Multirotor, multicopter and quadcopter discussion - The Drone thread

Progress!
Sorted the bullet connectors on the ESCs.
Used a spare hands clip thing to hold the connector, filled it with nice molten solder. Poke the cable in. Heatshrink. Done! Even easier to do than I was expecting :)
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LesPLxg.jpg
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Next Up, the rest of the power circuitry. Having to go back to the drawing board for this, my seemingly cunning plan to solder onto the unused cross shaped motor mounts won't work - they're aluminium and solder just won't take to it. Might see whether I can find some suitable shaped bit of copper and do it with that. If not I'll just stick with making the whole lot out of cable.

I've been unable to find out whether I can get away with standard house electrical cable for the meantime, so might just have to hang fire and order some 12awg cable from hobbyking and delay the build a few days. Gives me time to start plotting for some lighting.

Been unable to find out whether i can easily toggle lighting on and off from a receiver channel. I've got the toggles on the transmitter but not sure how I'd wire it on the quad and can't find anything clearly explaining it. Imagine I'll just stick with everything on for now.
 
PinkFloyd said:
Progress!
Sorted the bullet connectors on the ESCs.
Used a spare hands clip thing to hold the connector, filled it with nice molten solder. Poke the cable in. Heatshrink. Done! Even easier to do than I was expecting :)
http://i.imgur.com/H6RqAgb.jpg[IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/LesPLxg.jpg[IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/dpp20pC.jpg[IMG]

Next Up, the rest of the power circuitry. Having to go back to the drawing board for this, my seemingly cunning plan to solder onto the unused cross shaped motor mounts won't work - they're aluminium and solder just won't take to it. Might see whether I can find some suitable shaped bit of copper and do it with that. If not I'll just stick with making the whole lot out of cable.

I've been unable to find out whether I can get away with standard house electrical cable for the meantime, so might just have to hang fire and order some 12awg cable from hobbyking and delay the build a few days. Gives me time to start plotting for some lighting.

Been unable to find out whether i can easily toggle lighting on and off from a receiver channel. I've got the toggles on the transmitter but not sure how I'd wire it on the quad and can't find anything clearly explaining it. Imagine I'll just stick with everything on for now.[/QUOTE]

You could use one of these maybe? Although they are on backorder at the moment. [URL="http://hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__8833__Turnigy_Receiver_Controlled_Switch.html"]http://hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__8833__Turnigy_Receiver_Controlled_Switch.html[/URL]
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Yeh I'd seen them. Was hoping there was a cheaper option, but after looking around it looks like there isn't! I guess the circuitry for it is more complex than I realised. I've seen a few people do DIY jobs using old brushed speed controllers which is neat as you'll be able to change the brightness :D
 
Cheers... Beach shots was from my bros gopro white, it doesn't compare with the black on phantom though

The video was not edited with any processing... Wind was at least 15mph gusting.

Had some scary moments like running out of battery when 200m out, by the time I got back phantom had no lift. On next flight suddenly lost half Fpv view, battery compartment had burst open. Got back before battery fell out
 
That would scare the hell out of me, Don't know if I could risk flying over water for those very reasons....I took my hubsan out with me today and one blade broke off a prop whilst it was in mid air and came crashing to the ground, must have been damaged already. If that happened to something like yours I doubt I would have been so lucky and if it was over water like yours then thats really really bad haha!
 
If a guy with zero RC aircraft or electronics knowledge fancied a cheap small multirotor in order to dip his toe in the water, learn the basics, torment the cat and possibly stick one of those tiny keychain camera on it, what would be the best choice? Seems like the Hubsan or one of the Ladybird models are quite popular?
 
I'd say either of those. I was going to get the ladybird but the hubsan got a lot of good reviews so I picked that up instead. I have never flown an RC aircraft and manage just fine now (after I lost my first one lol) and am looking to get the blade 350QX :D
 
Yeah looking back through this thread the Hubsan X4 is very popular, so plenty of help and advice about.

These things look really cool, and spending £35 to find out if it is, and if I have the skills and patience to learn seems like a bargain to me.

There are a couple of versions of the X4 available? Should I be going for the "revised" one listed as V2 or H107L?
 
Yes I would get that one, The LED's are invaluble for night flight and being able to turn off the flip mode saves any accidental flips. Dont forget to get a couple of sets of spare props and battery as you will need them. I picked up to packs of props and 1 battery to use for now and have ordered some batteries off amazon, they are larger capacity and far cheaper.
 
Skeeter it's addictive and won't be long before your wanting to upgrade to onboard camera's and FPV!

Mine's crashed a few times and at speed or from a great height and all thats broke so far is a couple of props, think a motor might be on it's way out so some are on order just incase.
 
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