Enduro ST 5"

By Hotchywitchy on Feb 25, 2021

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A Scott Tomlinson inspired ultralite 5inch using the efficient T-motor 2203.5 1500kV

Apart from the motors I built this from parts I already had. The frame is a cheap Floss copy, I had to mount the arms underneath so that the 20 x 20 stack would fit, and I radiused the edges with a router which saved a couple of grams. AUW 206g

Scott's came in at 20g lighter without gps. I have mamaged to get 31 minutes on a 4s Sony VT6 Lion pack. It's much colder here than down under, so hard to compare flight time with his.

I used the TBS mounting board for the XF Nano and Unify Nano.

It flies really nice on stock PIDs, I tried it with a 4S 650mah and got 8 minutes of fun flying. I'm going to try bi-blades to see if flight time improves.

Improvements I'd like to make are 6S ESC's , Caddx Ratel or Vista Nebula, Gopro naked mount, AIO board and printed canopy.

DVR on a 4S 650 mah, you can see the current draw stays around 3 amps.

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