Fouride

By Chevro on Jun 24, 2022

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This is my 5th quad build. I didn't want to plunk down the dough for a 6s 5" quad. I wanted something that was super tight and rigid for good freestyle flight performance, could carry and power a runcam thumb or a runcam orange, and something that had the absolute best analog video transmission I could get while keeping it light as possible. The analog feed is very free of electrical noise and penetrates foliage well with 800mw of power from the tbs vtx and the VAS antennas on the quad and the goggles. I thought the fouride was super interesting that you could use the exact same setup, and swap out 4" arms and 4s battery for 5" arms and run 5" props and 3s battery and have a super lightweight 5" quad. All up weight for 4" with 1100 mah battery and runcam thumb is 385 grams with a flight time of about 7-8 minutes of cruising or 3-4 minutes of aggressive flying. Flys great in my opinion but would probably be an agile monster with a lighter battery like 850mah 4s and still get 2-3 minutes of aggressive flying .

I used two 35v 470uf capacitors on the main power lead for the esc and flight controller to smooth out power delivery, and because the way they need be packaged in the frame with the center post it was difficult to fit a 1000uf capacitor onboard. I powered the VTX with a matek bec to take that load from the flight controllers bec. I used a 10v 470 capacitor on the 5v power output side of the matek bec to help smooth out the power to the vtx. I used 3d printed parts I found on rdq to mount the vtx and receiver antennas. I had to shave down the antenna mount prints to fit together on the standoffs, as the fouride is very thin compared to most quad frames on the market. I wanted to do something cleaner for the vtx, bec and reciever, but they are just double stick taped and glued on. I taped the vtx down on the frame and glued the reciever and bec on top. I conformal coated everything as I live in a wet area and you could crash in water or wet ground at any time. This frame is designed to run a dji vista vtx and camera. The dji camera is 20mm and most fpv cameras are 19mm so I had to put washers between the camera and frame when i assembled it. I prewired the flight controller for leds, and also I am powering the runcam thumb from the flight controller. If I run leds I will probably power them with their own bec as the runcam thumb draws over 1 amp when recording at 5v.. Betaflight setup was easy, I used bf4.3 rc6 and used presets for elrs 500Hz, and used filter presets for for super clean build with no esc filtering. I didn't change rates or any other special settings in betaflight.

Proximity cruising flight with a punch out and a few flips, I'd do cooler stuff, but I'm not that good yet.

Part List

Frame

FPV Cycle Fouride 4" Frame (2 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$37.49

Flight Controller

Diatone Mamba F405 MK3.5 Mini Stack - F35 35A 3-6S 4-in-1 ESC
Getfpv.com
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Motors

4 x T-Motor 2203.5 2850Kv Micro Motor (2 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$79.60

Propellers

EMAX Avan Scimitar 4x2.4x3 Tri-Blade 4" Prop 4 Pack (4 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$2.89

FPV Camera

RunCam Phoenix 2 Micro Joshua Bardwell Edition 1000TVL CMOS 4:3/16:9 PAL/NTSC FPV Camera (2.1mm) - Silver (40 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$32.99

FPV Transmitter

TBS Unify Pro 5G8 V3 (SMA) (154 builds)
Team-blacksheep.com
$39.95

Antenna

VAS Ion V2 Antenna 5.8GHz (LHCP)
Team-blacksheep.com
$16.99

Receiver

HappyModel 2.4GHz EP1 RX ELRS Receiver (107 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$13.49

Batteries

RDQ Series 14.8V 4S 1100mAh 100C LiPo Battery - XT60
Racedayquads.com
$9.99

Radio

Jumper – capteur à cardan à effet Hall t lite JP4IN, multi protocole R1 RF R8 R1F récepteur 16CH Sbus pour Radio Frsky T16
Fr.aliexpress.com
$112.09

Goggles

Skyzone Cobra X V4 Diversity 5.8GHz FPV Goggles w/ 60 FPS DVR (14 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$248.99

3D Printed

Shen Drones Squirt V2 3D Printed TPU SMA Antenna Mount (4 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$3.99

3D Printed

Standoff T Antenna Holder Mount 2 Pack for Crossfire and R9 - 3D Printed TPU - Choose Your Color (3 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$3.49

HD Camera

RunCam Thumb 1080p HD Action Camera w/ 3D Printed Mount - Gyroflow Compatible
Racedayquads.com
$49.99

Misc Parts

Matek Micro BEC 6-60V to 5V/9V/12V (2 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$8.49

Misc Parts

Tnisesm 150Pcs Electrolytic Capacitor 0.1uF 50V with Aluminum Radial Leads 0.1UF-50V-4X7
Amazon.com
$5.99

Misc Parts

Ummagawd UMMAGRIP Universal Super Sticky Battery Pad (175 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$4.99

Misc Parts

Kotking Water Resistant Electronics Coating - 15ml (2 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$11.99

Misc Parts

2 x Panasonic 470uF 35V (FC-Series) Low-ESR Capacitor for ESC Noise Reduction (30 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$2.98

Radio Module

Happymodel 2.4g ExpressLRS ELRS TX module ES24TX-Lite for T-lite (6 builds)
Pyrodrone.com
$33.99

Battery Charger

iSDT D1 AC 100W DC 250W 1-6S Dual Mode Smart Charger
Pyrodrone.com
$89.90

Battery Charger

HGLRC Thor Pro 2-6S XT30 / XT60 Parallel Charging Board
Racedayquads.com
$29.99

Soldering Iron

30 Watt Lightweight Soldering Iron (2 builds)
Harborfreight.com
See Site

Tools

TBS Sexy Driver Kit (3 builds)
Team-blacksheep.com
$12.95

Accessories

Lumenier Double AXII 2 Long Range 5.8GHz Antenna (LHCP)
Getfpv.com
$29.99

Accessories

VAS SkyHammer Antenna LHCP 5.8GHz w/90Degree (SMA) (2 builds)
Team-blacksheep.com
$29.95

Misc Supplies

3M Scotch 5952 VHB Tape: 1/2 in. x 15 ft. (Black)
Amazon.com
$8.35

Misc Supplies

Aluminum Slat Table
Stansport.com
$73.99

Misc Supplies

B-7000 Super Glue, Multipurpose High Grade Industrial Adhesive, Semi Fluid Clear (2x25ML/0.9oz)
Amazon.com
$6.99
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