I wanted a super light, fun, and powerfull, 2" 16x16 drone that I could literally fly everywhere.. This is the result!
The frame is a custom designed 2" Vosair Sinew, tribute to the Sinew series by Jeremy Allen. Great frames that fly amazing and have great details on them.
68g total with battery included! Only accepts 2S batteries.
Flight Controller |
Full speed 16 x 16 mounting hole 2S F3 Flight tower DSHOT 600 with OSD - $30.55 |GearBest.com
(3 builds)
Gearbest.com
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$30.55 |
Motors |
AOKFLY 4PCS 1104 7200KV Brushless Motor RC Brushless Motor Fit 1-2S LiPo for Micro FPV 80 90 100 Racing Drone Multirotor Quadcop
Amazon.com
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$45.23 |
Propellers |
Drone Propellers for - Drone Props
(41 builds)
Racedayquads.com
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$3.59 |
FPV Camera |
Amazon.com
(5 builds)
Amazon.com
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See Site |
FPV Transmitter |
AKK X5 5.8Ghz 25mW/50mW/100mW/200mW Switchable Nano Transmitter Support OSD Configuring via Betaflight FC
Amazon.com
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$10.99 |
Receiver |
FrSky R-XSR 2.4GHz Micro ReceiverDefault Title
(937 builds)
Racedayquads.com
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$21.99 |
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How durable have you found this frame to be?
and what size battery were you using?
The frame is fine, the problem was the durability of the electronics. I have since found better electronics and plan to rebuild it as soon as I get a chance.
For batteries, I was using 450-550mAh 2S lipos, with which I would get slightly over 3min flight times and plenty of power. With the rebuild I would like to up that to 3S or 4S, and probably reduce the capacity slightly to maintain a similar weight.
are you thinking one of the new 4s 16x16 stacks from iflight and diatone?
Yeap, that looks like the way to go, hopefully. I burned a couple of the original ESCs I used.