That is a good question, I've found it's either one or the other. I haven't found anything that's both cheap AND reliable. I buy my gear from either MantisFPV or FPVFaster both located in Sydney, they are very reliable and have great customer service. If you want cheap, ordering online from AliExpress is probably your cheapest option, but I've had some pretty terrible experiences with them, items never arriving and receiving the complete wrong product. Up to you which path you choose.
Congratulations bro i tpp am trying to build my first fpv drone, a Flywoo Explorer LR 4 v2 but i am disabled and unable to work anymore so it's going to take me a while before I can fly because I live on a very fixed income. It's good that you had friends to help you. Keep up the good work and I'll keep watching
Hi Tom, thank you so much for your information. Have just finished my build and works perfectly thanks to your work and Jay's. See you soon buddies and fly safe!! 🙂
Really appreciate the key piece of advice that "it's not worth it" but hey, very interesting! Please do a vid on how to insta remove screws with a finger tap, that's an awesome skill ;)
I went the solder to board for motor wires route and it worked but it then gave the issue of the metal casing not fitting so i had to mod that too. I was thinking i should have gone the wire cutting route but you have to choose one and stick to it. If the board soldering was that bad i can still cut the wires, you can't move to soldering to the board after cutting the wires. One thing that might make things easier for anyone following this along is to cut the wires at different lengths so the connections are not all in the same place on the arms. Easier for the cables to lie next to each other. Also the range suffers a little having the aerials on the inside of the plastic so i moved them to the outside, zip tied them up and taped over them for protection.
