 Ah. Amazing. I love the Rotorad guys, but they've been stuck on 4S for too long. So I brought a drone that offers three times the power. It's a 12S mini quad. That is too much. It is not too much. What are you gonna do with all that junk? Try this bad boy out. Oh God. It's so heavy. It is. What is this weight like? It's like six pounds? I have never actually weighed it because I don't wanna know at that point. These are running seven inch props on a 2812 stator, 900KV. And I took these ESCs, which are APD ESCs, which are generally made for like X-Class drones. So like Zoe flies these on her X-Class rigs. Two 6S packs in series. And then they both plug in at the same time. But if you calculate the 900KV up to 12S voltage, it actually has a higher RPM than like 4S 2700KV. Really? Just the idea of seven inch props spinning at a higher RPM than five inch props. That's already a little scary. But because of the high voltage and the huge stator, the motors actually stay relatively cool. Okay. And it can actually kick those props up to the high RPM. Oh my gosh. So it is hilariously fast. What's the total voltage then? That puts it at? 50 volts. But 50 volts exactly. Yeah, 50.4 is full. That is, that's a lot. Yeah. That'll shock you when you plug it in. It's like. Uh, it just kind of pops every time you plug it in. It's a little sketch. Nice. Now I'm also noticing there's two other batteries back here. You've got two, one cell. Are these just like tiny what batteries? Yeah. So this was just like an afternoon idea. I was like, I'll just build this quad with 12 S power. And I didn't have a way to step down 12 S voltage to five volts on hand. So I literally just took two tiny what batteries, put them in series and then powered the receiver video transmitter camera of flight controller all out of that. And then all the motors and ESCs are powered off of the 12 S. Okay. Now this is a terrible build. Again, it was just like an afternoon. So like the VTX is there and then the VTX antenna just goes front into the carbon sandwich. We use the smallest video transmitter. I'm the biggest one I have yet. It's just like a... It's a TBS unified Nano. This is a very interesting build. I could definitely spend a lot of time just kind of dissecting everything you did here. Let's take this awful build to the resident drone builder. See what he thinks about my beautiful work here. Give us a full critique on the build. I like the side of jobs, nice and tight. Wow, arms are beefy. Yeah. Wire could be a little bit nicer, but hey. There it is. I mean... I'm sure this is a prototype, right? I threw it together in like an hour or one. Yeah, let's go with exapotive type. It's supposed to be that way. Meanwhile, look at how immaculate his stuff is, you know? It's just like, oh, that's so pretty. All the wires are on this. And then that's just like... I just stuffed two batteries in the back. So you just threw the wires like... So if you want a real build quad, get it from this guy here at Rotorite. Well, I like how he hacked it together. If you guys are interested in seeing more about exactly what Paul did to put this together, he has a video on his channel where he really walks through everything that he did. All the experiments. To make this fly. Yeah, all the experiment. I love watching a very real look into the experimenting process of making something like this possible. Check the link in the description to Paul's video. But today, we're just gonna fly this thing. We're gonna see what this thing can do. We're gonna get it up to high speed. We're gonna try freestyling it around some proximity. I mean, it's just up front. Like, how mad are you gonna be if it gets broke? Like, how much can we put here? The only thing that I'm really worried about are the ESCs, which are $100 a pop. Okay. I'll show you the plug-in process. You guys are gonna love this pop sound here in a sec. Listen up, listen up. Oh, God. I don't know if it's gonna translate on camera, but it really, it sounded like, you know those little snap pops? Like, it's that loud. Like that what? Who wants the Piper's? Not me. Edwin, you want first crack at it? I'm gonna step it up to the plate here. Here, come here, ready for this? Ah! That is so cool. You're only gonna really have like a minute left on these batteries. This is your arm here. All right. This is the end of the battery now. Don't kill me. Yeah, I'm gonna run along the black thing. Are you ready? I think that battery's already done, because watching that, it was not accelerating. It wasn't as loud. If I could get like some more camera tilt, I think that would, Oh, you want to go faster? Yeah. All right, ready for scary sound again? Yep. It sounds like a, I heard it. I heard it. XTs. It was like a freaking firecracker. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, dude. Coming in hot. How fast is it? Whoa, whoa. 92 right now. 92 and he's not even at full speed. Whoa, whoa! One of us. All right, we'll just flip your copies then. But they're not like blistering, but that's 50,000 RPM on a seven inch prop, which is absurd. I wouldn't say this is hardly any warmer than my motors on my five inch quad. Well, your motors on your five inch quad are running 2400 kV, 2500. Right. The battery's drained already. Just a couple passes. Yeah, let's walk about. That just sucks them right out. I want to shot at this. Yeah, I got one more set. Oh, that pop, dude. It's like a snap pop every time. Look at the braking on these ESCs though. This is a really great tune. This is really well tuned. Don't fall, fate of flight, stuck. Know what? It's the ESCs. They're Pro Shot 1000. And they just have those amazing batteries. It feels really, really nice. It's the ESCs. It definitely has that kind of DRL racer feel where you don't get the RPMs instantaneously. You have to spool into them. Yeah, I said it felt like flying a turbo. I really feel the size of it. You know, you always kind of think like, what's going to make it feel big? Cause it's the same camera, but you can just feel like, I know I'm flying a big quad and I can feel it. Sound doesn't for me. I just like hearing that thing. I'm going to do a little flip through that. Maybe. Yep. Oh, I see. I wonder if this is going to get stuck in Spanish Moss or if we finally have something that can just cut through it. Oh dude, my heart is like, I love this feeling. I love feeling like something, you know what I mean? Like I've been flying five inches for so long that like it doesn't, I don't know. Like it doesn't have, oh, I'm in the Moss. Yeah, it's just cutting right through it. It doesn't have that dangerous thing to it. You know, I just feel like, yeah, I'm flying my quad. It feels so normal, but now this has me going like, dude, we're doing some stuff. All right, here's another V. Woo! Yeah, you just cut some Moss down right there. Got the power loop, got the awning loop. All right, I need to feel what an inverted yaw spin is like. That is so nice, nerd. That is so nice. This is so nice. It's so much momentum. It's so like. Give it a full punch before you go into that and you'll still be moving up. Yeah. That's still going up. Now you're falling. It's exactly what you're saying. Well, hold on, Han. Tell me when I start falling. I'm just going to give it up. I thought it was going to be dead. No. Oh, it's hard to perceive it with the fisheye. Like, I feel like I can actually do five inch tricks. Like that wasn't a good one, but it was a juicy flick. Yeah. I really want to do a canopy dive, but I know I'm not going to make it. Do it, go. You want me to do it? You're at the end of the battery. Are you sure you want me to do it? Yeah, just tell us where so we can put a camera at it. I'm moving up. Oh, okay. Oh, nobody. Oh, I made it though. Oh my gosh. Are you kidding me? Dude, it's seriously snowed out on me. I had no video. This is why we have TV. I had no video and I just was like, oh, well, go for it. I mean, it'll just power through the, oh, that's water. Oh! All right. Bring it in. I don't want it to end. That's probably the end of the battery. I'm having too much fun. I don't want it to end. Oh, the battery's probably bad enough. It's like, that's where I need to disarm in case he forgot what it was. When I fly, when I fly Bardwell's beast class, when he tells me it's time to land, I'm like, okay, it's over. I'm glad to bring it in. I didn't want this to end. I just wanted to, I just want to keep playing. Isn't it fun? I just want to keep playing. It's so weird. It's really, really fun. You just have that, what? It's really, really fun. It's really, really fun. Teleports. All right, it's time for another Florida Man Weather Report. Florida Man, what are we gonna have today? What's the skies looking like? No, we're fine. We'll be fine. There's no, I hear thunder. No. No, what am I hearing? It's over there. It's over there? It's over there. We're in a strip of, we're in the cone of silence. I only have one set of seven inch props. And they're on here. Why did you only bring one set? Did you just only own one set? It was, I mean, like literally, like I was walking out the door, I was like, Ash, bring that. I just threw it in. I'm glad you brought it. No pressure, buddy. I only flown five inch mini quads. So you've never flown, wait, you've never even flown like a six or a seven inch? No. Have you flown even six S before? No. Oh my gosh. So he's going straight from- So you're going from four S to 12 S. You're going straight to the turbo beast. Ooh. Are you scared? On my heart, like pounding out of my chest. Oh my gosh, your gimbal tension is so tight. I'm not even worried about the quad. Loose gimbals? I'm just like shaking. Let's see. You cranked up the power? Oh, I mean, the quad feels fine, but I hate the radio, no offense. It's $1,200 radio, he complains about it. Yeah, I know. It's so scary, like, oh my gosh. Ah, it's so scary. Look, you backed into that chair. I lost video, I lost video. Oh, this one, this one. I did. Video went out. Video went out, yeah. Oh, maybe the tiny little batteries died? Yeah, I think the tiny little batteries are just dead. You know, like flying big drones usually like, it's cool, like I feel like I'm doing like a thing, but I don't really enjoy the flight. That's it, I don't enjoy the flight experience. I enjoy like the exhilaration of like, oh, I'm flying a big drone, big expensive fast drone. Now I feel like, oh, I'm flying a big expensive fast drone, and it shreds. That was fun. I'm so stoked for how this thing turned out. Exceeded my expectations. So you got the exhilaration of flying a big, heavy, you know, expensive machine, but it also had the capabilities doing fast moves and smooth moves. And the tune was crazy. You said it was just the stock tune. That's funny, yeah. Pretty sure it's Betaflight's stock tune. Maybe I tweaked it a little bit, but like, I think for the most part, it's those pro shots. What do you mean pro shots? It's like a step. It's just like a faster communication protocol on each shot. It's even faster, faster. Yeah. But you need like special hardware, and that's why those ESCs are like, diminishing returns though, like, you know, because aren't the newer version of Betaflight. Clearly not. You liked it. I guess so. The drone has the punch out of a five inch, but it's got the weight of a beast class, almost. So like, it just carries that moment. Which I, I know it doesn't necessarily make sense, and I get a little bit of flack for this, but I've kind of always thought that there's something to having a heavier quad for freestyle. It just always felt to me that a little bit heavier allows me to kind of flow and toss momentum in a way. Like if you were trying to freestyle like a three inch, like, just with no. Super lightweight. Yeah, it just doesn't have this same kind of like fluidity I like it. Maybe it's just what I'm used to because my drones tend to be heavier. I'm really glad I got the flat. Maybe I'll, I'll think about getting my rigs up to, to six ass, because I am still just chilling down here on four eyes. But thanks for bringing it over. It was just, it was an experiment with, what if we just took it a step too far? And I don't think that. It's still not too far though. Right. Let's keep going, baby. But I mean, like the point of, like you're saying there's diminishing points in return. So like it's not that much better, but it's fun. I think it's fun. So guys, I hope you enjoyed this episode seeing what's possible with a 12 ass high powered out of control drone. If you want to learn more about putting it together, like we said, there's a link in the description to Nurk's channel where he walks you through all the different things he tried to get this thing hooked up and get it in the air. It was not easy. And I'm glad that he brought it over here. I'm ready to go. Sealed up, ready to go. So we just got to enjoy the, the best part, which is flying. So enjoy this video, hit the like button, subscribe to see future episodes, and we'll see you next time.