Well hello everyone, I know it's been a while since I have been actively participating on the forum. Don't get me wrong I read and watch whats going on, just silently over the last few months. My last post ( considering I've only had 2) was asking for help on a gimbal setup. Needless to say not much came of it, to no fault of anyone's here. I did end up figuring it out. Not to bad after you get it, lol.
So I was putting together another quad over the last 3 months, hence the gimbal post. That is why I've been silent. I was trying to increase my level of experience before I started posting again. Just felt like I was asking to many questions without giving much in return. So I have finished the new quad, and I love it. It flies so much smoother, and now I know what they mean by the locked in feeling. She is a beaut, at least I think so.
Yes I have started FPV with this quad, it's AWESOMEEEE!!! There are some vids of me testing it and there is a quick one of me doing my first FPV flight on my You Tube channel. This is the link if you want to check those out ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJTCechv_aBO6GkBFpVsmrw ).
So now lets get to the reason I'm making this post. I ended up purchasing the Hobby King Sk450, Deadcat conversion, Deadcat defibrillator bottom board about 3 months ago as well. The reason I purchased them well was I thought it looked kind of cool and it was cheap enough. I've decided to put it together now that I'm finished with my Flip. Here are some Pics of The beginnings for your viewing pleasure.
So when I received this in the mail, I instantly broke it out and fitted everything to see what it would look like. I liked it for the most part. I just didn't like the fact that it looked flat I guess. I started digging around my spare parts and realized that the bottom frame piece from the regular Deadcat wasn't being used and that I could make that the top frame. So I decided to go that route. I had a bag full of extra metal spacers from the flip that I used a few of them to attach the the new top to the bottom defibrillator board of the Deadcat. Once installed in a way that I could step back and take a look, I liked it. the spacing was good between the top middle and bottom plates.
I realized I would have a ton of real estate to install any and all hardware I would like. Although the goal is to stay as light as possible. The Flip weighed in at 1.86Kg which was well within my goal of 1,5 to 2Kg. This time I would like to stay at 1,5Kg; we shall see.
The list of goodies I plan on installing are as follows.
FC: MultiWii Pro Ez 3.0 w/ uBlox 6H GPS W/ Mounting backplane and compass With PCB Shield-Hood, RGB Ring plug and play,and 3DR Radio Telemetry Kit 433Mhz with EZcable (Flashed with custom firmware for full waypoint navigation support)
OSD: MinimOSD w/ KV Team Mod v1.0
Motors & ESC's: Team BlackSheep 750kV Motors & ESCs
Props: Graupner E-Prop 10x5 + 10x5L
Receiver: AR7610 7-Channel DSMX Hi Speed Receiver
Camera: either Fat Shark 600TVL, or RTF 700TVL Camera
Vid Transmitter: Fat Shark 250mw w/ Blue Beam antenna
LED's: Hk LED's strips, white and red. Also I am going to try and fit some LED headlights on this thing for night flying.
HD camera: Mobius action cam
Battery: 4s 3300 to 4500mah
Now I can probably see people asking about the motors. I choose them because I plan on being around the same weight as the Disco, and these are more than capable of handling it. The other is cost, these are actually cheaper than ordering some decent sunnysky motors with simonk quality esc's. They are 189.99 I think don't quote me. With sunny sky's and 25.00 esc's I would be over the 200 dollar mark. Let alone the sunny sky 980 kv only go to 3s. I wanted to run 4s, The sunny sky motor that could handle that was a lot more expensive. I didn't really want to fork over another 300 dollars for motors and esc's. So I am going to try these out and see how they hold up. No I am not going to get those crappy NTM motors. Don't like them and all the reports I hear on them with the single experience I had with them, Not going to happen. Here are some more pics of my progress. I am still waiting for about 4 packages with the rest of the goodies to all be here.
I apologize for the messy table top.
Well that's all for tonight. Hopefully tomorrow I will have some more progress pics and story to post. In the mean time I want to say thank you to all the awesome people on this forum. Keep up the good work, till next time...
So I was putting together another quad over the last 3 months, hence the gimbal post. That is why I've been silent. I was trying to increase my level of experience before I started posting again. Just felt like I was asking to many questions without giving much in return. So I have finished the new quad, and I love it. It flies so much smoother, and now I know what they mean by the locked in feeling. She is a beaut, at least I think so.
Yes I have started FPV with this quad, it's AWESOMEEEE!!! There are some vids of me testing it and there is a quick one of me doing my first FPV flight on my You Tube channel. This is the link if you want to check those out ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJTCechv_aBO6GkBFpVsmrw ).
So now lets get to the reason I'm making this post. I ended up purchasing the Hobby King Sk450, Deadcat conversion, Deadcat defibrillator bottom board about 3 months ago as well. The reason I purchased them well was I thought it looked kind of cool and it was cheap enough. I've decided to put it together now that I'm finished with my Flip. Here are some Pics of The beginnings for your viewing pleasure.
So when I received this in the mail, I instantly broke it out and fitted everything to see what it would look like. I liked it for the most part. I just didn't like the fact that it looked flat I guess. I started digging around my spare parts and realized that the bottom frame piece from the regular Deadcat wasn't being used and that I could make that the top frame. So I decided to go that route. I had a bag full of extra metal spacers from the flip that I used a few of them to attach the the new top to the bottom defibrillator board of the Deadcat. Once installed in a way that I could step back and take a look, I liked it. the spacing was good between the top middle and bottom plates.
I realized I would have a ton of real estate to install any and all hardware I would like. Although the goal is to stay as light as possible. The Flip weighed in at 1.86Kg which was well within my goal of 1,5 to 2Kg. This time I would like to stay at 1,5Kg; we shall see.
The list of goodies I plan on installing are as follows.
FC: MultiWii Pro Ez 3.0 w/ uBlox 6H GPS W/ Mounting backplane and compass With PCB Shield-Hood, RGB Ring plug and play,and 3DR Radio Telemetry Kit 433Mhz with EZcable (Flashed with custom firmware for full waypoint navigation support)
OSD: MinimOSD w/ KV Team Mod v1.0
Motors & ESC's: Team BlackSheep 750kV Motors & ESCs
Props: Graupner E-Prop 10x5 + 10x5L
Receiver: AR7610 7-Channel DSMX Hi Speed Receiver
Camera: either Fat Shark 600TVL, or RTF 700TVL Camera
Vid Transmitter: Fat Shark 250mw w/ Blue Beam antenna
LED's: Hk LED's strips, white and red. Also I am going to try and fit some LED headlights on this thing for night flying.
HD camera: Mobius action cam
Battery: 4s 3300 to 4500mah
Now I can probably see people asking about the motors. I choose them because I plan on being around the same weight as the Disco, and these are more than capable of handling it. The other is cost, these are actually cheaper than ordering some decent sunnysky motors with simonk quality esc's. They are 189.99 I think don't quote me. With sunny sky's and 25.00 esc's I would be over the 200 dollar mark. Let alone the sunny sky 980 kv only go to 3s. I wanted to run 4s, The sunny sky motor that could handle that was a lot more expensive. I didn't really want to fork over another 300 dollars for motors and esc's. So I am going to try these out and see how they hold up. No I am not going to get those crappy NTM motors. Don't like them and all the reports I hear on them with the single experience I had with them, Not going to happen. Here are some more pics of my progress. I am still waiting for about 4 packages with the rest of the goodies to all be here.
I apologize for the messy table top.
Well that's all for tonight. Hopefully tomorrow I will have some more progress pics and story to post. In the mean time I want to say thank you to all the awesome people on this forum. Keep up the good work, till next time...
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