Deep Reaper

[hugy]

You have to build them from the ground up with all the gear you want. Than when everything is installed tape the bats on for correct cg and cut the bat bays.

[Derrick]

I was hoping to slowly build this up into a FPV plane but seems like i will never get the COG right if i make it without all the camera gear then add that later in a few months.

You can build it with dummy weight where you will be putting fpv gear. Will take some research to figure out what everything weighs, but this way you can build it slowly and get stick time.

[Dogsock]

Never having done this, what's the best way to cut out recessed spots on the EPP for electronics? Razer blade and then use plyers to pull out? I've also seen a few recommendations to use a solder iron tip?

Any suggestions would be great as I'm ready to do it with my new wing.

[hugy]

Mark the size of the bay you want.
Cut all the way through the wing.
Get the block of epp out.
Cut at the right height.
Glue the floot back in.

This is the cleanest way of doing it.

[Dogsock]

Great. That's perfect. What kind of blade are you using?

[hugy]

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...idProduct=9335

But any hobby knife will do.

[tmophoto]

a much cleaner and much much better way is to use a soldering iron with a wire bent to the shape that your electronic thing is.

cutting all the way through the wing destroys the integrity of it (and if its been covered with lam) then it makes it even worse.

you can get super clean cuts with a soldering iron. you can also use a sharp razor to cut around the object (dont cut as deep as you need yet) then peel that little block out and then make it deeper with a soldering iron.

watch the TBS zeph builds and the Crashtesthobby builds and you will see the necessity of having a soldering iron (or two)

[tmophoto]

You can build it with dummy weight where you will be putting fpv gear. Will take some research to figure out what everything weighs, but this way you can build it slowly and get stick time.

thanks thats the direction i was headed, i have everything installed but have yet to cut the battery bays. I wanted to somehow make it so i could use 2 30004s batteries or one or 2 5000 3s or 4s batteries that i have. would be awesome to have a plane with a little more versatility in terms of what can power it. getting it all to balance is the tricky part. a lot harder to build one of these correctly than it was to slap together the albatross and huck it in the air the same day.

[tmophoto]

is this a bad idea? i am covering all exposed metal with liquid electrical tape then hot gluing it into the foam so i can plug the batteries into the esc easily (the esc can be yanked in case i need to cut power fast.. one plug)

i reflowed the bottom joint and got it nice and hot. there is about a 1" piece of 14ga wire that i completely tinned in the + and - cups then that was soldered to the 90º plug

[hugy]

Yeah looks good, I use the same thing but with deans connectors.