Sanchez Air 1s Toothpick Class 38grams

By Abonacci on Apr 25, 2020

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This is the perfect quad for my backyard, the main drawback of this build is the range of the spi reciever in the Beta board. It is terrible. I wish I had gone with the no rx board and sacrificed a few grams. Unless you plan on never wanting to go more than 50 yards away, get the no rx version. My particular build seems to fly great on the Gemfan 3018 biblades, it didnt like the 3016 triblade props very much for some reason. I fly it on the emax 450mah 1s and GNB 600mah 1s. I actually like the few extra grams of the 600. It feels a bit smoother cutting through turns.

I plan to switch to plastic screws for the board and possibly aluminum or titanium motor screws,

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Part List

Frame	Sanchez Air [Ultralight 3" Toothpick] by Dave_C_FPV (7 builds) Thingiverse.com	See Site
Flight Controller	F4 1S Brushless Flight Controller V2.2 (19 builds) Betafpv.com	$34.99
Motors	4 x FPVCycle Light 13mm 1S Motor- 2mm prop shaft (40 builds) Fpvcycle.com	$39.96
Propellers	GEMFAN 3018 PROPS - (4CW + 4CCW) (38 builds) Pyrodrone.com	$3.99
FPV Camera	RunCam Nano 3 - FPV Camera (35 builds) Fpvcycle.com	$19.99
FPV Transmitter	RunCam TX200U Micro 25-200mW VTX Backpack for Micro Swift - U.FL (14 builds) Racedayquads.com	$11.39
Batteries	GNB 450MAH 1S HV 80C 3.8-4.35V Lipo Battery PH2.0 Plug Connector For E010 M80S Tiny7 RC Models FPV Racing Drone (2 builds) Xt-xinte.com	$3.46

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Discussion

Julian-FPV May 01, 2020

dude i cannot get my fc to bind. how did u get yours working?

Abonacci May 02, 2020

Did you get it ? I had problems as well, i can look in my settings as to how i have it set if you still need help.

Julian-FPV May 08, 2020

Sorry im getting back to you this late. this is the first op ive had. i still cant get it to work. any help would be great

Ender Apr 28, 2020

The light weight is impressive! Whish i had one of these.

Impavidus Apr 27, 2020

I have the parts for build. Did you use the betaflight profile suggested on fpvcycle.com? I only ask because all I have is the 3016 tri blades and wondering if i should put 3018s on my next order.

Abonacci Apr 27, 2020

I did not do any tuning at all. I do like the 3018s though, they are noticeably quieter

Impavidus Apr 27, 2020

Hey! thanks for the quick reply. If you absolutely hate the rx on that board, i think you can resource another pad for an xm+ or something. Did it once with my mobula7 because the receiver died. I gave up smart audio for sbus.

Abonacci Apr 27, 2020

i was wondering if that was possible , there is one pad for smart audio that I dont use, but I have no idea if its inverted or uninverted or whatever it needs.

The next step on this build it to get it on crossfire with the mini immortal T and a better vtx (my vtx03 in my 3" works great to fly all the way around my house). If I could keep the same performance and get better control and video range, that would be amazing.

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