This is my first FPV quad. I have always had several RC's from Heli's to Crawlers to SCT's. This pandemic and Youtube have rekindled my interest in FPV quads. I chose to start with the Cloud 149 CineWhoop Frame so that I could fly inside and out, and also cary a go pro if/when I choose. I got most of the parts from RaceDayQuads, which I fould to be an awesome site, with fast shipping and often the cheapest parts aside from those slow sketchy Chinese sites.
I have run about 15 packs through the quad and have had no issues both inside and outside with some decent wind. It is as smooth as I coould have ever imagined. I considdered a nicer FC with an F7 controller instead of the F4 in this mamba but I have so far been throughly impressed with the whole stack and VTX.
For my next build I will be going from the 3" to a 5" inch with full telmetry but first will have to buy some fpv goggles. I did snag a portable monitor/reciever combo on amazon for cheap to get me started building but I definitely need the goggles ASAP.
Another note is that this frame supports both a 20mm stack and a 30mm stack and for my first build soldering on the 20mm stack was a bit of a concern but I did not have any issues with my first try and no smoke. It took some patientence to keep everything clean during the build while soldering and I would have apprecieated a 30x30 size stack, but so far this one is great, also very few soldered wires stick out past the edge of the frame because of the smaller stack I do like this, and the few grams saved is also nice.
I hope to update this post after maybe 100 packs.
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