The tricopters are unfortunately out of stock again. New stock should arrive early January.
Orders not containing backorder items will still be shipped as normal.
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Congratulations on such a successful start of your business 🙂
As above. Well done, and may the success continue for you!
David, in the mean time and if you have some time, please consider designing a yaw mechanism where mass isn’t shifted left or right as is now the case. That’s the only weak point in the great design imho. A motor hanging in a U bracket will work well for example. The problem with the yaw axis below the motor is that the frame initially yaws in the opposite direction of where the controller expects/wants it to go. This causes yaw oscillations that can only be cured by lowering yaw gains a lot, or inverting the motor and yaw mechanism. Using Arducopter, I had to lower my yaw-stab-P gain to 0.15 from the default of 0.45 to stop the oscillations.
I agree! The motor would sit in an open cradle, with the pivot point in line with the center of mass of the motor. I’d buy two!!
Well, through the center of that cradle would go the M3x40 screw that actually is both the pivot point, the attachment to the servo, and a big part of the stability of the tilt mechanism. I would encourage anyone to sit down and draw and subsequently build said cradle tilt mechanism and compare it to the quite simple yet brilliant existing design.
There’s no need to draw anything. Just use Google:
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/tricopter-based-on-arducopter-yaw-
issues-and-solutions
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=19559980&postcount=166
The first link is not clickable because it got dissected after saving, so copy and paste it.
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/tricopter-based-on-arducopter-yaw-issues-and-solutions
Hi David
My order number is #7874. Do you know when it shipped?
Thanks
I received my order.
Thanks
Hi David, well that was be be expected 🙂
Have you considered doing a “How it’s made – The RCExplorer Tricopter V3” episode? I for one would love to know more about the process behind making my favorite kit 🙂
Hmm if people would like to see how it’s made I might oblige with such a video 🙂 Would be fun to watch 40 years from now as well 😉
I would like to see that as well. 🙂
Seconded.
or third-ed
this is a great suggestion
how its made tricopter
Hi David,
I tried to make a post in the forum under tricopter build and I am unable to post. I tried to log in several times with no suck luck.
I just received my Tri-Copter today in the mail! Man the shipping was astoundingly quick – 8 days to get to Texas from Sweden! I only have my motors in so far but I am about to make sure all the parts are intact. I can’t wait to get this build started, thanks very much for such a clean build product!
received mine, it looks gorgeous.
will be even more so when completed and flew.
cute little thanks note as well, gave me giggles.
Keep up the good work, and thanks David!
Glad you liked it John 🙂
David,
Congrats on the business. And on Rotor DR1 I was a little late to the party but saw all the episodes last night! How cool!
When you get Tri’s some back in stock I’ll be ordering one.
Just purchased mine! Looking forward to putting this puppy together and flying. Thanks for all of your hard work David.
Also, any chance I can get an honest assessment on this hardware please?
http://rcexplorer.se/forums/topic/will-this-setup-work-as-well/
Thanks!!!
Thanks David for the reply!
I know I’m being impatient, but any word on the next round of V3s shipping?
Packaging them now, will be shipped out on monday 🙂
Yay! Everything back in stock 🙂
I sneakily updated the stock this time 😉