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If you are planning to replace the original antenna in Taranis don't use RG178 or RG316. There is a much better solution! The RG405. RG405 is designed to go up to 40 GHz while RG178 and RG316 are labeled up to 3 GHz. With that in mind be sure that RG405 will perform much better at the 2.4 GHz at what Taranis radio operates. If you don't believe check it for your self: https://www.pasternack.com/images/ProductPDF/RG178B-U.pdf https://www.pasternack.com/images/productpdf/rg316-u.pdf https://www.pasternack.com/images/ProductPDF/PE-SR405TN.pdf In this datasheet, there is only 1 GHz test that we can use to compare cables. Here is the table: Name            Max freqency[GHz]          Attenuation at 1 GHz [dB/100m] RG178 3 145.7 RG316 3 124.67 RG405 40 72.18 From the table, you can see how RG405 has much less attenuation at 1 GHz then RG178 and RG316. Less attenuation and Teflon...

If you were unlucky as I am, you probably burned out one of the expensive cobra motors that are not in production anymore. Luckily you can fix it as I did. So here it is how. You will need a new enameled copper wire. The original in my motor was 0.3mm but it was really hard for me to wire it on the stator so I selected the first thinner, and that was 0.28 mm. Whit tinner wire you are limiting max amperage of the motor, but with my flight stile, I didn't find it a problem yet. Before you remove all wires there is a good chance you burnt out only one phase, so do a visual inspection to make sure if that is the case (it was for me). The motor has 12 polls. This is how winding for the whole motor is done. Take your time to figure this out. The motor has 3 phases and they are connected in delta connection at the end. First, make sure you get a photo of each poll when you start removing the wire, otherwise, you will forget the way the turns where done. ...