Hi. I’m new here. I’m in North Carolina.

[wayneair]

But not new to quads. I’ve built my own, it was very light, very basic, and had about a 10 minute flight time on 28xx motors. i used eCalc to get everything as right as possible on a tight budget. Well now I’ve done a deal and ended up with a beast of a drone...740mm diagonal X quad, cobra 4130 540kv motors, 60a ECSs, 13x4.5 gemfans, a very nice (?) x-cam gimbal, a naza v2 fc, and a carbon fiber frame (no idea of the manufacture). the guy that I got it from acquired it in a lot from an estate sale and had zero knowledge or desire to gain knowledge related to drones. I got it for the equivalent of < $400. I’ve plugged everything into eCalc to find the right batteries, and, well, whoever built it knew what they were doing. It has about a 12 lb all up weight, a 6 lb additional lift capacity, operating at about 90% efficiency, max and hover. I already have a flysky tx and rx.

so now I’m here to ramp up my learning curve and get into FPV and aerial photography. Which includes wiring up the gimbal as it currently not connected but it is evident where it plugs to, but I want to know why it plugs where it does so it makes sense.

but anyway, hi. I’m new here. And this is what I’m trying to do here.

 

[wayneair]

Here she is,

 

[wafflejock]

Wow it is a beautiful build not sure how it flies but at least it sits pretty

Welcome to the forum let us know if you have specific issues or questions can try to point you in the right direction. In general Joshua Bardwell on youtube has a ton of content covering betaflight and recently started covering iNav which is probably more appropriate for gps control that said if wanting to pilot it "manually" then betaflight is the way to go. I think kakute f7 is good for either but in the middle of flashing one over right now so will let you know how that all goes. As is I have a hexacopter build with gps (like my fifth build), and using betaflight I can get gps lock and enabled rth features buy haven't done extensive testing, still I'm anxious to switch to iNav and try some of the mission planner app features.

 

[wafflejock]

Good news iNav is working pretty great from a setup standpoint just need to make sure all my motors are going the right direction and should be ready to maiden it again with the new fc software on there. Hopefully a maiden plus tuning I don't destroy it but will keep you posted. Also have a build thread I'll post updates to once I have it more tested.

PS please don't come rob my apartment but if in the area hit me up