After breaking an arm for the second time, I transferred the guts from Wr0ngSparrow into the Diatone GT-M3 frame so that I could have replaceable arms for the future. Frame worked well, so building a second one so I don't have to switch to a 5" half way through a race day (what an adjustment!!)
Build notes:
Relevant betaflight config:
# Matches the wiring I did (esc motorN -> clracing MotorN) , didn't feel like ordering by wire swap
resource MOTOR 1 B01
resource MOTOR 2 A02
resource MOTOR 3 B00
resource MOTOR 4 A03
# Sets up softserial for telemetry on the led_strip pad
resource MOTOR 5 NONE
resource LED_STRIP 1 NONE
resource SERIAL_TX 11 B08
feature SOFTSERIAL
feature TELEMETRY
# Rx on Serial1, SmartAudio on Serial4, Telem on softserial 11
serial 0 64 115200 57600 0 115200
serial 3 2048 115200 57600 0 115200
serial 30 32 115200 57600 0 115200
# R-XSR is SBUS
set serialrx_provider = SBUS
# Board orientation as built
set align_board_yaw = 180
You'll also need to reverse two motors in blheli32suite, which two depends on if you fly reversed motors.
Maiden flight:
Update 6/5/18: Burned out the esc, so replaced with a ori32. Its a tight fit - had to put the lipo pads towards the front, facing up, and run the lipo leads under the board towards the back. Seems to work well though, connected telemetry to RX3, and now BF has amperage/temperature/rpm data. Also designed a TPU xt60 mount available at: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2947877
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