/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1944600
The plastic/glass fibre arms of the flamewheel frames are laughably flexible, which makes them fly like shit. Wooden dowels are actually vastly better.

>>1877908
No sense, as you'd have to replace the flight controller, transmitter, receiver, etc. All you'd be reusing is the frame, motors & ESCs.

A cheap F4 flight controller like the Matek F405-STD or F405-CTR can run the latest & greatest version of Arducopter, which will be infinitely better than an obsolete Phantom 2 flight controller. Add some Racerstar 2312 motors, generic 30A ESCs, Flamewheel clone frame or similar & a cheapo FlySky radio/receiver, you'll have way more fun.

>>1579664
You'll want to run 4S with those motors (speaking from experience with the very similar 2312).

>>1456434
Just to make sure as it's not clear you realise this from your posts, but you always use the FPV camera while flying, regardless of whether you're racing or doing freestyle - the GoPro is only for recording to SD card for watching later, you don't see the HD footage live.

>>1456507
>a solid Floss build will be less than 300 with a battery

No, it really won't. The lightest 5" Floss you can realistically build is about 220g dry, which means 400g with a 1300mAh 4S.

>>1456554
Don't loctite propnuts, it can attack the plastic of the props.

>>1456553
>You suggested me to buy a new set of props for this thing.

Wait until you get it, then see if the motor shafts are the kind that fit DJI Phantom style self tightening props. It looks like they might be & if so, they are super convenient. You can buy third party ones for cheap from banggood etc. I use them on picrelated which are similar cheap China brand motors.

>>1456553
>My intended use is to fly it around with an FPV and goggles

The issue you'll find with that is that the DJI Naza flight controller isn't designed for & probably doesn't let you fly in rate/acro mode, which is what all FPV flying uses. If FPV flying is what you want to do, then a quad that large & with a DJI flight controller isn't really the right choice.