This is mostly for Jani... as it's hard to get a hold on him in the chat room or by email... busy man and we all appreciate the effort.
3 questions:
I was wondering about the updated "plastic" parts of the frame, I see a lot of nice pictures posted by Jani with upgraded version of the parts. Some LED illumination in the motor mounts, longer legs, and so on...
there is also hexa frame parts... but planning to build only a quad for now and I would really like to get the latest/newest parts... really dig the illumination... :)
Next one, will you soon carry 25C ESC? ordering 880kv upgraded motor will potentially put the ESC to their max load capacity... so I was wondering if it was possible to get from jdrones store 25/30 ESC instead of the 20/25 one... That would be nice in case I choose to change the motors down the road for larger ones putting more 25C stress... this will reduce the cost on the long run.
Last one, Chris indicate long time ago that soon the standard would be Mega 2056, where are we with this? I know it's only more memory, same clock and all but the head room is nice...
no rush, I will order my full kit in about a month... no matter the answer I am sold! :)
Thanks!
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Thanks for all the support. Yes we have been more than extremely busy to set up everything basically from scratch.
Now kit's just started to flow in with rather steady incoming speed and we made over 15 new subcontractor deals in last 1 month to ensure proper production speed for all future needs.
Also upgrade parts are starting to flow in. Now that our new office is almost working we can get back to "the old drawing bord" and start prototyping again. Ok well last week minor waterpipe failure on building did not help up us :)
Yes 30 amp ESC's are now in stock and we are testing 4 new motors too for heavier payloads. There are many new products waiting too to be uploaded on jDrones store. I try to put at least 1 new product per week from now on.
Illumination can be done even now by using onboard relay if nothing else. Just stay tuned, there will be many nice things coming...
New APM board still have few issues so we won't release it yet. I need to wait until our APM wizard Jordi solves those min or issues on it. Difference between new and "old" APM are rather minimal. Basically only flash memory is doubled. But when they are ready for the market, we sure will have them in stock.
Updated DomeCenter will be in store this week and just today we added 2 new sonars.
you mean these?
you can put LEDs in standard arducopter motor mounts
it is 25A ESC (C is completely different, it depens on your battery, which is not relevant for ESCs) you will be fine with current ESCs and big arducopter motors, if you want bigger ESCs you could use turnigy plush instead.
as far as I know the mega 2056 is in production, so when 1280 are sold out, you will get the new ones ;)