As you can see in my old thread my Martian II frame died so i replaced it with an DQUAD LXR.
I also have a new VTX, it's a TRAMP HV V2 since my chinese one from before spread across Multiple Channels.

So here is a bunch of pictures of the old smashed frame and the new one. Overall I really loved the style of the Martian II but the frame had waaaay too much unused space. As you can see, everything is now pretty cramped in there, but i like it that way.




Below the new frame you can see the baseplate of the old one

The Martian II does seem like it's got too much space... that's what drove me to the Martian III, more compact design.

New frame looks good though!

Yeah I was thinking about getting the Martian III but it's not exactly the style for a frame that I was looking for.

Right now I am waiting for my replacement ESCs since 3 of mine died during the submarine test Tried to repair one yesterday and it blew up xD

(06-Jul-2017, 06:08 AM)Apicalis Wrote: Right now I am waiting for my replacement ESCs since 3 of mine died during the submarine test  

Well you do like turtles! 

(06-Jul-2017, 06:08 AM)Apicalis Wrote: Yeah I was thinking about getting the Martian III but it's not exactly the style for a frame that I was looking for.

Right now I am waiting for my replacement ESCs since 3 of mine died during the submarine test Tried to repair one yesterday and it blew up xD

you know... someone needs to come up with some waterproof quad parts.... maybe not so much that it can be submerged... but being rain-proof would be nice...

Then again rain gets on the camera so it's hard to see anyway

I am waterproofing mine in the building process with liquid rubber/spray rubber

Looks great Apicalis!

Liquid rubber before curing and afterwards

I guess you didn't want the barometer to work afterwards?

(06-Jul-2017, 09:08 PM)Apicalis Wrote: I am waterproofing mine in the building process with liquid rubber/spray rubber

nice!

(12-Jul-2017, 10:57 AM)unseen Wrote: I guess you didn't want the barometer to work afterwards?

Barometers are for robot drones :p real racers only use gyros lol  (ok, maybe it is a little cool to know how high up you are but still :p )

(12-Jul-2017, 11:07 AM)Carl.Vegas Wrote: Barometers are for robot drones :p real racers only use gyros lol  (ok, maybe it is a little cool to know how high up you are but still :p )

True, but it does seem a shame to kill a perfectly functional component just for the lack of a tiny bit of tape during the waterproofing.

Fair point, but if the component is always turned off then it's about equal... but who knows right, may want to use it in the future... There may come some point in the near future where betaflight comes up with some amazing self tuning routine that uses the barometer to figure out how thick the air is and adjust how the pid loop responds accordingly and it becomes the hottest new thing. So I can see the idea of preserving for the sake of future proofing.

Hahaha totally forgot about that! xD Good point man, but I will change the FC in the next months anyway. So far I didn't really have time to setup everything. I added a new ESC but Motor still doesn't work. Gotta check for winding shorts or if the PDB has some sort of short.

Great build thanks for sharing!

My FC appearently died before this build was even finished so now i am switching to the Matek FC / PDB Combo. 

I was able to get it via Amazon Prime Long range shipping since all the german stores were out of stock. I am super hyped about the setup since I don't need the minim OSD and a lot of wiring anymore. This will make the setup even cleaner. WOOOP WOOOP