Doinker

By Pasqual on Feb 12, 2017

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For some indoor flying or flying in smaller spaces build me a Doinker with a 3D printed frame.

Build it a little different then normal. Went for a 4in1 ESC on the bottom. I needed to remove some materials from the frame ducts to mount the ESC flush to the mounts on the bottom of the frame. With that choice it was a little bit of a puzzle on how to mount the battery. Printed the bottom battery mount and used some 3mm spacers to mount it over the ESC board. The battery strap goes under the battery mount plate and didn't use the 2 slots. With some Velcro on the mount and the battery the battery sits tight on the frame. Also found some prop holders from some Xnova motors that perfectly fit the bottom of the frame to add some extra strength.

Flight time is not great with the 2S 450mAh batteries I'm using. It's now a little more then 3 minutes with some easy slow flying. Still want to try some higher capacity batteries like 2S 650mAh ones.

Will try to add some more photo's soon with some more details of the frame and electronics.

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Part List

Frame	Doinker - 82mm Inductrix-style Brushless Quad by TheShortCrayon (3 builds) Thingiverse.com	See Site
Flight Controller	PIKO BLX Micro Flight Controller - Change the Way You FPV.SKU: FPV-PIKOBLX (32 builds) Furiousfpv.com	$38.95
ESCs	Racerstar 20x20mm RS6Ax4 6A 1-2S Blheli_S 4 In 1 ESC with 5V BEC Dshot600 (22 builds) Banggood.com	$29.69
Motors	4 X Racerstar Racing Edition 1104 BR1104 7000KV 1-2S Brushless Motor for 100 120 150 for RC Drone FPV Racing (8 builds) Banggood.com	$35.10
Propellers	FuriousFPV 1935-4 Propellers – 4 blades (2CW & 2CCW) (8 builds) Flexrc.com	$3.45
FPV Camera	Eachine TX01 NTSC Super Mini AIO 5.8G 40CH 25MW VTX 600TVL 1/4 Cmos FPV Camera (12 builds) Banggood.com	$22.67
Receiver	FrSky XM SBUS Micro Receiver (16 builds) Airbladeuav.com	$11.99
Batteries	3 x RC Racing Twente Traxxas RC auto's,Yuneec Quadcopters en Spektrum Rcracingtwente.nl	$59.97

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d3c0de Feb 12, 2017

Looks really clean with the 4-in-1. I really want to do a build like this after I'm done with my current one.

Pasqual Feb 12, 2017

Yeah tried to go for the clean look. I didn't liked the default way too mount 4 seperate ESC's with lots of wires.

Was a bit of a puzzle and it will not be easy to remove elektronics and put it in a new frame the way I mounted and wired the motors.

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