Multirotor, multicopter and quadcopter discussion - The Drone thread

Damn shorted the camera's lipo trying to add a new lens, Its soldered to the damn board also, would i be wrong thinking the easiest fix to this is cut the battery out and solder in a new one or just add one on a losi female plug so the stupid charger i have to use for it can be binned!?

It charges from 3.0v (dead shorted) to around 3.4v and stops
 
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d_brennen said:
Bear in mind that a micro brushless build will be quite tough if you don't have much electronics/soldering experience, a 250 is slightly easier just as the tolerances of everything are that much looser. These are the bits I've come to use after MANY iterations and failures... I am really fond of the ET 150 even though it's a larger rip of the RotorX Atom. I actually own an Atom frame and do plan on doing something with it by summer, there are some exciting micro motors coming out. Recently the Spadger has grown on me for ease of build and is what I am working on at the moment. These bits are all from Banggood, so free shipping. Sadly HobbyKing are untouchable on batteries, but that's all I order from them.

Frame: Diatone ET 150 £13.38 / Diatone Spadger 150 £12.07

Motors/ESCs: Eachine 1104 motors + XM 10A ESCs + 2 sets of props £55.13

Flight Control: Naze32 Acro £16.55

Battery
LiPo: Rhino 610 3S £3.40 (HobbyKing)

FPV gear really is dependent on that you have already and your budget. I'm using the Quanum V2 goggles and a beat up RC305 receiver, the cheapest of the cheap but love them :)

Camera: 600TV Micro Cam £6.76

Camera Mount: Diatone micro cam mount £1.58

VTX: Eachine 200mw 32 channel VTX RP-SMA £8.07

RX: FrSky D4R-II £18.23 but depends upon your TX of choice...

Some other useful bits to have...

Props: 4 pairs 3020 props £1.37

Better PDB: Diatone V7 switching PDB 5v (Naze/RX) 12V (VTX) £3.44

TX Module: FrSky DJT for 9x/TH9X/JR £20.69

TX Case (I use these for my TH9X and also for carrying 2 quads and lipos) £18.62

About all I can think of at the moment
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Thanks for this. I can solder most things down to smd with my iron so long as I'm not tired, I guess the hardest part is going to be access and getting the temp right to stop the insulation melting.
 
Whats a rough 2nd hand (but hardly used) price for each of the below ?


DJI F450 Flamewheel Kit (Inc Frame, Motors, Escs, Prop set (x 2)


DJI Naza V2 Flight Controller with GPS
 
I'd say about £100 for the F450 and about £150 ish for the Naza.
When I sold me F550 I found that I got more money by breaking it up and selling the motors and ESCs individually. Your mileage may vary though.
Also, that way you don't run the risk of someone buying it, slapping an FC on it, crashing it, then opening a Paypal dispute saying that your quadcopter was faulty (this does happen and it's one of the reasons I never sell any multicopters built or as a kit, only as parts).
 
Rilot said:
I'd say about £100 for the F450 and about £150 ish for the Naza.
When I sold me F550 I found that I got more money by breaking it up and selling the motors and ESCs individually. Your mileage may vary though.
Also, that way you don't run the risk of someone buying it, slapping an FC on it, crashing it, then opening a Paypal dispute saying that your quadcopter was faulty (this does happen and it's one of the reasons I never sell any multicopters built or as a kit, only as parts).
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Cheers will have a look, hmm people do that? what about if you whack a statement on the advert saying

"Buyer responsibility to ensure safe flight, there will be no returns due to any incidents"

surely they cant raise paypal disputes if people fly their own models in to the ground?

Did you have much interest on ebay selling the bits separately? I would prefer to sell kit as a kit and the naza separately if possible to save time/hassle, but if its much better individually then I may consider it
 
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I sold my S800 and my F550 like that. Just stuck the parts up at 99p no reserve and let them rip. I actually sold the parts of the S800 for more than an entire S800 would have cost brand new. I'm actually considering selling my S900 in the same way due to me hardly ever using it because I'm always flying the Inspire.
 
Rilot said:
I sold my S800 and my F550 like that. Just stuck the parts up at 99p no reserve and let them rip. I actually sold the parts of the S800 for more than an entire S800 would have cost brand new. I'm actually considering selling my S900 in the same way due to me hardly ever using it because I'm always flying the Inspire.
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Cool will give this ago, 5 day listings starting off at 99p?

including selling all the arms, legs individually? plates?
 
Yup. Everything individually. The only bits I didn't sell were the frame plates.
You might be better off waiting a few months if you can. People aren't flying at the moment due to it being winter which means people aren't crashing and requiring parts. Just a thought.
 
Ta, may test the water with the naza v2, I have listed the frame kit as it was free listing, want to test, if I dont get much interest I will pull the plug and wait for a bit and go down selling the bits
 
Auctions are live seem to be getting a lot of watchers, views and bids, iv listed the kit as the kit and the flight controller seperatly.

Only thing is when snipping a cable tie on one of the escs iv accidently snipped a tiny bit of one of the brown wire, I could repair by a tiny bit of solder but is this making it a bit iffy now?

Either way the naza v2 seems to be doing ok on auction
 
DJMK4 said:
Auctions are live seem to be getting a lot of watchers, views and bids, iv listed the kit as the kit and the flight controller seperatly.

Only thing is when snipping a cable tie on one of the escs iv accidently snipped a tiny bit of one of the brown wire, I could repair by a tiny bit of solder but is this making it a bit iffy now?

Either way the naza v2 seems to be doing ok on auction
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did you list all the parts as seperate auctions - I've got a Q450 fully built etc but can't sell it and not going to give it away money wise.

Tempted to break it down into parts and auction off but not sure if I can be bothered!
 
booyaka said:
did you list all the parts as seperate auctions - I've got a Q450 fully built etc but can't sell it and not going to give it away money wise.

Tempted to break it down into parts and auction off but not sure if I can be bothered!
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No the flamewheel kit as it comes retail, ARF

I may pull the plug on the kit not sure yet, worried bout the wire I snipped but can repair
 
That's the one.

Iv listed the naza v2 seperatly which is doing great. This one has lots of views, bids, watchers but I'm not sure if I should pull it and sell as individual bits or not :/ or just let the auction on that kit go

Iv repaired the ESC wire, was only a tiny snip
 
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DJMK4 said:
That's the one.

Iv listed the naza v2 seperatly which is doing great. This one has lots of views, bids, watchers but I'm not sure if I should pull it and sell as individual bits or not :/ or just let the auction on that kit go

Iv repaired the ESC wire, was only a tiny snip
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To be fair your better off selling it on a FaceBook Group perhaps if ebay is a let down...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/fpvuk/?ref=browser
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dronejunkyard/?ref=browser
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mpcuk/?ref=browser

I'm a watcher of the F450 E300 system. Which cable did you catch?
 
Lisapete said:
To be fair your better off selling it on a FaceBook Group perhaps if ebay is a let down...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/fpvuk/?ref=browser
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dronejunkyard/?ref=browser
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mpcuk/?ref=browser

I'm a watcher of the F450 E300 system. Which cable did you catch?
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You know you have the servo style wire 3 colours, I snipped the brown one but carefully soldered back together with a thin layer of solder and some brown leccy tape.

Cheers for the links I will run the auction till near the end and make a decision on weather to pull

The naza is doing well so I think I'll leave that on the bay for Max exposure
 
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