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Re: Fossils Stuff Gravity 250 V2 - FPV racer

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With battery and without Mobius/Runcam it was 535g

Battery listed at 105g
Mobius/Runcam at 40g

Therefore it should be 470g or 430g without camera on it, roughly.......

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Re: Fossils Stuff Gravity 250 V2 - FPV racer

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That's awesome, Kev! I've got my scratch built 290 quad now and it flies very well but I have extra motors, esc's, Naze32, breakout cable, rx, and some hardware. I'm really considering building a 230-240 quad and "seriously" focusing on keeping the weight down. My 290 quad is quite heavy but if I can build another quad, and keep the weight down to 450-500g, I'll be seriously happy.

Have fun with the new sexy quad, Kev! It sure does look great!
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That's a good weight kev, 4s is defiantly the way to go with minis.
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Here you go guys. The weights proper
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I want a frame like that Kev, send me a link mate, it's so clean looking...
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Just go to fossils stuff website mate, they do a 280 frame now as well, and that has more room inside, mine is tight, and that's with esc's smaller than a 2 quid coin
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It is showing £74 on the site but by the time you add delivery its at £94:(
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Yeah they show you the non vat price,
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Yep, they are expensive....might give those a miss for a while...lol
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I was tempted at £70 but not £100:(
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Yeah, that's a bit OTT Graham, I'm sure there is others much cheaper out there...
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Well after using a second hand board that I had of my mate when I bought all his quad stuff, I found I had a little drift that would change if I had trimmed it and then changed battery, so I got a new board,

soldered it up on the weekend with the bare minimum of pins, and put a 3rd pin in for the sat connector on to 3.3v and also soldered in a set of leads for a buzzer, I missed not having them there and not having an arming tone,

Levelled it out of the quad on my table, so I know its perfect as table set up with SOKO tool,

Used a backup of my setting for ease of setting up the new board, and away to go,

Zero drift and one happy fella now, :D :D :D :D :D
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That sounds cool Kev!!!
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Thanks Derek,

just wanted more confidence in a hover that the quad is not drifting, as its not easy to see when you got the goggles on.

Now bring on the trees :twisted:
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Nice one Kev:) I wish i could solder boards with confidence:( I think i need to get finer tips for the iron:)
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a good soldering station is a must, I got this one

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sivitec-Tempera ... ng+station
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you should have zero trouble with that biatch.

its a beast! :o
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I only have one tip:( what tip do you use?
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I have 4 but for the naze32 board it's easiest with the needle tip type one
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