One Ess Three Inch

By daich on Aug 20, 2020

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Rehashing the twiglet / newbeedrone beebrain brushless 1s 3" build again.

The lovely 1.5mm thick KwadKarl Twiglet frame is holding up great.
The goober canopy is awesome and seems indestructible.

Mainly changed the skystars 1103 11,000kv out for the Kabab 1202.5 11,500kv.
Let's see how it goes, looking forward to the maiden.

BTW, forgot how painful it was to solder the newbeedrone beebrain brushless board...it is the prototype version so not sure if they added bigger pads but these werelike 1mm pads with half a mm between. I soldered them with an old nasty t100 tip too with no solder sponge. It was painful and just glad nothing smoked. Don't recommend it.

I've since done some more tuning and it's flying better, just need to get some DVR posted up

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Part List

Frame	Twiglet. 65mm Whoop conversion (5 builds) Armattanproductions.com	$14.99
Flight Controller	NewBeeDrone BeeBrainBL V1 Flight Controller + Camera Set (4 builds) Newbeedrone.com	$109.99
Motors	4 x FPVCycle Light 13mm 1S Motor- 2mm prop shaft (40 builds) Fpvcycle.com	$39.96
Propellers	Gemfan TRI-BLADE 3016x3 Props (4CW + 4CCW) - 2MM hub hole (28 builds) Fpvcycle.com	$1.99
FPV Camera	C01 Pro FPV Micro Camera (13 builds) Betafpv.com	$17.99
Receiver	FrSky XM+ SBUS Mini ReceiverDefault Title (1149 builds) Airbladeuav.com	$12.99
Batteries	GAONENG GNB 4.35V 450mAh 1S 80C HV Battery PH2.0 Plug White Plug For E010 M80S Tiny7 RC Model (7 builds) Banggood.com	$5.08
Hardware	Battery Rubber Bands (10-Pack) (4 builds) Fpvcycle.com	$2.50
Misc Parts	15mm Adhesive Cloth Fabric Tape Wool Roll Black Wiring Harness Electric Cable Wire Tape Tools (3 builds) Hglrc.com	$2.56

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DrewFPV Aug 20, 2020

Cool! Clean and good looking kwad. I wanted to build a 1s toothpick, but both FC's i had and the camera as far as i know died.

daich Aug 20, 2020

yeah, these whoop FCs can be finicky. they are slowly getting more reliable though. build one. relatively cheaper than larger quads. batteries are cheaper. and much more crash resilient as they are so light

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