5” 4s FAA EXEMPT

By wiigelec on Feb 08, 2020

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5" racer below 250g AUW to be exempt from upcoming FAA RID rules

Comments

02-08-2020
Pretty touchy on the throttle for basement hovering and unfortunately weather wise won’t be outdoor flying for a couple more months. Also have some Luminier 5x4.5 bi-blades on the way...

Design Specs

Purpose: FAA exempt race/freestyle
Prop: 5”
Frame: 50g max
Battery: 4s 100g max
Motors: 60g max 15g/motor
AUW: 250g
T/W class: 12x
Total thrust: 3000g
Max power: 1360 W
Max motor thrust: 750g
75% power: 1020 W
Battery amps: 69
Esc amps: 17

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Part List

Frame	PickleBig : 4, 5, 6 and 7 inch toothpick quadcopter frame by ledroneclub (11 builds) Thingiverse.com	See Site
Flight Controller	Geprc GEP-20A-F4 AIO F4 2-4S 20A ESC OSD 5V/1A BEC Toothpick FPV Flight Control For 3-5 Inch Racing Drone M.geekbuying.com	$57.99
Motors	4 x Hyperlite 1408-2722KV Race Series (3 builds) Pyrodrone.com	$63.96
Propellers	16pcs HQProp Ethix S3 Prop Watermelon 5x3.1x3 Tri-Blade Propeller 5 Inch Props for RC FPV Drone Quadcopter Amazon.com	$15.59
FPV Camera	BETAFPV Z02 AIO Camera A01 VTX 5.8GHz 0/25/200mW Transmitter 600TVL NTSC/PAL with 25 and 35 Degree Camera Mount Support OSD Smar Amazon.com	$29.99
Receiver	FrSky XM+ 2.4GHz Micro ReceiverDefault Title (1149 builds) Racedayquads.com	$15.99
Batteries	RDQ Series 14.8V 4S 850mAh 75C LiPo Micro Battery - XT30 or XT60 (44 builds) Racedayquads.com	See Site

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Discussion

sal.mars44K.C. Feb 09, 2020

nice build kinda like the rat quad i am making from spare parts, i was going to ask whats the faa rule that you are speaking of?
I also want to let you know about the new site quad exchange.com its about to be ligit so thats going to be a awesome source to use. i think it might be called fpvexchange.com , one or the other.

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sal.mars44K.C. Feb 22, 2020

ah, march 1st i assume, i am very excited as well. I wonder if it will have builds as well?

sal.mars44K.C. Mar 15, 2020

hey man, have you found or heard anything about the exchange site?

Cleaner Mar 16, 2020

Nope, nothing at all. Seems like my exchange site will just keep on living without competition.

StuntMonkeh Feb 26, 2020

Do you have a thingiverse link for that pod?

wiigelec Feb 26, 2020

yeah sure! give me a bit i'll see if i can find it if not i have the stl...

wiigelec Feb 26, 2020

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3900832

StuntMonkeh Feb 27, 2020

Perfect! Thank you.

NautilusFPV Feb 09, 2020

I am curious as to what your flight time is looking like on this? Seems like it would be awesome for racing...

wiigelec Feb 10, 2020

thanks for the comment! unfortunately winter around here lasts a lot longer than most places so won't be able to do any serious outdoor flying for a few weeks yet...

Tyrdle Feb 09, 2020

i recommend trying TMotor 5143 props on this. There are also the ethix s3 which are quite light.

wiigelec Feb 09, 2020

thanks for the comment! i have some s3s have to check out the tmotors...

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