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    Oh wait a minute, no it didn’t, my mistake. Lol

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    You can use whatever material you see fit, even the left over frame if you want too. The only thing I could think on the frame is its thin, so it could eventually crack. Whatever you decide to use though just mind the thickness of it as far as your screw length/battery space.

    I just realized this thread got stickied, awesome and thanks! 🙂

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    Yeah unfortunately I don’t have access to a mill either 🙁 I wish I had some of the wonderful toys to create stuff. Although that’s why I made this post, for people such as myself that want cheap rigity. I have had several crashes since I made these reinforcements and the most I ever have to do is bent the battery tray wires back to shape. No more broken plastic parts!

    in reply to: Flight video from the other day :) #13876
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    Heck yes I am having fun with my Tri! Other than the initial tuning with the CC3D I have had a blast with this Tri 🙂 Flys really well, other than the occasional tail wag but I’ll eventually get that tuned out.

    Thanks for the compliment on the video! The way she responded toward flying the Blade350 I doubt she will ever be much interested in flying machines. They just confuse the crap out of her lol. I have not problem with that though, maybe I can start making more videos like this one with her behind the wheel of my ground vehicles 🙂

    in reply to: Share your build/setup #13538
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    Rcexplorer Tri-Copter V3 (basic frame)

    – Lumenier CC3D Atom
    – Spektrum AR610 Rx
    – Walkera Devo 6s Tx running Deviation firmware
    – Emax MT3110 700kv motors
    – APC SlowFly 10×4.7 props
    – Bluebird BMS-210DMH Servo
    – Lumenier 30A SimonK Esc’s
    – Zippy Compact 4s 5000mah Lipo
    – AUW 1210 grams
    – 3:1 Thrust to Weight

    Im still learning and tuning on the CC3D, although my tri is flying and pretty stable at it’s current tune.

    http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt295/dpg_override/DSC03937_zpsma8obeux.jpg

    in reply to: Problem with Yaw #13448
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    Try P Gain of 75 and I gain of 50, leave your P/I limits as david recommends. If I remember right I ended up with something close to those numbers but those numbers gave me pretty good results.

    When you are tuning Yaw your P Gain controls the yaw after you let off the stick whether it stops immediately or sways a bit before it stops. The I gain keeps the Yaw from drifting (rotating one direction non stop).

    in reply to: Better Motors? #13446
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    I forgot to mention, it’s the 700kv NOT the 480kv ones.

    in reply to: Better Motors? #13443
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    Check out Emax MT3110 motors 🙂 Slinging 10×4.7 props on a 4s 5000mah battery I am getting an easy 20 mins of flight and about 3300 grams of lift.

    in reply to: Super clean Tricopter V3 pictures. #13441
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    This is my second Tri, my first one is lost in some rice field in Ragley, LA. If anyone finds it let me know! lol

    Anyways, The only thing I really have left to do it finish cleaning up the battery wires. I ran out of EC5’s and have not picked any up yet because the hobby store charges a few fingers for them.

    http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt295/dpg_override/DSC03937_zpsma8obeux.jpg

    http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt295/dpg_override/DSC03939_zps3jgvrtut.jpg

    http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt295/dpg_override/DSC03938_zpsy8pcm6oe.jpg

    http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt295/dpg_override/DSC03940_zpsb5crthh4.jpg

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    San Antonio, TX

    in reply to: What would you change about the Tricopter V3 kit? #8813
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    I am still building my tri-copter so I can not say much of anything on the Yaw mechanism. To me it seems like it’s built nicely, mine is pretty rigid but the splines do seem like they could strip pretty easily. Although the problem that I did have with it was using the motors I purchased before I actually picked up the kit. I was not aware that the maximum motor diameter was 33mm so I ended up getting some high dollar motors that I was determined to make work. I got some iFlight iPower 4008Q motors 620kv and will most likely be turning 11″ to 12″ props. I want a slow flyer with longer flight times so the pancake motors sounded more appealing to me.

    Of course the motor hits the servo so I had to figure out a way to mount it all up and get the servo away from the motor a little further. It was only maybe 8mm or so that it needed to go back. I ended up getting it to work and it seems pretty rigid but still seems like it could be a weak point in a crash.

    What I would like to see, and I am even thinking of trying to have some made from a 3D printer service, is some sort of spline extension that will allow us to use these pancake style motors in the larger diameters. It shouldn’t be to hard to make and since it is only creating a further distance that the servo sits away from the yaw mechanism I don’t believe will cause to much undesired stress.

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