5" Flowride Disc Unloading Special II

By cjdavies on Apr 14, 2018

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I bought two Flowride frames to make the international shipping from PiroFlip worth it, so after the compromise my first one turned into after the Asgard32 ended up being too big to fit properly I'm hoping to learn from it & make this one as tidy as I hoped the first one would be :)

The signal pads on the FC were a pain to work with (very small & pre-tinned by the factory with lead-free solder) & the Matek VTX-HV had to be connected backwards to the spare UART (eg I had to connect RX on the VTX to RX on the FC & TX on the VTX to TX on the FC, which is the exact opposite of normal UART convention). Smartport is connected to the LED strip pad with softserial (thanks to Oscar Liang for that idea).

The TattooF4S board needs a capacitor on the LiPo input, without it mine freaked out bad on any hard attitude change (flips, rolls, etc.). A 1000uF 25V cap & bumping the ESC PWM frequency from the stock 24KHz up to 48KHz completely fixed it.

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Part List

Frame	HyperLite FlowRide Freestyle 5 inch Frame (17 builds) Pirofliprc.com	$44.99
Flight Controller	Racerstar TattooF4S 30A BLHELI_32 4in1 ESC 5V BEC w/ F4 Flight Controller AIO OSD Current Sensor (15 builds) Banggood.com	$69.99
Motors	4 x Brotherhobby Venom 2206 1900KV 2400KV 2600KV 4-5S Brushless Motor for RC Drone FPV Racing Banggood.com	$91.96
Propellers	DALPROP T5046C Cyclone (2 CW 2 CCW) (326 builds) Pirofliprc.com	$2.99
FPV Camera	Foxeer Arrow Micro V2 2.1mm 600TVL 150 Degree 1/3 CCD IR Blocked FPV Camera w/ Upgraded OSD 5.5g (74 builds) Banggood.com	$23.90
FPV Transmitter	Matek 5.8G 40CH 25/200/500mW switchable Video Transmitter VTX-HV with 5V/1A BEC Output (69 builds) Banggood.com	$29.95
Antenna	Lumenier AXII MMCX 5.8GHz Antenna (RHCP) (36 builds) Getfpv.com	$17.99
Receiver	FrSky R-XSR S.Bus/CPPM 8/16 Channel Micro Receiver (561 builds) Pirofliprc.com	$19.99

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Discussion

JC250 May 04, 2018

Did u have to flash the vtx with any firmware when u got it or did smartaudio work out of the box? It was a while ago, but I thought I remember something about this

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JC250 May 04, 2018

what website or video did u use to guide u through that process?

JC250 May 04, 2018

what website or video did u use to guide u through that process?

cjdavies May 04, 2018

The instructions are on the Matek Website

http://www.mateksys.com/?portfolio=vtx-hv#tab-id-6

JC250 May 04, 2018

Also, what made you choose this frame over the flosstyle? I'm on the fence about which one ill get

cjdavies May 04, 2018

The Flosstyle didn't exist when I bought my Flowrides.

RocketSquidFPV Apr 18, 2018

how do those Venom motors preform?

cjdavies Apr 19, 2018

Like any other 2206, but without having to worry about mud!

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