New multicopter / flight section!

[jimmy]

Hey up - I didn't realise the popularity of multicopters in particular on oople until the other day.
I've been planning on getting a good film-ready copter for about the last year.

I first ordered a Y copter (900mm) from hobbyking along with the kk board and all the rest of the stuff needed. I have a Futaba 8FG with Sbus already. I really liked the look of Y-copter footage and still might get one - but in the end I decided to go back to a large HEX. The Y-copter of course never came because one item was out of stock so it was an easy choice.

I did a lot of looking around - rctimer S800 clone, carboncore and the new Tarot T960 folding hexcopter - which is the one I've gone for. Around 1m in width plus the large blades sticking out.

I went for the wookong-M flight controller because I wanted to eventually be able to use a zenmuse if I can afford it. For now I've not got a proper gimbal for it as I'm waiting to see what happens with new alexmos boards etc.

I sourced my motors from rctimer along with the 15 inch carbonblades - this is the same setup as the DJI spreading wings S800.

I also went for some simonK 40amp esc's. Loads of little bits like wire and connectors etc. Along with landing gear and a gimbal mount / lower battery mount system.

Finally I went for twin 6S 5000mah cells - for 10,000mah.

Sadly I'm not allowed to build it until I've got a LOAD of work finished and caught up on or vicky with kick my face in. So sadly it sits in a box tempting me for now.




Ultimate plans are to get a 3axis gimbal to carry my panasonic GH3 so it can be used 1-man and 2-man operation (one camera man, one flyer)


At the moment I only have an RCtimer gimbal with martinez board - not really good imho. The Yun1 using alexmos board which James is using on his 550 is much nicer I think. But.... I got the rctimer one for end-of-a-stick type stuff rather than using it on a flight platform. I wouldn't recommend it. Took lots of counter sinking and work to put it together. And the martinez board won't flash and it over compensates for movement slightly. crap.