Emax had sent me a set of the new 2205 2300kv racing motors to try out. Emax makes pretty good products. I have been using some of their stuff already. I have a Gaui X43 Rc helicopter with their mini-servos in it. A while back I got one of their 280 Nighthawk quad racers and it turned out to be really excellent.
The new Emax 2205 motors are quite well made and in use have worked great too. At present I have only been using 3 cell Lipo packs with the motors, but later I may go with a 4 cell pack and see how they perform then.
I built a new quad up for the motors to try out. I had a Mystery 250 quad carbon fiber racer frame kit already. It is a clone of copy of another brand that seems to have been copied by many others too, The frame parts fit well and it was no problem getting it assembled. I needed to Dremel out the motor mount holes a little as the frame arms were setup for a smaller motor.
I went through my parts and stuff and found some 30 amp Afro ESCs, so I used them. The 30 amp ESCs weigh the same as the 20 amp Afro ESCs anyway. But since they are a little large in size, I wound up mounting the ESCs on the bottom of the frame.
I used a power distribution board and mounted the Afro32 (Naze32) flight controller board above it. I used the 12v output line to feed power to the Eachine FPV camera and video transmitter. I can set the VTX frequency to one to match my Headplay FPV goggle headset.
After getting the flight controller configured and setup. I
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