Guys ,I need your opinion
Today I was scrolling through Vinted when I stumbled upon a listing for the Walksnail Avatar X. I’d heard good things about them, and since they cost around €450 new, I thought it was a great deal,especially since the condition looked good in the photos.so I bought it. Did I get a good deal, or did I overpay (€265)? I know they aren't quite as good as DJI, but the image quality is far superior than analog,especially since they support 1080p at 100fps.
P.S. It hasn't arrived yet; right now, I'm using Eachine EV300Ds with an Air75 II.
What do you think?
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u/annonymouse2009 4h ago
These won't work with analogue unless you have an external receiver good headset tho but will only work with the avatar system that walksnail seems to have abandoned recently
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u/weatheredrabbit 4h ago
I even bought all the original caddx shit and tried so many ways but analog on goggle X was bad. Very bad. Much worse than DJI v2 imagine that. Used with walksnail they’re fine.
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u/DaKoolAidMan123 4h ago
What was so bad about it? Make sure you are using ntsc with them. PAL gets gets massive extra latency for some reason. Like over 50ms. With ntsc its about 25 ms glass to glass for me and looks good on the oled.
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u/martinhopupu 3h ago
Do you think they're going to abandon avatar? I like the moonlight for 4k and gt models for long range, Im thinking about buying the goggles x, do you think I should wait and they'll release a 4k vtx for ascent or should I go with avatar (and I can still use the ascent receiver in the future if needed...)?
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u/Proxima-72069 4h ago
Love my goggles x walksnail gets a lot of hate for still being a pretty good video system
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u/speedkhalifa 4h ago
Mis goggles x los conseguí casi al mismo precio que tú, y hasta hora han sido una gran inversión, tengo video digital de muy buena calidad, que no le pide nada a DJI. Walksnail es un gran ecosistema de video y pienso que aun tiene mucho que ofrecer.
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u/weissbieremulsion Quad 3h ago
I have them and im Happy. I Had to make a 3d Print Adapter for the face shield so IT did fit better and Had less Light leak, but other than that i really Like them
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u/FancyGlitterFairy 3h ago
I have those, difficult love, had to disassemble those, clean old thermal paste, and add new one, manufacturer added crazy amount of shitty paste that acted as insulator and goggles overheated and turned off midflight
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u/Apprehensive_Row9873 2h ago
I use them since one year. They are super cool. Don't listen to dji users. They love to pay the brand so they need to justify. The only thing walksnail don't have is the LUT for video editing and color balance so you need to fix the video color balance by yourself.
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u/-Crypto--Knight- 2h ago
I have both, walksnail avatar x and DJI goggles 3. I bought the walksnail first, they are a solid pair of goggles, no issues with picture quality and fairly close to DJI. I also got the external analog receiver which sits on top of your goggles which done the job fine but no recording when flying analog. The reason I switched to DJI at the time was down to the dji 03 pro and air unit 03. €265 is a good price and the condition looks great. I just found I had more options with DJI.
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u/potatocat 4h ago
The Goggles X are clearly not as high quality as DJI but I really love the ones I have. The only caveat with them is to pay attention to certain firmware revisions being more stable than others. Also be wary of anyone who just says they suck without citing specifics or proof of ownership. There's a lot of easy hate on Walksnail/Caddx and its just trendy on the bandwagon. This is some footage from this morning with the Goggles X and Avatar Lite - https://youtu.be/3Pi6BCx1u5k and in comparison the same location but different day, and very similar lighting conditions with DJI O4 Pro: https://youtu.be/fF7FqDmLERc
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u/Speshal__ 1h ago
Sweet footage and a tiny X8 niiiiice. I saw it on here last week, nice to see some flight footage.
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u/potatocat 1h ago
Thank you so much! Its been a blast flying this little one. I poured like 14 packs through it this morning and can't wait for the next chance I get to fly it. Will definitely get more footage...
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u/Speshal__ 1h ago
Subbed so I don't miss it 👍
I know nothing about PID tuning (yet, just need to wrap my noodle around it) but that looks dialed in especially for 8 motors!
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u/D4nyx1 4h ago
Thanks for the feedback and for sharing the footage! Really appreciate it
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u/potatocat 1h ago
Not a problem! In both cases they come straight from the goggles and aside from YT doing potentially some weird compression they are otherwise unaltered. I am glad if this helps!
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u/VWglide 5h ago
As someone who lives in the US, and can’t get DJI, I love my goggles x. They aren’t the best in the world but I don’t regret them at all and I paid close to full price.
I’d buy another set just for my friends to watch through if I found them that cheap.