Building the "K-Quad"

[Brod]

neat,whats it weighin in so far without lipo?

c,mon get the scales out ;)

[CurryKitten]

neat,whats it weighin in so far without lipo?

c,mon get the scales out ;)

Oh yeah, will try and weigh it today.

[Brod]

be interesting to know :)
my mini 260 size semi-homebrew comes in at 473g rtf with 1300 3s zippy

[CurryKitten]

Just for you Brod, it's 380g with lipo (2s 1600) /camera ready to go, and 288g without the lipo

This is a touch heavier than my wooden mini h quad, which was 238g without a camera or lipo

[Brod]

very light curry :)

[krikey]

an 808 on its own is around 16g and a cable with USB will be a few more so it looks like the K-quad frame is heavier by around 30g.

[CurryKitten]

Well the frame is probably not that far out. Although the USB cable is already on the h quad, don't forget that there are light different motors on the k and bigger ESCs

[CurryKitten]

...and to finish off, here's this thread in video form, as well as some fpv maiden stuff.

The K-Quad build & maiden: A 3D printed mini FPV quad.

With possibly the dampening results to follow.

[bignose13]

Awesome, better get my arse in gear to do something similar with my Noseycopter, just told my daughter shes gotta film me this afternoon, shouldn have seen the face on her

[iwan_canobi]

Nice work! What props are you using? I just received some 5043 props today for my tricopter but they needed drilled out to fit the prop mounts, once that was done they didnt seem to produce much lift before one of the motors came out of its mount. I don't have an allen key small enough to tighten it so need to wait for the one I just ordered before I can try again. :(

[Coyote]

That is nice work, the autolevel looks like its working great :)

Tops marks Neil and Wayne :)

[CurryKitten]

Nice work! What props are you using? I just received some 5043 props today for my tricopter but they needed drilled out to fit the prop mounts, once that was done they didnt seem to produce much lift before one of the motors came out of its mount. I don't have an allen key small enough to tighten it so need to wait for the one I just ordered before I can try again. :(

I'm using Gemfan 5030's which fit the prop adapter for the little 1811 motors.  If you are using these, then you *must* threadlock in those grub screws.  It's a 1.3mm allen key you'll be needing

[Ynot6]

i got a set of mini allen keys from machine mart, some are metric, some imperial, order code, 040215196, £4.79 inc vat. i have 1811s on my micro quad, they don't all have the same size grub screws!

[iwan_canobi]

I'm using Gemfan 5030's which fit the prop adapter for the little 1811 motors.  If you are using these, then you *must* threadlock in those grub screws.  It's a 1.3mm allen key you'll be needing

Ah, cheers, will have a look for them! I ordered a 0.9mm and a 1.3mm earlier today as I wasnt sure, hopefully see me right! Will need to get some threadlock as well then. Thanks for the tip! :)

[BlueFlyer]

looks mint Wayne... I've just sent Krikey a PM ordering one :)