Hi all! After leaving the hobby for close to 2-3years. Im back
this thread is just for fun, and i really wanna show people how easy it is to fly and build a tri!!
Went straight back to helis (would like to thank feudallord for his mini-titan which i converted to FBL) But I wanted more, something interesting.
Back when i was flying at PFW with my little beamE4, i saw a guy flying a quad copter, I said to myself "I'll never fly a multi-rotor. Its so annoying and hard to see" Boy was i wrong...
Following this link http://rcexplorer.se/projects/2011/0...ricopter-v2-5/ i made my first tricopter =) after buying the frames ofcourse...
For this tri, i decided to use the KK2.0 board with the LCD Display.
Heres the shopping list, you can source them locally or from our bestest hk site:
Motors: DT750 750kV Motors
ESC’s: TURNIGY Plush 18amp Speed Controllers
Battery: 3s Turnigy 25-35C 2200mAh LiPo (im running 2 in parallel for 14min flight times)
Servo: BMS-385DMAX Digital Servo (Metal Gear) (im using some digital 22g digital servo for a better rudder, will explain later)
Props: GWS 10*4.7 or GWS 11*4.7 for heavy lifting (using APC 11x4.7)
Arm length: ~50cm (center to motoraxel) (using 35cm)
All up weight: 860 grams (Including battery) (670 g without) (mine is close to a kg because of the extra lipo)
Amps during hover: ~10A (would say mine may be abit more. Did not measure!)
Motor test: 13.2A@11.7V – 7770RPM – 1080 grams thrust / motor
And a bunch of other stuff that you can find from the link provided....
By the way, you can use 10x10mm Basswood booms from Jet Hobby they are the ones with the red line going through the center of the square side of the booms about 2.00SGD per boom!!
Also, i had to buy the frames from Flite test, which amounted to about 32SGD incl shipping? pretty neat!
the staff at Jet Hobby really helped me in identifying stuff to buy, and stuff not to buy... Thanks!
To everyone who is wondering whether i'll try FPV with this. YES I WILL. I am fully aware of all the frequencies and restricted flying areas (I held a PPL and studied abit into Airport frequencies). my fpv wants would be: Really low level FPV (max 3-4floors up) and Really short range (max 20-30m from where i am standing) i like the ground better than the sky, till date, i don't see a point in doing long distance high altitude FPV -.- you wont even know where it falls, thus i would only require a Fatshark 5.8Ghz system with a 5.8Ghz 100mw transmitter with no recording. As i said! This is just for fun!! Point is to increase receiver strength instead of transmitter power. As i said before, i don't need to fly far and high. And if it all fails, atleast i tried.
Enough with the txt, now with the pictures!
so yea, shot with an iphone4 the above was with 10x3.x APC props and a HS-65MG tail servo without the dampening mod (which i intended to use as a battery tray)
Needless to say, i got the centering wrong, and the whole thing crashed from a 6-7 floor height hurts man... But hey! i built it, i can re-build it!!
Post crash pic, shot with a samsung galaxy ACE:
Thread cant put more than 2 pics =( or something... idk, havent been on dh posting for quite awhile <br> <br>
this thread is just for fun, and i really wanna show people how easy it is to fly and build a tri!!
Went straight back to helis (would like to thank feudallord for his mini-titan which i converted to FBL) But I wanted more, something interesting.
Back when i was flying at PFW with my little beamE4, i saw a guy flying a quad copter, I said to myself "I'll never fly a multi-rotor. Its so annoying and hard to see" Boy was i wrong...
Following this link http://rcexplorer.se/projects/2011/0...ricopter-v2-5/ i made my first tricopter =) after buying the frames ofcourse...
For this tri, i decided to use the KK2.0 board with the LCD Display.
Heres the shopping list, you can source them locally or from our bestest hk site:
Motors: DT750 750kV Motors
ESC’s: TURNIGY Plush 18amp Speed Controllers
Battery: 3s Turnigy 25-35C 2200mAh LiPo (im running 2 in parallel for 14min flight times)
Servo: BMS-385DMAX Digital Servo (Metal Gear) (im using some digital 22g digital servo for a better rudder, will explain later)
Props: GWS 10*4.7 or GWS 11*4.7 for heavy lifting (using APC 11x4.7)
Arm length: ~50cm (center to motoraxel) (using 35cm)
All up weight: 860 grams (Including battery) (670 g without) (mine is close to a kg because of the extra lipo)
Amps during hover: ~10A (would say mine may be abit more. Did not measure!)
Motor test: 13.2A@11.7V – 7770RPM – 1080 grams thrust / motor
And a bunch of other stuff that you can find from the link provided....
By the way, you can use 10x10mm Basswood booms from Jet Hobby they are the ones with the red line going through the center of the square side of the booms about 2.00SGD per boom!!
Also, i had to buy the frames from Flite test, which amounted to about 32SGD incl shipping? pretty neat!
the staff at Jet Hobby really helped me in identifying stuff to buy, and stuff not to buy... Thanks!
To everyone who is wondering whether i'll try FPV with this. YES I WILL. I am fully aware of all the frequencies and restricted flying areas (I held a PPL and studied abit into Airport frequencies). my fpv wants would be: Really low level FPV (max 3-4floors up) and Really short range (max 20-30m from where i am standing) i like the ground better than the sky, till date, i don't see a point in doing long distance high altitude FPV -.- you wont even know where it falls, thus i would only require a Fatshark 5.8Ghz system with a 5.8Ghz 100mw transmitter with no recording. As i said! This is just for fun!! Point is to increase receiver strength instead of transmitter power. As i said before, i don't need to fly far and high. And if it all fails, atleast i tried.
Enough with the txt, now with the pictures!
so yea, shot with an iphone4 the above was with 10x3.x APC props and a HS-65MG tail servo without the dampening mod (which i intended to use as a battery tray)
Needless to say, i got the centering wrong, and the whole thing crashed from a 6-7 floor height hurts man... But hey! i built it, i can re-build it!!
Post crash pic, shot with a samsung galaxy ACE:
Thread cant put more than 2 pics =( or something... idk, havent been on dh posting for quite awhile <br> <br>
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