Tarot FY 680 and a bit Hexacopter

[pk-surfing]

Looking good Ian,

Not too sure about silver spray paint on the aerial cover and its effect on the SP, might that have fine metallic particles in it (to get the silver colour ?) and so mess up how the SP works, sort of at least detune the aerial due to dielectric effect or at worst shield it.

Might be same with black spray paint if they use carbon black as the main body for the paint...... just a thought.

PK

[bignose13]

Best mod yet Ian,
Now stop messing and fly it, I want to see what it's like

[Coyote]

Thanks Paul, well the funny thing is it was supposed to be black, but I picked up the wrong tin on the way out the back, sprayed and then held my head as it was lovely sparkling silver.

Mk3 will be black this time as intended :)

Cheers Simon, cant fly it mate, it wont go anywhere. My ESC`s are between china and here some where and yet to make an appearance along with the battery tray :(

[bignose13]

Ah the old "Chinksville Journey"

[g.collins]

If at first you don't succeed, make a mark 3, well don bud, you cracked it, to stop cracking it.  :thumbsup:
:) G

[Coyote]

ESC`s turned up !!!!!!! Finally !!!!!!!!!

So I could finally wire the motors up, finally get the directions right, finally solder the power board up and finally start the motors up for the first time :)

ESC`s in, I tried to get them as neat and subtle as I could.

The front :



Underneath you can see for its size there is still not a lot of room to play with. Then fixing everything down needs a fair bit of thinking to avoid the moving parts so it is still foldable.



A quick system check to make sure everything was running the right way and then I could get the props on



Flying weight with 4S 5000mah lipo is 2.4kg

Still the battery tray missing :( But apart from that, its ready to rock n roll :) 

[Dizzy]

Yeah I think Ive ruled out what I can without it being a freak accident really G.

Having now said that, I have realized I could do this while meeting your direct hit from below as well. I will make this tomorrow if I have time for the scrutineers to asses and pass judgement :)

personnally i think its a secret vibration detector  when the video blurs, theres a problem  :D

lol dizzy

[Coyote]

Thanks guy n gal`s

Well here`s a quick clip, only a few seconds long. But I decided against any common sense to do my maiden hover in a big wide open space .................. My living room :)

I thought ah if its gonna go wrong I wont have far to go lol

For kicks I velcro`d the key cam to the gimbal, no anti-vibration, just raw footage of if it works and how much vibration I had.

This was of course if it actually went up long enough to try it :)

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[pk-surfing]

You're in trouble now... I've just texted the link to Donna's mobile  :)

PK

[hase2]

no balls, no glory. well done mate.

[marcin]

Shit ... :o

[g.collins]

you have got to be happy with that bud, good start.
;) G

[FPVSteve]

Haha bet you're not brave enough to show Donna this video... !!!

Looking fantastic mate, and not that much vibration considering you used velcro and not anti-vibe stuff, nice one.

STILL A MULTICOPTER THOUGH!!! :yuk:

[3DJIM]

Nice :D

Jim.

[Dizzy]

 :D LIFT OFF nice,  i was wondering if the curtains were going to head your way then lol  A sweet build and sounds mean :)
Ihope your gimbal behaves now after talking about your concerns i was wondering if it dont behave you could always double up on the thickness of the side plates i have increased the thickness of mine to hopefully ward off any probs in that aspect.

Looking forward to some video when the weather improves :)

I recon the nicest looker yet :D

dizzy