FatShark Scout FPV - Teardown, Review & DVR

FatShark's latest entry into the box headset scene is a fairly impressive piece of technology!

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[whiffles]

I just received my replacement display from FatShark and it works like a charm! No more blue line. I also found that my fan wasn't working, so FatShark sent a replacement fan as well. Works great now! The display cost $35 because it was my fault, but they sent the fan for free.

[wpwithers]

THANK YOU so much for doing the side by side size comparisons on these! Nobody else has bothered to do that. I use the Eachine VR011 and have used the EV800D in the past. I want something more compact but my IPD is just slightly beyond the widest IPD of most low profile goggles. It's hard to tell from just pictures hope much smaller they are.

[brandonhubbard]

Got mine Tuesday as my first fpv goggles. Thanks for the tear down as I was wondering what the patch looked like and where the fan was.

[ktrimberger]

I just bought the Scout but haven't unboxed it yet. I'll provide some feedback after flying with them. Looks like solid box goggles, the Scout!

[BobDiaz]

Just so you know, NTSC Video is 60 Fields per second. Two fields = 1 frame, but each field is 1/60 of a second apart in time. Now the resolution is 1/2 the vertical resolution of a frame, but today's conversion chips can fill in the gaps making it seem like each frame is a full field.

[BlenderRender]

Thanks for the teardown of the Fatshark scouts. The Fatshark scouts patch antenna sucks so imma take my googles apart and put on a different patch.

[GoldenFpv]

Thank you I`m definitely going from ev800 to Scout !

[christhorney]

the teardown was perfect thanks, i did some testing between these i just got and my transporter 2 goggs, and i found the patch antenna is aimed about 10 degrees to the right and 10 degrees to the floor, with the quad sitting on a bar stool about waist height from the ground inside the steel shed on 25mw, i walked til the omni cut out then started aiming the patch antenna around, and i found i had to hold the goggles off axis from where the quad was, i need to do more testing but it made me want to pull them apart and put an sma adaptor on the second antenna so i can put a patch on that im able to aim around, or as i had on my old goggles 2 lollypops at a 45 to eachother and i would get no cut out in my test i did if i was still in range with the omni i could make it cut out pointed in the wrong direction (if i was flying directly above myself direction) and the transporter 2's with the dual omni i could point in any direction and unless my head was physically in the path at that edge of reception is was flyable for longer, but again point the patch in the right direction and its far better than the omni, just hard to aim it, super narrow beam and really off from the direction it should be aimed. Unfortunatly i crashed my little mobula7 into long grass before the goggles arrived and now i have no quad to fly and im worried the new one wont arrive until after xmas as the postage here sucks, i was able to do the testing with my old tinyhawk 3 that has a blown motor driver from a crash into a puddle, but the vtx still works fine, it just pulls 5 amps when just sitting there not even armed and if i try to arm it, the FC just resets and goes into some fail mode thing, but atleast it still sends video so i was able to do my tests with the new goggles

[mougnette]

Really nice review and good job at tearing it down... didn't look like an easy task. Also impressive Fatshark proposed to send you a replacement screen as it's clear that is outside of what a standard warranty covers.
Regarding the FPS : NTSC is a 30fps interlaced standard. that means there is 60 different images per second displayed at half the vertical resolution. The Scout DVR records every fields (60/s) and interpolate the missing lines, generating a real 60 fps footage. Traditional FPV dvrs only record one field and just drop the other one, meaning you are missing half of the received information, generating a 30 fps footage.
Keep the nice work.

[lfmradfpv]

This review was everything that I wanted and more. I'm planning to upgrade from an EV800 mostly because of the much higher quality screen and resolution of the Scout and this is definitely the most detailed look I've seen so far. You went above and beyond with the teardown. One query though, I've seen other reviewers mentioning that they had problems seeing the bottom part of screen because the size of the lenses and other problems with blurriness (I'm guessing likely related to their specific fit), have you found this to be a problem? I'm not super picky when it comes to a bit of ghosting on the OSD but I would be worried if the goggles were to strain my eyes too much, I'm ok with having to focus up close with the EV800's screen and it does not bother me too much but I'm expecting the Scout to be an improvement in this respect. Could you elaborate a bit? Thank you very much!

[MarkusBBT]

Great video I have to say! Many thanks! Have a good one!

[DroneSkinz]

Great review. The comparisons seemed spot on. With me wearing glasses the Vipers seemed to be a great fit and I've been wondering if I should consider the fatshark Scout.

[Felix]

Ntsc is 60 fps interlaced. They probably just interpolate the missing lines like many screens do. Each interlace is a seperate image capture so you get 60fps temporal resolution.

[sleepingbearffg]

Love your reviews! Great job again! Thanks! You deserve 1k close brother!! Have my support! God bless

[RizkiAmalia]

do you know the size of the IPX connector used by the patch antenna on this fathark scout? I hope you will answer it

[birdman]

great video!
i have the recon v2 goggles and love them....
you helped me to decide between the scouts and the vipers....going with the scouts...
the recons look great but if the scouts are even better it looks like im in 4 a pleasant surprise lol!!

[iceboundzeus]

hello can you tell me if the led goes out or stays steady red when the battery is fully charged by usb?

[Stashmanfpv]

If it only had HDMI... ☹️

Great review!

[mr.j]

Please answer,
The patch inside google, is lhcp or rhcp

[doubletapgaming]

Thanks for this video! I just uploaded a video where I did a mod to these goggles, and I put a link to your video in the description. I just wanted to let you know, and thanks for your help.