This week I start work on a build/configuration guide.
This guide will consist of a build and configuration blog and youtube videos taking you from the very start to the first flight and everything in between.
All the parts have come from unmannedtechshop and there will be enough information for anyone to follow and build there own or to learn something new and build there own.
I’ll post regular updates and pictures here so everyone can follow the progress.
I’ve just finished fitting the Motors and ESCs and started the soldering work.
and just to show that soldering does get better with time and pratice.
Below is a picture of my first quad (it still flys) and todays work.
Motors to ESCs - Soldered up
ESCs wires - POS, Neg, Signal, Telemetery and Ground wires all done.
I was going to finish the job and attach them to the FC ready for the next video but the clear heat shrink I’ve got is too big.
So I’ve ordered some smaller stuff.
Guess I’ll edit video number 3 - FC
So the smaller heat shrink arrived today for the ESCs.
So I’ve heat shrinked the ESCs, used double sided sticky tape onto the arms and then…
heat shrinked them to the arms. Nice too look at but will be a real pain to work on later on.
Looking good And I do like the look of mounting ESC on the arms like that but also agree with you about it being a pain if you need to repair something. I always find it funny comparing a quad just after you built it, to the same one a few months later after about 100 quick fixes! But being a long range quad, hopefully it will have fewer crashes… unless someone decides to fly behind a hill
Just been having a look at the flight controller and how I’ve got it installed and it looks like I have it the wrong way round…
But that’s not a problem, I can use resource remap to move the motor pins.
I did this on purpose so that I could cover remapping motor pins and adjusting the FC origination in Betaflight.
In the image below:
Red is where the motors are on the FC
Black is where I need them to be.
