My friend bought an eachine wizard for his first quad which was on sale for some crazy price like £75/$105 a little while back, After around 10 or so crashes the main bottom plate began to crack so we looked for some spare frame pieces and straight away it looked so simple to convert the frame to a stretch x instead and shave off some weight too.
All that was needed was two extra frame plates which hold the arms together, one for a top plate and one to replace the main body section, and an aluminium camera mount (haven't got mine yet in the post somewhere) so all in all around £6/$8 for this mod
Dry weight now at 305g, could still shave a fair bit of weight if I replaced all the steel hardware with aluminium.
This may not be for everyone but I thought it was pretty easy, cheap and transformed the look completely! haven't flown it yet but should carve some nice lines now!
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Part List
Misc Parts |
FOXEER XAT600M HS1177 600TVL FPV Camera Case Cover
(2 builds)
Banggood.com
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$2.69 |
Misc Parts |
2 x Eachine Wizard X220S FPV Racer RC Drone Spare Part Bottom Protective Plate
(4 builds)
Banggood.com
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$4.78 |
Misc Parts |
Eachine Wizard X220 FPV Racing RC Drone Blheli_S F3 6DOF 2205 2300KV Motors 5.8G 48CH 200MW VTX ARF
(4 builds)
Banggood.com
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$114.99 |
is there anything holding the cam in? or is it just squeezed in there?
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I've been flying mine like that for months now, I made a custom brace that reinforces the standoffs just under the top plate to keep the "safety cage" around the electronics from bending. I even have another one that I use that way for LOS that I don't have FPV gear on. I used the racerstar 2306's and lowered the top plate on the LOS one and it HAULS
Thats a sweet idea! I was telling my friend to get some aokfly 2306 motors as they're pretty cheap but I don't think the 20a esc will handle them for long haha
No, probably not, but I don't know, I haven't run an osd that shows amp draw. I use a set of 30's for the 2306's.