Apex 5" 6S Freestyle

By LeSquirrel on Jun 11, 2021

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This was my first build, and it was a lot more challenging than i thought it was going to be. It turns out i am absolutely dreadful at soldering, and even though it powers up (I've not flown it yet), some of the solderong throughout the build is really bad. I thought i had destroyed the ESC because I did such a terrible job of soldering the battery cables, but so far, it somehow works.

I'll update this with more details when I've flown it.

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