indoor/outdoor on 2s/3s. cannot wait for this one. EDIT: it's here!
Frame |
Doinker - 82mm Inductrix-style Brushless Quad by TheShortCrayon
(3 builds)
Thingiverse.com
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See Site |
Flight Controller |
FuriousFPV PIKO BLX Micro Flight Controller
Fpv-direct.com
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$38.95 |
ESCs |
4 x Favourite LittleBee 20A-S ESC BLHeli_S Opto
Fpv-direct.com
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$59.96 |
Motors |
4 x RX1105B 6500kv 7th GEN 1105 Series HP Brushless Motor
(10 builds)
Rc-drones.com
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$67.96 |
Propellers |
3 x FuriousFPV High Performance 1935-4 Propellers - Neon Yellow (2CW & 2CCW)
Fpvdirect.com
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$10.35 |
FPV Camera |
IBCrazy FX798T VTX/Camera Combo with VAS Cloverleaf Modification RHCP
Fpv-direct.com
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$50.00 |
Receiver |
Lemon Rx DSMX Compatible Satellite
(21 builds)
Readymaderc.com
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$11.10 |
Batteries |
6 x Turnigy Bolt 500mAh 2S 7.6V 65~130C High Voltage Lipoly Pack (LiHV)
Hobbyking.com
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$40.50 |
Misc Parts |
2 x XT30U Male/Female Pair (5 Pairs)
(3 builds)
Hobbyking.com
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$4.84 |
The piko blx isn't detected on my windows machine (odd) connects to Mac without issue. Will maiden this afternoon.
Would love to know how many amps the 2.5" x 3.5" (quad blade?!!) setups pull and what flight times are realistic. People must be treating lipos as consumables from the setups I'm seeing!! Also check out the 2s WildScorpion "500mAh 25c" and GiantPower "450mAh 50c"
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received a defective piko, 5v regulator was shorted. use a smokestopper or regulated power supply so you can get replacement if there's an issue. was able to rma with the good people at getfpv.com. luckily i had 2 as i'm using this on my atom v2 replacement as well (v1 rip pool time). i prefer this in x config.
How much of the video frame do the ducts take up in X config?
same distance from bottom, half of each duct. the whole bottom fifth. i prefer the view of +. i'm going to reverse motor direction and props and try a bit more tuning before i just add a lot of rc expo and go back to + for the view. while this is faster, the inductrix handles a bit better. maybe they're on to something with reversed motor directions. i'll make that change tomorrow and get some dvr footage of the test. for now, i forgot to share this. it pitches back out of nowhere for some reason... although at the end of the video motor 4 esc wire came lose. could have been the issue all along. after repair, only flew 2 batteries over the weekend and it seems to dip a lot under aggressive turns. so i'm thinking more expo :-/
That's a pretty good view. I've seen some where the ESC wires show up in the video.
i desoldered/resoldered the wires to make them flat as possible, and used heatshrink to keep them together and blend into the frame. tested reversed motor directions today and it did not like it at all. could be that i reversed in raceflight before flashing back to betaflight 3.0.1. the furious 1935 props seem to be 2035s that were cut and quality control didn't look too good. changed out my props, reversed motors back to standard using blheli configurator for chrome (woohoo!! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/blheli?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon) and indoor flight seems a lot better. maybe my issue was props all along?? not sure. i'll do a better test tomorrow.