1105 motor, 6000kv. 3s powered. Around 115g including battery. Seems to fly really nicely on the bi-blade props, lots of punch! It flies like a 5 inch quad which is great!! I'm getting 6:30 to 7:00 minutes flight time on a 3s 450mah cruising around, and about 5 minutes ripping freestyle. Tuned up with Betaflight 4.2 at the time of writing I'm able to move the filter sliders all the way to the right and the motors are still running cool, flight performance is great so far with only a little bit of propwash but only if I intentionally do maneuvers to try and fly through my own propwash to bring it out. I'm actually amazed at how much this feels like a 5" freestyle quad. I don't bother with carrying gopro's or HD cams on my 5" quads so at this point I don't see a need to keep building them if i can build these. Big advantage is this isn't as loud and scary so you can fly smaller spots without freaking people out, also crash a 5" quad and you always break stuff, crash this and it just bounces. I'm tipping my post flight bench repair hours are going to go way down if I fly this more :)
Frame |
Tadpole
(30 builds)
Armattanquads.com
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$35.00 |
Flight Controller |
DIATONE MAMBA F411 /134 DSHOT600 4S 16*16 NANO STACK
(6 builds)
Pyrodrone.com
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$39.99 |
Motors |
4 x iFlight XING Nano X1105 6000Kv Micro Motor
(3 builds)
Racedayquads.com
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$59.96 |
Propellers |
HQ Prop Durable Prop T65MM (5CW+5CCW)-Poly Carbonate
(30 builds)
Pyrodrone.com
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$2.99 |
FPV Camera |
RunCam Racer Nano 2 1000TVL CMOS 4:3/16:9 PAL/NTSC FPV Camera 1.8 - Orange
(13 builds)
Racedayquads.com
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$31.99 |
FPV Transmitter |
TBS Unify Pro32 Nano 5G8 V1.1 VTx Video Transmitter
(400 builds)
Pyrodrone.com
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$29.95 |
Antenna |
Lumenier Micro AXII 5.8GHz U.FL FPV Antenna - Choose Your PolarizationLHCP
(59 builds)
Racedayquads.com
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$19.99 |
Receiver |
FSD-Nano V2 Receiver FRSKY Compatible RSSI
(12 builds)
Fullspeedrc.com
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$10.99 |
Batteries |
3S Drone Batteries for - RaceDayQuads
(44 builds)
Racedayquads.com
|
$11.74 |
Hi! I built almost the same! unfortunately 3-3.5 minutes is max in the air ... could you tell me where the difference comes from? maybe something in the beta settings?
the same engines, stack hglrc. 520mah battery.
Awesome, good to hear :) yeah 96khz firmware extends flight time on micro quads by about 20%, it has less of an effect on larger quads, but for micros and whoops it makes a big difference. I'm on dshot600 i think, although the esc protocol won't really effect flight times. I've tried different props and by far the best ones for the smoothest and longest flights are the biblade HQ props, you'll get about a minute longer with these compared to the triblade props. https://au.banggood.com/5-Pairs-HQ-Prop-Durable-T65MM-65mm-2_5-Inch-2-Blade-Propeller-for-Ultramicro-or-Toothpick-FPV-Racing-Drone-p-1553989.html?utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=cpc_organic&gmcCountry=AU&utm_content=minha&utm_campaign=minha-au-en-pc¤cy=AUD&cur_warehouse=CN&createTmp=1&ID=6157211&utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=cpc_bgcs&utm_content=frank&utm_campaign=ssc-aug-all-1129&ad_id=400330096020&gclid=Cj0KCQiAnKeCBhDPARIsAFDTLTJ3kWZ2PFf7j-fr2NYI0qHBPEl0q9w74RkKc141TYNDP0yWND6-kf8aAr8KEALw_wcB
Hey!
how much voltage do you have left for those flight times?
thinking about ordering those motors.
how is their build quality?
best!
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Hi nice build! I'm thinking about building one of these too, but how much louder is this than a toothpick style 2.5"? Is it something you feel comfortable flying in the general area of other people. Thanks
yeah its very quiet, i feel comfortable flying it in smaller spaces near people. i am in australia and the law is that you cant fly over or within 30 metres of a person so i stick to that anyway
cool thanks. I guess i'll have to build one for myself then :)