RUPERT (the ripper)

By DaveRips on Mar 19, 2020

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This build goes back to a big purchase I made a few months ago that really got me into the hobby. I found what I thought and still think was an awesome craigslist deal, for $900 I got:
Holybro Kopis 2 w/ gopro mount - Now this build
Iflight Megabee V2 with gopro mount - kept
Horus X10S - immediately sold for $430
Fat Shark HDO - Sold for $250
Rapidfire receiver + antennas - kept
6 1500mah 4S batteries, Hobbymate Duo Charger, 2 IDST Parallel boards, 400W JB Powersupply - kept

Anyways the Kopis 2 flew great, but I was smashing battery packs with the bottom mount battery (now down to 4). Also, I felt the CG was a little wonky with the Gopro out front on top, so I wanted to convert it to a true freestyle quad. I decided on the Skystars Starlord frame, knowing this was my first build and it might not last long I wanted to find something cheap, but also decently lightweight.

The Holybro Kakute F7 stack didn't fit in this new frame, so I had to compress the stack and trim some screws, as well as trimming the vtx plug that sticks up on top. On my first attempt to compress the stack I didn't realize a diode from the vtx was pushing on the soft mounted gyro on the FC and this was causing crazy flyaways. After many headaches I realized the issue, spaced the stack out a little more and all is well! During the trouble shooting I extended the VTX wires by splicing ends together and soldering, seems dumb now, and I think this is causing thin black lines in my feed so I will have to resolder these eventually with clean wires. Also, as it happened just one of the motor wires from each motor didnt reach with this new frame, so I had to splice a short extension on one wire from each motor. A little annoying but seemingly fine. The front right motor does hesitate some times when spinning up. Anyone reading know what that's about?

Performance wise, it is feeling really under powered with the weight of the new frame. I can't tell if its tune related or just the weight, but I'm going to play around with it, try some new props and possibly end up upgrading the motors if needed.

Quad dry wieght: 392g
+1500mah 4S : 574g

with Gopro Session 5: 647g
with Gopro Hero 6: 701g

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