Finally got around to rebuilding the sparrow.
my 11xx micros were getting long in the tooth and wanted a micro with more bite.
--update 24 December 2018
this bird was having scary random blackouts so I shelved her after it happened twice on separate occasions. Yesterday I finally made the time to take it completely apart and examine it.
Turns out it had a cold solder joint from the runcam PCB to the power lead!
Fixed it and also trying out the new Gemfan Windancer 3028 props.
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