Armattan Marmotte 6S Beast

By ROCKFPV on Aug 04, 2019

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I built the green Marmotte first, loved it so much, so I built the red Marmotte as a backup. They're almost identical. The green one has a Caddx SDR2 1200TVL CMOS Micro FPV Camera and iFlight Xing 2208 1800kv motors. The red one has a Foxeer Arrow Micro Pro 600TVL CCD FPV Camera and iFlight Xing 2207 1800kv motors. The rest of the gear used is the same in both. The Xing motors are buttery smooth, excellent power, and can be flown on 4-6s if you want. Now if you fly these motors on 4s, it's not going to be fast, probably feel a little lacking, but would be great for tight proximity stuff.

These two quads fly identical even with the slight stator size difference in the motor and the tune from the green one works in the red one. To date these are the best flying quads I have, the best quads I've ever flown for that matter, and I can't find a bad thing to say about the Marmotte so far. I did go with the space grade carbon which as it turns out is so stiff that instead of having that little bit of flex and twist that is seen in standard carbon so it's actually breaking easier as a result. Armattan has decided to stop using the space grade carbon for the time being. I'm sure they will be doing further test which could bring it back one day.

These quads fly great, the premium price of the frame is worth it just from the flight characteristics alone, but the lifetime warranty also helps one spend that kind of coin on a frame. I will be flying Armattan Marmotte's from here on out. The camera cage is the best part of the quad. Go get your Marmotte, you won't regret it.

Here is the Maiden flight video, nothing to crazy here, just a lazy flight, getting a feel for how it flys, and having a little bit of fun with my flying buddy, at his expense of course. Enjoy

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Part List

Frame

Armattan Marmotte 5" Frame (93 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$109.00

Flight Controller

XILO Stax F4 Flight Controller (3 builds)
Getfpv.com
$30.99

ESCs

XILO Stax 45A BLHeli_32 3-6s 4-in-1 ESC (8 builds)
Getfpv.com
$44.99

Motors

4 x iFlight XING 2208 1800Kv Motor
Racedayquads.com
$81.16

Propellers

HQ Prop 5x4.3x3 V1S Tri-Blade 5" Prop 4 Pack - Choose Your ColorBlue (355 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$3.69

FPV Camera

Caddx Turbo Micro SDR2 1200TVL CMOS FPV Camera (2.1mm) - Choose Your Color (2 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$19.99

FPV Transmitter

RDQ Mach 3 Video Transmitter 25-1000mW 5.8GHz VTX - U.FL or MMCX (146 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$24.99

Antenna

Foxeer 5.8G Lollipop 3 2.5DBi Omni Antenna RHCP (2pcs) (129 builds)
Pyrodrone.com
$19.90

Receiver

TBS Crossfire Nano Rx (1488 builds)
Getfpv.com
See Site

Batteries

RDQ Series 22.2V 6S 1050mAh 90C LiPo Battery - XT60 (18 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$25.49

Radio

FrSky 2.4G 16CH Taranis X9D Plus Transmitter SPECIAL EDITION w/ M9 Gimbals (48 builds)
Getfpv.com
See Site

Goggles

Fat Shark Dominator V3 FPV Goggles (63 builds)
Getfpv.com
$299.99

3D Printed

Armattan Marmotte & Badger Accessory Kit (15 builds)
Brain3d.com
$30.00

HD Camera

Runcam 5 Orange 4K Box Action Camera (21 builds)
Unmannedtechshop.co.uk
See Site

Misc Parts

CLRacing Race LED/PCB Wire 4 Pack - Choose Your Color and Size (59 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$4.99

Video Receiver

LaForge Main & Diversity Module Combo V4 For Fatshark Goggles (5 builds)
Phaserfpv.com.au
See Site

Radio Module

TBS Crossfire TX LITE - Long Range R/C Transmitter (33 builds)
Team-blacksheep.com
$149.95

Battery Charger

ISDT T8 BattGo 1000W 30A Smart Battery Balance Charger For 1-8S Lipo Battery (4 builds)
Banggood.com
$136.49

Tools

Hakko FX888D-23BY Digital Soldering Station FX-888D FX-888 (blue & yellow) (34 builds)
Amazon.com
$115.00

Backpack

Betaflight Hive Backpack (6 builds)
Getfpv.com
$199.99

Accessories

FatShark 18650 Li-Ion cell Headset Battery Case (5 builds)
Nextfpv.com.au
See Site

Misc Supplies

MG Chemicals 63/37 Rosin Core Leaded Solder, 0.025" Diameter, 1/2 lbs Spool
Amazon.ca
See Site
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Discussion

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NorCalNomad   Apr 26, 2020  

Hey man I see you're also running a buzzer setup with 3 pins. You wouldn't happen to be running a Vifly Finder 2? Mine is beeping at random, can't quite figure it out.

ROCKFPV   Apr 26, 2020 

It has to be wired just like this diagram shows.

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