Rakon Batarang

By teckn0 on Feb 24, 2018

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I've had the Rakon Heli kit, motors and camera in a a box for a couple of years now. I finally set some time aside to build this, buying the rest of the needed parts and drawing up a canopy. The quad ocillates a bit during the first quarter or so of flight time, even at hover, and then settles out. I can't do any tuning with the blade fight controller, so I may try some different props. The quad flies for about five minutes of relaxed flying around the house with the Crazypony batteries. It flys quite similar to a stock Blade Nano QX FPV (somewhat sluggish).

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Part List

Frame

CNC Advanced Upgrade Kit (Red) - Blade Nano QX/FPV
Rakonheli.com
$39.99

Flight Controller

4-in-1 Control Unit, Rx/ESCs/Mixer/Gyros: Nano QX [BLH7601]
Bladehelis.com
See Site

Motors

4 x Blade Nano QX
Micro-motor-warehouse.com
See Site

FPV Camera

FPV Hobby - 1 gram NTSC camera
Fpvhobby.com
$54.00

FPV Transmitter

Eachine VTX01 Super Mini 5.8G 40CH 25mW FPV Transmitter (12 builds)
Banggood.com
$7.87

Batteries

Crazepony 4pcs 250mAh 1S 3.7V 35C Blade Inductrix Lipo Battery (2 builds)
Amazon.com
$13.99

Misc Parts

LilyPad LED Red (5pcs)
Sparkfun.com
$2.95

Misc Parts

Custom Rakon Heli Nano QX FPV Parts by teckn0
Thingiverse.com
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acromode   Feb 25, 2018  

Did you bend or break the arms yet?

teckn0   Feb 25, 2018 

Not yet, but bending/twisting of the aluminum arms is probably bound to happen. It hasn't been getting any flight time as a Beta65S has been getting all my attention lately.

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