Share your drone info thread

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- - Anthony W > Marius October 6, 2014 at 7:33am
    
    Thanks Marius,
    
    Please answer to the best of your abilities:
    
    What made you want to buy a drone in the first place? What do you use it for?
    
    How much did you pay for your drone? Where did you get it from?
    
    How did you learn to fly a drone?
    
    Walk me through the process of flying a drone. What do you have to prepare beforehand? What do you have to do in flight?
    
    Tell me about a time you had problems with your drone.
    
    What worries, problems or concerns do you have when you operate your drone?
    
    What kinds of safety precautions or measures do you take with your drone? For yourself when flying?
    
    What kind of liabilities do you think you could face flying a drone? Do you think there is liability in flying a drone?
    
    Do you know anyone else like a hobbyist or any other organizations that use a drone?
    
    Thanks Again!
    - Anders Wikstrom > Anthony W February 15, 2015 at 7:56am
      
      Hi Anthony, I'll answer your questions as they apply to me:
      
      1. Photography. I have a project where I need to take good quality photographs from above.
      2. Between 11 and 15 hundred Euro plus the Radio. I bought most of the parts from Hobbyking.
      3. Bought a mini quad from XL Toys.
      4a Courage! If you buy a RTF, not very much. If you are like me, building by your own drone, it takes thinking, calculation, time and you´re scared when hovering for the first time :-)
      4b Make sure everything is OK. I have made a checklist. Then the arming check when powering on: gyros, compasses, GPS, batteries, radio connection and eventually telemetry.
      4c Keep you eyes on the drone and your hands on the radio. Let no one disturb you and you're fine.
      5. Except for the weak landing gear not much. I had to invent my own landning gear.
      6. Hurting someone! The weight and the rotating carbon fiber propellers make the drone dangerous.
      7. No people around, especially never, ever below. Have setup as many Fail-safe operations as possible for battery, transmitter, outside allowed area. And have a switch, on my transmitter, for RTL (Return To Launch).
      8. I have a separate insurance when flying official. When performing test flights in my garden or at any allowed RC field I have no problem.
      9. Yes, I have friends flying quads. I'm the only one flying a drone of this size.
      
      That's my 10 cents :-)
      
      Anders
      Sweden
Marius October 1, 2014 at 9:59pm
Hello,

...long way from the 'ugliest 3DR over-crashed quad shared earlier'

The second I built is all eBay Chinese parts, excluding the Home Depot arms and 2 recovered plates from an old frame.
- Apm2.6
- 4x1Esc Quattro
- Sunnsky 980Kv
- Turnigy 8Ch receiver
- Ublox GPS+Compass
- 200Mw 5.8 Ghz AV TX
- Home-Depot curtain aluminium arms
- Balanced props (with nail lacquer)
- 2.6 or 2.2 3S Lipo
1.14 Kg (battery and camera+TX)

Fly time: 16 min (2.6 amps), and 10 min with 2.2 Amps. This copter does not have legs because I launch it and catch it by hand. This copter took a hell of a lot of time to tune up and figure out all malfunctions, but finally works almost as the 3DR.

The second copter (my original 3DR) is has 3DR original electronic modules except;

    Esc's were replaced with Quattro 30Amps,

    and

    the GPS+Compass with an Ublox module.

The frame is built from leftovers of the original 3DR frame and Home Depot aluminium plat-band.

It suffered to many crashes, that's why is all bend. I use a 8MP / 1080 Remote Wifi cam on a Walkera

G-2D Gimbal, which works just fine.
- Balanced props (with nail lacquer)
- 2.6 or 2.2 3S Lipo
- 1.24 Kg (with all load on it)
- Fly Time 10..15 min
- Turnigy RX 8 channels
Barry Nash September 25, 2014 at 4:41pm

frame: Tarot 680 carbon Hexa
controller/autopilot: Zero UAV YS-X4P
esc: 20A DJI
motors: DJI E600 propulsion
propellers: 12x4.2 self tightening
motor to motor distance: 29 inches
battery: 6S 8000 MAH (Turnigy)
total weight: 9lbs
flying time: 15 minutes (average)
radio: futaba 8Fg
video/osd: GOPRO 1 FPV predator
other: GPS/Mag, AUTOPILOT, follow me etc
The DJI system is so smooth right out of the box.
- Barry Nash > Barry Nash September 25, 2014 at 9:39pm
  
  Sorry, here they are.
  
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    Ruwan > Barry Nash September 26, 2014 at 9:44am
    
    Thanks Barry! Looks nice!
    - John Hulsbosch > Ruwan September 26, 2014 at 12:05pm
      
      Hi All. This is my first post .
      
      This is a great place for newbies like me.
      
      Here is my own design Hexa and my first multicopter.
      
      Without this forum I would never have got this far.
      
      Custom center hub and skids, Designed on Autocad and Water Cut from 1.6 aluminium Sheet, Powder Coated
      
      APM 2.6 - V3.1.5
      
      Quantum GPS/Compass
      
      3DR Telementery - mission planner (Laptop) Droidplanner 2 (Nexus 7)
      
      Frsky X8 Receiver - Futaba 9cap with 2.4 Frsky modual
      
      Plush 40amp ESC
      
      Turnigy 4225-390kv 16 pole motors
      
      Turnigy Propellers 12 x 4.7 (waiting on 14 x 4.7 Carbon)
      
      Nanotech 6S 5000mah x 2 in parallel.
      
      16mm Dia Carbon fiber booms
      
      Tarot motor mounts
      
      Mixed flight time 14 min approx
      
      all up weight 4.5 KG (no camera yet)
      
      Flies great. Bit of playing with the PID's thanks again to DIY Drones.
      
      Thanks John H
      
      Auckland
      
      New Zealand
      - John Hulsbosch > John Hulsbosch September 26, 2014 at 12:27pm
        
        Just forgot to say.
        
        Motor centers 860mm
        
        Cheers
        
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        Ruwan > John Hulsbosch September 26, 2014 at 1:57pm
        
        Nice work John! I like the place you've placed the batteries!!
        
        Richard Kennedy > Ruwan November 19, 2014 at 6:19pm
        
        Yea great idea on the battery location. Good flight time.

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