Anyone in to R/C Multirotors?

bretster · 03-26-2014, 05:43 PM

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Haven't gotten around to taking video yet, I'm still learning the ropes. The F550 needs some serious trimming while hovering because the extra battery and upgraded landing gear offsets the trim and puts it out of wack. Need to perfect the trimming and i'll get some sweet real estate cinematography.

Mini-quads get caught in wind and fly away haha I've seen it happen to a buddy of mine trying to learn on a blade 350qx.

It's incredibly addicting lol

I just wasted the rest of my day.

Going to get into this -- would you buy the Hubsan 6axis or WL v959?

I bought a hubsan X4 last week and only went through a pair of props for replacement. Not too sure what they are off the top of my head but hubsan has a nice community of guys who fly them and mod them accordingly.

I also finished the build on my cinestar 8 heavy lift octocopter last week lol I'll post up pictures when I get home

bretster · 03-26-2014, 06:36 PM

Test flight went without the gimbal on because we ran into an issue with calibration and had taken it off for the test flight. Hovered beautifully and flies like a champ. Finished up our FPV setup for our camera and for the ship, have our first event with it on april 5 at the roll out to reach out racing event at pocono's.

Rotorocious · 03-26-2014, 08:55 PM

Nice!

NOTM3 · 03-27-2014, 03:40 AM

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What gear is that?
Does it show up in the video ?

Anti vibration from ebay

WhiteShark · 03-27-2014, 08:56 AM

Me!
TBS Discovery, nice solid Quad!

theblackmamba · 03-27-2014, 10:30 AM

Just bought the hubsan and some flight software. I give it a month and my pockets are going to hurt from this thread.

Already looking to build an f550. Haha!

bretster · 03-27-2014, 04:22 PM

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Just bought the hubsan and some flight software. I give it a month and my pockets are going to hurt from this thread.

Already looking to build an f550. Haha!

Nice! It's okay, that's why there's this thread so at least you know you're not the only one whose pockets are suffering haha

Check rcgroups (dot) com, it's a RC forum and their classifieds always have awesome deals on used setups.

regular guy · 03-31-2014, 02:57 PM

I will have two gimbal mounted cameras inside cars at Pocono. Both are two axis for now. For the next event where I can attend (California), I will have a two axis and three axis with FPV. The FPV will be to guide the in-car camera to follow during passing.

Rotorocious · 03-31-2014, 03:00 PM

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I will have two gimbal mounted cameras inside cars at Pocono. Both are two axis for now. For the next event where I can attend (California), I will have a two axis and three axis with FPV. The FPV will be to guide the in-car camera to follow during passing.

Nice!
I've always wanted to put one in a race car. Kinda like the NASCAR bank angle camera thing but not gay because it's not shitty nascar

Rotorocious · 04-03-2014, 01:05 PM

landing gear and gimbal ordered. Now its time for fun

NOTM3 · 04-07-2014, 11:05 PM

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landing gear and gimbal ordered. Now its time for fun

nice i gotta post a video soon of mine

Rotorocious · 04-08-2014, 04:29 PM

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landing gear and gimbal ordered. Now its time for fun

nice i gotta post a video soon of mine

Finishing assembling the gear tonight and gimbal comes tomorrow.

askjeeves · 04-08-2014, 09:38 PM

well.. just ordered a blade nano. i blame you all.

Rotorocious · 04-08-2014, 09:38 PM

It grew legs!

NOTM3 · 04-09-2014, 10:28 PM

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It grew legs!

looking good

NOTM3 · 04-14-2014, 10:00 AM

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Want to but have no chance.

u could pick up a smaller one the blade 350qx is a good start

Eat.Sleep.Race · 04-14-2014, 01:45 PM

damn thats awesome!!!!

Rotorocious · 04-21-2014, 09:52 AM

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Test flight went without the gimbal on because we ran into an issue with calibration and had taken it off for the test flight. Hovered beautifully and flies like a champ. Finished up our FPV setup for our camera and for the ship, have our first event with it on april 5 at the roll out to reach out racing event at pocono's.

Any update on this beast?

Flight time?

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looking good

I got about 8 mins on the F550 with/gear/gimbal/gopro. Doing some calcs from my charger I can go up to about 9-10 minutes before I hit 80% of the battery capacity. Pretty happy with that, that's roughly what I had before I added all the weight. So far the 1038 props work just fine.

bretster · 04-21-2014, 11:10 AM

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Any update on this beast?

Flight time?

Still flying it! Just fine tuning some gains, it's really hard to get 100% stable. We'll have it good in calm winds and it's perfectly stable but in heavy winds it under corrects, and when we retune to have it super stable in heavy winds it over corrects in calm winds so it's just a matter of time to get it right.

We fukked up our GH2, the hacked gh2 basically shit the bed and we had an issue with the video component of the gh2, but now it's okay we can only get aerial shots, so we bought a gh3 and waiting for it to come and just going to leave it stock firmware and shoot out the box with it.

the flight time is around 12 mins

Rotorocious · 04-23-2014, 11:10 PM

Contemplating selling my f550 and getting a turbo ace matrix or upgrading the motors... Hmmm

NOTM3 · 04-30-2014, 07:35 PM

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Contemplating selling my f550 and getting a turbo ace matrix or upgrading the motors... Hmmm

a dome today. Went with a glow and the dark paint for my night flights. Not to happy with the paint, might respray it but not sure. Here's some pics

Rotorocious · 05-01-2014, 10:49 AM

I've thought about that, seeing some more domes recently.
Just for looks or would it protect any?

I'm OCD about adding weight. I'm planning on upgrading motors soon to get more flight time. Mine is right around 2300 grams.
I am getting about 9 minutes out of a 5000 mah 4S with the DJI 1038 props. Motors get a little warm but not hot enough yet where you can't hold them.

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bretster Major 89 Rep 1,332 Posts Drives: E92 M3 Join Date: May 2011 Location: New Jersey iTrader: (8)	Test flight went without the gimbal on because we ran into an issue with calibration and had taken it off for the test flight. Hovered beautifully and flies like a champ. Finished up our FPV setup for our camera and for the ship, have our first event with it on april 5 at the roll out to reach out racing event at pocono's. Attached Images
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Rotorocious Lieutenant Colonel 105 Rep 1,520 Posts Drives: 335xi Join Date: May 2010 Location: Colorado iTrader: (3)	Nice!
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03-27-2014, 10:30 AM	#72
theblackmamba Banned 79 Rep 2,287 Posts Drives: 0 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: 1 iTrader: (8)	Just bought the hubsan and some flight software. I give it a month and my pockets are going to hurt from this thread. Already looking to build an f550. Haha!
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regular guy Lieutenant Colonel 429 Rep 1,947 Posts Drives: Sprint car Join Date: May 2013 Location: California iTrader: (0)	I will have two gimbal mounted cameras inside cars at Pocono. Both are two axis for now. For the next event where I can attend (California), I will have a two axis and three axis with FPV. The FPV will be to guide the in-car camera to follow during passing.
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askjeeves Captain 156 Rep 965 Posts Drives: e92 m3/spece30 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Miami, FL iTrader: (1)	well.. just ordered a blade nano. i blame you all. __________________ 2011 e92 ///m3 zcp - jzb/fr ED 6/29/10
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Rotorocious Lieutenant Colonel 105 Rep 1,520 Posts Drives: 335xi Join Date: May 2010 Location: Colorado iTrader: (3)	It grew legs! Attached Images
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Rotorocious Lieutenant Colonel 105 Rep 1,520 Posts Drives: 335xi Join Date: May 2010 Location: Colorado iTrader: (3)	Contemplating selling my f550 and getting a turbo ace matrix or upgrading the motors... Hmmm
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Rotorocious Lieutenant Colonel 105 Rep 1,520 Posts Drives: 335xi Join Date: May 2010 Location: Colorado iTrader: (3)	I've thought about that, seeing some more domes recently. Just for looks or would it protect any? I'm OCD about adding weight. I'm planning on upgrading motors soon to get more flight time. Mine is right around 2300 grams. I am getting about 9 minutes out of a 5000 mah 4S with the DJI 1038 props. Motors get a little warm but not hot enough yet where you can't hold them.
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