ZMR 250

By tfogarty on Apr 18, 2016

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My first quad. I think this represents pretty well what I got from my miniquadbros kit. I learned a ton putting this together. FPV equipment was added after a couple months of learning how to fly LOS in rate mode.

Part List

Frame	ZMR250 250mm Carbon Fiber Mini FPV Quadcopter Frame Kit Fpvmodel.com	$35.54
Flight Controller	Acro Naze32 Flight Controller rev6 (w/ pin headers) (15 builds) Getfpv.com	$24.99
ESCs	4 x BL20A Mini ESC (SN20A) BLHELI-(ONESHOT) (8 builds) Readytoflyquads.com	$34.00
Motors	4 x SunnySky X2204S KV2300 II Brushless Motor (8 builds) Buddyrc.com	$439.96
Propellers	DAL 5045 Regular Dalprops.com	$1.89
FPV Camera	Lumenier CM-650 Mini - 650TVL Camera (Black Case) (12 builds) Getfpv.com	$38.99
FPV Transmitter	ImmersionRC Raceband 5.8GHz 200mW A/V Transmitter (9 builds) Getfpv.com	$38.99
Antenna	ImmersionRC 5.8 GHz SpiroNET Antenna Set (LHCP) (3 builds) Getfpv.com	$8.69
Power Distribution	36mm Multirotor Power Distribution Board Abusemark.com	See Site
Power Distribution	External BEC UBEC 3A 5V 2-6S Receiver Power Supply Banggood.com	$2.99

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flyhigh916 May 04, 2016

Looking good! If I could make only one recommendation as a nitpick it would be: you may want to heatshrink those ESC's and wires so they have less chance of coming free and breaking. I guess more so it would just to clean it up, it's not that necessary. Just a nitpick!

Oh and also you will probably want something to angle that camera in the near future too. It will be getting footage more of the ground than what you are flying towards. :) Although I know how it goes with first builds, its one little tweak after the next. Best of luck, hope you have a lot of fun with it.

tfogarty May 04, 2016

Many thanks for the suggestion. Directly soldering the ESC's moving forward is certainly something that I want to do because it saves weight and using heat shrink to secure the wires, as you said, makes it more reliable. My soldering skills are slowly improving and so is my confidence in being able to do things like that. : )

aliimam Apr 19, 2016

nice job for first build. Those look like dys 2204, not sunnysky?

tfogarty Apr 19, 2016

Good eye and you're right. The motors on my quad are DYS 2204 2300kv but I couldn't find them online easily so in the parts list I put the SunnySkys as a placeholder.

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