!!!!WARNING: Making your quad look pretty adds unneeded weight and makes crashes far more painful!!!
So, strangely I realized that I hadn't yet built a real Armattan, a clone, yes, but not a real Armattan. I found myself inspired by Skywakka FPV's tadpole build and decided to build my own. Armattan is pretty darn amazing...I ordered directly from Taiwan and had the frame 5 days later!!
The jhemcu 30A is way overkill, but the 20A wasn't available state-side when I bought it and I wasn't going to wait for the slow boat. I am barely pulling 18A on aggressive powerloops though. At one point in the maiden flight I clipped a tree branch and thought that I surely lost a motor or toasted an esc, but nope, so maybe 30A isn't that bad.
The blue guards on the camera cage were created by a carefull dipping into Task15, a very tough polyurethane. Shorter cams like the runcam racer fit perect in this frame, but nano cams like the caddx and foxeer stick out a few mm's. The polyurethane got the cage out just past the lens.
When I was finished with this build, I thought I was going to be too heavy (again), especially looking at all the other Tad builds on here. Surprisingly this is not at all the case. This turned out to be one of the best quads I've ever flown. It is literally a mini 5 inch. Another thing to note, is it so much quieter than my other quads. My maiden flight with this was 4 minutes on the R-Line 550mah with moderate to agressive freestyle. Ok, so it should have been more like 3:30 minutes...I was having so much fun I accidentally ran the battery down to 3.3v per cell...luckily the battery seems ok so far.
Frame |
Tadpole 3 inch
(36 builds)
Armattanquads.com
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$39.00 |
Flight Controller |
Jhemcu GHF411 2-4S F4 AIO Toothpick/Whoop Flight Controller w/ 30A 4in1 ESCDefault Title
(6 builds)
Racedayquads.com
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$37.50 |
Motors |
4 x iFlight XING Nano X1206 6500Kv Micro Motor
(2 builds)
Racedayquads.com
|
$63.96 |
Propellers |
EMAX Avan Mini 3x2.4x3 Tri-Blade 3" Prop 12 Pack - Choose Your Color
(39 builds)
Racedayquads.com
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$4.49 |
FPV Camera |
Caddx Baby Ratel Starlight Nano 1200TVL CMOS 4:3/16:9 PAL/NTSC FPV Camera (1.8mm) - Choose Color
(25 builds)
Racedayquads.com
|
$30.99 |
FPV Transmitter |
Flywoo Goku VTX625 20x20/25x25/30x30 25-450mW 5.8GHz VTX - U.FLDefault Title
(13 builds)
Racedayquads.com
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$15.99 |
Antenna |
TrueRC Singularity 5.8GHz U.FL Antenna - RHCP
(8 builds)
Racedayquads.com
|
$19.99 |
Receiver |
FrSky R-XSR 2.4GHz Micro ReceiverDefault Title
(937 builds)
Racedayquads.com
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$21.99 |
Batteries |
Tattu R-Line 11.1V 3S 550mAh 95C LiPo Micro Battery - XT30
(20 builds)
Racedayquads.com
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$13.39 |
Very nice. Are the motor mounts just scaled down from the Marmotte/dger STLs?
what size paracord did you use?
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I think it was these:
Gaurds: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4228838
Feet: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4209964
Or:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Armattan-Tadpole-Gecko-TPU-Arm-Guards-Motor-Soft-Mounts-FPV-Drone-3D-Printed-/372886561513
Thank you so much, have you got also the stl which you used to hold the antenna?
Bro, Nice work!
Giving the Tadpole a hard look. how does it fly? Pros/Cons?
The antenna piece is just the one that comes with the tadpole. I have more than a few quads at this point and the 3 inch tadpole, with this setup, is in my top 3 favorites. Even though my build is a little heavier than some on here, it doesn't feel heavy in the least. I have no complaints about this build or this frame, it flies like a quad should. It is fast, it is responsive, and you do feel like your tearing up the sky...not to mention, the flight time, even flying hard, is impressive. I punish this thing and it eats it up.