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My First Build (Cheap250)
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It's now quite "tall" on the $1.50 alloy legs.  

Haven't flown with this config yet (moving house takes priority)...
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It flies, just sorta with the GoPro and long legs - need to up the props to the Tri-blades or 6030's to get decent thrust. Weight balance is also a bit rough.
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Ripped the long legs off, chucked on a battery a tried to fly in my (tiny) back yard.

After almost shredding a nice Hugo Boss business shirt I took on the fence and smashed the rather rubbish carbon prop guards, exploded two more gemfans and called it a day.

Jumped onto www.myrcmart.com and bought new (plastic) prop guards, motor protectors, short landing feet and a couple other beads and trinkets to give this a make-over.

I want to get the hang of flying again before the Trifecta and UAVFutures build are finished and the only way to do that is to put in more time....
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While everything else falls out of the sky this heap flies quite well these days
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So I have a X6B receiver coming for this with a view to tidying up the build some more (and moving the iA6C receiver over to the Trifecta)..

Will have to get this out on the weekend for the last flight in its current configuration!
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Time for open heart surgery to remove the Flysky-Turnigy IA6C receiver and install the Flysky X6B receiver.  This means disassembling the flight stack, adding JST-SH terminals to the power and signal wiring and then reassembling the whole thing.

The all the recalibration exercises and finally test flying again!
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And the evolution continues.

Had a bit of a fly at home last weekend and thought I’d get out today and have a good few batteries of fun. Unfortunately there was something going on (community event) at one park and the other had just a few too many people running about.

So I didn’t. Which then led me to trying to have another fly in the front yard, which failed because the woeful M6N GPS would t lock on more than 5 satellites and get a HDOP value low enough to arm.

This led to a “F this” moment and I went inside and rather crudely hacker the spare Beltian BN-880 (M8N) GPS module on, wow, 8 satellites in my study, rising to 12!

Far out.

Should have done this months ago!
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There really is a huge difference between the M6 and M8 GPS units.

The fact that the 6 series only knows about US GPS satellites while the 8 series knows about GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou is probably the greatest help when it comes to finding lots of satellites.
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I did a rough flight test in the front yard and it actually was “alright” at staying within the confines of a couple of metres despite some massive wind turbulence.
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What really like about this quad is it just works.

The Firmware doesn't have a "nuke every setting" button right next to the "do the drone dance calibrate button", and most of all I can plug crap in and unplug it again and it doesn't require a complete re-jig.

Have put the decks back onto it (giving me a platform for the GPS and Wifi Telemetry widget) as well as mounting out of the way of the props for a GoPro.



Flying in the suburbs is a bit of a no-no here but you gotta do some test starlit hovers and stuff right Smile
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Yep on 3S it can lift a GoPro, 3000mah battery and itself. Has some issues with the wind but not terrible..

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Strapped a GOPRO5 to it but only a lame battery to test some perspective positioning of the camera. GoPro5 means stabilisation - camera was hard mounted for this - and it looks quite good.

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