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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Ruwan on April 10, 2012 at 9:12pm

This is cool indeed. By any chance do you have a video? 

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Ruwan on April 10, 2012 at 9:16pm

Also do you have any diagrams you would share?

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Permalink Reply by Justin Grimes on April 10, 2012 at 10:27pm

I'm new to this forum... I'm not sure if you're replying to me or not.

It's on my To-Do list... past couple weeks have been kind of busy. I'll probably find time to re-tune my control system and get a video up by this weekend. 

I didn't put together extensive documentation. If you (or anyone else) have any specific questions, I'll gladly answer and/or draw up a diagram if necessary.

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Ruwan on April 10, 2012 at 10:35pm

I was replying to you Justin. Well, It'll be great if you can describe a bit of your controller? most of the controllers in this thread is APM1 or APM2. I see you are using a different one. A small, rough diagram would be great! :-)

regards,

Ruwan.

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Permalink Reply by Justin Grimes on April 10, 2012 at 11:06pm

I think I can accommodate that... It's not horribly complex. 

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Ruwan on April 10, 2012 at 11:56pm

Thanks Justin!

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Permalink Reply by Marc LE BRET on April 16, 2012 at 2:36am

Hello,

Few weeks ago, I got my Purple APM2. As I had an Y6 project for FPV and Cam work, I worked on a personal custom frame.

Latest design with a VTail flew today. Classic Y6 was fine (still struggling with PID settings but after discovering that I have to set Acro before Level all is quite OK now) but I developed VTails for my Quads (MultiWii), I wanted to experiment the formula on Y6.

So here is some data and pictures:

frame: Custom VTail Y6 - lenght from center to motor is 11"

controller: APM2

motors: KDA A20-22L

esc: Turnigy 25A

propellers: APC 10x4.7

battery: 2 Lipo 3S/2200or 2600mA

weight 1680g

Flying time: 10mn

radio: Futaba Fasst

Misc: Motor placement is altered: CCW 1 is TOP, CW 5 is BOTTOM

CCW 6 is Right VTail, CW 4 is Left VTail

Frame can accept 11" propellers.

Photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80748892@N00/6937301426/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80748892@N00/6937301474/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80748892@N00/6937301594/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80748892@N00/7083377613/in/photostream

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Permalink Reply by Marc LE BRET on April 16, 2012 at 3:36am

Just an update with live photos

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Ruwan on April 16, 2012 at 7:03am

Nice. Went through your flickr stream as well. Couple of questions, Do you have different configurations, or are they iterations of this? What is the angle of V in V-Tail? 

BTW, love to see a video if available.

Thanks, 

Ruwan.

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Permalink Reply by Marc LE BRET on April 16, 2012 at 8:19am

Hello,

VTail angle is 120°. Yaw is snappy with it.

Should fly it indoor tonight and make a video.

I have also two Quads.

Small one (700g) with 8" props with an Inverted VTail (140°) and a larger one (1060g) with a normal VTail (120°) and 10" props, the same parts as the Y6 presented.

Smal Quad is Paris v4 Sirius board. It is my first VTail.

Large Quad is with Paris v4 and FreeIMU 4.3. I had some work in progress with the Z-Hold PID with it.

MLB

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Permalink Reply by Marc LE BRET on April 16, 2012 at 12:56pm

Video is in progress

Indoor flight. Mostly in Stable mode.

MLB

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Permalink Reply by Fressinet Jean Louis on June 3, 2012 at 6:34am

Hi Marc

I bought the Hunter Vtail frame :http://vizionair.fr/droneshop/fr/droneshop/433-dialfonzo-hunter-vta...

They claim that you need either a Vtail  Or Y4 mode (Multiwii FC) do you think that it could work with the APM2  without entering into the code ? I am not an expert in programming !!

Thanks

Regards

Jean Louis

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