ROA Parkour 280 Racer
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ROA Parkour 280 Racer
280 parkour
INTRODUCTION
Here is a new "cheap" RTF 5.8G FPV racer here slightly larger, to be more precise a 280mm quadcopter. The ROA Parkour 280
brings some little novolties versus other "cheap" RTF competitor (such as the Eachine Racer 250, Emax 280): i) a canopy is added to dress the machine and ii) arms are foldable. Other elements are classic for a 5.8G racer: a 700TVL FPV cam coupled with a 32CH 200mW VTX.
Pleaase find my first informations. More to come ASAP.
BOX CONTENT
+ 1 x Parkour 280 (with a 3S 2200mAh LiPo with XT60)
+ 1 x Transmitter (using 4xAA batteries not included)
+ 1 x Charger
+ 4 x props (2 CW, 2 CCW)
+ 1 x 5.8G Linear Antenna
+ 1 x Instruction manual (English)
+ 1 x Transportation bag
OVERVIEW
The machine comes with the same type of basic transportation bag than the EC250 from Eachine for example.
Plates (both bottom and upper) are 1mm thin in carbon
Arms are in aluminium
-Side view
-Rear view
A tiny switch to turn on/off LEDs
-Upper view
You can guess the buitlin CC3D board. The default OS is Openpilot. You can expect to install easily Baseflight/Cleanfight/Betaflight.
As you can see, the 2.4G antenna is installed very close to the 5.8G source...
I modded this antenna with a zip tie and by drilling a small hole in the canopy part.
-Bottom view
-Weight
Close to 570g ...
Motors
Motor housing
A 700 SONY TVL module
Connexion are done with 3 differents connectors
A free port is available, maybe to connect a settingcable
Video transmitter
A 6 pisition DIP switch. No information can be find in the instruction manual about the frequencies's list. By default, mine was set in E4=5645Mhz.
Transmitter
A first entry FlySky model without any LCD display. Two 2-way switches SWA & SWB. Only SWA is configured with Openpilot
Be sure to the ELE channel reversed.
FIRST USAGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOs_PsiPiC8
CONCLUSIONS
UNBOXING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zirUo7hbd0
PROS
+ Good 700 TVL FPV cam (handling well light transitions)
+ Clean plate for the FPV/action cam
+ Foldable arms
+ Good radio range (>300m)
+ Cheap RTF machine
+ Cleanfight/betaflight compatible (flash the betaflight_CC3D_OPBL.bin fil via Openpilit, disable oneshot125, enable PPM receiver)
CONS
- Fragile plastic C-clips locking arms
- Throttle glitches out of the box (probably linked with default Openpilot PIDs/filter values)
- Almost no information in instruction manual
- Poor quality M2 hexscrews (making maintenance difficult)
This quadcopter have been courtesy provided by Banggood in order to make a fair and not biased review. I would like to thanks them for this attitude.
You can find it actually for 200USD at http://www.banggood.com/ROA-Parkour-280-Racer-With-Flysky-2_4G-4CH-Transmitter-CCD-SONY-700TVL-Camera-RTF-p-1017505.html
INTRODUCTION
Here is a new "cheap" RTF 5.8G FPV racer here slightly larger, to be more precise a 280mm quadcopter. The ROA Parkour 280
brings some little novolties versus other "cheap" RTF competitor (such as the Eachine Racer 250, Emax 280): i) a canopy is added to dress the machine and ii) arms are foldable. Other elements are classic for a 5.8G racer: a 700TVL FPV cam coupled with a 32CH 200mW VTX.
Pleaase find my first informations. More to come ASAP.
BOX CONTENT
+ 1 x Parkour 280 (with a 3S 2200mAh LiPo with XT60)
+ 1 x Transmitter (using 4xAA batteries not included)
+ 1 x Charger
+ 4 x props (2 CW, 2 CCW)
+ 1 x 5.8G Linear Antenna
+ 1 x Instruction manual (English)
+ 1 x Transportation bag
OVERVIEW
The machine comes with the same type of basic transportation bag than the EC250 from Eachine for example.
Plates (both bottom and upper) are 1mm thin in carbon
Arms are in aluminium
-Side view
-Rear view
A tiny switch to turn on/off LEDs
-Upper view
You can guess the buitlin CC3D board. The default OS is Openpilot. You can expect to install easily Baseflight/Cleanfight/Betaflight.
As you can see, the 2.4G antenna is installed very close to the 5.8G source...
I modded this antenna with a zip tie and by drilling a small hole in the canopy part.
-Bottom view
-Weight
Close to 570g ...
Motors
Motor housing
A 700 SONY TVL module
Connexion are done with 3 differents connectors
A free port is available, maybe to connect a settingcable
Video transmitter
A 6 pisition DIP switch. No information can be find in the instruction manual about the frequencies's list. By default, mine was set in E4=5645Mhz.
Transmitter
A first entry FlySky model without any LCD display. Two 2-way switches SWA & SWB. Only SWA is configured with Openpilot
Be sure to the ELE channel reversed.
FIRST USAGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOs_PsiPiC8
CONCLUSIONS
UNBOXING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zirUo7hbd0
PROS
+ Good 700 TVL FPV cam (handling well light transitions)
+ Clean plate for the FPV/action cam
+ Foldable arms
+ Good radio range (>300m)
+ Cheap RTF machine
+ Cleanfight/betaflight compatible (flash the betaflight_CC3D_OPBL.bin fil via Openpilit, disable oneshot125, enable PPM receiver)
CONS
- Fragile plastic C-clips locking arms
- Throttle glitches out of the box (probably linked with default Openpilot PIDs/filter values)
- Almost no information in instruction manual
- Poor quality M2 hexscrews (making maintenance difficult)
This quadcopter have been courtesy provided by Banggood in order to make a fair and not biased review. I would like to thanks them for this attitude.
You can find it actually for 200USD at http://www.banggood.com/ROA-Parkour-280-Racer-With-Flysky-2_4G-4CH-Transmitter-CCD-SONY-700TVL-Camera-RTF-p-1017505.html
