Bright and clean
The Spintech frame and polycarbonate canopy really caught my eye. The arms are very "thick" but thin in the airflow direction. Painted the canopy with a bright Tamiya paint to hopefully avoid losing this quad in the grass. Could go a up to 3" props but will see in the future. Build was super frustrating due to a series of board/esc challenges. First - I messed up a few of the ESCs as the pads are really small. The second board was a dud. I really like the "clean" build of pinned FC/ESC combos but we shall see about durability. Note... I had to rewire all 4 motors to correct the direction
The motors have very strong magnets... very strong
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Part List
Frame |
Spintech Race-1 Micro Quadcopter Frame
(7 builds)
Spintechmotors.com
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$36.00 |
Flight Controller |
6.5g 20x20mm HGLRC XJB F428 Micro F4 AIO OSD BEC Flight Controller & 28A Blhel_S BB2 2-4S 4 in 1 ESC
(49 builds)
Banggood.com
|
$46.99 |
Motors |
4 x 1106ST 8000kV Brushless Motor
(10 builds)
Spintechmotors.com
|
$30.00 |
Propellers |
10 Pairs Racerstar 2435PRO 2.4inch PC 4-blade Propeller 1.5mm Mounting Hole for FPV Racing Frame
(9 builds)
Banggood.com
|
$6.02 |
FPV Camera |
RunCam Micro Swift 2 Orange 2.1 Lens
(49 builds)
Pirofliprc.com
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$26.99 |
FPV Transmitter |
Eachine VTX03 Super Mini 5.8G 72CH 0/25mW/50mw/200mW Switchable FPV Transmitter
(417 builds)
Banggood.com
|
$12.22 |
Receiver |
Spektrum DSMX Quad Race Receiver with Diversity
(124 builds)
Amazon.com
|
$1.00 |
Batteries |
AirBlade Premium 500mAh 2S 7.4V 65C XT30
Airbladeuav.com
|
$10.99 |
Working on mine right now! Did you paint the outside or the inside of the canopy?
Iflight F4 flight stack. Someone reason, If I connect to the Betaflight via USB and plug in my lipo I can Arm via Switch, but if i disconnect the USB and unplug/re-plug the lipo, I can no longer arm. I think it might be a ibus issue, but at least the iflight customer center started replying to my emails.
I brought 2 canopies when I ordered mine, and plan to paint one of the canopies, will head to the local hobby shop to see which colors they have.
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hows it fly on those props? I'm running them on my Emax 1106 6000kv build at 3s nd 4s and they are really smooth. i have a set of spintech motors waiting for a frame to arrive..
ummm... it is fast... and given my skill set... I have put it down a few times in tight spots. I am not a great judge but i need to get some tuning help as it jitters on full throttle a bit