My favorite freestyle quad right now. I love the Ti version of the Chameleon, and the solid main plate. I used to have a Rooster but I much prefer this for building and flying (I try to crash on grass so I don't typically have to worry about arms).
Perhaps one of the coolest thing about this build is the electret microphone for onboard audio to send to the goggles. It's automatic gain reduction as well as capacitor decoupled from Smart Audio so it functions perfectly with the Unify Pro HV - Very useful!
The high KV F40 Pro II motors have been excellent, I haven't had any problems out of the ordinary. I replaced bearings on one that developed a mild vibration after a few wrecks into branches, but it was simple and resolved the vibration right away.
I'm a proponent of the Runcam Split 2, even though this frame has a perfect provision for mounting a GoPro, I like the simplicity of the Split and not having to worry about strapping anything else to the quad. 1080p60 is absolutely serviceable for my purposes. Many people cite feed latency when talking about the Split, and although it's definitely there, I feel that it's totally marginal, on the order of 20-25ms more compared to an Eagle or Predator (or so they say). I could see this being a big deal in races, but since I'm not racing any of my quads with the Split on them, I've got no beef there. I used to have two different services of free dial-up that I would switch between - for me, 50ms is tolerable for freestyle. I love the HD footage and the color/brightness/contrast settings look great at all times of day.
On the whole, it's a solid freestyle platform that hasn't let me down once.
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