Hello everyone I have just a few questions about getting into the multi-rotor hobby. I'm not new to R/C but I've only dealt with cars, trucks, buggies etc.
I've never flown anything except those cheap helicopters found in the mall kiosks so i'm pretty inexperienced when it comes to flying. Based on other forums recommendations they said to get a mini quad something like the Syma X1 or the Hubsan X4. Those are all well and good but if I wanted to build a cheap tri or quad copter from quality parts could I still learn on that? I'm not going to lie and say money is of no object because it definitely is but if I could build one for 100-120 *not including Tx/Rx* then I think i'd rather go that route. I've always been more of a hands on learner and would rather get up there and learn rather than dealing with sims.
So what would be the best course of action for me to go with? I know Flitetest has the Batwing which can do tri, quad and V copters i'd like a V Wing myself personally, i know that kit is 40ish $$ I think, then you'd need 4 motors which are i think 11-13 a piece, then 4 ESC's which are 8 each, then the kk2 board which is another 20-30? i'm roughly estimating costs so please correct me if i'm way off base i was just going by memory by quick searches. that is like 140 est which isn't to bad get a radio and batterys and i'd be good to go? I have some LiPo batteries already but they are 2s 2 at 35c and 2 at 65c and with the amp's i don't think 2s batteries would work but im not 100% certain.
I'm sure there is many threads like this one in the community already and for that I apologize its just RCGroups is such a widespread forum its hard to get answers directly so I figured i'd come to the site that introduced me to multirotors just a short time ago.
Thank you everyone for your time and I look forward to getting into the sky!
I've never flown anything except those cheap helicopters found in the mall kiosks so i'm pretty inexperienced when it comes to flying. Based on other forums recommendations they said to get a mini quad something like the Syma X1 or the Hubsan X4. Those are all well and good but if I wanted to build a cheap tri or quad copter from quality parts could I still learn on that? I'm not going to lie and say money is of no object because it definitely is but if I could build one for 100-120 *not including Tx/Rx* then I think i'd rather go that route. I've always been more of a hands on learner and would rather get up there and learn rather than dealing with sims.
So what would be the best course of action for me to go with? I know Flitetest has the Batwing which can do tri, quad and V copters i'd like a V Wing myself personally, i know that kit is 40ish $$ I think, then you'd need 4 motors which are i think 11-13 a piece, then 4 ESC's which are 8 each, then the kk2 board which is another 20-30? i'm roughly estimating costs so please correct me if i'm way off base i was just going by memory by quick searches. that is like 140 est which isn't to bad get a radio and batterys and i'd be good to go? I have some LiPo batteries already but they are 2s 2 at 35c and 2 at 65c and with the amp's i don't think 2s batteries would work but im not 100% certain.
I'm sure there is many threads like this one in the community already and for that I apologize its just RCGroups is such a widespread forum its hard to get answers directly so I figured i'd come to the site that introduced me to multirotors just a short time ago.
Thank you everyone for your time and I look forward to getting into the sky!