Shes all done, dont those microdan 2510's look purty

full house this puppy, ardupilot, magnetometer, gps, sonar and 900mhz telemetry, plus red and white LEDs

just worked it out, she has about 2.8kw of power on tap !

Running 2.047 with a custom mix (5 channel for 8 motors)

Motors are 2510 microdans 970 kv spinning 10 by 3.8 apc's

VERY responsive, had to drop the gains down by 30% over the RCtimer 750's i normally use, the 25mm diameter stator makes these a tourque monster, 14 magnet DLRK wound

LEDs feed on a seprate 3S lipo

Nice new build, based on 1/2 ally tube, RCT 750 kv motors, 30 amp 4S ESC's, 10 by 4.5 props.

Overall width 680mm , length 840mm

About 5 hours work in it so far, the centre section and motor mounts are pre made for me out of 2.5mm fibreglass

The aluminium is all hand cut and drilled (lots of holes) !!

Nuts/bolts 3mm and 4mm

ESC's were stripped so they could be "daisy chained" on the input side, and have the motor wires direct soldered on the output side.

They are mounted on the side pods, as this keeps the high current DC (and associated mag fields) far away from the Magnetometer , about 120mm seperation

FC is an ardu, with mag, gps and sonar.

Now to get into the code, and do a custom mix, will take the Y6 code, as its close , and modify it, will do one version for the Vtail 8 (needs 5 channels) and a version for the Vtil Y6/Y4 (needs 4 channels)

Batteries will be 4S 12000 mah (good for about 10 kg total thrust) and carrying a maximum of 1kg DLSR

Here's my latest (and yes need to work out how to do the mix in APM, as all this is on Open Pilot, using 4 motor channels)

Perfect for Aerial Photography and FPV, camera will mount under the front, just behind the landing gear

Have had this flying as a prototype for a while using open pilots copter control, now using APM.
She weighs 3.8 kg, with a bit over 10 kg thrust
Control is done with 5 motor channels , the front motors are operated as one, and control pitch, the left and right middles motors are controlled as left and right pairs, so that two more channels, and control roll, and finally the rear motors are operated individually (channels 4 and 5) for pitch and yaw control.
Size wise, motor to motor shes 700 wide and 800 long.

Now what i need to learn is how to enable camera contol on APM 2, and how to do the motor mixing (will modify a hexacopter profile)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwmYk7MKxi8

Can anyone give me a quick guide on how to do the mix and enable camera compensation ?