This is my second build. Didn't want to spend a fortune but wanted a cleaner build with better quality components and durability than my Martian.
Really happy with the quality of the components i chose and how it turned out. Frame is awesome, built like a tank. Motors seem brilliant for the money, really smooth. Only flown about 10 packs and still getting used to it but flies great, working really well so far.
Hope this log is useful to someone :)
Build Log
- 21/06/2019 - Built frame. Fitted Panasonic FR 1000uF 25V low ESR capacitor (10x20 mm) for noise filtering. Heatshrinked and extended with spare motor wire.
- 29/06/2019 - Added LED's. Using WS2812B LED strip (144LEDs/m Waterproof IP65), 30 AWG Silicone Wire. Superglue gel to reinforce connections.
- 01/07/2019 - Soldered and glued header pins to rear LED Buzzer to alow easy removal. Reinforced with Superglue so solder pads aren't ripped off. Added silicone anti vibration pads to motor guards. Installed motors and feet.
- 02/07/2019 to 12/07/2019 - Installed PDB VTX, soldered capacitor to underside of PDB. Mounted ESC's to arms with double sided adhesive foam tape. Made sure they were correctly positioned with their cover's so the zip ties would not obscure the led's underneath.
- Wired the motors. Don't have a heat gun so used torch lighter with a razor blade as a heatshield to stop the cable braid melting. Zip tied ESC covers on so they are facing the direction of the props. (Realised i had done this wrong, the front one's should face forward and rear backwards so corrected)
- Used antenna tubes from a cheap antenna mount and wedged them in between the holes of the rear LED Buzzer and standoff's with zip ties for a tight fit. Added heat shrink to prevent them pushing inwards and damaging antenna's and internals in crashes.
- Installed flight controller and connected to PDB with ribbon cable (massive fan of this feature, looks clean and cuts down on soldering). Fitted camera and mounted receiver with foam tape and zip tie. Reinforced wires with hot glue. Used thread lock on motor screws
- The PDB is rotated so the motor position in Betaflight and esc direction in BLheli Configurator had to be changed. - https://oscarliang.com/betaflight-resource-remapping/ - https://oscarliang.com/change-motor-spin-direction-quadcopter/
- Soldered the Camera OSD to S5 and receiver S.Port to S6 and entered CLI command
resource motor 5 none
resource serial_tx 11 A15
resource motor 6 none
resource camera_control A08
save - Using a Runcam 5 with this awesome mount designed by irmanhilmi https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3199085
To do list
- 30/07/2019 - Hadn't realised the camera required a resistor and capacitor for smart port camera control to work. Will update with resistor and capacitor values when done. -https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight/wiki/FPV-Camera-Control-(Joystick-Emulation)#foxeer-arrow-mini-arrow-micro-monster
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Outstanding work. The time, attention to detail, and excellent planning really show. I can tell you thought this out over and over untill you got a great solution on all fronts. Truly great work.
Cheers mate! Yep... totally obsessed over it, lol :)