HI All,
New to this forum and just have 5 months of experience with my first hexcopter scratch build. It was flying fine until an untimely swim in a salt water pool. $500 later, it's back in the air and working great with about 30 minute flight times on twin 5000 mah batteries.
However, I'm looking for much longer flight times and I've been reading about quadcopter designs with 1 gas or electric engine and 4 variable pitch props but I can't find anything about the controllers that are being used.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY INFORMATION about a commercially available controller or modifications to a commercially available controller. Also, I've only found 1 variable pitch prop setup for sale but there MUST be more than that!!!
Ultimately, I'm looking to design and build a heavy lift quad or hex that can carry a 10 to 15 kg. payload and stay aloft for up to 1 hour per mission.
Any and all input would be most welcome.
Michael Marr
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Hi Michael,
Unfortunate about salt water pool, fresh would have been bad enough - everything instant dead short.
Here is a link to the Blog right here on DIYDrones about Curtis Youngblood's prototype Manta Ray gas engined variable pitch prop quadcopter.
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/curtis-youngblood-single-motor-...
There are no commercially available controllers programmed to do this at this time.
But you might write to Curtis who sells the Stingray electric variable pitch quadcopter and ask about what he used for the Manta Ray.
http://curtisyoungblood.com/V2/products/quadcopters/stingray-500
Best Regards,
Gary