After watchin allot of the FT videos of David and his Tricopters it has got my interest going into Tri's.
So I looked in my spares drawer and had everything needed for a build except for the wood for the frame and arms.
So went to the local hobby store and got some 10x15mm spars for the arms and a piece of super ply wood " dont know its correct name but it is super light and very stiff".
Then it was time to think of a frame design and yaw servo setup.
I then visited Davids site and got allot of info from there.
I then decided to go on a design based of his RCX frame and also the yaw mechanism.
I wanted to build a mini tri, cause I had motors left over from a crashed 250 FPV quad.
After i measured it all up to the size I was happy with it ended at 315mm from motor to motor.
Setup is as follow.
RCX based design
CC3D FC
Sunnysky 2207 2100kv motors
Hobbywhing Xrotor 20A esc
Cheap 9g servo
5045 Tripple blade props.
After I assembled everything I did the vehicle setup through the Openpilot GCS and checked that all the inputs and outputs are reacting as supposed to and went to my kitchen to test... (this was Saturday night 23:20)
I armed and advanced the throttle and it picked up smoothly, and sat in a stable hover.
Damm, this thing is so stable and nice and I have not even began to play with the PID's or rates or anything, it is bone stock CC3D settings on a generic tricopter.
I flew out a couple of packs over the weekend to get familiar with the setup and how the tri handles and have to say I'm very happy with it and beginning to think I might like Tricopters more over quads...lol
Anyway, thought I want to share my experience and show you some pics, will post them a bit later once I figure out how to
Already thinking of my next build, something bigger and something smaller.
Also want to say thanks to David for the inspiration and hard work he is putting into the Tricopter world.
Cheers from South Africa.
So I looked in my spares drawer and had everything needed for a build except for the wood for the frame and arms.
So went to the local hobby store and got some 10x15mm spars for the arms and a piece of super ply wood " dont know its correct name but it is super light and very stiff".
Then it was time to think of a frame design and yaw servo setup.
I then visited Davids site and got allot of info from there.
I then decided to go on a design based of his RCX frame and also the yaw mechanism.
I wanted to build a mini tri, cause I had motors left over from a crashed 250 FPV quad.
After i measured it all up to the size I was happy with it ended at 315mm from motor to motor.
Setup is as follow.
RCX based design
CC3D FC
Sunnysky 2207 2100kv motors
Hobbywhing Xrotor 20A esc
Cheap 9g servo
5045 Tripple blade props.
After I assembled everything I did the vehicle setup through the Openpilot GCS and checked that all the inputs and outputs are reacting as supposed to and went to my kitchen to test... (this was Saturday night 23:20)
I armed and advanced the throttle and it picked up smoothly, and sat in a stable hover.
Damm, this thing is so stable and nice and I have not even began to play with the PID's or rates or anything, it is bone stock CC3D settings on a generic tricopter.
I flew out a couple of packs over the weekend to get familiar with the setup and how the tri handles and have to say I'm very happy with it and beginning to think I might like Tricopters more over quads...lol
Anyway, thought I want to share my experience and show you some pics, will post them a bit later once I figure out how to
Already thinking of my next build, something bigger and something smaller.
Also want to say thanks to David for the inspiration and hard work he is putting into the Tricopter world.
Cheers from South Africa.