My monster multicopter with brushless gimbal!
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LOL I understand that. Would love to see how the gimbal is mounted. Ive never messed with them but I thing it would be killer on my track bike. Are they powered or what?
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Such a cool gadget.
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I slowly worked my way up from quads, to hex, to octos.
The reason I went to octo was due to the fact that quad to hex had a substantial increase in stability and thrust. I expected similar gains from hex to octo. That didn't turn out... didn't get an appreciable increase in stability, and with more motors eating power, it had higher power draw over the hex.
X8 octo was nice for confined space, but it didn't work the way I expected. Redundancy comes at the cost of thrust. Counter rotating the top and bottom motors increases the thrust, but at the cost of redundancy. e.g; All bottom motors die, if they are setup to counter rotate, then the top one will blow over the lower one (counter rotating it) and that eats up most of the thrust. I end up needing 80% throttle to just hover.
So my options are huge octocopter (need at least 12" props) or a smaller hex. I found a pre-made hex kit (all carbon fiber) that only weighs 600g. AND it's foldable. It arrives tomorrow
The reason I went to octo was due to the fact that quad to hex had a substantial increase in stability and thrust. I expected similar gains from hex to octo. That didn't turn out... didn't get an appreciable increase in stability, and with more motors eating power, it had higher power draw over the hex.
X8 octo was nice for confined space, but it didn't work the way I expected. Redundancy comes at the cost of thrust. Counter rotating the top and bottom motors increases the thrust, but at the cost of redundancy. e.g; All bottom motors die, if they are setup to counter rotate, then the top one will blow over the lower one (counter rotating it) and that eats up most of the thrust. I end up needing 80% throttle to just hover.
So my options are huge octocopter (need at least 12" props) or a smaller hex. I found a pre-made hex kit (all carbon fiber) that only weighs 600g. AND it's foldable. It arrives tomorrow
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