How To Upgrade Taranis QX7 Battery

After Our September RotoRacers MultiGP Race, I show how to upgrade the Taranis QX7 battery.  A not-so-informative How-To Video.

This battery Idea came from Kabab's Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgkziMjuwg8&t=285s

Although, I think I did a better job.

I really didn't like the AA battery bay.  Carrying AA batterys just doesn't make sense, and they don't last as long.  

So, I found a decided to remove the AA batteries and come up with a better, rechargeable solution.
First, I removed the old Battery Bay.

Then, I 3D printed a new battery bay out of Petg.

Battery bay can be found on this Thingiverse page:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2194100
The factory plug needs to be bent upright.

And then, the connections from the old bay need to be incorporated into the new battery bay.

This is meant for 18650 batteries that are commonly used in vape dispensers and I have a bunch of these from my fatshark battery housings.

Equipment used in this video:

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