Tony
Staff member
Whatup everyone. I'm sure you have all seen the build video of this little guy (it has a lot of names since it's a clone of a few different quads) but this is the quad that I purchased from Ebay to see if it would do any good, adn I have been quite surprised. Besides the ESC that I fried (tried to solder new wires onto it and put a little too much heat into the board), this thing has been flawless. And I'm still running the CC3D with the stock firmware. I did have to do some adjusting to the PID settings, but it's pretty darn stable now.
This is the platform that I'm going to use in all upcoming videos on FPV gear. In fact, I have a few of them here now that I need to shoot some video on. However, there is something major wrong with the VTX, and you will see what that is in the video on it hehe.
So I just took this quad outside with said VTX on it to see how it would fly and see how hot the VTX would get. Even though I didn't have a VRX setup, it was still transmitting. I'm happy to say that it didn't get that hot for a 600mw VTX.
The other thing that I tested was the CoG with this VTX on there. And again, it was good.
I also needed to test the battery that I flew on it. You see, when I did the runcam video, I used this battery on the quad. Well, I thought something went wrong with a piece of equipment (VTX, camera, whatever) but it turns out, the battery voltage got so low that it couldn't power anything. This was a couple weeks ago, maybe 3 and I hadn't done anything but check it a couple weeks to to make sure there was still voltage in it. There was, but it was wicked low.
To this morning, I decided to go ahead and put it on the charger. I was already charging a 2200 on my icharger, so I decided to use the DP6 that I use as a backup (I have two of them if you remember). I plugged it in and hit go, and it said Voltage Low. Crap!!! So I waited until the 2200 was done and I sorta 'juiced' the 1300 pack and hit play again, this time it went.
Disclaimer: I will not say what 'juiced' means because doing it is HIGHLY DANGEROUS and should not be done by anyone! Do as I say, not as I do lol.
But it went. I was charging it at 5 amps (it's rated for it) and it got done in record time. I thought there was no way that it was done. So I put it on the quad and went out flying. And I'm not talking about just hovering around. I'm talking quite a few full throttle passes making those props scream! lol. It actually flew a full 5 minutes and still had plenty of power left.
I will be watching this pack really close to see if it puffs up. If it does, I know this puff is from misuse and not just age (which is what my other packs suffer from, they are OLD! lol). So if this one does puff, it will definitely have a nail driven through it. But for now, it's a pretty good pack.
5 minutes of spirited flight with a 600mw VTX running and a camera on a pack that was WAY over discharged. I accept that lol.
This is the platform that I'm going to use in all upcoming videos on FPV gear. In fact, I have a few of them here now that I need to shoot some video on. However, there is something major wrong with the VTX, and you will see what that is in the video on it hehe.
So I just took this quad outside with said VTX on it to see how it would fly and see how hot the VTX would get. Even though I didn't have a VRX setup, it was still transmitting. I'm happy to say that it didn't get that hot for a 600mw VTX.
The other thing that I tested was the CoG with this VTX on there. And again, it was good.
I also needed to test the battery that I flew on it. You see, when I did the runcam video, I used this battery on the quad. Well, I thought something went wrong with a piece of equipment (VTX, camera, whatever) but it turns out, the battery voltage got so low that it couldn't power anything. This was a couple weeks ago, maybe 3 and I hadn't done anything but check it a couple weeks to to make sure there was still voltage in it. There was, but it was wicked low.
To this morning, I decided to go ahead and put it on the charger. I was already charging a 2200 on my icharger, so I decided to use the DP6 that I use as a backup (I have two of them if you remember). I plugged it in and hit go, and it said Voltage Low. Crap!!! So I waited until the 2200 was done and I sorta 'juiced' the 1300 pack and hit play again, this time it went.
Disclaimer: I will not say what 'juiced' means because doing it is HIGHLY DANGEROUS and should not be done by anyone! Do as I say, not as I do lol.
But it went. I was charging it at 5 amps (it's rated for it) and it got done in record time. I thought there was no way that it was done. So I put it on the quad and went out flying. And I'm not talking about just hovering around. I'm talking quite a few full throttle passes making those props scream! lol. It actually flew a full 5 minutes and still had plenty of power left.
I will be watching this pack really close to see if it puffs up. If it does, I know this puff is from misuse and not just age (which is what my other packs suffer from, they are OLD! lol). So if this one does puff, it will definitely have a nail driven through it. But for now, it's a pretty good pack.
5 minutes of spirited flight with a 600mw VTX running and a camera on a pack that was WAY over discharged. I accept that lol.