that would work?
No, your router uses 2.4gHz more than likely so a cloverleaf would provide no benefits. You could use a higher gain anteana, as it is more directional you will have to keep that in mind, but you could tripple your range in one direction while losing range in other directions.
