This is the main quad I use to race and practice flying. It is meant to be heavy duty (think bullet proof) at the expense of weight.
It is has been weather proofed by brushing a thick coat of liquid tape on the FC, ESCs, Receiver and PDB. Will do VTX and Cam eventually.
I have another one that is virtually identical except for the frame (but frame as same layout and almost same dimension)
Runs on stock betaflight settings and PIDs except for
The electronics supports 6S in theory (and tested) but motor's KV is too high. Considering the of the overall build, 4S is the only realistic option. Right now, after a heavy flight session, ESC, motors and battery are equally warm to the touch, which indicate its a somewhat balanced build in term of weight/motor/battery/esc-rating.
This is such a heavy duty build that my main problem now is that parts are wearing down. The frame itself is also wearing down because of all the crashes and scraping on hard surface (concrete, parvement). Also had quite a few solder point breaking because of vibration and crashes. Have to put liquid tape on all solder joins as a stress relief or else they start randomly breaking after 40 to 50 packs.
RS2205S are pretty bad unless you fix them. Issues are:
To protect batteries, a thick 2" heatshrink is used. Be careful not to overheat the battery when applying heat to the heatshink tube.
Lastly, the button on the VTX broke off after a big crash so I ended up wiring up a new button with extention wires and glue it at the back to make frequency change easier.
Todo: find a place to put LEDs where LEDs are unlikely to get crushed...
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