Reynard
Introduction
I've been pretty excited about the beta75x frame ever since they released it. Unfortunately, I was disappointed in the stock beta75x's choice of components (mainly the FC & ESC), so I wanted to build my own instead. They really should've gone with the crazybee 2s board instead. I had built Bender with 6500kv motors and felt that 10000kv may be a bit too much for indoors, so I went with 8000kvs instead.
Components:
- Beta75x frame
- frsky micro D8 receiver
- Super S F4 FC + 4 in 1 ESC
- EaglePower SA1103 8000kv x4
- King Kong 41mm props
- LST S2 AIO camera/vtx
Conclusion
This new frame is beefier (and heavier) than the old beta75 frame. Granted, I never broke the old frame even through months of hard crashes, but I did appreciate the taller ducts for the 1103 motors which does reduce the need for replacing props. I still had to replace three of them though in my first day of flying...lol. After all was said and done, it came to 40grams. A bit heavier than I wanted, but it looked better than bender for sure. hahaha.
I was very impressed with the efficiency of these motors. Even with my older GNB 450mah lipos, I was getting 5:30 flights with the battery coming down at 3.7v per cell. I feel like I could've easily pushed to 7 min or more if I wanted to run it down to 3.3v. With my even older nanotech 300mahs, I was getting a solid 3mins.
Performance wise, it handles well. Definitely wasn't hard to handle like moskito's 10000kv motors since I only fly indoors. I'll need to fly it some more time to see which one I enjoy more compared to Bender. That said, I still think Flexo is probably the most fun of them all (even though the battery life isn't as good).
Update 7/26/19 - I decided not to rebuild this after the frame failed.