Picnic Micro FPV Racer

By NHdude on Feb 24, 2017

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I had most of these parts already on hand so decided to get the Picnic Quads 120mm carbon/birch frame to mount them all on. I'm very pleased with the result! Flies very well and is pretty quick for a brushed quad. Just learning FPV so this gives me an excellent learning platform that I can fly in the yard with no fear of killing anyone as could be the case with my 175mm brushless racer ;-) I'm going to put 65mm props on it to get a bit more zip out of it though it's plenty fast with the 55s. Bending the roll bar is a bit tricky and you can see that my result was less than perfect. But, so far, it has protected the camera well. I bought a spare roll bar just in case as well as a couple extra motor mounts. I'm using 1S batteries ranging from 500mah to 750mah and the quad flies well with all of them. Flight times run 4-5 minutes.

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