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Micro FPV (Idea)

By tch on Oct 13, 2015

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Micro FPV Idea -- torn on which FPV kit to get.

Part List

Flight Controller

Beef's Brushed Board
Fpvheadquarters.com
$49.99

Motors

CL-0820-15 coreless motor (speed: fast)
Micro-motor-warehouse.com
$27.00

FPV Camera

600TVL 1/4 1.8mm CMOS FPV 170 Degree Wide Angle Lens Camera PAL/NTSC 3.7-5V for RC Drone FPV Racing (94 builds)
Banggood.com
$7.37

Receiver

MicroFrX Receiver (4 builds)
Fpvheadquarters.com
$15.99
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Discussion

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Whiffles   Oct 13, 2015  

Why go brushed when you can do a ZMR180 for about the same price?

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36Ophiuchi   Oct 15, 2015 

Not knocking tch's project here at all (I been wanting to do one of these brushed micros proper like this for a while) but you could roll a similar quad about $50 less with standard can motors and a nano qx board.

Whiffles   Oct 15, 2015 

Yeah, I've been wondering how much better these high end micro parts are to the cheap eBay alternatives.

tch   Oct 17, 2015 

@36Ophiuch -- the reason I'm going for beefs is that I can use my Taranis...I'll take a look at price diff for motors, not married to them, thought they might help with the FPV gear though.

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