Yuneec H520E ST16E

Yuneec Skins · Jul 25, 2020

FCC ID Application Processed For Yuneec Technology Co., Limited for New Equipment.
Link: FCC ID 2ACS5-ST16E

PaulEden · Jul 25, 2020

How interesting! The new manual is there too.

terrence davidson · Jul 25, 2020

reading the manual now. new antennas on the aircraft. new gimbal hardware. rtk instructions. new binding procedures.

terrence davidson · Jul 25, 2020

big question is did they change the flight battery connector.

terrence davidson · Jul 25, 2020

max transmit distance is now rated at 6km. I like to see that confirmed by test flights.

Steve Carr · Jul 26, 2020

terrence davidson said:
big question is did they change the flight battery connector.

They changed it on the H3 so I suspect it will be the same as the H3.

terrence davidson · Jul 26, 2020

and there is where I take issue with the h3 manual it states you can use the dual dy5 charger for the flight battery. the h3 battery socket is not usable on the dy5. the new charger is SC4000-4E. I need to head over to h3 thread and see what I can dig up on the charger for compare it to the current h520. oh they may have addressed the real time clock issue with the new ODFM module how ever you may need to keep the h520 e plugged in via usb cable when the vbat is removed. or the remote bat is removed ODFM module is also integrated in to the st16e

Steve Carr · Jul 26, 2020

The manual indicates the battery for the 520e is LiHv 4s 6200mAh. So that would explain the claimed 30 min flight time.
But that differs from the H3.

terrence davidson · Jul 26, 2020

they upgraded the capacity which is a good thing. however this time they did not mention that the battery is able to be used on the dy5 charger. I sure like to know what the pinout of the charger base is and modify it to use a third party charger that can properly manage the flight batteries.

Steve Carr · Jul 26, 2020

terrence davidson said:
I sure like to know what the pinout of the charger base

Since Yuneec prefers to continue using existing parts whenever possible, I expect the charger will be the same except for the battery receiver plug. We won't know for sure until someone has one in hand.

Whisperit · Aug 1, 2020

The new gimbal connector is a major thing, and that the WiFi connection is with the aircraft than the camera (it seems to me).
So, our current cameras won't work with it.

Will it have control rates!? Will it have gimbal control rates for when using the 30x zoom E30z??

terrence davidson · Aug 2, 2020

I think the wifi is more in line with the new odfm module. I want to see video flights of this aircraft. also I wonder If I can hack the oem charging cube with the dy5 charger. wonder what gauge wire would work best to jump from the dy5 to the new charger pins. think 0 awg is over kill ,4 awg is bit much 6 awg maybe, 8 awg should be the key.

Steve Carr · Aug 2, 2020

terrence davidson said:
wonder what gauge wire would work best to jump from the dy5 to the new charger pins

It's unlikely you will ever charge higher than 10 amps. 12 gauge wire will work very well and 14 gauge will good for under 10 amps.

DroneCalzone · Aug 7, 2020

terrence davidson said:
and there is where I take issue with the h3 manual it states you can use the dual dy5 charger for the flight battery. the h3 battery socket is not usable on the dy5. the new charger is SC4000-4E. I need to head over to h3 thread and see what I can dig up on the charger for compare it to the current h520. oh they may have addressed the real time clock issue with the new ODFM module how ever you may need to keep the h520 e plugged in via usb cable when the vbat is removed. or the remote bat is removed ODFM module is also integrated in to the st16e

That's because the double charger for H3 was released a bit later than the H3 itself. It's available now.

georgero · Aug 7, 2020

They really put those ugly antennas on the arms? I can't believe that. The new gimbal is a go but those antennas? Nah.

terrence davidson · Aug 8, 2020

for the antenna placement. well other longer range uas from other vendors are doing about the same to there airframes.

mgrzadka · Aug 14, 2020

Found this on FB.

arruntus · Aug 14, 2020

We'll have to wait until it's on the market to see how it really works. I'm almost sure that it will be possible to adapt it to the old models without any problem but Yuneec will have already taken care of not supplying the hardware, that is a transmitter and a receiver, and that the firmware is limited only for the E version ?