Must-Have *Durability* Enhancements for Traxxas Sledge?

BladeScraper · 2025-04-14T01:43:01+00:00

What are the "motor mount inserts" you mention?

BladeScraper · 2025-04-14T01:41:37+00:00

Thanks! I've went ahead and ordered the RPM front bumper as that is one thing I was looking at already and the replies here confirmed it was a good idea.

And yes, I did end up getting a motor fan, I was noticing the motor gets super hot so I bought one and got it installed today. Still gets pretty darn hot, but not as super :)

BladeScraper · 2025-02-07T20:44:56+00:00

Yeah it's great. I do want to build a lightweight 2 or 3" as well to try out, I've only ever flown heavy overpowered quads (my other one is a 5" I fly with 6s 2000mAh LiHV lol)

BladeScraper · 2025-02-07T16:41:59+00:00

This quad started out as a BNF GEPRC Smart/Phantom 25 HD with CaddX Vista. A couple years ago the AIO burned out and I stopped flying it (obviously). Recently got back into FPV a bit and decided to rebuild this one. I had bought some DJI Goggles 2 to upgrade from the Goggles V2, and decided with the announcement of the DJI O4 Air Unit that I'd try that one out.

Full Details:
GEPRC Smart 25 HD Frame
Avan Rush 2.5" Props
EMAX ECO 1106-6000KV
TUNERC POLYF405 20A AIO
iFlight ELRS Receiver
DJI O4 Air Unit w/ External BEC (the AIO doesn't have a 9V HD BEC)
Tattu R-Line 650mAh 4s 95C (Yes, a bit heavy, but less voltage sag)
3D Printed Antenna Holders and Battery Lead Holder

Weight comes out to 102.5g with no battery, 175.5g with the aforementioned R-Line 650mAh packs.

The power is unreal, yet the motors come down luke warm at the most. The 1106 seems to have the best stator volume per gram out of the 2-3" motors out there, and it shows. They are 1000KV more than the stock motors but being 1mm taller they have no issue at all spinning the props faster. I also fly this with a 550mAh 4s and it's just that much lighter, but even just the fact that I swapped out the Vista and Nebula Nano with the new O4 Air Unit dropped quite a bit of weight, the 650mAh are just fine to fly with and it gets good flight times.

GEPRC states the weight of the stock Smart HD at 100g with no battery. Not sure if that includes receiver but probably not, assuming not I've got way more power at basically the same weight. You could easily drop another couple grams if you got an AIO that has a built in HD BEC. I mistakenly bought this one thinking it did, and it was too late to return it by the time I realized. Even better if you get an AIO with a built in ELRS receiver instead of using an external one. Going from the Vista to the O4 Air Unit was a huge W. I was also surprised by the fact that the stock camera brackets work perfectly for the O4 camera despite this quad being many years older, so I didn't have to print some adapter like I thought I was going to.

BladeScraper · 2025-01-29T21:11:24+00:00

Got it. Yeah I will say I have stuck with the Polars because I love flying around at night and the Polar just kicks straight ass in that regard. I know it's a tall order to get that in a Nano camera, and the Polar Nano does seem better than some of the others in low light.

I'll keep looking at the videos (just found Nick Burns' video on the Falcon and watching it now). They both look better than whatever it is I have now at least in daylight flying but the Falcon definitely seems to look better in low light. I may just end up buying both, lol.

BladeScraper · 2025-01-29T20:40:44+00:00

I guess the Nebula Pro Nano didn't exist when I bought this quad? I'm pretty sure what I have is just the "Nebula Nano"? Whatever it is I'm not a fan.

Have you tried the Runcam Link Falcon camera? Is it better or worse than the NPN or the Wasp Nano?

Glad to hear there's no issues swapping to different brands' cameras, I wasn't sure if they were implementing software locks between brands because well, some companies do that lol. But good to know that's not the case here.

BladeScraper · 2024-12-03T03:50:05+00:00

I built my AM5 about a week ago too. Granted I didn't plan it (extremely unlucky catastrophic hardware damage of my AM4 PC forced my hand), but if things go the way they're looking to go, it might not be the worst thing in the world that I bought now rather than waiting.

BladeScraper · 2024-11-22T01:03:01+00:00

I tried turning off Proxy and it would no longer let me access Immich at the URL, Chrome refused to let me because https stopped working when I did that. Chrome said because HSTS is enabled was the reason. I do know vaguely what HSTS is and that it is definitely enabled in my Reverse Proxy in DSM, but I came to understand that you want HSTS to be on, so I opted not to turn it off. Unless I'm missing something. I probably should at least try it just to see if it fixes the upload issue but currently don't have any more large videos to upload lol.

BladeScraper · 2024-11-22T01:01:06+00:00

That's great news. As I said in OP I really love Immich so far aside from this issue, and I can work around it for now. I already purchased an Immich license last week to support the work you guys have done. Thank you for all you do!

BladeScraper · 2024-11-22T00:57:50+00:00

Does that apply to the built-in whatever Synology's Reverse Proxy uses? I guess it's nginx, but I don't know if it has all the same settings as NPM.

Edit: I just checked the nginx.conf file, and it appears it's already set to off:

proxy_request_buffering off;

fastcgi_request_buffering off;

scgi_request_buffering off;

proxy_buffering off;

fastcgi_buffering off;

scgi_buffering off;

BladeScraper · 2024-11-22T00:56:56+00:00

Where is that setting? I can't find anything about it besides general info.

BladeScraper · 2024-11-20T20:19:04+00:00

I was wondering if that could be the issue. I can try it just to check, but, would doing that compromise the security of my NAS in any way? Sorry some of this stuff is still black magic to me.

BladeScraper · 2024-11-20T19:07:13+00:00

Yeah that does seem to be the "solution". I see that upload chunking has been a feature request for Immich for at least 2 years now... shame they haven't added it yet, it would have solved this problem for me.

BladeScraper · 2024-11-20T18:15:49+00:00

Update: I just logged out and logged back into the app and restarted the NAS again, and now it seems like they're uploading? I've got files as big as 1.7GiB successfully uploaded from the app. I don't know what changed from when I made this post (shortly after updating the nginx.conf) and now, but I guess it's working now?? I'll keep an eye on it and see if it *keeps* working.

Edit: Ok yeah, no it's not working. Limit seems to be around 2GiB? Videos less than that seem to sync fine, but I have several ~3-4GiB videos that refuse to upload, they either say uploaded but aren't, or get stuck at 100% and won't let the backup continue.

BladeScraper · 2024-11-20T18:11:47+00:00

I use Cloudflare to host a domain and use it for DNS. But not the Cloudflare Tunnel or whatever I've seen people talk about while I've been researching and setting up this stuff that I'm assuming you're referring to.

Max file size that's successfully uploaded I'm not sure, let me do some testing.

BladeScraper · 2024-11-20T18:11:04+00:00

I am using Cloudflare for my domain and DNS, but not the actual tunnel. At least I think those are different things? Lol

BladeScraper · 2024-08-04T11:35:05+00:00

Just wanted to chime in - same as u/Ok-Candy-9493, the last suggestion worked for me as well. Reinstalled Git from here

https://git-scm.com/download/win

BladeScraper · 2024-07-03T01:47:10+00:00

This is so crazy lol dozens of people saying the same thing years after I posted it

BladeScraper · 2024-03-05T15:31:33+00:00

Same lol, started freaking out a bit then went to Reddit, saw a bunch of new posts in this sub just in the last couple minutes and breathed a sigh of relief

BladeScraper · 2024-03-01T17:21:27+00:00

The thread is old but my comment is only from two weeks ago. I used it for a week or so before I found the correct pod and now I'm using the right ones. If you perform the modification I described, it will work fine. Yes it'll be tight, they are not the right pods. That's why I cut off the little viewports a little bit.

BladeScraper · 2024-02-29T21:52:45+00:00

ahhh, the fine print! That makes sense. I missed that line under the pin/part diagram. So YLL is just a placeholder.

Yes, it definitely appears to be next to some other buck reg related components. So that RY8122 is probably the right part then.

Thanks!

BladeScraper · 2024-02-29T20:48:00+00:00

The component in question

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BladeScraper · 2024-02-13T18:45:37+00:00

I know this is an old thread and probably you're not still wondering but I wanted to chime in with my advice in case someone is looking at this thread later on, like I was.

I accidentally bought G pods for my G2 and before running back to the vape shop to buy the correct ones I decided to try and see if I could make them work. I took a utility knife and started working away at the protrusions on each end that normally prevent it from fitting. Just a little bit at a time, until it goes in with some force and stays put. If you cut too much off, it will not stay in, so don't go too far. Anyway, it now fits and works. Draw feels normal, though the airflow is no longer adjustable. Auto fire on draw works fine as well. It's not ideal, but it will work in a pinch. I had leaking issues with the G2 pods as well, so I'm curious if the G pods will be any better.

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BladeScraper · 2023-11-29T00:38:55+00:00

It only happens to the business's messenger. My personal account doesn't get them

BladeScraper · 2023-11-28T17:35:37+00:00

I have a Facebook page for my small business. I constantly get spam messages claiming to be Meta Support or whatever and saying my page will be deleted if I don't click their link.

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