24-Dec-2016, 06:30 AM
Doubt this actually qualifies as a build but anyway..!
So I bought 3 H8 mini's from BG which I got beginning of Dec (and 7 E010's (Inductrix clone) which have been in the country for 6 weeks though have yet to arrive at my door!) and just yesterday received the brushless micro bundle from Oscars 'house moving giveaway' (Massive thanks, again Oscar!) which included the wisp frame, and some 8x15mm motors with props, among some other cool bits...
So it has taken me less than a month to bust all the spare props that came with the H8's so thought I would try to get something in the air with the bits I have to hand, also to try my hand at soldering on such a tiny scale, for the 1st time...
So 1st things 1st, I am not going to have an easy time of connecting the battery to the connector attached to the board, so de-solder that... Only to find out that the connector is glued onto the board, so ripped it to shreds trying to take it off! Successfully managed to solder the wired connector on, the wire is probably a bit long but anyway...
Successfully de-soldered the old motors and soldered the new 8x15mm ones on, again long wires but anyway...
A few blobs of hot glue on the frame, under the board to, keep it from shorting through the carbon fiber...
Rubber band to hold the (Aliexpress cheapass special (Despite warnings from experienced heads)) batteries in place...
A touch of electrical tape to stop the motors from sliding out of the grommets and here is the finished article...
This is not a perfect flier by any means, I don't think that the board is properly level or straight for that matter! The props are a touch too long and so the front and back touch, I have pushed the motors all the way down at the front and left the back protruding slightly so the back blades pass over the front, (not sure if this might be causing some stability issues?) I think that the gyro on the H8 board is not equipped for dealing with so much extra thrust so any aggressive maneuvers get over corrected which lend to a very unstable craft. Sharp turns often end up with the quad inverting itself through over correction, and the tiny batteries I have go off very quickly with the larger motors, also looks like I should have taken the advice about NOT buying cheap batteries, voltage sag seems to be a real problem...
Mrs Thriftyass took some video clips but she is not a particularly talented videographer, so I have to take some time editing my 'maiden battery'
So I bought 3 H8 mini's from BG which I got beginning of Dec (and 7 E010's (Inductrix clone) which have been in the country for 6 weeks though have yet to arrive at my door!) and just yesterday received the brushless micro bundle from Oscars 'house moving giveaway' (Massive thanks, again Oscar!) which included the wisp frame, and some 8x15mm motors with props, among some other cool bits...
So it has taken me less than a month to bust all the spare props that came with the H8's so thought I would try to get something in the air with the bits I have to hand, also to try my hand at soldering on such a tiny scale, for the 1st time...
So 1st things 1st, I am not going to have an easy time of connecting the battery to the connector attached to the board, so de-solder that... Only to find out that the connector is glued onto the board, so ripped it to shreds trying to take it off! Successfully managed to solder the wired connector on, the wire is probably a bit long but anyway...
Successfully de-soldered the old motors and soldered the new 8x15mm ones on, again long wires but anyway...
A few blobs of hot glue on the frame, under the board to, keep it from shorting through the carbon fiber...
Rubber band to hold the (Aliexpress cheapass special (Despite warnings from experienced heads)) batteries in place...
A touch of electrical tape to stop the motors from sliding out of the grommets and here is the finished article...
This is not a perfect flier by any means, I don't think that the board is properly level or straight for that matter! The props are a touch too long and so the front and back touch, I have pushed the motors all the way down at the front and left the back protruding slightly so the back blades pass over the front, (not sure if this might be causing some stability issues?) I think that the gyro on the H8 board is not equipped for dealing with so much extra thrust so any aggressive maneuvers get over corrected which lend to a very unstable craft. Sharp turns often end up with the quad inverting itself through over correction, and the tiny batteries I have go off very quickly with the larger motors, also looks like I should have taken the advice about NOT buying cheap batteries, voltage sag seems to be a real problem...
Mrs Thriftyass took some video clips but she is not a particularly talented videographer, so I have to take some time editing my 'maiden battery'