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  • in reply to: Share your build/setup #20042
    Rotorblade
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    one more pic

    in reply to: Share your build/setup #20038
    Rotorblade
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    #29 checking in 🙂

    I’ll shorten and clean up the wires when I get the wire mesh in.

    My 3s 1400mah battery’s don’t really give me much flight time so I started flying with 3s 2650 and 3300 nanotechs. I have a single 1800 60c 4s coming and will evaluate that before I buy more.

    I get 4 to 5 minutes depending on the SPEED of the flying. I’ve never flown this fast before with a multirotor. I am very excited to try a proper 4s battery.

    My V3 Tricopter is now boring, thanks David!

    I am running the triflight .1 beta with the the suggested CLI commands and it’s flying pretty good. I had ran the regular tricopter v3 Naze32 firmware and the yaw would shift back and forth during fast flight but now that is sort of ironed out in the triflight beta .01 .

    It was a great decision to get David’s electronics kit for the mini tri. The build process was a pleasure because he has the proper length cables which makes it an easy and clean build. The built in naze32 in the frame is awesome and very clean. The power distribution board with BEC is also awesome. My maiden flight was ridiculously smooth. I had no idea what to expect for power and control. I performed the maiden flight in my garage, it lifted off with such authority and precision, there was no drift like it had GPS or something. It is a buttery smooth and soft flying experience so far.

    Before the 15 or so flights I’ve had on this I had never flown a multirotor this potent. I’ve also sort of avoided FPV up to this point. Now I am hooked! I can’t wait to get the proper battery pack and spend more flights near it’s top speed. I actually had the throttle floored today for the first time ever on a multirotor. I was able to keep it pegged and I had very good control. This was with the 3s pack and it seemed like I might have been doing 50 to 70mph however am really not sure. It was exhilarating. The tune from David, Lauka, the other guys is really coming along!!!

    Anyways enough rambling on about this. What an awesome experience this mini tricopter has been so far. I am still on the first set of props and am proud to say that.

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    in reply to: Share your build/setup #17702
    Rotorblade
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    Alright… this frame was a y6 for a while and now it is back to being a good ole tricopter with the KK2 board.

    About a year ago I started my multirotor journey with a scratch build tricopter and the KK2 board. Like many I got frustrated and the kk2 board hit the shelf. Then when David’s kit came out with the KK2 board setup video it renewed my interested in going back to my roots with this and my goal was to learn how to tune a multirotor. After having spent a few days earlier this year learning to tune it in manual mode I now have a fun to fly tricopter thanks to David’s kk2 board setup video.

    When the weather finally got warm outside I started to really fly and fall in love with the tricopter again. To my surprise it flies for over 30 minutes and not just hovering. This is with the battery alarm set to go off at 3.5 volts. With a full size fpv setup on it and gopro I get about 20 minutes. This is a long ways from my first builds where I only had about 7 minutes a flight.

    Since having fallen back in love with my tricopter it’s been my mission to help others in need when it comes to tuning the kk2 board. I had the chance to exercise my newbish skills at the recent Flite Fest 2015 where I had a ton of fun helping folks with kk2 board issues.

    This has become my favorite multi-rotor to fly now. Here is my setup:
    2216 800 kv Tmotors
    10×4.5 hq props
    Turnigy Plush 25amp flashed with BLHeli (leftover ESC’s from first my tricopter build)
    5200mah 4s 10c multistar battery (seen in attached pics)
    kk2.1.5
    The all up weight with what you see in the pictures must be around 1100 to 1200 grams. It is also one of the first 100 frames. I only recently had to replace the rear motor mount due to cracks in the original. I have over 100 flights on this copter now.

    I have an army of 3s and 4s batteries that work with this setup and not have to change props.

    Thank you to David for being such a great inspiration!

    in reply to: Reversing motor rotation without re-soldering #10791
    Rotorblade
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    Good option! I have only used the reverse option with the BLHeli firmware to achieve this as well.

    in reply to: Share your build/setup #8446
    Rotorblade
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    Y6 configured tricopter V3 frame

    6 x t-motor 2212 750kv
    6 x Turnigy plush 10 amp flashed BLHeli firmware
    6 x HQ Props 12×4.5
    2 x 5100 Mah 3s in parallel 316grams a pack, can run single
    Flight controllers Pixhawk and currently using the DJI Naza M V2
    3 axis camera gimbal with go pro 3
    3 way video switcher
    OSD minim or dji mini iosd
    Frsky x8r-ii reciever
    Fathshark 600tvl fixed flight camera

    AUW 1900-2000 grams depending on options

    Fatshark 5.8ghz 250mw video transmitter
    Frsky Taranis transmitter
    Fatshark 5.8ghz goggles

    it will go back to being a tricopter some day, 🙂 It’s my favorite multi-rotor frame so far!

    in reply to: What would you change about the Tricopter V3 kit? #8387
    Rotorblade
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    A second pre-drilled hole on the mid-frame and arm for those guys not wanting to drill their own and go with the friction-lock method. I had my tricopter arms fold on me twice and cause a very mild crashes, I guess I am not a fan of the friction-lock method yet. I still consider myself a tricopter newb. I drilled some holes and have the arms secured now and flies fine.

    Thank you David!

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