Yet another Tricopter!? Yes! I needed a backup tricopter for a video shoot, so I decided to build one with high quality components, too see if there is any difference in performance.
Yet another Tricopter!? Yes! I needed a backup tricopter for a video shoot, so I decided to build one with high quality components, too see if there is any difference in performance.
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 at 00:34:42 –
Super clean as always! Beautiful
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 at 18:24:27 –
Tricopter spotted on Flitetest’s Quadshot video
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 at 19:51:25 –
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 at 22:12:35 –
David, amazing work!
A few weeks ago I’ve made a tricopter basing on your setup and now I see, that you have this same idea as me with the mountage of engines.
Take a look at the photos in free-time.
http://picasaweb.google.com/111433301589756344294/TricopterRcexplorerCopyBuildPart1?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCNuEx-uWpZGrbA&feat=directlink
https://picasaweb.google.com/111433301589756344294/TricopterRcexplorerCopyBuildPart2?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCJGu3__Eqf7sMg&feat=directlink
Friday, February 1st, 2013 at 21:07:01 –
Nice work StRess. Did you have those parts machined for you or did you cut them out yourself?
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 at 19:58:52 –
Thank you. I cutted them myself, with hacksaw and metal pile. After all, I will have a lot of work yet to match the quality of Davids work.
Sunday, June 9th, 2013 at 16:56:18 –
Hi Michael,
I´ve saw your perfect and wonderfull Tricopter frame and I like to do it like you. My Friend works in a Laser and CNC factory and he can produce for me, would it be ok for you, that I can use your files dxf would be perfect! Thank you so much in advance! Best Regards Benny
Here my Email EagleeiHorscht@googlemail.com
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 at 23:53:55 –
Hi David nice to see new build posts!
Could you make a tutorial on your KK2 setup and settings?
I think a lot of people use it on your Tricopter 2.5 so it would be great to have a tutorial for both the old and the new HV version.
Great work again!
Friday, February 1st, 2013 at 21:16:11 –
David, why not just use straight suspension wires as the vibrations are in the horizontal plane? I don’t see how bent wires can make a difference unless there are vertical vibrations too.
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 at 19:56:50 –
Tried it during the experiment phase but I couldn’t get it to work well with straight wire. The curved wire gives a better vibration dampening as well as is much more stable in the “yaw” twisting plane.
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 at 22:57:23 –
Hi.
The wires get there strenght fron the “straightness”.
So by bending them in a curve, you take the ridigness away, and they become more flexible.
That’s why they work so much better in a curved shape than as a straight piece.
Monday, February 25th, 2013 at 13:18:12 –
The reason that the bent wires work better is because they are under tension all the time which results in them cancelling out the vibration as well as suspending the tray as it were hard mounted . the loaded spring wire is a lot more rigid than a non loaded wire .
Thursday, February 7th, 2013 at 22:12:17 –
Ah.. I didn’t think about the yaw issue. I can imagine that straight wires will cause the tray to lag and oscillate too much during yawing. I’m going to give the wire solution a try. I’m currently using orange bobbins from GetFPV in suspension instead of compression because I have yet to make carbon fibre shapes like this: ? (double mirrored L). Keep up the good work and I hope to see more of your tricopter experiments on flitetest.
Thursday, February 7th, 2013 at 22:14:18 –
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Monday, March 25th, 2013 at 21:48:06 –
will you post the configurations of kk2?