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CCW nuts on CCW motors or CCW on CW?

I have 2+2 motors for a mini quad

2 of them have a nuts that tighten in CCW, the other two in CW

my hunch is I should use the CCW nuts on the CW motors so to counteract the direction therefore self-tightening...but maybe i'm wrong...

any help?

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This has to stop. Wings vs. Multirotors.

This happened today.

I''m an AMA member, paid my annual fee 6 months ago.

We went today to Floyd Bennet field in NYC, where there is an authorized RC field.

with a DIY quad 450, and one hexa 550.

We unpack our drones.

After 5 minutes 2 jeeps coming over u

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3-axis gimbal recommendations?

I want to upgrade my 2d Tarot gimbal to a 3 axis.

I also hate my tarot because it's a pain to mount/unmount the gopro everything time you need to take off the SD card and charge the battery... awful design!

I'm wondering what is available out there tha

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ESC cut off with 3S, but keep running with 4S

i have a very strange problem today..

everythign was runinng fine with a 3S. then i tried a 4S and ok.

put back the 3S.

now some motors cut off at half throttle just before taking off from the ground.

i can hear a beep like ESC resetting? i dont understa

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Reversed elevator stick on tricopters??

Does anybody know why my Y6 (new) lean backward when i raise the Pitch stick, and lean forward when I lower the pitch stick on my Futaba t8j. I mean, i know i can reverse the servo but is it normal??... I haven't had such strange behaviour wiht my NA

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Reverse Pitch on Y6?

I'm confused.

When I calibrate the Radio and i look at the green bars ging up and down eveything seems perfect.

if i raise the PItch/Elev the bars goes up as always did.

but when i tested the copter congifured Y6... raising the pitch was actually ging t

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T6 instead of Y6 frame configuration?

I'm in the process of building a new frame from scratch with some spares parts and i was wondering if there is any recommendation or cons, other then COG/ balancing problem, in configuring a tricopter with 6 motors in a  T shape instead of pure Y

I fe

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APM Planner 3.0 Redesign

I took a stab at redesigning the visual for the APM Planner software.

It's a concept, soem details still needs to be worked out. I'm not involved with the developers of the actual software, but I'd love to be if they need me, on a voluntarily basis. S

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Rover frames? which brand? type?

after playing with copter i got curious about rovers..

where shoudl i start? i have spare ESC, burshless motors and everythign from an older copter ... what do I need to convert it into a rover?

which frames are good an universal? 

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Quad overpowered, ...now underpowered?? HELP!

Hi,

i have built a quad

APM 2.6

4x sunnysky 800kv

4x 11x4.7 props 

4x ESC Mystery 30A

dji 450 (clone)

lipo 11.1 3s 5500mah (brand Floureon)

+ sonar + optflow + 3rd radio

Total weight with GoPro + Gimbal + all of above, including battery: 1.87kg

as you see it q

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