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Re: Emax nighthawk 250 build thread

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Looking good! You did a great job on making the wiring look clean. Looking at these builds makes me want to dust off my 240 quad!
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Re: Emax nighthawk 250 build thread

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CrazyCooter75 wrote:Looking good! You did a great job on making the wiring look clean. Looking at these builds makes me want to dust off my 240 quad!
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Re: Emax nighthawk 250 build thread

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Looks good Kev.
Waiting on new screws for mine, then i'll have a go at making it neat.
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Re: Emax nighthawk 250 build thread

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Thanks Lee, have you shortened the camera to vtx lead before or will it cause issues, also taking the grey cover off it,
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Re: Emax nighthawk 250 build thread

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Yeh I have shortened the leads before, but not the ones with the RF cover.
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Re: Emax nighthawk 250 build thread

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Well a few alterations to what I had,

First, I had a freind print me a camera mount,
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I have added a switch into the vtx power line, as I wanted to run direct off my PDB but not want the vtx on constantly
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So here is the finished article, I think I got it as clean as I can, for now anyway,
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And how good do these antenna look, clean and nice,
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I love my antennas:) nice Kev:)
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Very nice build Kev...
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Re: Emax nighthawk 250 build thread

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Looking clean Kev :)
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Re: Emax nighthawk 250 build thread

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Well I have gone to the dark side, and put an ORX R615x on the bird, not sure yet on mounting but have gone for this due to being able to run PPM input, one wire, can't fault it,

Oh and it being 3.5g decased or 9g cased helps plus so many less wires and plugs,

Some work to do later one thinks,

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Re: Emax nighthawk 250 build thread

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I had one of them on mine Kev:) cant fault it:) worked very well:)
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Re: Emax nighthawk 250 build thread

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Clean build bruh! Looks good!
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Re: Emax nighthawk 250 build thread

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Well as promised here is a few pics, of what I have been up to in the last few days,

First I changed out the RX for the ORX R615x just to be able to run PPM
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And you can see in the picture the new switch I put in for my VRx I was not happy with the small toggle switch I had used,

I used one of the guys in our engineering department and had him draw up a rear bumper for the sole purpose of mounting a longer string of led's, this was the first try and it turned out not bad,
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And the show of nice bright led's
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Man I thought my white ones were bright,
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Re: Emax nighthawk 250 build thread

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Brilliant job Kev:) love the rear bumper:)
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Re: Emax nighthawk 250 build thread

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Yeah it's 3d printed, my measurements and design, if anyone wants te STL file to print one just drop me a bell,
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Re: Emax nighthawk 250 build thread

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Sweet!
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