A lightweight 2S pepperfish build using a 1.9g frame and 0.4g camera mount I designed
- The lightness allows this to be incredibly quiet (especially with the Gemfan 2035s) for park flying
- The lightness means it will get stuck in the lightest twigs of a tree - I lost two in one week
- The frame is relatively fragile compared with something like a Hoverbot - impacts into hard objects at full speed will break it
- Flies great with stock PIDs, both gyro notch filters off, and PT1
- Little momentum - great at tight agility, bad at carrying velocity
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Part List
Frame |
DR2 - 1.9g pepperfish frame
(2 builds)
Armattanproductions.com
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$9.00 |
Flight Controller |
Fish FC01 V1 F3 FC Frsky receiver tinyFISH/revision 0.2b/1.62g 16*16mm
(4 builds)
Boldclash.com
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$16.99 |
ESCs |
Fishpepper 5A BB2 48MHz DSHOT600 1-2S 4in1 ESCSKU: FPV-0252-S
(10 builds)
Furiousfpv.com
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$24.95 |
Motors |
4 x Racerstar Racing Edition 1103 BR1103 6500KV 1-2S Brushless Motor Purple For 50 80 100 RC Drone FPV Racing
(5 builds)
Banggood.com
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$27.96 |
Propellers |
4 x Gemfan 2035BN Quad-Blade 2" Prop 4 Pack - Choose Your ColorPurple
(15 builds)
Racedayquads.com
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$6.36 |
FPV Camera |
AKK BS2 5.8G 40CH 25mW VTX 600TVL 1/3 Cmos AIO FPV Camera for FPV Drone Like Tiny Whoop Blade Inductrix etc
(19 builds)
Amazon.com
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$1.00 |
Batteries |
Turnigy nano-tech 300mah 2S 45~90C Lipo Pack
(8 builds)
Amazon.com
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$12.99 |
Misc Parts |
Camera Mount - 16mm/28 degree by gmurphy on Shapeways
(8 builds)
Shapeways.com
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$12.07 |
Ah, I remember this frame. Super light build! Broke mine in the first week though :'(
yeah that ends up being the trade off. if you're someone that flies in more open spaces, you fly a bit more carefully, or you just odn't crash much (must be nice), then you can usually get away with this kind of thing. But if you're still kinda learning and you like metal and concrete and FULL SENDS, then yeah, it's not gonna live long... even if it's light, ya can't beat physics haha
Whats the weight with a battery included? under 100g?
Does anyone know a similar fc with a flysky reciever instead of a frsky one?
Not for flysky, but the fs rx2a pro v1 reciever (for flysky) is under a gram and has a solid 500meter range. Thats what I would use if I built this because I use flysky too. Flysky sucks compared to Frsky though. Ive been considering switching to Frsky instead because they have much better reciever options and fc with built in recievers. Flysky is improving...... but it's still way, way behind.
Too cool!
Would you sell this?
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