So I wanted to quickly give everyone a heads up regarding these spare propellers from Anbee. I really didn't need spare propellers but I thought the colored propellers would be a nice touch and having spares always is a good thing.
For starters, they look identical and quality seems to be there. Once I have attached them and re-calibrated the Tello Drone, it worked BUT it would have a hard time hovering still. It swayed, skipped and I really don't know how to describe it but something was off.
So I took them off, put them back on and still to no avail, they just "shook" in the air. So I went to inspect it further in comparison to the original propellers. What I noticed was that if you took hold of the tip of the propellers, they were a bit thinner than the original. Almost flimsy like. You can't tell from looking at it but you can get some considerable bend on these versus the original ones.
Like I said, you can fly with them but hovering wasn't as solid. I thought it just needed a bit of calibration but even doing so, it did not fix the problem.
When I put the original ones back on, it was rock solid at hovering.
Needless to say, I caution everyone when purchasing third party "stuff." Looks can be deceiving and that Minor minor flimsiness at the tip of the propellers definitely made a difference between night and day. I will see if i can post a video about this to help explain this better but hopefully everyone gets the point.
Oh one last thing, I just remembered, I did a couple flips with these and I'm assuming since the issue with what I just stated, it came crashing to the ground. Surprising at how such a little change, changes everything! Come to think of it, looking at the reviews on Amazon, apparently someone else experienced the same thing. Too bad.
Do I recommend them?
Probably not. They look good but if it shakes on hover, although you can fly with it, it's not quality. It's unfortunate because it's such a simple little thing. Although I don't expect much from "third party" products this affects the flight (hover).
Here is the link
For starters, they look identical and quality seems to be there. Once I have attached them and re-calibrated the Tello Drone, it worked BUT it would have a hard time hovering still. It swayed, skipped and I really don't know how to describe it but something was off.
So I took them off, put them back on and still to no avail, they just "shook" in the air. So I went to inspect it further in comparison to the original propellers. What I noticed was that if you took hold of the tip of the propellers, they were a bit thinner than the original. Almost flimsy like. You can't tell from looking at it but you can get some considerable bend on these versus the original ones.
Like I said, you can fly with them but hovering wasn't as solid. I thought it just needed a bit of calibration but even doing so, it did not fix the problem.
When I put the original ones back on, it was rock solid at hovering.
Needless to say, I caution everyone when purchasing third party "stuff." Looks can be deceiving and that Minor minor flimsiness at the tip of the propellers definitely made a difference between night and day. I will see if i can post a video about this to help explain this better but hopefully everyone gets the point.
Oh one last thing, I just remembered, I did a couple flips with these and I'm assuming since the issue with what I just stated, it came crashing to the ground. Surprising at how such a little change, changes everything! Come to think of it, looking at the reviews on Amazon, apparently someone else experienced the same thing. Too bad.
Do I recommend them?
Probably not. They look good but if it shakes on hover, although you can fly with it, it's not quality. It's unfortunate because it's such a simple little thing. Although I don't expect much from "third party" products this affects the flight (hover).
Here is the link
