QAV X Clone

By Lincoln on Sep 08, 2016

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Broke my QAV210 frame so decided to build the new QAV X and do some upgrades as well. I'm using my old faithful emax 2204 motors but upgrading ESCs to Blheli_s 20a and changing the flight controller from an old CC3D to a new CC3D Revo Acro with Raceflight. I'm excited to see how differently this flies with blheli_s and raceflight! So far I've hovered it and it's super quiet and extremely responsive, it feels much more powerful even with the same batteries and motors. I'm excited to get out and do some proper tuning.

Update - Made a number of changes since originally posting this. Moved to KingKong 2205 2350kv motors, VTX03, Farvew Pagoda antennas, and more.

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Part List

Frame	Crazepony X210 Carbon Fiber FPV Race Quadcopter Frame like QAV-X210 QAV-X250 etc(4MM) (3 builds) Amazon.com	$29.99
Flight Controller	OpenPilot CC3D Revolution ACRO V2 (17 builds) Readytoflyquads.com	$18.00
ESCs	4 x DYS XS 20A 3-4s Lipo BLHelis ESC Electronic Speed Controller Support OneShot42 MultiShot XS20A for FPV Quad Amazon.com	See Site
Motors	4 x Emax MT2204 2300KV Brushless Motor For QAV250 RC Drone FPV Racing (12 builds) Banggood.com	$62.32
FPV Camera	Banggood (130 builds) Banggood.com	$15.45
FPV Transmitter	Eachine 700tvl ET200 5.8G 32CH 200mW Mini Transmitter (8 builds) Banggood.com	$16.99
Antenna	Skyzone 5.8GHz RHCP 4 Leaf FPV Antenna TX/RX SMA/RP-SMA (8 builds) Banggood.com	$5.88
Receiver	Usmile Redcon Self-binding DSMX DSM2 Satellite Receiver with pair button Support DSMX DSM2 11MS 22MS Amazon.com	$12.79
Goggles	Fat Shark Dominator V3 FPV Goggles (63 builds) Getfpv.com	$299.99

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Whiffles Sep 08, 2016

Looks like you did some nice upgrades, and that's a pretty decent looking frame for the price. Can you tell a difference between Betaflight and Raceflight yet?

Lincoln Sep 10, 2016

There's something going on with the site. I'm unable to add pictures. I tried to add new pictures and that didn't work, so I deleted some of the old pictures to see if it was an issue of storage. The old pictures deleted but now I can't add any pictures at all.

Whiffles Sep 10, 2016

Thank you! This is the second time I've heard this. It seems to be an image size issue. See if you can resize the images for now and I'll look into it.

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