I can't wait to afford one of those...how do you like the attitudes? I'm trying to decide on going FPV or upgrading to a DX9 this year
The Attitudes have a noticeably larger picture than the Predators than I got to try last weekend. The picture from the 600 TVL camera included with the kit is great on the 5.8Ghz band, clear, bright, good color, good contrast, and a comfortable field of view. I tried hooking my 808 #16 D 720P key chain camera to the transmitter and the picture quality was not nearly as good. The kit also comes with a power harness which acts as a power filter (just a capacitor) and allows you to connect it to a 2S, 3S, or 4S battery balance plug; this is nice to keep you from hacking into your existing power harness to rig up the transmitter directly.
The fact that it is plug and play, minus battery for the goggles (an extra $20 :black_eyed
, with such a nice camera makes it worth the expense. This doesn't even touch the head tracking built in and all the supporting variants of cables for it. I would say get the Attitude set before you upgrade your transmitter, personally.
Hi mate, nice build!
I'm in the process of building my own batbone at the moment. I noticed that the booms seem really short (25cm) as apposed to David's 2.6HV tricopter which uses 35cm booms... Does the shorter booms make it more twitchy in the air?
I actually use 8.5 inch (21.5 cm) booms all around; FT recommends 10 inch (25.5 cm) booms. The Bat bone is very smooth on this shorter span and quite docile with stock KK2.1 firmware and 25% expo on pitch, roll, and yaw from my transmitter. The Bat Bone body has a much larger span in just the frame than David's 2.6H body, which helps to make shorter booms more docile.
I am accustomed to my scratch built quad being "twitchy" and eager to be thrown around. By comparison the Bat, as it sits, makes me want more performance out of it because of its docile nature; but I just have to remind myself that the Bat is the cruiser while the iQuad is the hotrod. I enjoy flying the Bat way more because it is more relaxing.
Here is a video of the Bat from this past weekend. It was very foggy that morning and the camera gets mucked up in the first couple of minutes, but you can still see quite a bit. It demonstrates the smooth swoopy nature that makes it awesome to fly: