TinyTrainer - my first racer

By PiotreG on Jan 01, 2023

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Hello, it's my approach to build a TinyTrainer drone. I find out about this drone about year ago, but don't have acces to frame kit.
Now I buy ready to fly TinyTrainer from second hand.
I changed a few things to myself needs: AIO with better ESC 20A against 13A, receiver switched to TBS Tracer and camera mount with handler for insta360 Go1.
During rebuild I have to extend motor cables, to give some slack for AIO antivibration. Added bigger capacitor 470uF 35V, longer m2 stack screews and isolation between AIO and carbon frame. The hole in the frame has to small clearance for USB and neded small enlargement to prevent broke on crash.
Motors with 3800KV on 3S needs throttle about 50% to cruise and don't have much punch (even without additional weight), but I will try with 4S in future.
AIO is flashed with Betaflight 4.3.2 with bidirectional DShot and ESC with Bluejay 0.18 48kHz.
With Tattu R-Line 3S 550mAh flies about 4minutes with average agressive flying and battery ends with 3.8V per cell. AUW with this battery is about 170grams.
Flying with 3S have some advantages to give more time to find better trajectory and gives me another aspect of flying.

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Part List

Frame

TinyTrainer Frame Kit
Flyfive33.com
$33.00

Flight Controller

Whoop AIO F411
Shop.iflight-rc.com
$64.99

Motors

iFlight XING X1404 3800KV Motors for FPV Toothpick Ultralight Build Drone Pack of 4 (2 builds)
Amazon.com
$65.99

Propellers

16pcs GEMFAN 3016 3inch Propeller 3-Blade Props for 1102~1303 1404 Motor 1.5mm Hole for FPV Toothpick Multicolor Quadcopter (2 builds)
Amazon.com
$12.69

FPV Camera

Foxeer Nano Toothless 2 StarLight Mini FPV camera 0.0001lux HDR 1/2 CMOS Sensor 1200TVL Support OSD F405 F722 FC Control (9 builds)
Banggood.com
$34.97

FPV Transmitter

TBS Unify Pro32 Nano 5G8 V1.1 VTx Video Transmitter (396 builds)
Pyrodrone.com
$29.95

Antenna

TBS Triumph Pro (U.FL RHCP) (32 builds)
Pyrodrone.com
$19.95

Receiver

TBS Tracer Nano Rx - FPV Racing Drone Receiver (40 builds)
Team-blacksheep.com
$29.95

Batteries

Tattu R-Line 550mAh 11.1V 95C 3S1P Lipo Battery Pack with XT30 Plug (14 builds)
Pyrodrone.com
$13.99

Radio

FrSky ACCST Taranis Q X7 Transmitter 2.4G 16CH Mode 2 White Black International Version for RC Drone (263 builds)
Banggood.com
$154.04

Goggles

Fatshark Dominator HD3 Core 3D FPV Goggles with HDMI DVR Support Head Tracker (87 builds)
Banggood.com
$399.00

Radio Module

TBS Tracer Micro TX - FPV Racing Drone Transmitter (7 builds)
Team-blacksheep.com
$69.95

Battery Charger

ISDT Q6 Plus 300W 14A MINI Pocket Battery Balance Charger (62 builds)
Banggood.com
$59.99

Soldering Iron

TS100 PORTABLE SOLDERING IRON W/XT60 Power Cable (26 builds)
Pyrodrone.com
$58.99
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