Part 1
Hello Everyone,
I decided to try my hand at a complete build ( ground up ). It will be a Phantom 2 vision when I'm done!
I've never done anything like this before, so we will see what happens?
Here is what I have to deal with:
That is a LOT of parts!
The STORY:
About a year ago, I bought a water damaged P2v ( mainly for the shell, and accessories ) came with everything, Tx, charger, box with everything inside, ONLY bird was toast, I bought it all for $50. ( craigslist ), I stripped it out as all electronics inside were destroyed by the saltwater. Then a few months ago, my GREAT friend ( DIRKCLOD ) a member here, sent me ( 4 motors, and 4 esc's) as he upgraded his phantom with new ones ( 2213's ),
Donated his ( 2212's ) to me for FREE! ( with a lot of other goodies as well!
Thank you @dirkclod
Then another member here sold me ( main board, naza-m, GPS puck, and 5.8Ghz receiver all for $150 ) ( Atyler34 )
THANK YOU @Atyler34
I found a complete vision FC200 camera at a camera repair shop for $80 ( told me it was not working )?
As he could not get it to LINK up!
Thanks ( Josh O. ) @ Device Savers Tampa Florida!
Now I had almost everything to build a spare phantom!
Parts I had to buy retail
1) USB PORT ( $8 )
2) screw set ( note these sets are NOT complete sets ) only provide 10 motor screws, 16 needed, and 10 top casing screws, 12 needed! ( I had to buy another set ( $6 each ) ( $12 spent )
3) cable set ( $14 )
Total
Bird, Tx, accessories ( $50 )
Circuitry. ( $150 )
Camera. ( $80 )
Misc. ( $34 )
Total cost of build
( less my time ). $314.00 for a stock p2v. Not bad at all!
The build:
First thing I tackled, was motors and esc's. ( MOTORS ) I wanted fresh bearings in the motors, went like this:
Bearing replacement: ( 101 ) lol
Remove " E-clip ", and " Spacer " with small flat screwdriver, like this:
Place these in a safe place for reassembly
Next pull bell off of motor
Now you will need these items ( spacer, dowel, small screw, vice, plastic hammer )
To remove base bearing
Place small screw through motor to bottom bearing, place spacer under, then tighten vice
Now top is a bit tricky as windings protrude past bearings.
I took the dowel, and plastic hammer like this
Should look like this when done
Ok
Next speed controls ( esc's ) the wires were cut, causing them to be too short, so I had to build new ones.
The speed controls
So I took 2 pieces of ( 16awg ) wire, and a piece of 1/4" shrink tube, and made my own reproduction pieces! Had to build 4
Turned out PERFECT!
Alrighty then:
Speed control assembly
First had to REMOVE old wires
Now with all old wires removed, time to solder on new ( custom built ) wires
Turned out nice
Part 2 below!
J Dot
Hello Everyone,
I decided to try my hand at a complete build ( ground up ). It will be a Phantom 2 vision when I'm done!
I've never done anything like this before, so we will see what happens?
Here is what I have to deal with:
That is a LOT of parts!
The STORY:
About a year ago, I bought a water damaged P2v ( mainly for the shell, and accessories ) came with everything, Tx, charger, box with everything inside, ONLY bird was toast, I bought it all for $50. ( craigslist ), I stripped it out as all electronics inside were destroyed by the saltwater. Then a few months ago, my GREAT friend ( DIRKCLOD ) a member here, sent me ( 4 motors, and 4 esc's) as he upgraded his phantom with new ones ( 2213's ),
Donated his ( 2212's ) to me for FREE! ( with a lot of other goodies as well!
Thank you @dirkclod
Then another member here sold me ( main board, naza-m, GPS puck, and 5.8Ghz receiver all for $150 ) ( Atyler34 )
THANK YOU @Atyler34
I found a complete vision FC200 camera at a camera repair shop for $80 ( told me it was not working )?
As he could not get it to LINK up!
Thanks ( Josh O. ) @ Device Savers Tampa Florida!
Now I had almost everything to build a spare phantom!
Parts I had to buy retail
1) USB PORT ( $8 )
2) screw set ( note these sets are NOT complete sets ) only provide 10 motor screws, 16 needed, and 10 top casing screws, 12 needed! ( I had to buy another set ( $6 each ) ( $12 spent )
3) cable set ( $14 )
Total
Bird, Tx, accessories ( $50 )
Circuitry. ( $150 )
Camera. ( $80 )
Misc. ( $34 )
Total cost of build
( less my time ). $314.00 for a stock p2v. Not bad at all!
The build:
First thing I tackled, was motors and esc's. ( MOTORS ) I wanted fresh bearings in the motors, went like this:
Bearing replacement: ( 101 ) lol
Remove " E-clip ", and " Spacer " with small flat screwdriver, like this:
Place these in a safe place for reassembly
Next pull bell off of motor
Now you will need these items ( spacer, dowel, small screw, vice, plastic hammer )
To remove base bearing
Place small screw through motor to bottom bearing, place spacer under, then tighten vice
Now top is a bit tricky as windings protrude past bearings.
I took the dowel, and plastic hammer like this
Should look like this when done
Ok
Next speed controls ( esc's ) the wires were cut, causing them to be too short, so I had to build new ones.
The speed controls
So I took 2 pieces of ( 16awg ) wire, and a piece of 1/4" shrink tube, and made my own reproduction pieces! Had to build 4
Turned out PERFECT!
Alrighty then:
Speed control assembly
First had to REMOVE old wires
Now with all old wires removed, time to solder on new ( custom built ) wires
Turned out nice
Part 2 below!
J Dot
I got a really cool video that I'll post in my media (when I set it up one of these days LOL) of a 500 foot radius around my neighborhood using a right turn in home lock making a complete circle. Your yaw switch came in real handy keeping the video nice and smooth and the camera pointing away from me the whole time
