Blue Armattan Bumper

By anmi on Nov 06, 2018

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I needed a quad for indoor flying at home. I had a little tiny quad with brushed motors which lacked video transmisson with blurry lines and the brushed motors always quickly burned out or failed. So I looked for something more reliable and fun.
I came across the bumper from armattan. The foam seems to give good protection for the quad and house plus I could use all the components I wanted to and so I started building ...

Quick Notes:

  • The Idea was to have the electronic stack at the top and as a counter weight the battery at the bottom.
  • The camera is upside down installed. The runcam software is able the flip the picture. And because of the cam socket being standing out a bit it pushed the cam inside at the bottom which gives it a nice tild. Plus its perfectly protected.
  • The top plate for protection of the controllers has also zipties extension for the rc receiver
  • Buzzer at the backside. I made a hole to fit the wires through gap in middle.
  • Weight is about 97 gramm (no battery) - a bit to heavy for the size of the quad. Its flying quite good with 3s but flight time is not that long. With 4s it feels like a litte mini rocket but too heavy. Should have considered the weight more in my build.
  • Will try to cut the weight more down by cleaning up cables and unnecessary screws. I left the cables longer first in case I had to rearrange components. Maybe get rid of the beeper as well and use only the motors as beepers.
  • The picture is compared to my old cam and vtx combo so much better. And I have hardly any distorions.
  • I intentionlly bumped into things with the quad to see how it performs and well if the bump is not too hard its no problem. Once I banged it quite hard against a wall and one prop broke. Not sure how that's possible. I found marks on the inside of the propeller motor cage. Maybe the foam got pushed inside and blocked the props. Other than that its really robust so far.
  • I'm happy with all the components so far. Good quality no issues. Even the no name vtx does well.
  • The 4in1 esc and the vtx had m2 holes which were to small for the long white screws. So I extended them using a drill. I didnt damage any electronics and it all works fine.
  • Oh and not to forget the noise: Unbelievable laud - you can hear it from a mile :)

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Part List

Frame

Bumper Frame (11 builds)
Armattanquads.com
$20.00

Flight Controller

30x30 Drone Flight Controllers for - RaceDayQuads (40 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$44.99

ESCs

SPEDIX IS20 4 In1 20A 2-4S Blheli_S Brushless ESC DSHOT600 Ready for RC Drone FPV Racing 20x20mm
Banggood.com
$29.99

Motors

4 x Sunnysky R1106 5500KV 6500KV 8000KV Brushless Motor Blue for 2030 3020 Propeller RC FPV Racing Drone (19 builds)
Banggood.com
$50.04

Propellers

4 Pairs Dalprop Cyclone Q2035C 2035 4-blade Propeller For RC Drone FPV Racing Multi Rotor (7 builds)
Banggood.com
$2.99

FPV Camera

Runcam Micro Sparrow 2 Super WDR OSD 700TVL CMOS FOV 150 Degree 2.1mm 4:3 FPV Mini Camera NTSC PAL (63 builds)
Banggood.com
$34.99

FPV Transmitter

Mini VTX5848 48CH 5.8G 25/100/200mW Switchable FPV RC Drone VTX Video Transmitter Module OSD Control (5 builds)
Banggood.com
$12.99

Receiver

FrSky R-XSR Ultra SBUS/CPPM D16 16CH Mini Redundancy Receiver 1.5g for RC Multirotor FPV Racing Drone (936 builds)
Banggood.com
$24.29

Batteries

TATTU 450mAh 11.1V 3S 75C Li-polymer Battery - $11.69 |GearBest.com (7 builds)
Gearbest.com
$11.69

Misc Parts

20 PCS O-rings Vibration Isolation Flight Controller Protection Rubber Band Green White for RC Drone (4 builds)
Banggood.com
$2.02

Misc Parts

Suleve™ M2SW1 50pcs Black Rubber O Rings Anti Slip Aluminum Darts Washers (6 builds)
Banggood.com
$1.99

Misc Parts

1Pair XT30 2mm Golden Male Female Non-slip Plug Interface Connector (8 builds)
Banggood.com
$1.45

Misc Parts

Battery Strap Fixed Plate 16x16mm 20x20mm 3K Carbon Fiber For RC Drone FPV Racing Multi Rotor (2 builds)
Banggood.com
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