While the FPV Walksnail Avatar HD system is great, their product line can be confusing due too the way they name their digital FPV products and by a lack of clear information on the website of the manufacturer.
We get asked about the differences between all Walksnail kits a lot and therefore decided to write this article. We try to inform you the best we can about all different Walksnail Avatar products and what product to buy for your specific needs.
On this page you will find a detailed comparison chart for all (current) Walksnail Video Transmitters and Camera’s as wel as our recommendations what product to buy for different use cases.
Not sure what product to buy? This page is for you! Scroll down to see our what to get recommendations for different situations.
Here is the table the comparison table for the Walksnail Avatar HD system kits for First person view.
Last edit: 3 September 2024
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What Walksnail Avatar digital FPV kit should I pick?
Here we will give our recommendations what kit from Walksnail avatar you could buy based on your specific use case. Still got questions? You can always contact us!
The best Walksnail Avatar kit for small and light builds: Walksnail Avatar HD Nano Kit V3
The Walksnail Avatar HD Nano Kit V3 is specifically designed by Caddx – the manufacturer of Walksnail – to meet the needs for a very small and lightweight digital FPV product. The digital VTX used in this kit is the Walksnail Avatar HD Mini VTX V3 . The video transmitter is only measuring 31.5 * 31.5 * 9.4 mm and is currently the smallest video transmitter in the Walksnail line-up. With a weight of just 13.4 grams, it’s also the most lightweight one. Despite it’s small size, it’s still capable of outputting a maximum transmit power of 500mW* It also is capable of sending a resolution of up to 1080P @ 100FPS, just like the bigger brothers!
The camera that comes with this kit is the Avatar HD Nano Camera V3 that features a 1/3.2-inch sensor with 4Mp. This digital camera is the smallest fpv camera by walksnail available with dimensions of 14mm * 14mm * 16.8mm and should fit in the smallest places.
When prioritizing weight and size, this comes at a small cost of image quality and output power. Due too the small size of the camera gyroflow is also not supported.
The best Walksnail Avatar kit for cinematic use: Walksnail Moonlight kit
If your only goal is getting the best FPV and DVR image quality possible and budget isn’t a big factor, consider getting the Walksnail Moonlight kit.
The Walksnail Moonlight kit is Walksnail’s answer to the DJI O3 air unit. It’s a FPV camera camera and digital video transmitter that offers 4K onboard recording while streaming back the live full HD video feed to your goggle in a maximum of 1920*1080P @ 100fps. With this kit, you will get good looking 4K footage without the need for an extra action cam.
Factors that make this kit the best option for high quality recording and cinematic use:
- Lots of custom camera parameters can be adjusted by the user, including shutter speed and ISO values.
- Comes with a ND filter to give a cinematic look to your footage, even in harsh lightning conditions.
- Offers gyroflow support
- Offers good low light conditions
- Offers real time EIS (electronic image stabilization) that results in a smoother real time image.
The best Walksnail Avatar kit for all-round use: Walksnail Avatar HD Kit V2 or HD Pro kit (single or dual antenna)
For all-round use, we recommend either the Walksnail Avatar HD Kit V2 or the Walksnail Avatar HD Kit V2
Both these kits are available with either a dual antenna and single antenna digital fpv transmitter.
Both these kits are pretty similar and only differs in the camera the kit comes with, the rest like the supplied digital video transmitter and the antenna’s is totally equal.
We first concentrate here on the similarities and main features that makes these kits the best for all-round use: Bot these kits comes with the Avatar V2 module digital video transmitter. This transmitter can output up to 1200mW* and can be mounted to any fpv quad stack size of 20 * 20 mm or 20 * 25mm with M2 bolts. Both kits offer up to 1080P @ 100FPS real time resolution to your Goggles X, Avatar VRX (video receiver) or any other device that’s capable of receiving the Walksnail avatar digital feed. Both kits can do onboard recording with 32GB of built-in memory and support gyroflow. Both kits offers great daylight images.
Now we will concentrate on the biggest difference that makes you pick one kit over the other and vice versa.
The biggest difference between this two kits:
- The Walksnail Avatar HD Pro Kit comes with the Avatar HD Pro Camera that features a minimum illumination of 0.00001 lux, a 16:9 1/1.8-inch Sony Starvis II sensor and an aperture of F1.6.
- The Walksnail Avatar HD Kit V2 comes with the Avatar V2 camera that features a minimum illumination of 0.001 lux, a 4:3 1/3.2-inch sensor and an aperture of F2.0.
The bigger sensor of the Avatar HD Pro camera that comes with the Avatar HD Pro kit in combination with the bigger aperture makes this camera more light sensitive and is therefore better suited in low light conditions.
The Avatar V2 camera that comes with the Avatar HD Kit V2 seems to be very slightly better during daylight use, but is much worse as soon as low light conditions kicks in.
A other factor is the 16:9 aspect ratio in the Avatar HD Pro camera (Avatar HD Pro kit) and the 4:3 aspect ratio in the Avatar V2 camera (Avatar HD Kit V2). The native 4:3 aspect ratio sensor gives you a bigger vertical field of view compared to the 16:9 aspect ration sensor. Mainly FPV freestyle quad use people sometimes prefer the 4:3 aspect ratio with it’s wider vertical field of view.
So in sum, what would we recommend getting?
- Are you planning to fly both in daylight and lower light situations? Get the Walksnail Avatar HD Pro Kit since it excels in low light!
- Are you only flying during daylight? Get the Walksnail Avatar HD Kit V2
- is a native 4:3 sensor very important to you and more important than low light capabilities? Get the Walksnail Avatar HD Kit V2
The best Walksnail Avatar kit for a low budget: Walksnail Avatar HD Nano Kit V3
When you are on a budget, this kit is the lowest prices kit available for the Walksnail avatar eco system.
Don’t let the term Nano confuse you, sure it also fits to any bigger platforms. Well it is the cheapest kit available, it still gives you a decent HD image and with a maximum output power of 500mW* a decent range. The biggest downsize iss that the camera that comes with this kit doesn’t feature any gyroflow capabilities since it lacks a hardware component (an IMU) needed.
The best Walksnail Avatar kit for furthest range: Walksnail Avatar GT Kit
If it’s your mission to fly as far as possible (long range), the GT kit is for you. The Walksnail Avatar GT Kit is specifically designed to give you more range than the other models thanks to the boosted maximum output power of 2000mW*.
Since the other full size digital video transmitters by Walksnail gives you a maximum output power of 1200mW*, the extra 800mW (2.22dBm) from the GT kit video transmitter gives you a theoretical range increase of 29%.
This means that you will go 1.29x further (under same circumstances) compared to a 1200mW video transmitter.
The GT kit also features a built-in Fan (removable) that makes it very suited to mount this video transmitter inside a RC fixed wing with medium airflow and still keep enough air cooling. When mounted on a quad, the fan is removable to keep size down. The fan is not really needed on a quad since the airflow from flying will keep it cooled down enough.
This VTX also comes with a SD card slot instead of limited built-in storage.
* Output power depends on region where this product is used. Within Europe the legal CE limit is 14dBm while in FCC regions the legal limit is 30dBm.
Last update: 12 / 7 / 2024