Armattan Marmotte 2019 6s Build 1750 kv

update: the steele motors lasted all of a week and i had issues, bells bent on a light crash i replaced the "premium" motors for XING. much more reliable and strudy, the steele motors were junk.

This is my first build, after buying more than a few BNF and PNP i wanted to build my own quad. my soldering is less than perfect but enough to get the job done. I bought 3-4 practice boards and learned to solder and also de-solder using wick and a solder sucker. My flight experience is DRL sim over 100hrs and climbing and flying a 3 inch tiny hawk freestyle and a 5 inch Nazgul 5. I will say there is a but of difference from the sim to a real quad, my 3 inch has suffered the brunt of my learning curve. ive replace AIO boards, soldered parts, swapped VTX and recievers more than a couple times as well as motors. With all this being said, on to my first build.

I went with the Lumineer f7 mini stack, it was decent for the price. I wanted to build a 6S freestyle quad that would take a few hits and be as reliable as possible. After doing a lot of research and talking to more than a few people i picked out my components. This is my first build, i have flown 3 inch and a BNF iflight 6s quad, i figured it was time to build a custom rig to my specs. I went with the mini stack to help with weight, chose the Mr steel stout v3's after hearing and reading a lot of good stuff about those motors, they narrowly beat out xing 2207 1800kv motors. I have seen a lot of people using the Armattan and its one of the most built frames on rotor builds so i figured i couldnt go wrong. I will be building over the holiday as i will have some down time. I will post up a lot of pics as i build it and possibly a video at the end. Wish me luck folks, im gonna need it. Ive learned a lot by watching countless youtube videos and speaking with other on the phone and in the forums about beta flight, wiring, schematics and how to put together components.

I will update as i build and post the final result. pics also will be updated throughout build.

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UPDATES:
12/13/19 How fitting on fri the 13th i get all my stuff and start assembly on my frame. The center standoff is only threaded on one side, had to return whole frame today and getfpv is sending a new one. My build is delayed for atleast 3-4 days as i await my new frame shipment. : (

My Color scheme with be white and black with a hint of crystal blue.

Finally received all my components and built the quad. it wasnt a terrible difficult build. It was straight forward and i updated to betaflight 4.1.1. I did run into an issues with the onboard flash for blackbox. i had to reflash to non-legacy version of 4.1BF to get it to recognize it had onboard flash memory. soldering the board was easy and the manual is simple so i had to call for help on some of the UARTS. After building the quad i flew it, it flies nice but the stock tune needs adjustment and i am following UAVTECH advice and following his tuning principles. I will say on one of my test flights i lost spatial awareness and had a very minor crash, in grass while coming in for a landing. it bent two of my motor bells. I was more than disappointed as these are "premium" motors. i replaced two bells and a fresh set of props and good as new. The VTX has been flawless with video feed and im running 800mw. The quad seems a but under powered with these motors at times but it could be my props. I have some props on order with a bit lower pitch for more initial response and lower top end. 5x4 we will see how they do. I have learned a ton building my first quad, going forward i think i will use different motors.

Lou