I got this frame from banggood lying around for some time now, and since I crashed my Martian 3 yesterday it is a good reason to start that build.
Here is the crash from yesterday. Faceplant a ninja tree again! This time the camera popped out of the cage together with the side plates and I had to spend some time searcing for it in the grass. Next time I will buy a camera with orange case so it is easier to find. Fortunately, all the electronics made it, but the top plate got delaminated around the mounting holes and the standoffs where bent.
Here is the Lantian frame
http://www.banggood.com/Lantian-LTX-HEX4...55199.html
What I really like about this frame is the low rider style and it feels quite solid. I will probably add one two more standoffs right behind where the FC is supposed to be to support the top plate better in crashes.
The arms look a bit fragile with it's cutouts and 3mm thickness, but I have never broken any arms on any quads yet so I guess it will be okay (oh, wait that's a lie. I broke an arm on one of my first builds, an orange diatone ZMR copy plastic frame). I tend to brake top plates and standoffs due to these head on collisions with trees.
Since this is a lowrider frame, I would guess it has a pretty good COG even with a camera mounted on top. I will do some tests once the build is done.
The parts I'm going to use is salvaged from the Martian like mentioned earlier:
SPRacing F3 FC
Littlebee 20A
Realacc hubosd PDB
Kingkong 2205 2300kv
Foxeer HS1177 ir sensitive with ir block lens
Eachine ET600 VTX
I had to mount the PDB sideways since it is a bit longer than usual. If I had mounted it the other way, it would be in the way of the standoffs. On this build it would probably be better to use the Matek version of this PDB with hardmounted XT60 plug from FPVmodel.
The main holes on the sidewalls for the camera doesn't fit the HS1177, the camera will be too high so I had to use the adjustment slots to fasten the camera instead. I think Lantian has it's own version of the HS1177 that will fit better.
Here you can also see I have mounted a servoplug to be able to easily adjust the camera settings without having to remove the camera. On this build it would actually be pretty easy to take out the camera, as you would only have to loosen the 4 screws for the top plate over the camera.
This was all I had time for yesterday, so I will keep this thread updated once I get to do some more work on the quad
Here is the crash from yesterday. Faceplant a ninja tree again! This time the camera popped out of the cage together with the side plates and I had to spend some time searcing for it in the grass. Next time I will buy a camera with orange case so it is easier to find. Fortunately, all the electronics made it, but the top plate got delaminated around the mounting holes and the standoffs where bent.
Here is the Lantian frame
http://www.banggood.com/Lantian-LTX-HEX4...55199.html
What I really like about this frame is the low rider style and it feels quite solid. I will probably add one two more standoffs right behind where the FC is supposed to be to support the top plate better in crashes.
The arms look a bit fragile with it's cutouts and 3mm thickness, but I have never broken any arms on any quads yet so I guess it will be okay (oh, wait that's a lie. I broke an arm on one of my first builds, an orange diatone ZMR copy plastic frame). I tend to brake top plates and standoffs due to these head on collisions with trees.
Since this is a lowrider frame, I would guess it has a pretty good COG even with a camera mounted on top. I will do some tests once the build is done.
The parts I'm going to use is salvaged from the Martian like mentioned earlier:
SPRacing F3 FC
Littlebee 20A
Realacc hubosd PDB
Kingkong 2205 2300kv
Foxeer HS1177 ir sensitive with ir block lens
Eachine ET600 VTX
I had to mount the PDB sideways since it is a bit longer than usual. If I had mounted it the other way, it would be in the way of the standoffs. On this build it would probably be better to use the Matek version of this PDB with hardmounted XT60 plug from FPVmodel.
The main holes on the sidewalls for the camera doesn't fit the HS1177, the camera will be too high so I had to use the adjustment slots to fasten the camera instead. I think Lantian has it's own version of the HS1177 that will fit better.
Here you can also see I have mounted a servoplug to be able to easily adjust the camera settings without having to remove the camera. On this build it would actually be pretty easy to take out the camera, as you would only have to loosen the 4 screws for the top plate over the camera.
This was all I had time for yesterday, so I will keep this thread updated once I get to do some more work on the quad