Sk450 Dead Cat "Defibrillator" Power en A / V-Distribution Board and Power Shield

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Tough looking unit with useful built in DB

Jul 21, 2019

Have to admit I bought this thinking it would fit the standard F450 sized parts which it doesn't. It's therefore not any use to me but at the price I'm not worried and I can easily remove the DB unit for use with another build.

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Lots of Bang for your bucks

Jun 04, 2019

Used for spare chassis

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Jun 26, 2015

I am completely happy with this, what a great product! This did wonders to clean my quad up! Some sort of schematic would have been nice however a quick check with my DVOM and I was off and running! This is a must have for the Deadcat frame!!!

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May 09, 2015

great thing, saves a lot of cables

and makes it look cleaner

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Nov 09, 2014

This is a must for your dead cat upgrade

making the whole upgrade look the bees knees

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Oct 15, 2014

Fairly straightforward but I wish it came with documentation on what each connector does.

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Oct 06, 2014

I was hoping this board would make the addition of a camera and Vtx easy and quick. Not so.

The connectors on the board are male 4 contact connections. It is very difficult to find female 4 contact connectors. I tried using 3 conductor female servo connectors without the outer sleeve. When installed there is not enough room for these connectors on the controller and battery connector and the connector will hit the top board.

The best solution is to remove all of these connectors and install header pins. Once this is done standard male servo connectors can be used. The 4th pin is for audio, which I did not use so the 3 pin connectors would work.

Somewhat disappointed as this created a lot more work than should have been necessary.

If the board would have had header pins. I would give 5 stars.

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Jul 29, 2014

this is a great idea, too bad it will be useless if they ban fpv

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Jun 04, 2014

So a friend and I are building dead cats. His is built and flying and after a hard landing the copper band for his ground circuit going to the defibrillator cracked and started pealing off. My frame hasn't been build because my filtered 12v to my video TX is shorted to ground out of the box. .......Not to mention his was nose heavy with a go pro 3 and a 3300mah 3 cell. So I ordered a 4000mah 3 cell because I have a heavier go pro 2 and ccd board cam for fpv but then ran into my electrical short when pinning out the board. I had high hopes for the dead cat but am having second thoughts now for sure.
Cheap lower defibrillator board.
Nose heave with a go pro sized camera. (With 3300mah)
Arms flex

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May 15, 2014

I had bigger hopes for this. You have 5V in the front and 12V in the back and a just one extra pin intended for video between front and back. I would like to see both 5V and 12V front and back and some extra pins that I could use for whatever.



The defibrillator seems to output 10V on the 12V pin based on just a quick test with 3S.



Also note that the pins are FEMALE for everything. If they where male we could use the extra servo cables we have...



Connecting a Tarot 2D gimbal to this needs hacking. The defibrillator is in the way and the provided holes are not suitable for the Tarot. I opted to add a separate plate in between the deadcat and gimbal.