First one (ish...)

By IcarusIX on Jun 29, 2017

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After a flyaway of my actual first quad (tsx220, brilliant frame) almost a year back, I needed something to get me back into the air so I made this using the spare parts of the flyaway.

edit lolll just realised I got no pics on this post ill put some on

Idk why but I loved flying smaller 4 inch props on bigger motors a while ago but now Im a fan of higher kv and biblades (good response turned into wanting response and speed i guess)
much sad pic of me switching burned escs on the tsx220 I had a lonnng time ago in about 2015 (big F)
this turned into an unloved wretch of a quad as shown below built for fun not performance T_T (yeah that crap quad pic with biblades has the q4040 from the other pic when I crashed, the props were a gift from an amazing inspiration and helper for me (Thank you Dan!) so I kept them around for a very long time as they kept getting more chewed)
ive got some disgusting old terrible flight footage which I might post later

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Part List

Frame	EMAX Nighthawk X5 Kit Rcgeeks.co.uk	See Site
Flight Controller	AfroFlight Naze32 Rev5 Acro FunFly Controller (25 builds) Hobbyking.com	$26.51
ESCs	4 x Little Bee 20A-S / 30A-S BLHeli_S OPTO ESC with OneShot125 2-6S Flyingtech.co.uk	See Site
Motors	4 x EMAX RS2205 2600Kv RaceSpec Cooling Series Motor Unmannedtechshop.co.uk	See Site
Propellers	DAL T5040 V2 Tri-Blade Super Durable Propellers (2x CW + 2x CCW) - Black Hobbyrc.co.uk	See Site
FPV Camera	HS1177 Plastic Cased Mini Board Camera Sony Super HAD CCD with 600TVL (IR Blocked) (2 builds) Hobbyrc.co.uk	See Site
FPV Transmitter	Foxeer TM25 5.8GHz 40CH Video Transmitter (SMA) (2 builds) Hobbyrc.co.uk	See Site
Antenna	TBS Triumph 5.8GHz Antenna RHCP (SMA) (2 Pack) (368 builds) Hobbyrc.co.uk	See Site
Receiver	Spektrum DSMX Quad Race Serial Receiver with Diversity - SPM4648 Wirelessmadness.com	See Site
Batteries	Drone Lab 1500mah 4s 50-100c Premium Lipo Battery (3 builds) Radioc.co.uk	See Site

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kwadkenstine Jun 03, 2019

Cool to see what a old emax was supposed to look like. I bought 8 of those frames for $8 ea on ebay .Never built one the way it was intended just used all the bits still, using some. All the pdb boards fried or shorted against the carbon if not insulaited.
AAAArrr the good old days

IcarusIX Jun 03, 2019

haha yeah the pdbs were crap I was using external 5v becs squished in there, also 8 dollars??? jeeehzz. Nice to see the x5 being reincarnated into monster frankenstein quads:)

IcarusIX Jun 29, 2017

Yeah, i'm aware this is an old build but i'll post a few more soon because I have renovated it 3 times since I started then.(pic shows how it looked right before first makeover) Also, an attempt at combining tricks through rugby goal posts resulted in the battery death...

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