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Registered Member #2431
Joined: Tue Oct 13 2009, 09:47PM
Location: Chico, CA. USA
Posts: 5639
AndrewM wrote ...
Video please? What was the final configuration?
yep let me post a pic for now, im trying to figure out how to use a GoPro ATM.
I crashed it after i "whiskey throttled" the collective. But im rebuilding now, fortunately tilt rotor with fixed pitch dont have all the expensive little parts that helis have.
Im hoping this among other sources will help me avoid saturation of the several integrals ill be maintaning...
Registered Member #30
Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 6706
Good stuff! I see you're not using the wooden pole to damp oscillations any more. How did you get rid of that? From the pics it looks like you're dangling the battery pack underneath now.
Registered Member #2431
Joined: Tue Oct 13 2009, 09:47PM
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Steve Conner wrote ...
Good stuff! I see you're not using the wooden pole to damp oscillations any more. How did you get rid of that? From the pics it looks like you're dangling the battery pack underneath now.
First, as for the pole. Yes we've done away with it, now that ive pushed some mass out left and right, those rotational moments are slower and the gyro+math can keep up from the kk board.
second, hanging the battery was a huge help, and remember i said i was wondering if the CL should be well above the CG, well it pretty much has to be (a pendulum) or pitch changes are erratic or have no effect.
i like this more than my quad, as theres half the props, half the motors, and half the ESCs, so its cheap to fix. And a camera/sensors are easier to mount with better field of view than from a quad.
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Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:05AM
Location: Bigass Pile of Penguins
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Steve Conner wrote ...
PS: You might need one before anyone will let you near a spacecraft.
Ha, if that was the requirement nothing would ever get built around here! Based on the number of connector jackposts that get twisted off, inspection mirrors shorting out battery cells, and ESD bags left over TC&R antennas I'd wager a HS diploma isn't even a requirement...
I propose a boycott of all of Patrick's threads until he posts video.
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