Pure X 5" carbon frame
Taboo Update 27/09/2017
You spoke up, we listened! The Taboo has had a small tweak to the frame kit in the form of a fastener update, and price adjustment.
All the carbon parts are still identical, no worries about backwards compatibility!
Lots of guys commented that the vast number of fasteners and fastener spares in the Taboo frame kit, left them unsure if they had missed something in the build or if they had used the incorrect nuts or bolts.
What we did is removed the complexity, and as far as possible we tried to colour code all the fasteners which go together. We also packed all the fasteners which go together into separate bags.
We hope this helps, if you guys have any comments or suggestions, and if this update helps, please let us know.
Here's a list of everything included in your Taboo kit:
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Introduction
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”.
Taboo, is minimalist, nothing more and nothing less.
Everything that wasn’t absolutely necessary was removed.
What is left, is a compact and light-weight frame as well suited to tearing up a race track as it is doing flips and split-s turns through buildings and forests.
Taboo achieves its massive presence and appeal though meticulous design and attention to detail, most often ignored.
Making a difference wasn’t achieved by reinventing the wheel, it was simply by adding up a great number of subtle improvements from the start to the finish.
Redefine what you believe is possible!
Features
Taboo is the definition of minimalist design and simplicity.
The foundation of Taboo, is a rock solid chassis, a top and bottom plate which sandwiches together the four rigid and minimalist drag arms. Eight fasteners hold the entire chassis together, this approach to design, creates a reliable, easy to build and light weight airframe. The two vertical side plates of the airframe, clip on and are secured in place effortlessly. The extremely slim profile and minimal frontal area of the fuselage, create the smallest of drag wakes. This increases acceleration and improves your straight line speed. No more slowing down in corners or wasting critical seconds trying to accelerate out of them. Now it is possible to quickly flick your quad around a really tight race track and accelerate away instantly, no longer do you have to fight through huge turbulent vortices on your way out.
Taboo is available in either a 4, 5 or 6 inch propeller configuration, the chassis top and bottom plates are identical in all three of these configurations, so arms can be easily swapped out if you want.
There are two options available for the bottom chassis plate.
The first, the race plate, is a minimal weight plate specifically designed for racing and shaving those valuable excess grams. The race plate maintains the same chassis stiffness and arm integrity but reduces the weight further out from the center of the frame. The second bottom chassis plate, the acro plate, extends further forwards and aft and provides more airframe support for taking those heavy hits while carrying your GoPro camera.
The race plate is included in the standard Taboo kit.
If you would like the extra strength and rigidity of the acro plate or if you want to drive over your Taboo with a car, we would suggest getting the acro plate.
The under-slung battery pack will strap onto the bottom chassis plate, there are fastening points to strap the pack in, front to rear, and from side to side. A soft silicone battery pad is also included in the Taboo kit, this pad is strapped in place between the bottom chassis plate and your battery pack, it stops the pack from shifting around and helps absorb shock in bad crashes.
A protective cage for your under-slung battery pack, prevents you from picking up damage and punctured batteries. This is a light weight guard which fits any of your standard mini quads packs up to 6s. Simply strapped in place underneath your pack, removed easily by undoing your Velcro battery strap. The protective battery cage, gives you piece of mind, that you will not damage your packs, which is nice when landing on hard or rocky ground.
At its heart, Taboo has the ability to securely strap down your HD camera and seamlessly adjust it from 15 degrees all the way up past 60 degrees. Your pilot camera is similarly configured, secured in place with a high tolerance friction fit and two fasteners for good measure.
The freedom of being able to adjust your HD camera angle without increment and securely lock it in place is where the features of Taboo continue. The HD GoPro camera mount is designed to keep the weight of the camera as low down as possible, the mount also allows you to adjust camera angle without changing the center of gravity of the camera or the airframe.
Yes, this is correct, the center of gravity remains perfectly placed in the center of the airframe regardless of the camera angle you lock it in at! Locking your camera in place is now also worry free, you have fastening points available to strap your HD GoPro camera from the front to the rear, and from side to side. Regardless of how or what you want to use to strap your camera in place, there are now well placed fastening points to do so.
Included
Taboo comes with all the carbon, fasteners, and standoffs required to put your frame together.
Included in the kit is the lighter race spec bottom plate. The acro spec bottom plate is available separately if you do want the insane stiffness and rigidity this system offers.
The soft silicone crash mat for protecting your battery packs is also included.
The Taboo VTX mounting kit now comes with two different options for mounting any VTx which you may have.
The Taboo kit also comes with loads and loads of extra nuts, bolts, washers, o-rings, aluminium and nylon standoffs, everything you need to hold your frame together.
You don't have to worry about loosing a nut or bolt and not being able to complete your build!
We have you covered!
Accessories
The HD camera mount designed for your GoPro full frame and Session style cameras is available here:
https://fridayfpv.com/Product/Detail/61
A must have, to stop jello in your footage and to prevent your camera from moving around, is the HD camera mat :
https://fridayfpv.com/Product/Detail/86
Check out these awesome HD camera options here:
RunCam HD2
https://fridayfpv.com/Product/Detail/87
RunCam HD3
https://fridayfpv.com/Product/Detail/96
There are two options available for you battery protection cage, a simple flat cage:
https://fridayfpv.com/Product/Detail/62
And a raked forward cage for pointing you in the right direction on the starting line:
https://fridayfpv.com/Product/Detail/69
The acro plate, spacers and fasteners are available separately here:
https://fridayfpv.com/Product/Detail/73 (need 1 of)
https://fridayfpv.com/Product/Detail/76 (need 4 off)
https://fridayfpv.com/Product/Detail/56 (need 1 packet)
For spare battery crash mats check these out:
https://fridayfpv.com/Product/Detail/85
Required
As far as is practically possible, Taboo accepts most fpv electrical hardware. The frame was designed as such to encourage the use of whatever equipment you are most comfortable. The fpv camera, is however, restricted to the HS1177 style camera, or any camera of the same form factor, including the Runcam owl plus and the Runcam Swift RR.
These two camera options are available here:
RunCam Swifft Rotor Riot Edition
https://fridayfpv.com/Product/Detail/93
RunCam Owl Plus
https://fridayfpv.com/Product/Detail/102
Recommended
· HS1177 pilot camera (the airframe is only able to accept this camera)
· 220X sized motors
· 36 x 36 mm flight controller (30.5 x 30.5 mm hole spacing)
· slim line VTx, such as TS5823
· slim line Rx (removing the bulky casing on most of your older style Rx modules offers a lot of space saving)
Please note the photos for this product were taken during final prototyping, finish, component flow, fastener colour and selection may change without notification.
