Alien 4.7 7inch acro cruiser

By SPST_V on Jun 20, 2017

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Rebuilt. https://rotorbuilds.com/build/6852

After release of 7 inch arms, I was thinking 4inch body with 7inch arms will look very cool and creepy as an Alien should be.
And I got serious... concept of this build was silent, high efficiency cruiser. Yes Prius quad with hyper thrust and coolness.

4in1 esc to emphasize its long long long arms. Or legs. I had to extend motor wires.
412g without gopro and battery. under 400 without TPU protectors.

2010 2400kv motor have enough torque and good efficiency with 7inch props i think.
(there should be some motors with better efficiency but I couldnt get one designed for quadcopters. I think this is the sweet spot)
For best performance, I should have used 6 inch body, F80 motor with 50a esc and giant battery...

Flying this for new spot soft target scouting before actual rippage and I am very satisfied.
It is very quiet (but sounds like a beast over gopro mic) and gets 5minutes of mild acro cruising out of 4s 1300mah. (15.1v)
With gopro of course.

Capable of most things except snappy quick flips and rolls..

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Part List

Frame

Alien 4" Body Kit (2 builds)
Impulserc.com
$50.00

Frame

Alien 7" CF Arm 4mm (2 builds)
Impulserc.com
$13.20

Flight Controller

FLIP 32 - F4 - OMNIBUS V3 PRO (61 builds)
Readytoflyquads.com
$34.99

ESCs

Sunrise Cicada 35Ax4 35A Beheli_S BB2 2-4S 4 in 1 ESC Support Oneshot42 Multishot Dshot for RC Drone (4 builds)
Banggood.com
$44.99

Motors

4 x BeeRotor Z2010/2400KV ZoeFPV Special Edition Motor
Rctimer.com
$63.96

Propellers

HQProp 7045 (2 builds)
Fpvheadquarters.com
$6.00

FPV Camera

RunCam Swift 2 (202 builds)
Shop.runcam.com
$44.99

FPV Transmitter

TBS Unify Pro 5G8 HV (SMA) (596 builds)
Getfpv.com
See Site

Antenna

FuriousFPV Micro U.FL Antenna (Black -RHCP) (4 builds)
Catalystmachineworks.com
$13.25

Receiver

FrSky X4R-SB - 3/16 Channel Receiver with SBUS and CPPM without pins (128 builds)
Getfpv.com
$22.49
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Baubus.FPV   Jul 10, 2017  
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What a sick idea! Definitely my next build :)

Frostman   Jun 20, 2017  

Great build! It just looks wickedly cool. Makes me wonder what a setup like that could do with some more powerful motors.

SPST_V   Jun 20, 2017 

You should try! totally worth it. I am also curious what this can do with F80..

Whiffles   Jun 20, 2017  

Very cool! Do you have any footage online from this?

SPST_V   Jun 20, 2017 

will try to put something soon!

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