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Re: Fossils Stuff Gravity 250 V2 - FPV racer

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Ah my batteries have arrived,

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Looking forward to seeing this in the air Kev. I like the yellow.
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Yeah I do to Lee, but I did not get a choice of the colour as I had a deal on this one,

will put some pics up later but this is well thought out I can tell you.
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Well just ordered myself the afro usb tool so I can change my motor directions.

Installed the motors and soldered on the esc's, left two wire insulation off for now as was going to swap wires for motor direction but ordered usb tool instead, as looking at cleanflight and oneshot soon,

Installed satellite on Naze32 board, and got it talking.

pre soldered the pdb up ready for adding the esc's later,

attached the cam vtx and antenna extension, need to join camera to vtx and make power lead up,

pics will follow later, when im actually on lunch, :D
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Frame all finished, and hovers, :D well after a blonde moment anyway "forgot to yaw the board" you can guess what happened, ;)

On stock settings the bird is wicked, will be playing with them when I have a bit of time but a quick hover in the living room and it feels and behaves wicked,

Oh and soldering all the motor wires I did not have to reverse any of the motors they all went in the correct direction first time, :D

Will post pics of build up soon, as going out with the wife for a nice day out,

But here is the finished girl with out her Runcam
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Very nice Kev:) looking forward to seeing the build.
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That's cool, Kev! Very sharp!!
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i like the way everything is enclosed, it make foe a super clean build.
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Well here you go guys.

Some of the pics I told you that would be coming.

A bit of work on the top plate, vtx and camera fitted and extension to antenna.
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Esc's installed along with the motors and roughed into position.
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Just a small matter of adding some wires to the pdb then soldering on all the esc's and fitting the naze32.
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Then it was time to button it up and see if it would fly.
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And it's belly,
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All I need now is my new Runcam so I can make a bracket to mount it.
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That is a really cool quad Kev, very clean build. Love how all the wires are hidden... Very nice indeed..
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Well I had a flight in the garden just to see how long the battery will last, and at 4:30 I got 3.79ver cell.

And that was not just static hover but flying around, man this thing is stable, and handles so well, also yaw is so much more positive than my Emax was, oh and climb out is insane, so much power,

Video as soon as I can get someone to hold the cam,
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Just charged the battery and put back 600mah so I think 4:30 will be a good timer setting,
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WOW! That's really impressive, Kev! Very cool!!!
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Thanks Derek,

Just ordered 4 more 1000mah 4s batteries, but went for 35c this time,

I think it was Dan that said can't have enough batteries, lol
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Looks tidy Kev. Literally tidy and Welsh tidy ;)
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FPV maiden done and I had a fricking blast,

2 batteries 2 crashes and zero damage,

Video will be loaded up in the morning,
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here is the videos as promised guys enjoy the thrills and spills.....

https://youtu.be/nU1rz71ZOQY

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That's really cool, Kev! Have fun with it!!!
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Oh I will have more fun now......
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That makes 6 in total. :D :D
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Without battery...what is the all up weight of your Gravity quad, Kev?
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