AX-5 All buttered up!

By doc on Mar 26, 2018

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After unsuccessfully trying to flash my Revolt with Butterflight I decieded to try the Helio Spring. Just finished this up this afternoon so no maiden. Using the connector made the fc replacement simple and the layout of the spring is almost as good as the Clracing f4. Most of the photos are with the revolt, the only changes are the Helio and I changed the caps out for 470uf and moved them inside the frame. The Gep AX-5 is a great budget frame that is a tank, the only drawback is that stack height is severly limited.

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