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tipps for my new carbon hexacopter

hi

build a new hexacopter made of carbon.

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The goal is to simple take images with the canon g11.

It is build of 18mm carbon tubes. The diameter is 90cm. The top plane is 1mm and the bottom plate is 2mm cfk (diameter of center plate is 250mm).  I use 12"

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UAVFrame or carbon Tube frame

HiMy next hexacopter shlud be something professional. I wand an uavframe or a self made carbon tube frame.The goal is to build a hexacopter to carry a camera like the canon g11. The diameter should be 80cm.Uavframe: one peace carbon,700€, very stable

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Carbon frame: size of tubes

Hi

 

My actual hexacopter has got a weight of 2.2kg with accu and I want to reduce the weight but keeping the same stability (in future i want to carry another 900gramm, that is a camera and the camera mount):

 

At the moment the aluminium tubes have 15x

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why leveling at every power up???

Hi

 

I found that my copter makes an accelerator leveling at every power up.

 

This is a problem!

 

The cause is that then at every start up I need a very flat area for leveling. But I do not have this very flat area. So I bought a very little water level

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crash after RC went off

Hi

 

I had a bad crash after I switched my Rc controll off! This was a mistake of mine.

What happend was that the quadrocopter stopped all the motors and so it dropped from 20m height.

 

why does it switch off the motors? A very slow decrease (rough landi

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i like arducopter

hi

 

I like Arducopter!

with the new frame (15mm alu, 350mm motor distance) and the 12" props it was a pleasure to fly it!

Very very stable!

 

thank you all!

 

with best regards

      Franz

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the next crash

hi

 

After some good flights and several very bad crashes (a lot of motors and frames) I rebuild my hexacopter (15mm aluminium, housing for the electronics,....)

It took me 2 day to do that.

 

Today I was flying with 2.0.45 and it was good. A little nervo

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esc to hot with 2kg hexcopter?

Hi

 

I have the following setup and I think that the esc get too hot: 50-60degrees

 

6x Keda 20L22

6x 10x4.5 props

6x Hobbyking HK30 with 25 A permanent current possibility

3s 5700 Lipo

Canon C11 camera

58cm fram with 10mm alu

2kg averall weight with lipo and

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simple mode: hexa starts fast climping

Hi all,

 

I now work with the new software version 2.0.40. It works fine for stabilize.

 

When I switch to simple the copter starts climping very fast. I than quickly switch back to stabilize. the hex comes done again.

 

I thought that simple does only cor

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crc fail with XBee

Dear all,

 

Wen I use the USB cable I can communicate with my hexa: no problem

 

When I use the XBee I have problems:

- The user interface react very slow

- the terminal shows crc fail: "NavLink Bad Paket (Crc Fail)" very often: several times a second.

 

I u

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six props a day keeps the fun away

Hi

 

am new here with arducopter. And I think i am too stupid for it:

 

I fly a hexacopter (arducopter) for 4 weeks and it is fun but I crash it very ofter. I had the following problems:

1. lost a prop in 50m heigth: full crash, 2 Motors broken, 5 props b

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