Greg2B
Senior Member
So two motor mount breaking crashes with the Turnigy Micro Quad and I'm ready to build something a bit stronger. The frame I'm using is Super Simple Mini H-Quad from polakiumengineering which feels a lot stronger then what broke.
I actually ordered two different frames but this one came in first which makes the decision easy on which to use. The second frame will now go to my second build if this one turns out all right.
I “think” I have all of the stuff I need except some longer m2 screws, ordered though I just saw a build of someone using zip ties to mount the motor which I should have thought of. And some heat shrink just to be tidy. I was just going to use some electrical tape. The rest will be salvaged from my broken quads. If you think I'm missing something please let me know.
I'm trying to take it as slow as possible as was recommended by some members to me and work on just a bit each day after work if I have time and finish it off on the weekend.
I have realized that doing a micro quad for my first build seems a bit harder then I originally thought. Using a 1/6 Allen wrench to get the motors off the frame is somewhat hard, it took me close to 20min on the first motor. The second 15min, so some progress but not much...
But I got the motors and ESC off without any real issues from the board frame and even took a stab at soldering the bullet connections onto the motors.
Protected with electrical tape for now but the solder feels pretty decent for only the third time soldering ever. I'm going to continue working on getting the rest of the motors off and soldering the bullet connection for the motors first.
The only thing I'm really wondering about is how I'm going to lay everything out on the quad since there is only so much room on the frame. Also my ESC's don't have a lot of wire on one end, I might have to extend it by add more wire and soldering it together or just solder on new wire to the ESC's which I wasn't expecting.
I actually ordered two different frames but this one came in first which makes the decision easy on which to use. The second frame will now go to my second build if this one turns out all right.
I “think” I have all of the stuff I need except some longer m2 screws, ordered though I just saw a build of someone using zip ties to mount the motor which I should have thought of. And some heat shrink just to be tidy. I was just going to use some electrical tape. The rest will be salvaged from my broken quads. If you think I'm missing something please let me know.
I'm trying to take it as slow as possible as was recommended by some members to me and work on just a bit each day after work if I have time and finish it off on the weekend.
I have realized that doing a micro quad for my first build seems a bit harder then I originally thought. Using a 1/6 Allen wrench to get the motors off the frame is somewhat hard, it took me close to 20min on the first motor. The second 15min, so some progress but not much...
But I got the motors and ESC off without any real issues from the board frame and even took a stab at soldering the bullet connections onto the motors.
Protected with electrical tape for now but the solder feels pretty decent for only the third time soldering ever. I'm going to continue working on getting the rest of the motors off and soldering the bullet connection for the motors first.
The only thing I'm really wondering about is how I'm going to lay everything out on the quad since there is only so much room on the frame. Also my ESC's don't have a lot of wire on one end, I might have to extend it by add more wire and soldering it together or just solder on new wire to the ESC's which I wasn't expecting.