Break It Quick

By nbroper on Dec 22, 2015

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This is my first attempt at building a quad. I parts from a lot of different sites and am still waiting on things more than a month out. Because of this I've double purchased a few things but I've only included what I'm currently using. I burned up my first Naze32 being an idiot. I tested it before doing any soldering then decided I didn't want to add all the pins so I tried to remove them. After doing so I couldn't get it to register in baseflight. One of the ESCs wasn't working either which could have been caused by me but I'm not sure to be honest. I had ordered a spare ESC and motor to have on hand and was happy I could swap it out quickly.

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Part List

Frame	ZMR 250 Quadcopter HD - Full Carbon Fiber Frame Kit (Heavy Duty) Readymaderc.com	$36.99
Flight Controller	FPVHQ \| Your FPV Headquarters Fpvheadquarters.com	$14.99
ESCs	4 x Turnigy Multistar BLheli_32 ARM 32bit 7A 0.8g Race Spec ESC 1~2S (OPTO) (8 builds) Hobbyking.com	$27.48
Motors	4 x DYS BE1806-2300kv Brushless Multirotor Motor 3S~4S (5 builds) Hobbyking.com	$42.36
Propellers	10 sets - GREEN/BLACK Gemfan 5045 2-Blade Multirotor (Total Qty = 40 props) Thebulkpropguy.com	$26.00
FPV Transmitter	FrSky Taranis Plus - Transmitter with Travel Case Alofthobbies.com	$197.83
Receiver	D4R-II Receiver 4 Channel ACCST w/ Telemetry and 8 Channel CPPM w/ RSSI Amazon.com	$23.58
Batteries	Turnigy nano-tech 1300mAh 3S 45~90C Lipo Pack (12 builds) Hobbyking.com	$8.99
Power Distribution	SimplePDB ZMR250 PDB Fpvheadquarters.com	$14.99

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SadisticLeprechaun Jan 15, 2016

Looks cool. That is the exact battery I use for my 250, before I used ones with 25C but they had no punch, that one does great!

aerosurfer Jan 04, 2016

Very amusing, we're in the same boat. I started to build a BeeRotor 160mm and burned an ESC due to shitty soldering skills. Your soldering seems to suck balls too :-D

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