As you see from my pic above, I got the IrisAerial legs (and painted in contrasting colors for orientation) but they really aren't tall enough. And those are batwings on my 450.
CaptainJustice.....why are they not tall enough? Tall enough for what? I am a bit confused. I do love the way you painted them up...it looks really nice!!!! Did you use any "special" paint to do that to them?
That's a perfectly good solution Mike. Lots of people are using them and they work great.
Thanks Bart....I had a great conversation with Yuri about the legs and the batwing. For now, I think this is a perfect solution for me. I ordered 3s 4000 mAh Turnigy Blue batteries and they are much bigger than I had anticipated! I "COULD" mount the battery in between the top and bottom plates but the battery would be resting on top of the solder connections for the ESCs and the Power input. I don't really like that.
I was going to mount the battery on the TOP plate but my FC (a KK2.1 from HobbyKing) will not align with the holes on the top. If I were to put it on top of the bottom plate (which I might still do) I would not be able to view the LCD screen for programming. This may not be an issue once I get it all programmed and tweaked but I hate to have to remove the top plate each and every time I want to make a correction.
This leaves me with mounting the KK2.1 on the TOP plate. Not a bad deal but that really limits me to only ONE place for the battery...that would be on the bottom of the F450. This solution seems to work out well but ONLY because I am getting the IrisAerial legs.
One thing that I am thankful for.....NOT having my parts ship as soon as I originally wanted them to arrive. Had I received everything at once I would have started my build only to find out that my "original" plans would not work out the way I planned them to. Awaiting parts has been a PITA at times but it caused me to actually "dry fit" the components on my work table. I found out fairly quickly that my "original" plan would simply not work.
I really recommend that folks that are NOT using all the DJI components (and even ones that are)..sketch out how you envision your quad to look when assembled. Once that is done, take some time and do a preliminary "fit test" or assembly. For me this was worth ten thousand words as I have trouble with seeing things in my brain without a picture or a diagram.
My pulse batteries came with ec5 connectors. I was under the impression that they didn't come with anything. I bought ec3 should I just solder those on instead? Or would you buy ec5?
CJacobs.....really good point that you bring up! I elected to go with EC3 and EC5 connectors for my build. IIRC Bartman stated that they were easier to solder and I am a beginner when it comes to soldering. You could snip the EC5 off and put on an EC3 connector if you really wanted to do so. I, on the other hand, would get an EC5 connector and wire that up to the bottom plate so that you have an EC5 connection for the battery. I will be using EC3s for various connections (esc to motor) and use EC5s for my power stuff. My charger will be using an EC5 connection to the power supply.
Someone might be able to chime in about just what the EC3/5 connectors are rated for but I cant recall off the top of my head.
EDIT: Bartman chimed in before I wrote this....LOL! I agree with his sentiment that the EC5 is overkill but my rationale is that I try to keep connectors in line with my charging scheme. All my batteries will have the EC5's on them....mainly because that is how I keep them differentiated from other things. EC5 = Power in my mind EC3 = connectors (non-power...such as ESC to motor in my case)....my logic may be flawed but it works for me :frog:
EDIT 2: Please disregard my EC5/EC3 debate...Bart cleared this up for me.....I misspoke on the ESC to motor and meant ESC to the distro board connection....by placing the EC3's there I would be adding unnecessary weight and one more connection that could potentially fail. I will be soldering the ESCs directly to the power distro board. Thanks for keeping me on the straight path Bart!
