Helo guys,
Hugues, seriously? racer motor can do the lifting? Im planning to use Sunnysky 3508-700KV on my FX61 VTOL. But I think the motors are heavy. Pls comment. Thank you
Yes. Take a look at the F80 T-Motor thrust measurements : https://www.miniquadtestbench.com/t-motor-f80-2408-2200kv.html
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Are those motors appropriate for high endurance because 1400kv motors usually consume a lot of power?
I spec’d out the F80 motors for a VTOL plane weighing 3kg. I couldn’t get the endurance I wanted. After a bunch of ecalc iterations, I choose to use 4 t-Motor antigravity 4006, KV380 motors. http://store-en.tmotor.com/goods.php?id=440
With a 8,000mAh battery, ecalc estimates more than an hour in plane at max efficiency. Obviously, that doesn’t include the power required to take off and transition to plane and back to copter for landing. But I am estimating i’ll get at least 30 mins in plane with a nice reserve, which will allow me to map several hundred acres per flight
This is all theoretical as I haven’t completed my build. I got side tracked repairing a crashed drone.
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Really nice blog Cala. Well done!
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Any updates to this fascinating build? I am going down a similar road with fx61 too.
Thanks Sea:
Finally this build fly but very short time, but an airplane drones company like my work and gave me their flying wing to develop a vtol over it so I stopped continue developing this one, is not the best platform choice, this airplane doesnt like fly with heavy payload I think, next step is going to transform in a tailsitter with only two motors
Ok, thank you Cala. I am almost done with my conversion of FX61 to VTOL. I hope to maiden in the next 2 weeks. I have been logging my build in a pptx file and may post that here or somewhere when I know it flies!!! I am not looking for long flights so just one 3S 5200 battery is enough for me. My all-in weight is 1840g. that is about 650g above the base kit built as a pusher only. I have really enjoyed this project and learned so much - I almost don’t care how it performs. lol
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No, actually I do care. Link below is my maiden flight in Q_LOITER mode. Next week, when the weather clears, I will attempt a transition to FBWB and maybe test Q_RTL.
Nice, your setup looks much better than mine, you put the arms narrower than mine, that avoid arms much torsion that it was one of my issues, I follow your results,thanks for share, good luck with your first FBW
At first I was worried that the arms might be to narrow. I did that to avoid cutting away elevon area - so it wasn’t intentional. Just worked out easier to keep them right along the fuse. But it worked out that 85 percent of the total weight is between the spars and the remaining 15% outboard of the spars. I am just waiting for good weather to FBW and to replace a prop shaft I broke. Anyway, your blog has been hugely helpful to me. With the great glide characteristics of the FX61 i will get conservatively 45 min flight off of a 3200, 3S battery if I keep my Q hovering to total of 4 mins. A 5200, 3s would probably yield a 90 min total flight time. Which is way more than I have patients for anyway! But, as a long duration mapping platform, it would be very inexpensive way to go!
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This was my first proyect so I try to be shure that fly but with other proyect in a talon I narrowed the arms without issues