Here’s my teardown of the Drone Racing League (DRL) 2017 Racer 3 quad!!!! This is one of the ones actually used in Racing rather than my Practice quad so this is exactly as they will be seen on TV on June 10th onwards… 🙂
If you’ve wanted to know more about the quad since launch then this is the place to be 🙂 Whether you’re after prop information or what kinda batteries it uses then you can find it all here. Full spec is listed below in the description, or you can watch the video to find out more. If you have any questions about anything to do with the Racer 3 then please just comment below and I will answer as best I can 🙂
Useful video times:
[00:00] – Introduction
[00:52] – LED Demo
[01:12] – Waterproofing
[01:47] – Canopy Information
[02:28] – General Specs
[04:04] – GoPro / FPV Information
[05:12] – Canopy Removal
[06:24] – Inside Overview
[07:37] – Underside – Battery & Strap
[08:25] – FPV Camera
[08:55] – Motor + ESC
[09:44] – PDB Wiring
[10:14] – Frame Thickness
[11:10] – Weight & Racer 2 comparison
[13:20] – Fitting Canopy back on
[14:05] – Final Thoughts
Quad Specs:
DRL Custom Polycarbonate Canopy (full cover)
DRL 4mm Custom TrueX Frame (271mm motor to motor)
DRL Custom PDB with 12v + 5v regulators
Motolabs Cyclone
TBS Crossfire V2 Micro Receiver
Rotorgeeks RG20 Plus ESC’s
BrotherHobby T2 2206 1800kv
HQProp 6x4x3 Propellers
Rotorgeeks HS1177 with GoPro 2.5mm lens
TS5823 Video Transmitter (modified)
Lumenier AXII (LHCP)
Upper and Lower Addressable LED’s
Pulse 1800mAh 5s 75C Lipo
The FC is running a custom version of Betaflight (3.0.1) that allows for 5 rate profile banks, and also the custom LED code that we use to show our pilot colours 🙂
Weight: ~980g with GoPro Session 5
Flight Time: 1-2 minutes depending on speed
Product reviews: http://matthew-evans.info
HQProp – http://hqprop.com
Do they let y’all sell old racers? C’mon, they gotta be ditching them somewhere. There’s so many opportunities to sell & donate to charity, donate to schools and let highschools begin competitions, or plain sell them. Maybe partner with airhogs or something and have a mini racer 3
link for buy frame??
lol Oneshot125
Great video! I’ve been after a tear down video of one of these beasts ?. Have I missed something, to change the lipo, you have got to remove 8 screws and disassemble the protective canopy?
WTF 1KG ? it must fly like an train
Wow, I wonder why Brotherhobby don’t sell these motors to re sellers.
can i buy ths ?!
Dang that’s ugly in person, see you at Allianz btw. Tickets booked!
BLheli running Oneshot125??? At least use Multishot…
the video it’s ok but you need to be more intratening, camera view was very hard to see anything.
Hello,
Please give me some advice, I want to buy a racing droning, and I do not know what to take, there are many models. I do not think I will be able to build myself.
im thinking i could make a similar style frame a lot lighter than that using thick lexan and carbon framing for camera mounts instead of tpu. very cool design though.