The original design of the frame is by Skye Rollercoaster

I wanted this build to be very good looking too. Aggressive, mean, sexy. I've taken a lot of inspiration from other people, like the CLracing LED's in the wire mesh. This build was mostly inspired after the XING motors, which I got for about $11.75 a piece from https://www.xt-xinte.com/ which is absolutly insane.

I also wanted a 6S build, which was perfect for the 1800KV version of these motors. I still think it is crazy for the deal I got with these motors. It felt sketchy at first buying from XT-Xinte, but once I got the motors (after about a month) I couldn't tell a difference from buying them with other companies. They are packaged very well and the smoothest motors I have ever felt. Very premium for motors that cost less than Eco's!

First to start the build, I trimmed the motor wires and soldered them to the CLracing 25mm LED's. Then I soldered the excess wires to the other side so I can cut them later. I stuck Loctite on the motor screws and attached them to the frame. The sleeving was cut to length and slipped over the wires. Damn! Super clean already! Then placed the Mamba F405 MK2 ESC on some 20mm nylon screws and
started cutting carefully. Measured, then measured, and measured... then cut!
(Remember to measure 8 times, then cut once)

Next, I moved to soldering everything together, I.E motor wires to ESC; receiver, camera, and VTX to flight controller; etc.


And this is where I encountered my first problem. When I plugged in the battery, Everything powered up except the VTX. Due to the fact that I'm using 6S, I can't use VCC or 5V pad to power it, so I had to use one of the two 9V pads. I first thought it was the VTX that was dead, so I plugged in the FC and used my multimeter to test if there was any, and to my surprise, there wasn't Just to confirm this, I used my power supply and set it to 9V. Then connected the leads together and bam! Powaa! Now for the life of me, I couldn't reason why either of the 9V pads were not working, Now this is where a RaceDayQuads Customer Service Representative comes in. We exchanged about three pictures, and within thirty minutes they responded and I fixed it. Turns out, it was just a tiny short. Doh!

With that taken care of, I put more things together and tidied/shortened the wires. The receiver was bound to the QX7 and then I did some Betaflight tuning. First arm was a success! But I wasn't on cloud nine for tooo long, because I encountered two more issues. The first was that the quad kept disconnecting within a few feet. Later I found out this is commonly known as "swamping" which is a prevalent problem with FrSky XM+'s. Now the second was oscillations during arming which caused the motors to spin up and freak out. This turned out to be a problem when testing on the bench with no props on, and also I had a few loose screws holding the arms on.

You learn everyday!

This concluded the build. Now time for photos. ;)

I really enjoyed this build, and for my second one, not too shabby. If you would like to follow me on Instagram, my handle is @apexfpv.