Loose wiring in the Vortex 150 Pro is virtually nonexistent for a professional look that's easy to maintain. Perfect for smaller courses or exploring the backyard or abandoned building, it's durable and fun to fly.įully integrated into this machine is the flight controller, full-graphic OSD, BlackBox recorder, 40-channel video transmitter and a dampened flight camera.
Plus, there's a programmable LED system you can customize to flash at the competition. Race-seasoned pilots can take advantage of a custom power system, cutting-edge 32-bit processing power and full-graphic jet fighter inspired OSD. It's fully integrated, tuned and equipped so you can be competitive in a matter of minutes. The Vortex doesn’t have all of the beginner features, or the amazing HD video transmission system like the Connex Falcore, but it was made to be more of a pro race drone with better flight characteristics and a durable design.The Blade® brand and ImmersionRC have teamed up to deliver the cutting-edge Vortex 150 FPV racer with Spektrum™ technology. In any case, if you’re looking for an almost-ready-to-fly racing drone in 2017, the new Vortex 150 and Vortex 180 are probably the best way to go. If you like smaller quads, the Vortex 150 might interest you, but if you want to race and like having a lot of power then you’ll want to go with the bigger motors and props on the Vortex 180. The Vortex 180 uses custom XNova 1407-3500kV motors and 4 inch propellers. The Vortex 150 uses custom 1306-3100kV motors and 3 inch propellers. The only difference between the two is the arm length, motor size, and prop size.
There are actually two relatively new Vortex drones the Vortex 150 and the even newer Vortex 180. Additionally, you can set the flying output from 1 to 400mW. Then when you start flying, the output power automatically increase to its default setting. When the Vortex 180 is turned on in the pit area, or on the park bench, the video transmitter power output is reduced to less than 1mW to reduce energy consumption and excess heat. Thankfully ImmersionRC has a great feature built into the video transmitter that eliminates this issue. After all, video transmitters do tend to burn out. If you know about FPV, having an integrated video TX might scare you. On-screen-displays have become pretty standard for ready-to-fly racing drones, but this time the OSD and video transmitter has been integrated into the Synergy flight controller to simplify the design and reduce weight. With rotorSENSE, if one motor is spinning in the wrong direction, you just spin the motor by hand in the direction you want it to go and the ESC will then spin the motors in that direction. One great thing about ImmersionRC ESCs is the fact that you never have to worry about soldering the motor wires on backwards thanks to the rotorSENSE feature. If you didn’t understand any of that, just know that this drone will fly super locked-in.Īll of this would be useless without good motor speed controllers, but thankfully all four 32-bit ESCs support ONESHOT 42.
Because of this, it also comes with Bataflight firmware pre installed instead of Cleanflight.
It’s an all new design called Synergy, with duel F3 processors for faster 8KHz update rates. The only thing that sticks out is the camera which is protected by a hard plastic case.Īlmost every piece of electronics has been modified from the Vortex 250 Pro and big improvements have been made-starting with the flight controller. All of the electronics are sandwiched between the carbon fiber on the top and the printed circuit board on the bottom. The first thing you’ll notice from the older Vortex quadcopters is the cleaner design. Just like all of the drones from ImmersionRC, the Vortex 180 is an extremely well-built ready-to-fly racing drone with all of the features that beginners and pros need.