Great work! It looks so good! I always recommend soldering right to vbat, for me that's usually to just piggy back on the main battery leads where they're soldered to the esc 👌 the 6S variety is just as bright as the 3-4S and the 5v, but vbat wont put any stress on regulators 👍 Thanks so much for sharing
Lookin good. Anyone who is doing this on a frame where the props are in view should make sure to not have lights in the front cause it will reflect off the props. Flying at night or dusk is of course when the lights will look the best and the light reflecting off the props is pretty bad to fly with. Looks like that's a dead cat frame so prolly not a problem for you. I have a bunch of this fly high cob lighting and have struggled with what drone to put it on. My drone with the best night time camera is also my long range and it adds weight... and putting it on a freestyle drone doesn't seem great cause i crash all the time and its another thing to break. What was your solution?
I didn't notice any weight or battery difference putting it on my quad. I have crashed several times with those LEDs on and I havent had them break yet.
If you are any good with CAD, redesign your quad arm protectors to have a channel 4mm wide and 1.7mm deep right down the center of the arm. I did that for the Rotor Riot TANQ frame and put it up on printables.
Thanks mate I'll check it out. I have a Tanq as well and since the thing is a brick already adding a couple grams really doesn't mater and it sounds like you've already designed a solution to reduce the chance of the lights getting damaged. I'll check it out.@@Monty_FPV
Nobody's gonna mention the vtx antenna missing during power up? LEDs look very nice! Please put the antenna on the vtx. You can easily damage it. Hopefully it has a low power mode. If you are flying later and are having range issues this might be the reason.
That is good. Not sure if low power mode can cause damage. I’m sure you must have some experience throughout your fpv journey. I just have to have an antenna connected on anything that transmits. Luckily the few times I missed that it was off don’t seem to have damaged anything. Those leds look ridiculous lol. Now I need them on my quad. I would pair them up with tinys realpit and put them on an aux channel. I would likely cause an accident if I flew it around my house.
I've flown it multiple times after I put the LEDs on with no range issues at all. I've flown it around my house at dark and it was so bright theat the neighbors came out to check it out🤣 they are even clearly visible in broad daylight which is insane
