Another Toothpick II

By duffa123 on Dec 06, 2020

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Lately I've been enjoying a 2.5" toothpick to reduce noise / intimidation while flying in local parks but missed the wind resiliance and terrifying speed of bigger quads. As an experiment I built this 3" toothpick due to many claiming that they "fly like a 5-inch." While it does indeed fly like a bigger quad, I'm not sure that I prefer it over the 2.5":

Wind resiliance and general stability are materially better than the 2.5"
Speed is also better but not dramatically so
Flight times significantly longer (about 6:00 vs 3:00 on the 2.5") but this may suggest that my batteries are too big (using 525 mah and 650 mah 3S battaries)
Handling is much "heavier" than the 2.5" which make it less flickable in tight gaps and debatably less fun

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Part List

Frame	Racer X Twig V2 Deluxe 3" Frame Racedayquads.com	$24.99
Flight Controller	JHEMCU Updated GHF411-HD AIO F4 OSD Flight Controller and Built-In 40A Bluejay 3-6S 4IN1 ESC (43 builds) Pyrodrone.com	$53.99
Motors	4 x Hyperlite 1204.5 FPV Micro Drone Motor - 5022KV (2 builds) Pyrodrone.com	$47.96
Propellers	GEMFAN 3016-3 PROPS - (2CW + 2CCW) (57 builds) Pyrodrone.com	$2.59
FPV Camera	Foxeer Toothless 2 Nano 1200TVL CMOS 4:3/16:9 PAL/NTSC FPV Camera (1.8mm) - Choose Your Color (17 builds) Racedayquads.com	$29.90
FPV Transmitter	NameLessRC Nano400 VTX 25mw-400mw 5V (21 builds) Pyrodrone.com	$13.99
Antenna	ORT Micro Vee 5.8GHz U.FL Antenna - Linear - Choose Your Color and Length (9 builds) Racedayquads.com	$6.99
Receiver	FrSky XM+ 2.4GHz Micro ReceiverDefault Title (1149 builds) Racedayquads.com	$15.99
Batteries	RDQ Series 11.4V 3S 525mAh 80C LiHV Micro Battery - XT30 (14 builds) Racedayquads.com	$11.74

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Discussion

subiel Jan 20, 2021

hey, did you try biplane propellers?

duffa123 Jan 20, 2021

I haven't yet mostly because I like the way triplanes fly better and the biplanes tend to be louder (part of my motivation for this build was a quiet park flyer). Having said that, I probably will give them a shot in the near future just as an experiment.

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