Marmotte 2208 DJI/HD

By QCumberCool on Aug 21, 2020

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Been flying for a couple of months and this is my first build. It's probably a little too powerful for where I'm flying but it is fun! On my second pack, I destroyed a prop and balancing wires on my battery so that sucked.

Issues:

Anyone have any ideas where I can run the pigtail off the ESC? It won't fit below or above the air unit as I had originally planned :/
Stack screws are either too short or too long. See the washers at the bottom...
I spent an hour trying to get the battery leads to solder onto the ESC properly. I just couldn't get it hot enough because the compenents were sucking up all the heat. Anyone have any suggestions? I assume a nicer soldering iron would help but maybe I'm missing something basic.

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Part List

Frame	Marmotte DJI Edition (12 builds) Armattanquads.com	$114.00
Flight Controller	SucceX-D F7 V2.1 Stack (F7+60A ESC) (3 builds) Shop.iflight-rc.com	$119.99
Motors	4 x IFLIGHT XING X2208 2-6S FPV NEXTGEN MOTOR UNIBELL (16 builds) Pyrodrone.com	$91.96
FPV Transmitter	DJI Digital FPV Air Unit - Ultra Low Latency 720p 120FPS Digital HD Racedayquads.com	$179.00
Batteries	Tattu R-Line Version 3.0 22.2V 6S 1400mAh LiPo Battery - XT60 (5 builds) Racedayquads.com	$40.19
3D Printed	Armattan Marmotte DJI parts by lokihaus Thingiverse.com	See Site

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Discussion

Ooghee Aug 22, 2020

nice and simple! dont trash the battery you cut the balance lead too, theyre pretty easy to fix. a friend of mine ran his battery lead out the back. im pretty sure its over the air unit but next time i see his quad ill take note and send you a pic.

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Ooghee Aug 24, 2020

sickk! you got it up and going? theres a few videos on yt walking you through on how to reassign the motors.

QCumberCool Aug 24, 2020

yeah got everything working. i had an extra screw left over... i looked everywhere and cannot figure out where it goes. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Ooghee Aug 25, 2020

lol Weight reduction

Jodie Froster Aug 22, 2020

I've not built this frame out, but a cool thing I see is: running the battery lead out the gap between the top plate and the camera housing. It probably requires that you re-do the cabling from the ESC to the FC, or re-assign motors using CLI commands. I haven't tried that in person, so I don't know for sure if it's as good as it looks.

QCumberCool Aug 23, 2020

yes, ooghee pointed out that i can rotate the esc and leave the fc pointing forward. not sure why i didn't think about that sooner :/ i'll post pictures ones updated!

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