Bumper

By RH55 on Mar 04, 2017

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I built this sedate Bumper quad to fly around the house. It's pretty mellow, which is great for a suburban home with young kids. The photo shows days 20A escs which I've switched to 6A. The camera is just taped to the top. I originally used a Dremel to bore a hole for the camera, but found that the picture was a pinhole view through foam. I'll be removing the top of the camera hole to seat it properly and adding something to protect the antenna.

The 1102s are fine on 2S but were too hot on 3s.

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lagtastic   Jul 08, 2017  

hiyas. how long are your flight times with those tattu batteries?

RH55   Jul 09, 2017 

I have a timer set for 3:30. I haven't tried to push them further than that.

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