Foamy

By AncientJ on Apr 15, 2017

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Here's my bumper build. It's not light at ~125g AUW w/ a 650mAh 2s, but it lets me fly inside when the weather is bad and it is basically indestructible. I think I'm going to order some 450mAh 3s because the hover point is somewhere around 60% throttle. I'm getting 2 minute flight times on 2s, but it just feels weird being at the top of the throttle all the time.

Notes:
7000kV motors
I designed a custom battery strap bracket that worked out nicely. Here's a link: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2452224

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SPST_V   Jul 24, 2017  

I just started building my bumper, very curious what have you done with lipo bracket!

AncientJ   Jul 25, 2017 

I designed a little bracket for it. I'll put it on Thingiverse later this morning.

AncientJ   Jul 25, 2017 

Link added to description above. Enjoy!

SPST_V   Jul 26, 2017 

Thanks, maybe I'll give it a try.

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