I had a couple of bodies that went on it, one looked like the drone from the Terminator 2 movie, which I thought looked really cool, and another was a delta wing and I flew the tricopter with tail boom forward, so i got lift from the wings during forward flight which increased my flying time a little bit. It was alot heavier with bodies, and during test flying I destroyed both bodies. You have to watch for those attack trees and bushes, they are like Ninjas, the just come out of nowhere! I wish I had some pics of the bodies. I only just recently bought a decent camera.
Ok, here is a short and crappy video. I just upload the latest Arducopter 2.0.19 and tried it out in my kitchen. I need to lower the P on the roll, a bit of oscillation. By the way I do not recommend flying a ducted fan tricopter in your kitchen, it is extremely loud. By the way it was flying with the standard PIDs that are in the firmware, I usually lower Roll "P" to 0.5 which gets rid of the roll wiggle. I will upload some outdoor video when I can get away from work, working from home this weekend. URGGG.
Oh the run time is only 5 minutes with 15000Mah worth of Lipos, about the same flight time, as when I had them in my EDF Jets. I know props are more efficient, but nobody every stopped to watch my TRI when it had props. ;0). This tends to attract people when I fly it. Which makes it more fun. Have met alot of new friends because of this contraption.
It does actually fly very well, it has to modes for controlling flight, one is like a traditional tricopter, all the EDFs point up, with yaw controlled by slightly counter tilting the front two EDFs. The second mode vectors all the EDFs forward or backward, this replaces the speed controlled elevator or pitch control, while still using the speed controllers to keep it level. And Yaw is still controlled by slightly counter tilting the two front EDFs.
Using the vectored EDFs I get slightly longer run times, as I just need to get it up to hover speed, without having run the rear EDF at higher RPM to go forward. Also it doesn't tip when moving forward and reverse. Forward and backward flight is much faster as well.
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I can release the details, as this one is just a hobby project. Please let me know what info you need, and I willl do my best.
Ok, here is a short and crappy video. I just upload the latest Arducopter 2.0.19 and tried it out in my kitchen. I need to lower the P on the roll, a bit of oscillation. By the way I do not recommend flying a ducted fan tricopter in your kitchen, it is extremely loud. By the way it was flying with the standard PIDs that are in the firmware, I usually lower Roll "P" to 0.5 which gets rid of the roll wiggle. I will upload some outdoor video when I can get away from work, working from home this weekend. URGGG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOUGGEklWCE
Hello Guys, glad u like it.
It does actually fly very well, it has to modes for controlling flight, one is like a traditional tricopter, all the EDFs point up, with yaw controlled by slightly counter tilting the front two EDFs. The second mode vectors all the EDFs forward or backward, this replaces the speed controlled elevator or pitch control, while still using the speed controllers to keep it level. And Yaw is still controlled by slightly counter tilting the two front EDFs.
Using the vectored EDFs I get slightly longer run times, as I just need to get it up to hover speed, without having run the rear EDF at higher RPM to go forward. Also it doesn't tip when moving forward and reverse. Forward and backward flight is much faster as well.
I will try to upload some flying video soon.
Are you able to release details? This would make an excellent blog post!