Sometimes folks ask me, what parts I use on my freestyle drones and the last time that happened I promised I would write some blog articles describing my actual fleet.

In the second article in this series and I will describe my second race drone built with a commercial frame with a lifetime guarantee, the original Chameleon. My first article in this series was called X210 race drone and described the very first race drone I've built in detail.

The Chameleon was my second race drone. I built it in the second half of summer 2017, after having flown my X210 race drone for a while.

These are the parts I've used in this Chameleon build:

• Omnibus F4 Pro V3
• Typhoon32 V2.2 4in1 BLHeli_32 35A 2-6S ESC (I used the V1)
• 4x Emax RS2306 White Edition 2400KV 3-4S Racing Brushless Motor
• Armattan Chameleon 5" Frame
• 4x Realacc M3*7+4.5 Flight Controller Anti-Vibration Fixed Screws
• 2 Pair DALPROP T5045C Cyclone 5" 3 Blade Propeller (at first)
• 2 Pairs Dalprop T5046 Cyclone 5" 3 Blade Propeller (today)
• RunCam Eagle 2 Pro (Audio, WDR, 800TVL, CMOS) FPV Camera
• EWRF e708TM3 5.8G 48CH 25/200/600mW FPV Transmitter
• UFOFPV 5.8G LHCP RX/TX FPV Pagoda Antenna
• FrSky R-XSR SBUS 16CH Mini Redundancy Receiver (1.5g)
• RunCam 3 64G HD 1080p/60fps NTSC/PAL (no longer produced)
• Panasonic TP RADIAL Alu Kondensator 2000μF Low-ESR

The drone essentially consists of a commercial frame from Armattan combined with some original parts from Runcam and Frsky. The lifetime frame guarantee of Armattan gives a lot of peace of mind when flying.

The links in the list above for the flight control and BLC point to a german shop. I would propose to buy the flight controller and BLC from a respectable shop in Europe to make sure they are built with a certain amount of quality control.

Besides the drone build these are some of the accessories I've used with it:

• iSDT SC-620 500W 20A MINI Smart LCD Battery Balance Charger
• Eachine VR D2 Pro 5 Inches 800*480 40CH 5.8G Diversity FPV Goggles
• 4x FPVRacing 1350mAh 5S 95C LiPo Battery (XT60)

As you can see I'm using 5S 95C LiPo batteries with this setup. The drone flys with 4S 95C batteries as well but I've become so used to the plentiful power the 5S batteries deliver that I don't to miss it anymore. I'm also very happy with the iSDT charger. iSDT makes some nice and cheap chargers, my brother and I own 4 of them in total.

Make sure to check out my article on my X210 race drone and my race drone backpack and it's contents, including my modified box goggle!

Cheers!
- Amir