Purple Nova

By Sasquads on Mar 23, 2019

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Once you have a racing quad, these drones become pointless.
So what else to do, then use it as decoration and save it for the museum.
This is a Quanum Nova which is the same as a Cheerson CX-20.
I totally rebuild this, with an Ardupilot APM 2.8 and installed telemetry on it.
Flown it twice since then.

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Part List

Flight Controller	APM Flight Controller Set APM 2.8 6M/H GPS & OSD & Radio Telemetry etc (2 builds) Banggood.com	$99.98
Propellers	2 Pairs 9443 ABS Self-locking CW/CCW Propeller for DJI Phantom 2 (2 builds) Banggood.com	$3.66
Receiver	Flysky 2.4G 6CH FS-iA6B Receiver PPM Output With iBus Port (63 builds) Banggood.com	$10.59
Misc Parts	APM2.6 2.8 GPS Module High Precision GPS With Electronic Compass PIXHAWK Banggood.com	$11.99

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Discussion

gardo403 Mar 09, 2020

I had one of these, I really learned alot and you had to even fly it..

Sasquads Mar 09, 2020

I have 2, never fly them anymore though.
Great Quad for the money.

Krotow Mar 24, 2019

Quite precise conclusion. After geting into racing quads and starting to build my ones, I lost interest into prebuilt quads. By the way you can turn this quad into racing frankenquad as well :)

Sasquads Mar 24, 2019

You're right, I should.

Whiffles Mar 23, 2019

Wow, I remember this quad! The CX-20 was my first big boy quad and through modifying it I created Rotorbuilds. I had some good times learning ArduPilot, but it was frustrating getting decent footage out of it.

Sasquads Mar 23, 2019

Yup, this thing turned me into a nerd.

Sasquads Mar 23, 2019

Good thing you started Rotorbuilds. So much information and inspiration to be found here, absolutely awesome.
How many members are on Rotorbuilds?

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