Thanks to using individual ESC, this is my most spacious Raven build yet!
The SpeedyBee F4 sits on nylon nuts & O-rings, making it sit about 3mm off the bottom plate. This FC seems to be discontinued which I find to be a real shame. Speedybee's bluetooth app works really well & the board layout is actually one of my favorites, in a form factor that's easy to work with.
Surely, the ESC could use a higher amp rating. In particular I think I've seen a few slim 40a BLHeli_32 things floating around lately; but, the bullets have always treated me well & with this being more of a long range/cruiser craft, the relatively low 35a rating hasn't been a problem.
I've been trying to get these Racekraft motors to shine for a while now. They started out on a 6" craft - on which I was slowly replacing old parts, but for various reasons I was never able to get a consistent tune out of that quad. Refusing to accept that the motors were to blame (they feel really nice and spin up extremely smooth!), I set them up on what you see here & finally, it feels like they're showing a bit of their merit.
Dry weight is 363g
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This looks awesome. What kind of gopro case / ND filter holder is that?
any videos of this monster in flight?
Alllright sorry that took so long, was out in the desert for a bit.
^^^ 7" Maiden on a calm day, stock BF 3.2 tune with my normal freestyle rates.
Sometime about halfway through the flight I settle into a hover so I can get some mosquitos off my face.. but other than that, pretty fun flight! Very impressed with performance.
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Are there props in view on the 7" with hero 7?
Hey! We already had an email convo but just for future readers: Yep, props will be in view for pretty much all Raven models w/pretty much all HD cameras :) we love it, but have a freestyle/top mount frame coming very soon as well.