Rocking Out With My £*%& Out
By Flying Aboo on Mar 23, 2018
The Motivation
It was about time to get a new quad seeing as my Chameleon has been my only quad for almost a year now. So, she will be taking a seat on the bench ready as a backup if I explode the new build. Spring is around the corner... So here is to hoping that this little chunky monkey flies as good as it looks.
Update 23/03/2018 - 10:15am
The build is now almost ready to maiden. I just have to choose between BetaFlight and ButterFlight...
Update 23/03/2018 - 4:00am
All the parts had arrived, so I got to building. I borrowed a friend’s halfway decent soldering iron because mine is crappy. The difference is night and day, my joins are not 100% perfect but they are leagues better than I would have got with my iron. All that’s left to do is cam control, then tighten up bolts, put the top plates on and hover test.
Build Notes
- The DALRC Engine is a very snug fit if you put the vbat terminals towards the front of the frame. I wrapped the arm strut/support bar with insulation tape just in case anything does flex and touch the frame.
- I designed the TPU mount that fits in the back to fit a TBS Unify 5v v3, an FrSky R-XSR and two 5v buzzers in parallel. I had a friend print it out with TPU. There are a few changes I would make to the design, but it is working as intended and will suffice for the time being.
- I might have to use smaller soft mounts for the flight controller as the battery strap touches the wires above it.
- The space for a lipo with a GoPro appears to be shorter than the old Chameleon.
- Camera control on the Foxeer Monster v2 is working, but I can't go down in menus. This just makes moving around in the OSD a bit of a ball ache.
- SmartPort telemetry is working and so is SmartAudio.
- It's running 16k/8k loops and DShot 1200 with about 36% CPU load on the F7 without overclocking.
Massive thanks to Lee from Ace Company
I acquired the motors from Lee McKenzie from Ace Company.
I apologize for the crappy looking out of place VTX antenna, but I don't have anything else that’s RPSMA lying around.
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