Tricopter consuming more power than required to hover

ArduPlane VTOL Plane
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Hello,

I built a Tricopter VTOL UAV with AUW 10.5Kg. Each motor at 50% can give approximately 4.5kg of thrust consuming 20A. But when the drone hovers it takes in 90A and a voltage drop of 2V. The power module is calibrated and the plane is tuned. Not able to figure out why the excess power consumption. Any suggestions.

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Thanks

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What motors and props? 6S power right? Based on the Rcout’s at hover the thrust/weight doesn’t look bad for a VTOL.
Flash current Stable Plane.

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Front two motors are T motor AT5220 380KV with 19x10 props and back motor is T motor MN605S 320KV with 22x6 props. It is a 6S system. Firmware is the latest stable version. Could vectored yaw be the reason?

Thanks

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I guess the first thing I would want to see is the temperature of the speed controllers. Wires, Connectors should be checked with a heat gun or thermal camera