KingKong188

By miromir237 on Apr 25, 2017

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Begginer quadcopter model for a friend from my old parts.

KK188 has integrated PDB with 5v BEC on the bottom. So first I strated with soldering all the wires to PDB so I can mount it first. This meant desoldering ESC power wires first and soldering them later. Same applied to camera and VTX wires. After that I shortened the wires to needed lenght and soldered them to quad components. Finally I mounted FC and connected all the wires.

Initial start and setup looked OK but I discovered one faulty motor during motor ESC calibration. So the DYS 1306 3100kv were replaced by Racerstar BR1407 3500kv that I ordered for other build.

I have flashed ESC with latest posible BLHeli 14.9.
FC flashed with Betafilght 3.1.7, set Oneshot125, receiver on Uart1 with iBus, Micro MinimOSD on UART3.
During hower test I found out that I switched ESC 1 and 2 which caused wierd yaw /roll flips. When put correctly copter howered just fine.
Realy flight test was not much successfull. Copter flies but it seems to react with some delay. I was playing with Gyro/PID loop times but that does not seem to help. Next I will try to downgrade to Betaflight 3.0.1.

Downgraded to BF3.0.1 with 1kHz/1kHz loops and it flied quite well. Just to be sure I flashed BF3.1.7 back and set 2.66/1.33 kHz loops (that is the most BF let me) and now it flies well also. I also changed props to Diatone 4025. That might helped aswell.

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Part List

Frame

Kingkong 188 188mm Frame kit with 3PCS 4045 Propellers Antenna Mount LED Strip
Banggood.com
$10.65

Flight Controller

OpenPilot CC3D Atom Mini CC3D FPV Flight Controller CC3D EVO (2 builds)
Banggood.com
$14.39

ESCs

4 x KINGKONG BLHeli 12A Brushless High Speed ESC With OneShot125 For FPV Multicopter
Banggood.com
$26.76

Motors

4 X Racerstar Racing Edition 1407 BR1407 3500KV 2-3S Brushless Motor for 150 180 200 RC Multirotor (18 builds)
Banggood.com
$36.22

Propellers

10 Pairs Kingkong 4045 4x4.5 Inch PC Fiber Glass Propellers CW CCW for Multicopter (7 builds)
Banggood.com
$5.44

FPV Camera

600TVL 1/4 1.8mm CMOS FPV 170 Degree Wide Angle Lens Camera PAL/NTSC 3.7-5V for RC Drone FPV Racing (94 builds)
Banggood.com
$7.37

FPV Transmitter

Eachine TX526 5.8G 40CH 25MW/200MW/600MW Switchable AV Wireless FPV Transmitter RP-SMA Female (120 builds)
Banggood.com
$12.92

Antenna

5.8G 2.8dBi SMA male RP-SMA Male FPV Antenna for FPV Racer Multicopters (7 builds)
Banggood.com
$3.99

Receiver

Flysky FS-A8S FS A8S V2 2.4G 8CH Mini Receiver with PPM i-BUS SBUS Output (91 builds)
Banggood.com
$9.99

Batteries

2 x Giant Power Dinogy 1000mAh 11.1V 3S 65C Lipo Battery XT60 Plug for RC Models (2 builds)
Banggood.com
$25.98

Radio

Team BlackSheep Tango 2 PRO Crossfire Radio Controller (14 builds)
Airbladeuav.com
$199.99

Goggles

(PRE-ORDER) DJI Digital FPV Goggles V2 - Ultra Low Latency 810p 144FPS Digital HD (294 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$428.99

HD Camera

GoPro Hero5 Session, 1080p (302 builds)
Amazon.com
$230.41

Battery Charger

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

Soldering Iron

TS100 Portable Programmable Smart Soldering Iron (265 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$58.99

Backpack

Torvol Quad Pitstop Backpack PRO (4 builds)
Hqdrones.nl
$179.00

Misc Supplies

TrueRC X-AIR 5.8GHz Crosshair Antenna (RHCP) (4 builds)
Hobbyrc.co.uk
$24.95
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Quadlite   Jun 22, 2018  

Wow, thats a great little build for the price! looks like a great way to introduce someone to the hobb.