Armattan Japalura

By xxbuildnz on Apr 30, 2017

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A build around the highly anticipated Japalura 130mm frame

Things of note:

The bottom plate has no specific front/back as it's the same either way, HOWEVER the side plates only go on in one orientation only! found this out the hard way and had to dismantle and rotate the entire build 180 degrees!
I lost one of the washers for the camera but are not a strict requirement to install the camera
The frame camera cutouts do not line up with the double holed arrow v2 case meaning the angle cannot be secured properly
To maintain the camera screw requires the removal of a motor which is as pain
To maintain the FC in anyway would require dismantling one side incl. cam/vtx mount/carbon fibre top plates so lots of screws!!! on the bench it's okay but in the field it would be a bit of a pain
The ESCs are not the best candidates but it's what I had on hand and they're running fine on DSHOT300 8k/8k
Tramp VTX via OSD isn't working yet and will need to investigate using soft serial due to the lack of UARTS on the FC *update does not work! therefore had to swap out the FC to my backup Aurora mini F3 which has a dedicated UART for this

Part List

Frame	Armattan Japalura 3" Purple W/PDB and XT30 (40 builds) Pirofliprc.com	$74.50
Flight Controller	F3 Micro Flight Controller w/ BEC & LC Filter & OSD (DSHOT / 20x20mm / 2-4S) Myrcmart.com	$13.99
ESCs	4 PCS Racerstar RS30A Lite 30A Blheli_S 16.5 BB1 2-4S Brushless ESC Support Dshot150 Dshot300 for RC Drone (20 builds) Banggood.com	$37.65
Motors	4 x Brotherhobby Tornado T1 1407 3600KV 4S Racing Edition Brushless Motor for FPV Racer (193 builds) Banggood.com	$67.96
Propellers	5 x DYS X30303 3 blade bullnose propeller 3030 CW/CCW Nylon Fiber for RC Drone FPV Racing (9 builds) Banggood.com	$9.55
Propellers	5 x 1 Pair DYS 3045 3 Inch 3 Blade Propeller Triblade Bullnose Prop Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Purple (32 builds) Banggood.com	$6.95
FPV Camera	600TVL 2.8mm Lens 1/3" 16:9 Super Had II CCD Camera IR Sensitive for FPV Racing Drone PAL/NTSC (31 builds) Banggood.com	$16.47
FPV Transmitter	TrampHV USA Version (13 builds) Pirofliprc.com	$29.99
Antenna	Pagoda-2 Omni Antenna RHCP Kit (36 builds) Farvew.com	$4.00
Receiver	Frsky XM+ Micro D16 SBUS Full Range Mini Receiver Up to 16CH for RC FPV Racing Drone Banggood.com	$13.69

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marsfpv May 17, 2017

I love this frame. Nice build man!! Purple and orange look good together

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marsfpv May 17, 2017

What do you mean?

xxbuildnz May 17, 2017

haha - As said above...To maintain the FC in anyway would require dismantling one side incl. cam/vtx mount/carbon fibre top plates so lots of screws!!! on the bench it's okay but in the field it would be a bit of a pain

marsfpv May 17, 2017

Ahh yeah I forgot about that... True.

Whiffles Mar 28, 2017

Get the frame yet? This looks like an interesting build.

xxbuildnz Mar 28, 2017

No not yet...it's at least 2 weeks away unfortunately. The pains of living down under (NZ)

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