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Greetings folks.

Started over at the AeroQuad pages, got hooked on the concept of cool quad rotor craft, came over here, and now I'm hooked for good.

I have the ArduPilotMega board, and the Oilpan is inbound. I've been reading up on concepts and basics trying not to start asking stupid questions, but, here goes:

I see recommendations on specific motors and esc's for quads, but I also see disparaging remarks about the quality of the gear from sites like HobbyKing. I'd ideally like to buy the motors and esc's locally, perhaps spending a bit more initially for a lower overall failure rate.

Can someone give me a pointer to information about basic motor dimensioning? As an added level of difficulty, I'm new to the RC game in general.

Thanks in advance.

Dan

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Jani Hirvinen October 3, 2010 at 1:27am

Dan if you are not in hurry, around end of the month we should have our ArduCopter specific motors/esc and propellers available. Currently we are waiting our shipments to arrive. If you want to have all parts now, I suggest that you try to get 2830 type 800-1000Kv motors. At least you don't need to do so much tuning on ArduCopter.
John Ryan October 2, 2010 at 11:32pm

Hobby King are ok, a bit slow on delivery but otherwise their products work fine. Most of their products have a users comments section that's worth taking the time to read, it can add a lot of hours to the buying process, but in the end it assists making informed decisions and leaning on the experience of others who have bothered to share it.

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