Gecko 3" - Micro long-range HD freestyle build

By Kimentor on Jan 13, 2019

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I decided to do a face-lift on my quads this year instead of buying new ones and I am very happy with how my Gecko turned out!

Capable of really going exploring thanks to TBS Crossfire and Unify Pro, all with a HD camera on a tiny machine.

Had to extend motor wires and first time using these nice looking cable sleeves, otherwise it were not many issues. Its been test hovered once with a few punches and it flew nicely, looking forward to testing out the caddx turtle once the season begins here in Sweden.
Bonus photo with bigger brother Rooster

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Part List

Frame	Gecko (66 builds) Armattanquads.com	$75.00
Flight Controller	HGLRC 20x20mm Micro F4 Flight Controller AIO Betaflight OSD 5V BEC for XJB F425 F428 Series Flytower RC Drone (16 builds) Banggood.com	$26.59
ESCs	HGLRC 20x20mm 28A BLheli_S BB2 2-4S 4 In 1 ESC Support Dshot600 for XJB F428 F328 Series Flytower (8 builds) Banggood.com	$39.99
Motors	4 x Brotherhobby Tornado T1 1407 2800KV 4100KV 4S Racing Edition Brushless Motor for RC FPV Racing Drone (10 builds) Banggood.com	$99.96
FPV Camera	Caddx Turtle V2 1080p 60fps Mini HD FPV Camera w/ DVR (73 builds) Phaserfpv.com.au	See Site
FPV Transmitter	TBS Unify Pro 5G8 HV (SMA) (596 builds) Team-blacksheep.com	$49.95
Antenna	Team BlackSheep TBS Crossfire Immortal T Antenna - Heli-Nation (27 builds) Heli-nation.com	$4.99
Receiver	TBS CROSSFIRE NANO RX (SE) - FPV LONG RANGE DRONE RECEIVER (412 builds) Team-blacksheep.com	$29.95

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DroneDudeX4 Jul 25, 2020

Hello, What battery are you using and what is you approximate flight time? Many many thanks in advance. I would extremely appreciate an answer. Thank you again. --Moses

lnguyen21 May 20, 2020

how is the RSSI with your immortal T placement?

yfficbzh Jul 05, 2019

If you are in Betaflight 4.0 can you please share your PID ?

Luke2455 May 03, 2019

how did you mount your fc and esc that have m2 holes to m3 screws?

jetsmack1612 Mar 03, 2019

whats your weight and flight time on this build?

Miadrone Feb 13, 2019

nice

Crazycanuck Jan 30, 2019

Do your props show in the HD footage?

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