#Para's House. (Goodbye)

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soft pecan
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while applying it you avoid the inside of connectors, barometers and buttons

gaunt creek
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Connectors is the ribbon place and plugs, bottons are just thing that I can push to do a thing, what are barometers?

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Also how coat?

soft pecan
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uhh well usually 422c comes with little brushes

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little ESD-safe brushes to coat it on

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and then if you want you can see with a UV light how good of a job you did

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barometers measure barometric pressure, a good way for your flight controller to know the altitude

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won't be on the ESC

gaunt creek
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Uhh its a fucking spray can

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WTF

soft pecan
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looool watch out with that

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it's flammable too i think!

gaunt creek
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No literally wtf I do?

soft pecan
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well i mean if you want to carefully brush it on

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just spray some in a container

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and then apply it with a brush

gaunt creek
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Lol okay

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So now I need to pick a fc

soft pecan
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not a very handy formfactor

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what store are you closest to again

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should've gotten the 5 gallon container smh

gaunt creek
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Hey @fallen sable what do you think of my drone?

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So time to work on the next one yeah?

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Guess I'll buy the neo 2

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Ordering now

soft pecan
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bruh

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again what store is closest to you

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so you can get that 30 dollar fc lol

gaunt creek
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Anyone know the answer to this question?

gaunt creek
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What kind of stores

soft pecan
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well that depends on how close you are

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fpv stores

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it's just a normal jst plug

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don't know what size

gaunt creek
gaunt creek
soft pecan
gaunt creek
wet fox
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wait para why are u scrapping the whole drone

soft pecan
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and then an sbus wire you take out

gaunt creek
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Full deep clean

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And inspection

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Will rebuild asap

gaunt creek
wet fox
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what am i listening for

gaunt creek
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Channeling my inner embeld

gaunt creek
soft pecan
wet fox
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so do we think motor 3 bearings are borked?

gaunt creek
wet fox
# wet fox

i did fly yesterday and it flew fine (just as bad as before) but it def makes a difference sound from the others

soft pecan
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and that's why i am so upset about it lol

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spent hours getting them set up

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answering questions

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just for them to give up at the sight of an unplugged jst connector

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feels like the most elaborate troll ever

wet fox
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it was simply impossible to fix

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you can’t expect him to PLUG IN A JST

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also emilia do u think rear left motor is borked?

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sorry ik i already asked about this but im just not sure

soft pecan
# wet fox

I mean that does sound crusty but if it still flies and you're not going to replace the bearing

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i would rip it till it falls out of the sky

wet fox
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fair enough

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i mean i have spare motors

gaunt creek
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Him Actually going and getting the neo was such a kick in the balls

wet fox
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but yea, just worried it’ll fall out of the sky onto something important lol

soft pecan
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and their friend still is on their tinywhoop journey

wet fox
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BRUHHH

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it’s doing a lil dance

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wigglin’

soft pecan
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literally

wet fox
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is it just unbalanced or something? like why wiggle

soft pecan
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it fell onto asphalt from like 10+ stories up probably directly on the motor

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because of a faulty receiver

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and I haven't been able to look into it further lol

gaunt creek
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Also what would someone need to charge a battery like this?

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Also does fc die mean betaflight from scratch?

soft pecan
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or get something like a vifly toothstor

soft pecan
gaunt creek
soft pecan
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I don't know what kind of shenanigans you did in VC

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so no clue

gaunt creek
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@solemn cairn did I?

gaunt creek
gaunt creek
soft pecan
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only like 4

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i haven't been able to get out there much in the past few years

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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most of them were to water

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lol

gaunt creek
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Would love to see some of your footage

gaunt creek
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Lol I died to grass water

gaunt creek
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Noooooooo

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Not the wata! You can't land there silly

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Lol wtf happened

soft pecan
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faulty receiver

gaunt creek
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Was that preventable?

soft pecan
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absolutely

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i had had a few soft-rxlosses before

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3 of them

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just hadn't replaced the receiver

gaunt creek
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Soft rxloss?

soft pecan
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briefly loses connection but not enough for a failsafe

gaunt creek
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So if I have a soft RX loss ever does that mean replace?

gaunt creek
soft pecan
gaunt creek
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How test the bench?

gaunt creek
soft pecan
soft pecan
gaunt creek
gaunt creek
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Your a king 👑

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I added it to the spreadsheet just in case but luckily you have the big brain

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I appreciate your disasters. Good to learn from

soft pecan
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I have another drone that I don't have footage of

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got blasted out of the air by an FM transmitter and splooshed directly into a big river

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10/10 luck

hallow oriole
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i only do it very carefully. no crazy freestyle tricks, gps rth ready to go, landing before the battery gets low, etc

soft pecan
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lol

gaunt creek
gaunt creek
soft pecan
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yes

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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from a pirate radio station mast that was entirely out of wack

gaunt creek
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I'm confused how that kill ya

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Does that mean I could use radios to just knock peopls drones out of the sky?

soft pecan
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that somehow blasts noise around 868MHz

gaunt creek
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How prevent

hallow oriole
# soft pecan

this has a gps on the arm tho, why didnt it rth if it lost rx signal

soft pecan
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step one is not living in the netherlands

gaunt creek
gaunt creek
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GPS on arm reasonable place

hallow oriole
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oh

hallow oriole
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its on a brace between arms

gaunt creek
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i don't? Need to 3d print mount

hallow oriole
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depends

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i designed my own 3d printed mount for my 5" gps

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there is always more than one way to do something

gaunt creek
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Makes sense

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I can't believe grass killed me

soft pecan
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422c will prevent that from happening again

gaunt creek
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Sweet

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Just gotta figure out FC then

hallow oriole
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i pulled a toothpick from a stream after 2 minutes and it was fine, no 422c. i dropped a whoop in a sink for 2 seconds and its completely toast

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water is unpredictable

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im still using the camera, beeper, and vtx antenna that were submerged in a pond for an hour years ago

soft pecan
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above picture drone was in there for like a solid 2 hours while i walked in water in like -20c lol

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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I think the camera still worked and the flight controller was still usable

hallow oriole
hallow oriole
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ye

gaunt creek
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Impressive

hallow oriole
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i believe the fc survived as well but i put a whole new stack in

gaunt creek
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I would like to try and build a drone where I pick the parts entirely. Any resources or strategies to pick motors, and good stacks? Or is there only one or two best answers?

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I know what to research frames, o4 always, and elrs, and props, but identifying good stack and motor I'm still not sure what is good vs bad

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I don't like the skystar fc I killed. Not cuz it died but cuz it sucked with o4

hallow oriole
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as far as motors you have size, kv, motor/frame mounting sizes, and then just sheer build quality. i like rcinpower

soft pecan
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as far as flight controllers stick to good brands
H7 > F745 > ATF435/F722 > F405/G4 > F411 or something along those lines

avoid the bmi270 gyro unless its F405/G4 or below

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ESC's again stick to good brands, try going for AM32 and avoid BLHeli_32

gaunt creek
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I wanna slowly transition to the point where I have a good idea of how to identify good vs bad parts and only have to ask for second opinion instead of having you guys pick everything.

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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sort of

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brands can have a shit reputation but still have a handful of good products

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or have a good reputation but have a handful of shit products

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cough betafpv and skystars

median fable
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Cough Eachine cough

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lol

gaunt creek
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Damn

sacred ember
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does eachine have a single good product though?

median fable
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I read it backwards

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But yeah

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The ev800d

soft pecan
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lol

median fable
gaunt creek
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So it really is just another thing where numbers don't do it all you just gotta probe other peoples experiences, and check it fits needs

sacred ember
soft pecan
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and then another fun part is that there'll be batches where products just fail

soft pecan
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which completely changes peoples perspectives on said products

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so you have to ask when!

soft pecan
gaunt creek
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Woah

median fable
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Airsoft and fpv have so much in common😂

soft pecan
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There was also that Eachine TX16S

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lol

gaunt creek
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Damn so if I wanna make my own drone this time I should pick parts, look at reviews, and then ask you guys for second opinions?

median fable
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😔

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It appears so

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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are you going to make a 3.5"?

median fable
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I’m gonna say why sad my dyslexic friend at some point Airsofting tomorrow

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Sounds funny

gaunt creek
# soft pecan are you going to make a 3.5"?

The fleet goals areeeeeeee. Neo 1, neo 2 (pavo femto) DC Mario 5, x frame 5 inch, 3.5 inch x frame, maybe go whoop whoopy, and after all of that if I'm somehow not satiated/broke maybe a 7" cruser (only if my skill is capable enough)

soft pecan
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could build your own neo

gaunt creek
median fable
gaunt creek
soft pecan
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pick nicer frame

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fancy motors

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get some style points in there

gaunt creek
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What would that even be?

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Femto is a cinawhoop mostly yeah?

soft pecan
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and they make all sorts of cinewhoop frames

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even very light ones

gaunt creek
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Yeah can you build a cinewhoop that allows camera moving and stable smartish non acro flight?

gaunt creek
gaunt creek
soft pecan
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the camera moving part? easy

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the stable smartish non acro flight? you'll need some sensors and probably ardupilot

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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if you don't need it to be indoors it's better to scale up as well

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basically just go as big as you can staying under 250g ideally

gaunt creek
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Is sub 250 and camera move and Smartish to much at once?

soft pecan
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i would start with just doing the camera move thing but getting a flight controller capable of ardu later on

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which for the record means you only get to buy F405, F745 and H7 flight controllers and you have to check if there's an ardu target

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so limits options quite a bit

gaunt creek
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Alright here's my build order plan

Neo 1

DC Mario 5

Neo 2

3.5" X frame

5" X frame

WHOOPS!

Camera smart cina thingy

7" DC finger remover

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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lol

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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no toothpick? Megamind

gaunt creek
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Everyone knows you start with a five inch to see if you like the hobby and then work your way to whoops duhhh

gaunt creek
soft pecan
gaunt creek
soft pecan
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as light as possible drones at big size

gaunt creek
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That's cute

soft pecan
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which gives them pretty cool flight characteristics

gaunt creek
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Why not considered whoop

soft pecan
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they go very fast but no weight behind them

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whoop = prop guards

gaunt creek
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So it's a whoop without propgaurd?

soft pecan
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is a toothpick

gaunt creek
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Interesting

soft pecan
gaunt creek
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Lol

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So whoops and toothpicks. Better flight without dji video system?

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Analog party?

soft pecan
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maybe a hdzero party perchance

gaunt creek
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Bleh

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So if you dji on those it would be to heavy

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Also would toothpick even hurt people in crash?

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With props so small does guard still matter?

soft pecan
soft pecan
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get in hair

gaunt creek
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Also have I asked enough questions?

gaunt creek
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So if toothpick cant fly around the peoples where when would you want to fly it?

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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more difficult

soft pecan
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or like a small yard

gaunt creek
# soft pecan same place as like the 3.5"

I see I'm not convinced that toothpick would offer much of a benefit when 3.5 is on the build list. Whoop could be fun for inside. And x frame 5" inch for freestyle plus taking turns being broken, 7" got the long time flight down, and cinawhoop gonna cinawhoop.

gaunt creek
gaunt creek
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Also I'm failing to find a "fpv store"

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Wonder if there is a more specific thing to look for

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Or perhaps less specific

queen monolith
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Hobby or drone store maybe?

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What country are you in?

gaunt creek
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Stupid Country

gaunt creek
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And shit on it

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That's my country 🇺🇸

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I feel like I asked enough questions for now don't forget to occasionally sleep @soft pecan thanks for all your time ⌛ as always

soft pecan
gaunt creek
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NY not city tho

soft pecan
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you're screwed then

gaunt creek
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Mountkisco area

gaunt creek
wet fox
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also possibly nitro hobby or the hobby store. not sure if they do quads tho, u should call

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don’t have much stuff built this decade tho lol

gaunt creek
wet fox
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damn, that's a good price (I think)

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are u building an x8?

gaunt creek
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Lol no

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I forgot how to read

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Its 230 am

wet fox
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i mean it doesn't have to be for an x8

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could use it for a quad

gaunt creek
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These last 2 links

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Is it good or for the hood?

wet fox
gaunt creek
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Yeah the fc is fried

wet fox
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aah

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the esc is ok tho?

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because def not worth getting a whole stack if your esc is ok

gaunt creek
wet fox
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damn! another one?!

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para has bench stokholm syndrome

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i think im just gonna stick with my 3.5" and 65mm

hot bear
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Bro got a lifetime supply of 422c

gaunt creek
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Cuz I forgot to use it

brave moth
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and yet youre still awake

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smh my head

gaunt creek
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Guys I have a problem stop pingging me✋

brave moth
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@gaunt creek

gaunt creek
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I'm turning off my phone

brave moth
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good

hot bear
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@gaunt creek

brave moth
heavy panther
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Para... What did you do....

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Oh god, how did you fry it?

wet fox
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it’s ok to use loctite on tmount prop screws right

shadow bolt
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sure

brave moth
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dont

primal cape
primal cape
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didn't want to sound dumb and ask but yeah

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anyway, you can practice diagnostica and soldering

brave moth
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they can literally just explode

primal cape
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yeahz not suitable to happen mid flight JBBigYikes

gaunt creek
wispy nest
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There's more people and messages in this one forum thread than in some active servers I'm in

gaunt creek
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One day I will evolve into answerer of questions

brave moth
gaunt creek
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And this channel can basically become help-quick-questions-with-ADHD

gaunt creek
gaunt creek
brave moth
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yup

hot bear
hot bear
tropic wyvern
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do i see a second one on ur lap? 👀

brave moth
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yes

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a big one

tropic wyvern
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cool

brave moth
primal cape
hot bear
brave moth
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and windy

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and cold

soft pecan
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purely because of the fact it has no pads for anything

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other than that it's pretty great

wispy nest
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maybe more

soft pecan
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oh okay but where are the pads for any of the things the connectors go to

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and for the record this has been a problem for the two times I have recommended this thing now, I'm not just randomly complaining

wispy nest
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the connectors offer extra pins, the only important thing that I would consider necessary to be on both pads and connectors is the analog VTX output, which is broken out with both

soft pecan
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i mean that's interesting for you i suppose but people tend to need more than that broken out

wispy nest
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I2C is broken out with both, 10V is broken out with both

soft pecan
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and i wouldn't say uarts that are only seen on connectors are extras

wispy nest
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There are 4 UARTs on pads alone, that's more than enough IMO

soft pecan
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i mean so far that is 1/4 people i have seen that don't have a problem with that

wispy nest
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You've recommended the stack before, I was a little surprised that it's suddenly meh

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What were the other complaints?

soft pecan
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it's good other than those pads just not being there

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I don't even remember

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@hallow oriole

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I'm also coming from the perspective of not understanding why they don't have the pads for those there as it feels like they easily could have to me?

wispy nest
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The USB port is a valid point of criticism, I'm not too happy about that. But the pads aren't an issue at all IMO

soft pecan
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I know they would be for me, I know they have been for Jason

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so it deserves a mention

wispy nest
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I don't understand how they would tho. There's 4 UARTs, I2C, Buzzer, Analog in/out, CC, 5V and 10V all with pads

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that's more than enough for any kind of regular setup where this FC would be used

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It's not an FC that's specifically made for complex setups... it can accommodate them, but that's not the main point of it

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that's mad

tropic wyvern
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i could just grab a esc for the funzies cus its dirt cheap

wispy nest
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to be clear it is a new ESC, I haven't seen it before and it probably hasn't been community tested as much as the existing one, but... hard not to impulse buy

wispy nest
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I would have more use for a 20x20 ESC rn tho, got a bunch of 30x30 stuff laying around

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may have to bother the Sequre engineer/rep if they have new 20x20 stuff coming

gaunt creek
wispy nest
gaunt creek
wispy nest
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It's fine

gaunt creek
soft pecan
gaunt creek
wispy nest
gaunt creek
wispy nest
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Sequre, T-Motor, Skystars, maybe HAKRC

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Oh yeah Flycolor too

gaunt creek
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But sky-stars is cringe in my book now

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I'll keep those names in mind

daring falcon
wispy nest
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Any ESC can and will desync given an incorrect setup/bad situation

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it's not an inherent hardware fault

gaunt creek
hot bear
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Skystars is nice

wispy nest
hot bear
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Don't inhale the quad

soft pecan
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soaked the fc

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plugged it in a few times while soaked

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fc died

wispy nest
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I feel like that's not Skystars' fault

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mild feeling

soft pecan
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well no that wasn't the problem with the fc

wet fox
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wait so i’m confused i’m getting mixed messages. loctite on t mount screws or not

soft pecan
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this basically was

soft pecan
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loctite eats plastic

wispy nest
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do not put locktite anywhere near plastic

wet fox
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hmm

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is there a good way to remove loctite from screws?

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all the ones that i have came with it on them

wispy nest
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if it's dry it should probably be fine

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but... alcohol should get rid of it

hot bear
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alcohol is truly a solution for everything

wet fox
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ok

gaunt creek
wet fox
soft pecan
hot bear
hot bear
soft pecan
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he got banned

hot bear
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oop

soft pecan
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he got way more chances than reasonably anyone else would get

hot bear
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yeah

wet fox
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wait who is this?

hot bear
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fish

soft pecan
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it's insanely easy not to be racist/*phobic/whatever

wet fox
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ya he totally deserved it

hot bear
wet fox
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and probably could’ve been banned much sooner lol

wet fox
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i’ve been using the screws with dry blue stuff on the for t mount since i got them

tropic wyvern
wet fox
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you think if i scrubbed it with isopropyl alcohol and a wire brush it’d come off?

gaunt creek
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look at all the drone categories at the bottom lol

soft pecan
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only a few

gaunt creek
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here is the second half

soft pecan
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eta wen

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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fix 5"

gaunt creek
gaunt creek
soft pecan
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something you'd have to try i suppose

gaunt creek
wet fox
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i’d just be scared i’d break a toothpick

soft pecan
split lichen
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God para

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Didn’t I tell you to get conformal coating

soft pecan
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they did get conformal coating

split lichen
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I’m-

brave moth
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didnt use it tho

soft pecan
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seems to not have a great built in power supply

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but they do seem to replace it when the power supply breaks

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so

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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normal hota f6

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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(which is what I did get lol)

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uhh I got mine on AliE

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and the store I got it from doesn't ship to the US anymore

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so

gaunt creek
# soft pecan (which is what I did get lol)
soft pecan
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not really any good

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especially for that stupid ass price

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a hota f6 will be like 90 bucks without tariffs

gaunt creek
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yeah just saw your link thanks

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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ina box

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how portable do you need this to be

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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how portable do you need the charger to be

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does it need to stay small setup wise

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do you want it to be compact setup wise

gaunt creek
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Two addon option

brave moth
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ac power supply takes wall plug and makes it into usually 20v dc so your charger can charge

soft pecan
gaunt creek
soft pecan
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okay but do you want it to be

gaunt creek
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Charge at home is okay

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So if you get both addons you can charge on the go?

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And at home

soft pecan
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i don't know what that site adds as addons

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it's basically a site run by like one dude to sell his setup

gaunt creek
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And plug in ur pincel to solder on field?

soft pecan
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but it isn't well known enough to be sold out of these on a pre-tariff price

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which is just a big 21700 pack, you can do better for way cheaper

gaunt creek
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So ac power supply is wall to charger and the first option is battery

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For on the go

soft pecan
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yes

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but if the goal is "just at home" with the ac power supply

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then

gaunt creek
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So get the second addon and find cheaper battery elsewhere

soft pecan
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you can get 1200W power supplies for like 50 bucks if you look on ebay

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or 500W meanwell ones for 50 bucks

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instead of presumably a 240W power supply they're including

gaunt creek
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So get charger and then battery and power supply elsewhere?

soft pecan
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unless you like the included power supply they're offering yeah

gaunt creek
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And what would a higher W power supply do for me?

soft pecan
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depends on your future plans

gaunt creek
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I that bats can only charge so fast

soft pecan
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if you ever want to charge a really big battery

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or more than 4 batteries at once

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240W might not be enough

gaunt creek
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I'm looking at pyro and I'm not seeing anything cheaper at 15000mah

soft pecan
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it takes like 33 watts to charge one 6s 1500mAh pack at 1C

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so charge 4 6s 1500mAh packs at 2C and that 240W power supply already isn't enough

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for the field charge pack there comes another multiple questions right

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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Would you rather:

  • Buy the 333 watt-hour pack for 200+ dollars
  • Make your own spending AT MOST like 110 dollars in cells, a mildly expensive spot welder (100-200), learn an entirely new skill and spend a few hours making it for the first time
  • Sacrifice size and weight, but buy like two LiFePo4 cells for like 50 bucks max with wiring and hardware.
gaunt creek
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not option 2

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is all of these involving the charger you linked above?

soft pecan
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that's just for a big field pack

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as in options

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could be used with charger

gaunt creek
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i see

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the 333 what hour thing is the first addition in the charger yeah?

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so what about first upgrade and find powersupply elsewhere?

soft pecan
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yeah for the lifepo4 cells you'd need like

soft pecan
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two or so bus bars, a few nuts, if you wanted a balance connector, some wire to solder an xt60 to

soft pecan
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also I believe the packs on that site are from here

gaunt creek
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GFHGJBLUGLDBIKWUDB 4000 DOLLAS!

gaunt creek
gaunt creek
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or use 2 small ones?

gaunt creek
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unless 240 W is too limiting in your opinion

soft pecan
gaunt creek
soft pecan
wet fox
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i just bring my hota t6 with me since it’s tiny

soft pecan
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yeah but then you don't get to hold a huge battery

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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there's some keywords

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like there are some well-known old telekom power supplies

gaunt creek
soft pecan
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like 12v 1200w or 2400w ones

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and then there's cheaper name-brand ones like 500w or 600w meanwell power supplies

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all varying in size

gaunt creek
#

wtf am i looking at

gaunt creek
#

how about this?

soft pecan
#

i know the meanwell looks very scary but it's really simple

gaunt creek
#

Ahh what buy

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Think for me

soft pecan
#

for the meanwell you take one of these friends

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you stick it in the right order in the right 3 slots of the meanwell

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and then you stick an xt60 in the ones labelled 12v

gaunt creek
#

😵‍💫

soft pecan
gaunt creek
#

I like learning but I wanna focus on the sky for now

#

Maybe I take easy way out for now and then expand skills later

soft pecan
#

very much can

gaunt creek
#

Yeah so charger plus the 240 psu for now and come back to it later I think is my plan

gaunt creek
soft pecan
#

i am a little concerned it says restocking

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lol

#

that's probably the one in the options

gaunt creek
soft pecan
#

I am sure there is one for some absurd price? but even the ones you see on other FPV stores end up just being like the meanwell PSU but some random off-brand with a wall plug and xt60 included

hallow oriole
soft pecan
#

jason is disowned

soft pecan
#

it's where you solder directly to a bare cell and damage it

hallow oriole
#

Not if you do it fast

gaunt creek
#

Lol

hallow oriole
#

Idk if id recommend a beginner do it

#

And its slower

soft pecan
#

it's risky

gaunt creek
#

Is anything in this hobby affordable and simple?

hallow oriole
#

But the cells weren't the slightest bit warm when i did it, only took maybe 2 seconds a joint

soft pecan
#

only if you compare it to other hobbies

hallow oriole
#

If it was simple everyone would do it and it wouldn't be worth anything

gaunt creek
#

Okay ordering the carger and AC now

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for a 5" any opinions?

gaunt creek
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im gonna take that as a full approval

gaunt creek
#

Otherwise Gucci?

soft pecan
#

i meean that's a pretty big problem

gaunt creek
soft pecan
#

also 30 for a normal motor is absurd

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fuck you mister felon

#

that motor is supposed to be like 23

#

anyways they have tons of good motors on pyro

gaunt creek
soft pecan
#

yeah

gaunt creek
#

I wanna get 5 high end deluxe super motors for 5"

gaunt creek
#

why is there choices

soft pecan
#

don't bother

gaunt creek
#

just do 0

soft pecan
#

just don't add it to your cart at all

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so

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shipping providers they have

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included insurance

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most ones like fedex, ups, dhl they handle claims pretty easily

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the reason pyro has that on their site is because USPS does not tend to do shipping claims very well and it can take a long time

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i would personally not bother with having third party insurance, and if you're worried just upgrading from USPS

gaunt creek
#

it auto adds but i noticed i can change price

gaunt creek
soft pecan
#

oh I mean I am sure there are better ones than others

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all the expensive ones will be quite durable as well

#

but the question is

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will you notice?

gaunt creek
# soft pecan will you notice?
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cant find anywhere selling it tho 😦

#

they look cool right?

soft pecan
#

oh yeah rcinpower gts are cool

gaunt creek
soft pecan
#

probably only aliexpress to be honest

#

banggood has them too

gaunt creek
#

Never shopped from aliexpress before

gaunt creek
soft pecan
#

it's a marketplace

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so like ebay or amazon

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where a bunch of stores list products on it

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and then the store front/platform itself handles the payment/sometimes aspects of shipping/customer protection

gaunt creek
gaunt creek
soft pecan
#

usually from a lack of understanding what aliexpress actually is

soft pecan
sacred ember
soft pecan
#

that sounds like amazon

gaunt creek
#

You say to be honest that implies problems

soft pecan
#

china doesn't like money or something

gaunt creek
#

I want these motors

soft pecan
#

step 1

#

look at store. kind of shitty rating

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let's check why that actually is

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credibility is good enough

#

9 negative reviews is not fantastic, but none of these reviewers actually knew what was going on

#

TL;DR it's an okay store that might screw you over with stock but likely won't, and you can just call the alie police if they do

gaunt creek
#

I'm gonna buy em 🤑

soft pecan
#

jun 1-16 tends to mean jun 16 by the way

#

lol

gaunt creek
#

To bad IMA buy them

soft pecan
#

yeah uncharacteristically long

gaunt creek
#

For drone number 5

soft pecan
#

oh also

soft pecan
#

brands do have official stores on it

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like you can find radiomaster official store on there

#

cnhl official store

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many official stores

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geprc

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whatever

#

which tends to mean extra protection as opposed to ordering it from said brands own website

gaunt creek
#

1960kv or 2040?

soft pecan
#

what's the goal of the drone

gaunt creek
#

Freestyle

soft pecan
#

what flavor

gaunt creek
soft pecan
#

so fast?

#

no smooth only nyoom

#

either really

gaunt creek
soft pecan
#

go with 1960kv then

#

it's more typical

ruby ice
#

yo para

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ive been off discord for a while

#

can i have a cookie as a welcome back

gaunt creek
ruby ice
#

thanks and aight i wont tell @brave moth about it

soft pecan
#

oh and the aliexpress search sucks

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it's like something you have to learn how to use

#

it never listens

ruby ice
#

ask it for 20mm and itll give you 200 fr

soft pecan
#

but i guess that's what amazon and stuff are like nowadays too lol

ruby ice
#

amazon is lowkey good in australia

soft pecan
#

eh amazon has always kind of sucked in the netherlands

#

it only got introduced not too long ago

#

and we already had like an amazon-esque thing that was better

#

so now they just fight and it's sad because like fuck amazon, let us keep our dutch company

gaunt creek
#

fuck amazon

#

buying things is my hobby

gaunt creek
#

cant wait to show you guys spreadsheet 3.0

#

its coming together nicely

heavy panther
#

Hows the progress?

#

Fixing drone 1? Or building drone 2

ruby ice
heavy panther
#

dang'

tropic wyvern
shadow bolt
#

If you can still see the floor then there's not enough Blahaj
Also I want them, it must be so fun to be able to swim in an ocean of blahajs

soft pecan
#

what do you mean you want to build that drone

#

that's an O4 Pro on basically nothing

tropic wyvern
#

that drone is nothing

#

just a render

soft pecan
#

it's just an o4 pro

#

there's no size, there's no frame, there's not really motors

#

You'd need to pick a size first

hot bear
#

so apart from missing almost everything, its complete

gaunt creek
hot bear
soft pecan
#

does that mean under 250 grams

gaunt creek
#

Just make 2.5 inches!

hot bear
gaunt creek
#

That's like drone number 7

hot bear
#

so whats the size of nr 2

gaunt creek
#

The neo is number 2

hot bear
gaunt creek
#

Drone 3 is is the neo 2 (Pavo femto)

gaunt creek
#

Drone 5 is another 5" just for good measure

tropic wyvern
#

dud are you rich or something

gaunt creek
#

Total section is under repair

gaunt creek
gaunt creek
tropic wyvern
gaunt creek
gaunt creek
#

I want to fly

#

And being grounded sux

#

I need 7 drones so that does not happen again

tropic wyvern
gaunt creek
tropic wyvern
#

analog

#

yo wtf

#

how

gaunt creek
#

I used to play thousands of thousands of hours of video games. After giving that up I have had a major void to fill

tropic wyvern
gaunt creek
#

Neo 2 is o4 lite

#

Neo is your drone a-swell so I'm not so sure about that

gaunt creek
#

guys... i added it all up

hot bear
#

impressive

#

I'm somewhere between 2-2.5k with my 3 analog quads

gaunt creek
#

how can we reach 6k and i cant fly

#

lol

soft pecan
#

it's because dji

gaunt creek
gaunt creek
soft pecan
#

i mean you know it's true

#

lol

#

doubles the cost of each drone

shadow bolt
#

I wonder how deep I'm in, I'm scared of actually adding it up

#

No

#

I dun want to get depressed

hot bear
#

I'll stick to my estimates

shadow bolt
stark flower
#

1/3 of my air units I got free or next to free.
1/3 at a great discount.
So that means the final 1/3 I bought at full price I can not think about the costs.
😏

shadow bolt
#

I should also go threaten divimath for free vtxs

#

That will make my life much less painful

stark flower
#

Free parts from working in the industry, doesn't offset the low pay and next to 0 benefits.
Sadly.

Better off having a "real job" and just paying full price for RC shit.

shadow bolt
#

By curiosity, how much money is there in fpv (like profit manufacturer side) ?
Feels like depending on who you look at it's either zillions or pennies

stark flower
#

Get FPV seems to do alright in terms of their margins on their branded stuff.
Also they r doing/did well in terms of warehouse expansion and getting larger.

But also IDK how much of that is just FL being easier for certain business actions.
They (getfpv) were exceedingly leery about paying a few extra bucks for a employee, cuz:

"well getfpv could almost get 2X FL employees for that cost."

Also their cybersecurity is a shitshow and system of VPN half made back doors and was begging for abuse.
Found out later on that apparently a pilot I know when in young and dumb in HighSchool just fucking around.

Found their way into GETFPVs system and issued themselves like 10,000$ worth of gift cards.
They didn't even notice till they bought shit with the cards lol.

soft pecan
#

i tend to not be able to get on getfpv's website anymore

#

they have the cloudflare protection way up to where each click is a captcha or it just blocks me

stark flower
# shadow bolt By curiosity, how much money is there in fpv (like profit manufacturer side) ? F...

Then theres NBD.
Which isn't a real business nor cares about anything.
DGAF labor laws.
Warehouse safety laws.
Item defect rate.
Theft.
Lost orders etc.

They don't care.
All that's important to NBD is that the rich family $$ trapped in china, gets turned into $$ in USA at an acceptable transfer rate and speed.

Legally you can only move so much $$ per year as $$ out of china.
But you can make all the drone parts you want and sell them overseas.

NBD is just a vechile to move money, not a business.
So long as the transaction is operating at an acceptable loss/transfer rate.

They don't give a shit about anything else.

#

But they r in denial about that so.
🤷‍♂️

shadow bolt
#

well that's interesting

stark flower
#

I should probably email them about that let them know.

gaunt creek
#

look at the spreadsheet its done

tropic wyvern
gaunt creek
#

@soft pecan @stark flower @shadow bolt @soft pecan @split lichen @brave moth @hallow oriole @tropic wyvern @solemn cairn

brave moth
#

huh

split lichen
#

Bro

#

Why the fuck

tropic wyvern
#

lmao

gaunt creek
split lichen
#

God the bullying is about to go crazy

gaunt creek
#

look at it lol

split lichen
#

Nah

tropic wyvern
brave moth
#

please dont interrupt my blahaj cuddling sessions

gaunt creek
tropic wyvern
soft pecan
#

hell no on that aio

#

120 dollars for a really shitty aio

#

not even usb-c

#

sobbing

brave moth
tropic wyvern
soft pecan
tropic wyvern
brave moth
#

freakhaj

tropic wyvern
brave moth
#

it didnt fit me and i had to carry it somehow

tropic wyvern
#

phew

gaunt creek
#

so what u guys think of the spreadsheet? 😉

soft pecan
#

very functional

#

very spreadsheet

gaunt creek
soft pecan
#

expected

gaunt creek
#

now look at the spreadsheet

hot bear
soft pecan
#

you already have yapper

hot bear
#

I HAVE

#

I never noticed PepePogSpin

#

My life is good now

#

The yapping paid off

soft pecan
#

you've had it since last time you asked and it kind of became a

#

"how long till they notice" thing

#

weeks apparently

#

<@&1266954578708922490>

gaunt creek
#

@soft pecan I want a special role! what do i have to do? ive been super annoying I could ramp it up!

#

plz plz plz

split lichen
#

i was pinged via a method i enjoy

#

yapper

hot bear
#

Yap

split lichen
#

yap

#

yappity yap

soft pecan
split lichen
#

wait crasher got yapper?

gaunt creek
naive tundra
#

What did I get pung for

hot bear
split lichen
#

yapper

#

god watch lean come

#

lean vs para who wins

#

i bet lean

soft pecan
#

lean did this to themselves

#

literally

gaunt creek
#

but but i made a whole new discord server in the discord server

gaunt creek
soft pecan
#

99 messages till 10k messages

shell willow
#

why did I get added to this shit

gaunt creek
soft pecan
shell willow
#

what

soft pecan
#

yapper role

gaunt creek
shell willow
#

kbye

split lichen
heavy panther
#

10k is so close

#

we have 42 people who suffered pain!

#

we need to get that to 50

#

also para is cooking up an essay

#

or is sleeping on a keyboard

#

oh hell yeah

#

i wasnt pinged tho 😭

#

para could you ping me too :3

brave moth
heavy panther
#

thaks kind person

heavy panther
#

i mean aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa is good... but what bout bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

#

bbbbbb is the real shit yk?

hot bear
#

Heheheha

heavy panther
#

how many words are we betting?

#

i would cry

queen monolith
#

Is this hypothetical? I hope it's hypothetical

heavy panther
#

but! i dont have to worry cuz i dont have 4k!

brave moth
#

move to a state that doesnt ban drones

queen monolith
#

Oh I see. Are you near the border of the state? If so might be worth keeping it around

#

Might be able to fly whoops inside

tropic wyvern
#

lol

queen monolith
#

Or find a rich dude with a giant hangar and fly in there

#

Like it might be a bit of a trip but if it's drivable you could make it a weekend trip or something idk

#

Damn Para's been typing forever

cloud seal
#

i mean... frias still exist no?

gaunt creek
#

We are close

queen monolith
#

I'm 30 minutes from the nearest big town 💀

cloud seal
queen monolith
#

30 minutes is nothing

gaunt creek
#

50ish messages away

queen monolith
gaunt creek
#

Message is ready

#

1

#

23

#

45

#

67

#

8

#

9

queen monolith
#

It won't count

gaunt creek
#

Those are some of my favorite numbers

gaunt creek
#

Tell

#

Me

#

In

#

Detail

#

Hello night eagle

#

How

#

Is

#

Your

#

Day

#

Going?

cloud seal
#

speedrunning 10k

gaunt creek
queen monolith
cloud seal
#

smh let it happen naturally

queen monolith
#

The mods delete the thread

gaunt creek
#

Cookies

gaunt creek
cloud seal
#

lmaoo

gaunt creek
#

Monsters!

wispy nest
#

...

dense vigil
soft pecan
#

again?

vague solar
#

12 msgs more to go

wispy nest
#

suck it

wispy compass
#

Ban

pale solar
#

pack it up boys

wispy nest
#

I locked it for a little while, you'll take a break thanks to @unreal cargo

#

don't ping mods for no reason, what did you expect

#

you knew what you were doing since it was taken down almost instantly

#

be free

naive tundra
#

YAHAHA

cloud seal
#

yay!

hot bear
#

Who needs social media when you have geometry dash daily chat

heavy panther
#

thanks god

naive tundra
#

Time to ping @ mods fr

heavy panther
cloud seal
#

wait does @mod work

hot bear
naive tundra
#

Wait

#

No

#

Spell out "moderator" with an @ infront

heavy panther
#

wait you actually can ping just the role?

cloud seal
#

lol guys

heavy panther
#

even admin

#

dang

hot bear
wispy nest