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About
Location
Vista, CA
About Me:
Retired, flying RC for many years. Got into multirotors last year and have been building and flying with great enjoyment.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Interested in anyting that flyes and enjoying designing and building multicopter air frames, mostly tricopters.
Hometown:
Vista, CA
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"I did it because it was a challenge and fun and I am pleased with the results. Very smooth when done properly and a great platform for Cinema and filming.
I did a number of designs, the best results has a bearing between the upper and lower props…"
I did a number of designs, the best results has a bearing between the upper and lower props…"
"I was using a Multiwii Paris, I don't remember exactly how I did the mid flight gain adjustments. I was doing a lot of stuff with the 3DR tx-rx, back then.
Ed"
Ed"
"The large shrouds create a substantial surface area which is effected by air flow and wind. With the extra power of two motor/props in each shroud it should fly better plus less weight per motor when doubled up. One of the things I wanted to try…"
"I have done a lot of experimenting "proof of concept" with coax counter rotating motor/props with really great results. I have used some off the shelf motors and converted some pancake motors. I think they would work great with a shroud with their…"
"I noticed in your video the aircraft seems to have a greater angle or pitch when in forward flight, I noticed the same thing in my testing. I also notice the effects of the wind were greater then when flown without a shroud, mine was very difficult…"
"I like the term "proof of concept" so much of the theory applied seems to get lost in actual flying. I made a test stand to test different components and found the results differed from actual flying conditions. Test stand a must for comparison of…"
"I found that my ducted fans are more stable with lower settings.
I went to a controller with the capability to adjust gain from the transmitter while in flight, cuts down on trial and error. Just increase or decrease gain with the twist of a knob…"
I went to a controller with the capability to adjust gain from the transmitter while in flight, cuts down on trial and error. Just increase or decrease gain with the twist of a knob…"
"I find your work very exciting, I haven't seen anyone else take the time, effort and expense to develop outside the box. It appears that you must have a CNC router to make the quality parts, I used mine to make a power distribution ring, it cuts…"
"I also did some work with shrouded props, Y6's and a hex with 12 motors/props, 24 batteries."
"Great work, nice looking quad. I have build several tricopters with ducted fans and one quad all with the same motor/prop rotation. I used thrust vectoring for yaw control, you can see in the video the exaggerated angle of the EDF's. I don't…"
"Another video of the tricopter above with the GoPro camera attached under the rear set of motors. I did this to study the rotating boom in flight. There was no vibration dampening with the attached camera, simply strapped it on with tie straps. …"
"I have designed and built quite a few multirotors with coaxial counter rotating motors including several which I modified existing single motors into coaxial setups. The results have been great, nothing special, both props are the same diameter and…"
"Two things get my attention,
first, ESCs packed in very tight. it doesn't take much for the boards to cut through the shrink tubing and short out. Contact with aluminum post and CF.
second, two 4 cell batteries, were they parallel or in series?
Ed"
first, ESCs packed in very tight. it doesn't take much for the boards to cut through the shrink tubing and short out. Contact with aluminum post and CF.
second, two 4 cell batteries, were they parallel or in series?
Ed"
"And there was this, DASH. Unmanned remote controlled version was designed to drop torpedoes and rescue and pick up people in the water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQPRq0wvOHc"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQPRq0wvOHc"
