I wanted to see if I could build a quad using only parts from Amazon Prime. I wanted to make the quad under 250 grams but using larger motors than 11xx. This was my attempt. I think the weakest part here is the frame at $22 but I wanted a "traditional" looking quad. I haven't built a quad yet but these parts are on the way. Let me know how I screwed up or where I could have done better. Checked these same parts but from banggood and I would save about $60 if I was patient. Yikes! With the 850mah 4s I got about 220g AUW.
Post Build Notes:
I built went as good as you could expect for a first time. While messing with mounting the antenna I tried to unplug the MMCX connector and it jerked all the wires and pulled the pad off the vtx feed from the flight controller. I decided to bypass the FC OSD and just put the video from the cam directly into the vTX. Works ok, but I am going to replace the FC at some point. I didn't connect the rx telemetry correctly. I should have used the uninverted pads from my rx. I still need to weight this and see if it's under 250g.
Maiden Flight Video here:
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i reluctantly just ordered one of these frames and was curious what kind of punch and flight times youre getting? did you manage to get it under 250grams?
I don't have super accurate scales at work. But I weight this with the 650mah 4s and it was right around 200g. I haven't been able to test a full flight for flight times yet.
i ended up completing my build with this frame yesterday. with a 650mah battery and 1507 motors it comes in at 248 grams. with hard freestyle i get 4 minutes of flight time. it is a pretty heavy frame but does the job for now.