It was a huge struggle to find reference info on the size of the bat bone frame. Especially because my plan is to shortened the booms and make it more compact.
The good news is it's really easy and cheap to buy extra 1/2in booms and experiment.
Today I received my bat bone frame, and started playing. Immediate I realized the width of the frame is much wider than I had imagined.
Anyhow here are a few pictures with the shortened arms. Hopefully it will help someone else with similar goals.
As you can see, if all the booms are the same length, the motors will not quite be the same distance from each others. I'm not sure if that's by design from FT. Of course once I started shortening the arms equally the gap gets bigger.
I'm really a noob in multicopters. I would think I should try my best to make them equal distance. Should I keep the same ratio as the original ratio from FT build (10in booms) or just make them exactly equal?
I'm waiting for some breakaway motor mounts and a better tail mount to finish the build.
The good news is it's really easy and cheap to buy extra 1/2in booms and experiment.
Today I received my bat bone frame, and started playing. Immediate I realized the width of the frame is much wider than I had imagined.
Anyhow here are a few pictures with the shortened arms. Hopefully it will help someone else with similar goals.
As you can see, if all the booms are the same length, the motors will not quite be the same distance from each others. I'm not sure if that's by design from FT. Of course once I started shortening the arms equally the gap gets bigger.
I'm really a noob in multicopters. I would think I should try my best to make them equal distance. Should I keep the same ratio as the original ratio from FT build (10in booms) or just make them exactly equal?

I'm waiting for some breakaway motor mounts and a better tail mount to finish the build.


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