My homemade Windestål 2.5 Tricopter
Hi,
As a lot of us here, I looked at the FPV video David made with his tricopter and wanted one immediatly.
It took me about a month to gather all needed parts (I ordered from HobbyKing in 3 different warehouses and from shops in Germany, France, England, USA and of course, Belgium, depending on the stock level). I build/cut the frame from plywood of good quality.
Here is where most of the magic happened (yes, I cut on the ground as I don't have a vibration free holder):
After uncounted hours of build/rebuild for improvement, I made the first flight on Monday evening. It was intense at the beginning as all of my controls needed to be reversed. After a minute or two, I was able to keep it stable at about 1 meter of the ground. I still need to trim it, but I wait to have cleaned the cables and added my FPV gear to finalize the fine tuning. (If I am doing stuff in the wrong order, please tell me as I am a real noob in multicopter)
Here is the current state of my tricopter build:
Here, you can see the FPV power plug (above the red wire):
Electronic used:
- Spektrum AR8000 (with a DX7S)
- KK2 (version 1.6)
- 3 Turnigy Plush 25A ESCs
- 3 DT750 engins
- Savox SH-0253 servo
- Turnigy 3S 2200maH LiPo
Hi,
As a lot of us here, I looked at the FPV video David made with his tricopter and wanted one immediatly.
It took me about a month to gather all needed parts (I ordered from HobbyKing in 3 different warehouses and from shops in Germany, France, England, USA and of course, Belgium, depending on the stock level). I build/cut the frame from plywood of good quality.
Here is where most of the magic happened (yes, I cut on the ground as I don't have a vibration free holder):
After uncounted hours of build/rebuild for improvement, I made the first flight on Monday evening. It was intense at the beginning as all of my controls needed to be reversed. After a minute or two, I was able to keep it stable at about 1 meter of the ground. I still need to trim it, but I wait to have cleaned the cables and added my FPV gear to finalize the fine tuning. (If I am doing stuff in the wrong order, please tell me as I am a real noob in multicopter)
Here is the current state of my tricopter build:
Here, you can see the FPV power plug (above the red wire):
Electronic used:
- Spektrum AR8000 (with a DX7S)
- KK2 (version 1.6)
- 3 Turnigy Plush 25A ESCs
- 3 DT750 engins
- Savox SH-0253 servo
- Turnigy 3S 2200maH LiPo
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