Is all this OK?

[Solly747400]

I am about to order parts for a racing drone. My first racing drone. I have flown DJI Phantoms for a year but never something like this.

I would like to know (before I order) if the list below is OK or if there are any concerns eg, something that won't match with something else etc.

Frame - http://bit.ly/2npZVch
ESCs - http://bit.ly/2nq6zzi
Motors - http://bit.ly/2mv9h7z PDB - http://bit.ly/2n9WZ17
VTX - http://bit.ly/2iF1bTB
FC - - http://bit.ly/2nqgWmx
PDB - http://bit.ly/2n9WZ17
FPV camera - http://bit.ly/2naaZZ2
Props - http://bit.ly/2nUNXp4
Goggles - http://bit.ly/2nSROkX
RADIO - http://bit.ly/2sGmXP1
Charger 4S- http://bit.ly/2rnaUCx
4S battery - http://bit.ly/2sw6pc8

Any suggestions or recommendations would be great and much appreciated

Thanks

 

[VirtueViolater]

No one is going to follow those links, make a list of your parts

 

[theGreenOrange]

Yeah just the name is good enough....

blind links not gonna work

 

[HighTechPauper]

looks like those links are a direct copy out of uavfutures $99 build

 

[Solly747400]

looks like those links are a direct copy out of uavfutures $99 build

Yeah they are. Can someone please tell me what the problem is with the links. I don't get it. Do they contain viruses? If they do, then obviously I'm buggered.

 

[HighTechPauper]

I'm not sure why, but the way you cut and pasted the info, the links point back through Youtube and resolved like this for me. You can continue without issue it seems but most would closeout after this pops up.

 

[HighTechPauper]

Also, I have to ask, do you have some concern about Stu's recommendations?
I don't know that you can go wrong using that list as an exact build, many have.

 

[Solly747400]

OK thanks. I have no concerns. I don't know enough to have any concerns. This is why I came here basically. For all I know someone could've came on here and said "OMG Don't ever build these drones". Like I said, it was just for confirmation really.

It seems as though it's not a bad place to start.

Sorry about the links

 

[HighTechPauper]

No sweat Solly, all's good. I got my first quad 1 year ago also, p4p+, about 3 months later I realized I really wanted to learn to fly something that didn't fly itself. Now my p4p gets in the air maybe once a month on average but my race quads fly all but every single day. When you fly these things, they get broken, there is almost no way to avoid that. When you're new they get broken a lot, as you improve they get broken less, but they will always get broken even if you aren't pushing too hard. So in the longer run, you really need more than 1 quad and you need a small stock of some of the big components because they will break, and you don't want to wait forever to order/ship/receive parts to get a bird back in the air.

Since that video is fairly old, you may well even find upgraded brands/components for similar price and who knows what Christmas sales might yield if you keep your eyes open. One of the great things about this stuff is most everything is pretty compatible, an ESC is an ESC, a motor is a motor, a VTX is a VTX, all with only a few choices. All the underlying methods and protocols are the same or similar and there are too many choices to say any one part is superior to everything else for price/performance/durability/longevity.

Looking to that build list as a template will help you to put a very good flying quad in the air and allow some extra money for an extra motor or an ESC when a bell gets bent or a ESC blows in a crash.

For me I needed to learn to fly, building will not be a problem as I've spent my career working with all kinds of hardware/software/systems and this stuff is right up my alley. So i got 3 of the same ARF so I could fly and crash and break and not be grounded for weeks. So far I have bent 2 motore bells, blown 4 esc's, ripped off a few VTX SMA connectors and destroyed a couple dozen sets of props. Used to be I was fixing something every single day, now maybe something minor (like and antenna mount or a ripped off foam foot) once a week, and a bigger item once every month or 2. But I'm burning 22 packs almost every day and having a blast just flying FPV and learning to fly better. By next spring I will be practicing more tricks at lower altitudes and therefore breaking my quads more often again. It's simply the nature of the beast to become a good pilot.

We will be here to advise you if you have questions about what you are thinking of purchasing, and if you post an individual item we can likely tell you if there is something better on sale somewhere to consider.

Welcome to the machine!

Randy

 

[Solly747400]

Thanks @HighTechPauper
I will be ordering these parts soon with some spares as suggested. I am still waiting for the Phantom 5 to come out just because I love the quality and video/photos you can take with these beasts. Two completely different drones and I want both lol

 

[HighTechPauper]

I hear ya Solly, that's what happened to me, I had to do both. If you get hooked good by FPV acro and/or racing (freestyle or gates as many call them) you will realize that you can put 4-6 top of the line race quads in the air for the cost of a top of the line Phantom, and like me decide that I may have to wait for a Phantom 6 or sell my p4p+ to get the 5. Aerial Photography is still a love but this FPV is just such a blast and addictive that it is now my prime focus when adding to my fleet.

 

[Solly747400]

If I bought the DJI goggles currently available (not the racing ones), would they work on a custom made racing drone like the one I mentioned?

 

[HighTechPauper]

No, they are not set up for easy integration into this area. DJI is proprietary and we are open standard. That is why the RE comes with a camera, occu sync transmitter module, and why it is 10 times the cost of what we use. There are a ton of great choices out there for this around $100 range and the new Fatshark HD Transformer series is bad to the bone at about $250. This is one of the hardest choices to make depending on budget and wishlist. I have about $625 wrapped up in Fatshark HD3's, Furious True-D receiver, Mad Mushroom omni and a Spironet 8 dbi patch. I use the HD3's with my phantom and many models have an HDMI input so they could be used also.

 

[Solly747400]

Thanks for the info. Great help. So as you said, better to do it the other way, buy goggles for the racing drone which you can also use on Phantom??

 

[HighTechPauper]

Unless you have the budget and some super great need for both, there really is no other way to do it. Flying FPV is not like the cinematic videos of people's flights you see on youtube, the GoPro or Foxeer Box is there to get the great looking part. Flying FPV is like watching a first of it's kind color tv with rabbit ears in a strong wind, it fuzzes, breaks up, etc and one of the first hurdles you encounter is trying to "see through" all that imperfect picture and unusual perspective of flying by only what you see on your monitor. After a while of forward clear path flight and landings you start to get the hang of it and after a while you can fly comfortably through the occasional snow and breakup like it wasn't even there. These really are 2 different worlds and there is no such thing as the picture you see on your DJIGo App screen in your FPV goggles while you are flying a race drone, 2 totally different goals.

 

[Solly747400]

Right. Funny you say that coz that's how I imagined it, like a perfect picture lol.

 

[HighTechPauper]

There will be many realizations as your knowledge grows/transitions to more race/acro/fpv concepts, but one things for sure, the fun factor goes up by 10 or 100 compared to "zipping" around on a GPS enabled stable camera platform, and "ripping" around on a race rig. But I swear, it is the most fun you can have with your pants on!

 

[Solly747400]

But I swear, it is the most fun you can have with your pants on!

Hopefully more often too, lol

 

[HighTechPauper]

Hopefully more often too, lol

LOL, yeah... hopefully

 

[Solly747400]

Hey question if you don't mind. What's the general consensus in regards to transmitters? Do people use one transmitter for each drone or do they just use one transmitter and bind it to a drone as they want to fly?