TinaWhoop

By FlyDaddyFPV on Apr 24, 2021

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EDIT - Had many good flights, but pushing the older Crazybee F3 board... It needed replacement, which in turn which increases ups our limit to 13A.

Updated both the throttle curves and betaflight curves to smooth out the lift a bit. It now flies to my liking with the four blades, but I wanted to try a 'mini cinewhoop' .. could not find any 5+ blades.. using a rotory tool and wet sandpaper, I've crudely cut down 6-bladed 50mm > 40mm. Expecting poor results as I'm sure there are better ways to cut them down. Test flight tomorrow, if they feel stable I'll record flight times on both 4-blade and 6- blades with 520 2s, 720 2s, 450 3s, 380 3s (last if ehich I expect to be too brief..)

.. next step may be to to test yhe above against my 1202.5 flywhoo. To risky? too hot?

1103b goingbto a gnargly build?

Early version..
Purpose of this build is an indoor tough stable flier. Will do more testing, but so far this has been a success. This has been very gratifying cleaning up old connectotions and repurposesing the Mobula7 board into this project.
Flight time when I used a 750mah 2s was More than 4:50min, but the AUW was 107g which seems crazy considering this board was originally a Mob7.. but for indoor only it seemed just fine. Toying with the idea to also take advantage of this in the woods camping.. with the 4k nano cam and decent flight times, the ducts should make this resiliant and it could be fun to fly on car sites (too loud?) or on the trail at times with woods/terrain breaking any potential wind.

My original Mobula7 performed well as an indoor/outdoor capable whoop. Now that I've completed the phantom toothpic build project I can move my original Mobula7 board into an indoor focused build.
The Crazybee F3 has served me well having now performed numerous mods, so I decided to risk it. Was able to pull off the motor connectors, fix the original SPI antenna (to remove the external XM Rx weight mod), and shorten wires running to the diamond vTX (they were 3 times the length they needed to be .. too much weight/clutter! The Crazybee F3 Pro board I expected would fry.. but so far with testing the flights are staying under 3A just fine.

This worked out much better than I expected.

  • Undercarriage I've added a 1mm 25mm>20mm transfer board to cover the FC (something most builders aren't comfrotable with the gaping hole .. neither was I!)
  • enough room to stuff vTX, DVR & FC all at COG :D
  • saved a smidge of g's using SPI on board
  • very suprised at the weight of this thing on 40mm props.. for indoor it's working fine though :)

A few issues still to address These may be fixable with some orientation changes.. but I'm willing to comprimise to save a few bucks (so I don't have to buy a whole new AIO FC).

  • USB and DVR is inaccessible due to the orientation of the board and additionalprotection I've opted for.
  • Original 1s batteries (300mah and 525mah) where being paired as 2s with an xt30 adapter.. don't perform well at all
  • It's a bit loud, but not crazy terrible some have commented (but I won't be trying on 3s.. so maybe it gets worse)

Picking up a few 600mah 2s bats to bring down the weight a bit and colored ducts (to make it easier to find in brush and aesthetics)

** EDIT
needs to be much lighter
doesnt need dvr
learner tank crash test dummy style
cam with intigrated vtx is fine
whoop board with SPI antenna is fine
needs to be durable
4 or 5 bladed 40mm/1.6"

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Part List

Frame

Diatone TinaWhoop 1.6" FPV Frame Kit (3 builds)
Getfpv.com
See Site

Flight Controller

Happymodel Crazybee F3 Pro Flight Controller Mobula7 5A 1-2S Compatible DSM-X DSM-2 Receiver for 2S Brushless Tiny Bwhoop (2 builds)
Amazon.ca
See Site

Motors

4X Racerstar Racing Edition 1103 BR1103B 10000KV 1-3S Brushless Motor Black For 50 80 100 RC Drone FPV Racing (16 builds)
Banggood.com
See Site

Propellers

Gemfan 1636 Durable Quad-Blade 40mm Micro/Whoop Prop 8 Pack (1.5mm Shaft) - Choose Your ColorClear Purple (4 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$3.99

FPV Camera

FPV Drone Cameras for - RaceDayQuads (149 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$1.99

FPV Transmitter

Happymodel Cine8 Spare Part 5.8G 40CH 25/400mW VTX FPV Transmitter for RC Drone FPV Racing
Banggood.com
$17.50

Antenna

FPV Drone Video Receiver Antennas for - Race Day Quads (59 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$2.99

Batteries

Gaoneng GNB 7.4V 750mAh 80C/160C 2S Lipo Battery XT30 Plug for RC Model (2 builds)
Banggood.com
$15.89

Radio

FrSky TARANIS X-Lite S (Black) (4 builds)
Hobbyrc.co.uk
See Site

Goggles

Lumenier AXII 2 Long Range Diversity Antenna Bundle 5.8GHz (RHCP)
Getfpv.com
$34.99

Goggles

Lumenier AXII 2 Long Range Diversity Antenna Bundle 5.8GHz (RHCP)
Getfpv.com
$34.99

Goggles

Aomway Commander Goggles V1 FPV 2D 3D 40CH 5.8G Support HD Port DVR Headtracker For RC Drone (36 builds)
Banggood.com
$255.90

Battery Charger

B6 V3 80W 6A Lipo Battery Balance Charger Discharger Upgrade Version with Power Supply Adapter (3 builds)
Banggood.com
$25.43

Battery Charger

B6 V3 80W 6A Lipo Battery Balance Charger Discharger Upgrade Version with Power Supply Adapter (3 builds)
Banggood.com
$25.43

Tools

YRRC 1-6S 33V Amass XT30 Smoke Stopper Connecting Line Short Tester Circle Breaker For RC Models
Banggood.com
$5.20

Tools

YRRC 1-6S 33V Amass XT30 Smoke Stopper Connecting Line Short Tester Circle Breaker For RC Models
Banggood.com
$5.20

Tools

Speedy Bee bluetooth-USB Adapter 2-6S Support STM32 Cp210x USB Connector For RC Flight Controller
Banggood.com
$13.99

Tools

Speedy Bee bluetooth-USB Adapter 2-6S Support STM32 Cp210x USB Connector For RC Flight Controller
Banggood.com
$13.99
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