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786 It's an old school FC designed for separate ESCs on the arms. You can make it work with an 4-in-1 ESC but it will require soldering connection wires from the S1, S2, S3 & S4 pads on the FC to the signal connections on the socket of the 4-in-1 ESC, and wiring the VBAT and GND connections from the ESC to the FC. It can end up with a less than elegant wiring setup but it will actually work.
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41 Or you could go with the single ESC approach and build something powerful. The downside to PDB's is they are almost all 30x30 size. Which means you need a big frame, which incurs more hassle and cost. Also as Snow has mentioned in the past, more soldering. The upside, at least for me, is if you blow something on the esc, it's going to cost you a single esc, maybe $10-20. Not a new 4-in-1 which could cost quite a lot.
Nevertheless, if that was a deal over here, I would have 4-5 of them without thinking. They come with 5 UARTs so are very upgradeable. Single ESC modules are still available over here and having a handful of those integrated boards leaves options.
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121 It’s too bad they’re out of stock. At $8, I would happily solder 6 wires to connect it to a 4in1 esc.
Dangerous operations.
Disclaimer: I don’t know wtf I’m talking about.
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