Beauty and the beast, 2 in 1.

By Alloy907 on Jan 24, 2018

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This is my freestyle build to carry Foxeer Box 4K camera. I've tried to make it nice looking, still with top notch performance. Had to design custom rack to carry VTX and receiver, as well as custom antenna mount. Both are 3D printed from TPU. No zip ties, no scotch tape. Antenna holder is

My choice of ESC is Tekko32 35A. They came naked, even without heatshrink wrap. Found themlooking too cool to be mounted with electric tape, so i've placed them into ESC cases to protect from elements and propeller strikes. It's the first ESC which had pads for telemetry located next to signal and ground pads for convenient and easy wire routing. Still controller provides only one pad for telemetry RX, so had to do some tricks to get all 4 esc connected together to the same pad.

I'm more than enjoyed the results. It's very responsive and can do 1100dps flips, at the same time even with my poor pilot skills i can fly it between trees in the park, hover steadily on the same spot 2 inches above the ground and land it on the A4-sized sheet of paper.

Motors and FC are soft-mounted. Setup is very clean from noise and vibrations and flies with all gyro and d-term notches disabled. Cutoff frequency for LPF on gyro and D-Term is increased to 120hz cutoff. No prop-wash and high throttle oscillations.

The only down side - got it too amp hungry. With camera and battery it weights 650g and eats 1500mah battery in 3 min of relaxed flying. Going above 60% throttle results in 90A+ current reported by all 4 ESCs together. At 100% it shows 140A. I have lighter props ordered, will try them next weekend. But still letting it go full speed and hearing this beast roaring in the sky is real fun.

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