Sam Raddar
Junior Member
Hi, I am VERY new to the hobby, and I am reading and watching a lot of videos to have a good knowledge about everything before I spent a lot of money on it - since I get a sense of how addictive this is, especially FPV.
Now, reading for weeks, watching all FliteTest-HowTo-Videos I am still left with 3 questions:
1) The power of the motors/rotors should be good enough to take twice the weight of the Quad, from what I learned.
Now, just to be sure when I want to put additional payload as weight like cameras etc on it...
Can you OVERpower it as well f.e. adding to big rotors/motors? If so, which are the consequences?
2) To have a longer flight duration the key value seems to be the mAh-value and the xS on the lipos, is that right?
Is there a way to add 2 of them to extend it, or am I completely wrong on that idea, because I havent seen this anywhere... I guess the extra weight will not really make the duration capabilities double, but ... Is there a way to add them up, and a way to calculate how it will effect flight duration?
3) The radio control seems to be one of the expensive parts of the hobby. I read here in Europe there is a different standard for it. But if I keep an eye on that while purchasing an RC, is there anything else or do they match. How many channels would you experienced users say it has to have as a minimum, which number will be save for my multi-rotor-fpv-future?
4) And the last, just for interest: I know nobody really cares about the humming sound a quad makes. But - just give me a push - in which direction I have to think to reduce the sound emission of the quad if I want to lower it?
I decided that I will start with a cheap plug and play solution to get the feeling on how to fly it right, but at the end I would like to have the possibilty to build my own rig, fly fpv and get some nice aerial footage. And I am working on that and saving money to buy all the things I need to build one from scratch in the near future.
Thanks Josh and Josh for your amazing YouTube-Channel, at the end of my journey I will make you responsable that you made me start it.
Sam Daddar
Now, reading for weeks, watching all FliteTest-HowTo-Videos I am still left with 3 questions:
1) The power of the motors/rotors should be good enough to take twice the weight of the Quad, from what I learned.
Now, just to be sure when I want to put additional payload as weight like cameras etc on it...
Can you OVERpower it as well f.e. adding to big rotors/motors? If so, which are the consequences?
2) To have a longer flight duration the key value seems to be the mAh-value and the xS on the lipos, is that right?
Is there a way to add 2 of them to extend it, or am I completely wrong on that idea, because I havent seen this anywhere... I guess the extra weight will not really make the duration capabilities double, but ... Is there a way to add them up, and a way to calculate how it will effect flight duration?
3) The radio control seems to be one of the expensive parts of the hobby. I read here in Europe there is a different standard for it. But if I keep an eye on that while purchasing an RC, is there anything else or do they match. How many channels would you experienced users say it has to have as a minimum, which number will be save for my multi-rotor-fpv-future?
4) And the last, just for interest: I know nobody really cares about the humming sound a quad makes. But - just give me a push - in which direction I have to think to reduce the sound emission of the quad if I want to lower it?
I decided that I will start with a cheap plug and play solution to get the feeling on how to fly it right, but at the end I would like to have the possibilty to build my own rig, fly fpv and get some nice aerial footage. And I am working on that and saving money to buy all the things I need to build one from scratch in the near future.
Thanks Josh and Josh for your amazing YouTube-Channel, at the end of my journey I will make you responsable that you made me start it.
Sam Daddar