The Tricopter V2.6HV Deluxe – Part 1

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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.

GoPro2 tricopter

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15 responses to “The Tricopter V2.6HV Deluxe – Part 1”

  1. lougedo Avatar
    lougedo

    Super clean as always! Beautiful

  2. mipi Avatar
    mipi

    Tricopter spotted on Flitetest’s Quadshot video 🙂

    1. david Avatar
      david

      😉 Sharp eyes

  3. StRess Avatar
    StRess

    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

    1. turdsurfer Avatar
      turdsurfer

      Nice work StRess. Did you have those parts machined for you or did you cut them out yourself?

      1. StRess Avatar
        StRess

        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.

    2. EagleFly Avatar
      EagleFly

      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 [email protected]

  4. max Avatar
    max

    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!

  5. turdsurfer Avatar
    turdsurfer

    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.

    1. david Avatar
      david

      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.

      1. x3mperformance Avatar
        x3mperformance

        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.

        1. JamieDCO Avatar
          JamieDCO

          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 .

      2. turdsurfer Avatar
        turdsurfer

        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.

  6. turdsurfer Avatar
    turdsurfer

    P.S. “?” was Unicode character 1DB4.

  7. yeroz Avatar
    yeroz

    will you post the configurations of kk2?

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