South Point Races

[Pasty]

Yup, someone had to do it :D

myself, Gordon and Gary B have ordered the Hobby King Park Jet...

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewitem.asp?idproduct=18249



Around £35 for kit and one nano tech 3s 1000mah lipo with EMS postage.

http://youtu.be/t3xmik3AO7g

The idea is to race them FPV stylee, whether that be timed around a course or a full out everyone on course racing.

All getting the same airframe and power plant (yet to be decided).

Should be fun!!

Steve

[g.collins]

Fun in the sun, with a bit of FPV serket racing.
;D G  :run:

[hexo]

Race on!  :o ;D :laugh:

[FPVSteve]

That is excellent, looking forward to seeing this ;D

[Dizzy]

CAN I PLAY TOO :D

dizzy

[Pasty]

i got a load of 22 size 1800kv motors here that we could use to start, wont be mental speed but would make good racing.

Or myself and gary have KD 200kv jobbies, I'll see if I can dig out the details... the 2200kv jobs are the way to go for speed, prolly good for 90-100mph.

scratch teh KD, just remembered mines bust.

[tdmodels]

CAN I PLAY TOO :D

And that quote is exactly how me and the wife got together!  And it all started with an e-mail snowball  :-X

[Pasty]

these are the motors I have...

http://www.rctimer.com/index.php?gOo=goods_details.dwt&goodsid=113&productname=

could be a good balance between speed and flight time.

[Pasty]

the motor calc gives us around 80mph on 5x5 a prop with those motors, so we might get 70 realisticly.

it mutters something about the prop stalling but we'll suss that out :)

[g.collins]

Got one on order  :D

[Pasty]

dude, i got like 8 of them, you coulda had one.

[Splashy]

I'm in. All ordered and very excited.

[Pasty]

nice one splashy! where ya located?

[Pasty]

ok, so I'm now thinking about FPV gear, for size and weight its got to be 5.8 altho this might put some restrictions on the circuits, but we'll see.

With me always looking to get everything as cheap as possible and having seen the great results Gordons got from the bare bones range video offering I started to do a little research this morning.

The Range video TX is a TX5823 and the RX is a RX5808, which I've found around $10 cheaper here (for them both)...

TX = $16 http://www.crazyshoppingcart.com/58g-200mw-wireless-av-transmitter-module-p-5438.html

RX = $13 http://www.crazyshoppingcart.com/58-receiver-wireless-av-module-p-5441.html

Altho I was very impressed with gordons setup the TX runs on 5v which is an issue as it means incuring extra weight and loss of space do to either running a voltage drop thingy or carry an extra power source to supply 5v.

So this leads me to consider this one which runs on 12v but is yet to be tested by anyone I know or indeed I am yet to find anyone using it for fpv. Altho I've just done some reading and theres some opinions that this may be a typo by good luck and its actually 5v (the image shows a 2.4 tx apparently).

TX/RX = $35 http://www.goodluckbuy.com/5-8g-200mw-wireless-av-transmitter-module5-8g-video-av-receiver-set-for-fpv-system.html

Which leaves me all a pickle...

Having seen Gordons system work so well I think I'll go with tried and tested and order the TX/RX from Crazy Shopping Cart as they're only £20 including postage... I'll have to deal with the voltage problem.

hmmm slight prob, when I go to order through crazy shopping I get paypal in chinese :o

[jiberjaber]

Pasty - this is a great idea :)

On the voltage thing - can you not use the ESC BEC voltage to get your 5V ?  or if its low power enough, a 7805 voltage regulator hung on the balance connector of the main battery?