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[schlagbohrer]

Number 9 ist sadly grounded at the moment, but I like the general setup of it. 🙂

• Stock electronics, except for 6V on the servo
• 25mW FPV sender
• MinimOSD, connected through UART to the Naze32
• Mobius for HD video footage
• Turnigy 1800mAh 4S Lipo
• And for fun: Green LED stips (120pcs/m)

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[Joost]

Never flown/built anything before.

– Mini kit with all its & bobs.
– Stock electronics
– FrSky D4R-ii reciever (using softserial to send flight battery voltage, unflashed so only really 6 channel ppm)
– ImmersionRC VTx + Spironet antenna

Looking into getting a GoPro session/osd/ledstrip as additions. Probably will have to tidy op the wiring as well, & not satisfied with the receiver antenna layout yet.

Still on triflight 0.1, upgrading to 0.4 soon.

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[rue]

My V3s little brother – born on January 2nd, 2016 😉

– Mini Kit w/ Naze32 frame, DYS2208 / 1800 motors, HQ BN-Props 6/4,5 (all from David)
– betaflight 2.2.0 RC2 on Luxfloat (PID tuning pending)
– AfroRace20 Mini ESCs (flashed with latest SimonK to activate dampened light & brake)
– BMS-210DMH @ 6V (from David)
– X4-RSB with inverted S-Bus
– TURNIGY 3A UBEC w/ Noise Reduction
– TX Aomway Micro 200mW (cable set suxxx: connectors are flimsy, cables quite inflexible)
– RunCam SKY2 800TVL FPV
– three leds on the boom ends (fed with ~40mA each so they don’t get warm. Bright enough.)

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[RC-Engineer]

Hi Folks, this is my set up:

Tricopter V.3.5
Integrated naze32, BEC and PDB
T-Motor 900kv ms2216
Graupner E-prop
3x Afro slims 20A
Zippy lipo 4s 3000mah
DMH-210 Servo

Transmitter: Graupner MZ-18
Receiver: GR-16 ( 8ch)

Maiden flight coming up sometime today:)

[Matheus]

Feel free to ridicule and criticize, it’ll only make it better:)

This is my first Drone besides a remote controlled truck.
The goal is to attain long flight time, hence the Motors, Prop, Battery combination
I have much more battery available for a future 5S4P possibly
Have yet to Weight it. ‘this weekend’

Scorpter/Tricorpio
Scorpio-Tricopter

Naze32/Cleanflight TriFlight
Frame: RCExplorer v3.5 PDB/Naze32
Motor: T-Motor MN3508 380KV
ESC: Afro Race 20A BEC – Blheli 14.3
Prop: T 15×5* 20g+-
Battery: Sanyo NCR18650GA 4S3P
TX: Taranis X9D Plus
RX: X4R-SB
Motor Mount: 5-Degree Dihedral – Custom
Servo: BMS 385D MAX
20AWG ESC, 16AWG Battery, 32AWG Servo Lead
LED: WS2812 1LED/10mm
Nylon Prop/Motor Mount Screws, Saves my props on hard impact
Aluminum nuts
Buzzer

Future:
VTX: LawMate 1W 1.2-1.3Ghz
*433Mhz EzUHF or Dragonlink v3
*PixHawk or EagleTree Vector OSD*?
*Servo 2D Gimbal, PZ0420* FPV
*Sonar
*GPS/GLONAS

Simulator/Preventative Insurance:
FreeFlight

Charger = Revolectrix GT500
PowerSupply = Dell PSU PowerEdge 2850 – Freebie 🙂

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[Jesper]

@matheusrgomes What about changing the BMS 385D MAX for a BMS 22HV with live feedback running live feedback, for more info check these: lauka and David.

Also place the ESC´s on the side or top of the boom for better cooling.

[Matheus]

@jesper Thank you for the suggestion, i’ll upgrade to the 22HV in the future, the current servo vibrates a lot when idle, i’m guessing the PID’s are causing that since i’vent played around with that yet.

The servo uses RC6 which i’m having to use RC5,6 for X4R-SB Telemetry RX/TX, and no LED_STRIP because of that, NAZE32 is really limiting me now to the amount of bell’s and whistles, not sure but adding a 2D servo gimbal seems not to be possible neither due to limitations

I’m also on the hunt for a lightweight shock absorbing landing gear as they keep braking zip ties due to my hard noob landings

Thanks.

[Terje]

@matheusrgomes sorry to disagree with @jesper but for a power setup like yours I would definitely recommend the BMS-210DMH servo running at 6v. With a heavy motor and 15″ prop you don’t need the speed of the BMS-HV22 (0.05 sec/60degrees @torque 2.5kg) you need the torque of the BMS-210DMH (0.12sec/60 degrees @torque 3.9kg)

– But your current servo should be fine. Try lowering the servo PWM rate from stock 250 to 50 to see if it makes a difference on the jitter?

[Matheus]

@dkdarkness My current servo is pretty beefy, half gram heavier than the 210DMH with over a kilo of torque at 4.8V, Weight: 16.5grams – 4.8V: 4.2kg/cm 0.15sec – 6.0V: 4.7kg/cm 0.13sec

Excited for my total flight time, should be 30Mins Flight and 60min+ of hover, according to eCalc how ever the weight has yet to be accounted for, but my setup is very similar to the 97min guinness world record but with better batteries:)

I’ll be testing the PID’s this weekend with adjustments being made on my Taranis TX.
Eventually i’ll attempt a flight wing/tricopter hybrid

[Jesper]

Terje is right about the torque and that your current servo is fine for the job. I was just trying to point out improvements, but i remembered wrong :). What i ment to write was the torquey one of the high voltage series (20HV). It is about the same torque as the the 385DMAX but faster, cheaper and its “HIGH VOLTAGE” = SEXY.

Does the 385DMAX has magnetic rotary encoder or potentiometer? If its the latter that would be another reason the pick the 20HV.

Regarding the feedback i didn’t think about the smartport occupying RC6. I was actually going to upgrade to X4R´ in my tricopter, but i might have to ditch the feebback then. :-/

About the gimbal limitations can’t you just use 2 of the 3 pwm outputs on the X4R to control the gimbal? Im pretty sure that they work at the same time as sbus.

Can i get som more info on the batteries? C-rating, weight, where did you buy, did you build the pack yourself etc.

[Matheus]

@jesperjuul Batteries, Sanyo NCR18650GA the best batteries on the market besides NCR18650G which are on the Tesla Cars but they don’t sell those to public.

I’ve done lots of research on batteries and these are the one’s to get. the MJ1 are 99% as good
I’ve build the pack myself, I’m into DIY i’ve lots of links on info regarding this project.

4S3P Balanced 10350mah 600grams $80bucks, you can’t beat that with today’s tech:)

NCR18650GA Specs:
Capacity (Ah): 3.5 Ah ( 3500mAh)
Charging Voltage (V): 4.2 V
Nominal Voltage (V): 3.6V-3.7V
Weight (g): 46 g
Diameter (mm): 18.05 mm (+/- 0.03 mm)
Height (mm): 65 mm (+/- 0.03 mm)
Max. Continuous Discharge rate: 10A ( 10000 mA)
Top (positive side): Flat top
Model: NCR18650GA
Made in Japan
Made by Panasonic

Sources that i’ve gotten from:
GearBest-NCR18650GA
AliExpress-NCR18650GA

Record link bellow:
Using NCR18650B batteries
Guinness Record
97 Min Record

Happy to share more if anyone is interested.

[erwintouwen]

Hi there,

I just finished my tricopter v3,5.
It is my first multirotor build, and I went for the standard 4s setup.
But as I am a novice pilot I didn’t like to use my gopro as an FPV camera, instead I went for the eachine combo of a board camera and a 25mw vtx. But I also wanted to have the option of mounting the gopro later on…
So I 3d printed a nose cone that houses the board camera and the vtx. It is mounted on the battery tray, so it does not vibrate. And it is in front of en main frame, this way it looks over the gopro, and it looks streamlined with the rest of the 3d printed body.
To get to the vtx you just fold back the antenna, and it hinges upward. Now I can change the channel, and pop it back into place.

The receiver antenna’s also hinge backwards for storage, and so they don’t break in a crash…

Apart from hovering in the garden, I have not flown it jet. But it is better to share the pictures now it is still in one piece!

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[erwintouwen]

… and an other picture of the poped up vtx..

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[JB_Jacobo]

Hi everyone 🙂

For a start a little bit of a background story : I live in a small village Targowiska(Poland) where RC hobby is rly not seen as anything more than just a stupid fun for kids. Kinda harsh environment for flying anything more than just little toy, but here I’m with my build mainly done by my own hands (everything except ofc electronics) . I haven’t had much money so this setup is kinda just what I found affordable.

Tx- Graupner mz-12
Rx- Gr-16
Engines- SunnySky X2212-13-980KV
ESC- Emax 20A blheli
Battery- Turnigy 3000mah 20-30 C 3S1P
FC- Tarot Naze32
Props- Emax 10×45
Servo- Savox SH-0261

Tilt mechanism, Frane, Motor mounts, Legs, Cables to distribute power, – all that done by my hands and basicly what i found in my garage. In conclusion some 4mm plywood, carbon tubes 16/14mm and countless numbers of zipties and stuff that was laying around 🙂 I will do some tiding but for now that’s how it looks 🙂

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[JB_Jacobo]

Quick update. I’ve reworked yaw mechanism becouse reasons ,now it’s my old doors hinge ( 🙂 ) and I gave it a new frame. Dont mind the long screws, i will cut them 🙂

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