After slacking off I finally finished up my soldering and we were ready to go for a couple flights. 3 of the screws were sacrificed from my motors during a flight but I was able to land before any catastrophic mission failures occurred. After screwing them back in I wasn’t able to fly anymore at work so I took my quad home. I had setting bank 3 setup for Rattitude so that I could try to pull off some more flips which I was able to do months previous. Unfortunately something went wrong as at around 45 degrees of pitch my quad came back down very fast. Here are the casualties we suffered. An arm was broken as well as the antenna for the VTx. It seemed like something might have released it’s magic smoke but I wasn’t sure in the field so I brought it home for further inspection. The video transmitter was later found out to be the culprit as the antenna acts as a resistor and without the antenna the 500mw of current went through the board and couldn’t escape (pic). Yesterday 05/08/2017, repairs were carried out with success however the quad is missing some key components now. ThisÂis how I flew yesterday, see if you can spot what is missing from the previous photos. The video transmitter has been removed and the antenna has been placed on the back end for no purpose other than keeping the receiver antennas away from the props. Other than that the arm was replaced and I had to resolder to the main distribution PDB in order to get the ESC properly installed.
Now I am drooling over getting a Runcam, a face mounted fpv display and a video transmitter. I am not sure how the compatibility would work as of now but most likely I will just buy a vTX off of amazon that is compatible with the 2 pin power and 3 pin camera input.
That’s all for now,