The Slim-Quad

On my hunt to find the best H-Quad version.(I have build a few). Last night a new design popped up in my head. So once again running down to the local hardware store, to purchase the material I needed.

1 PVC pipe 40mm
1 10x10mm aluminium bar
4 PVC clamp for 40mm PVC pipe
1 80x80 electrical box
some bolts and nuts.

The electronics I striped from an earlier H-Quad. Motor, ESC, KK2.0 board.

So this is the design I came up with. The ESC are inside the pipe.
The weight of the frame without electronics 320g.

It was an easy build. Cut the PVC pipe 450mm long, Cut the aluminum bars each 450mm long.
Bolted the aluminiums bars to each PVC clamp and mounted this on the PVC pipe.

To keep the clamp from rotating or moving, I just used a screw which also holds the very simple landing gear. 

I also used the same PVC clamp to hold the electricaøl box in place, containing the KK2.0 flight controller and the receiver.

The cables run inside the 40mm pipe, and goes up inside the box. The power cable goes out under the box. The ESC are inside the PVC pipe.

Just used a bit of velcro on the pipe to fasten the camera and battery. And a velcro strap around for extra security.

Total weight with battery and camera. little over 1300g. Flight time with 3 cell 2200 mAh approx 7 min.

Very stable in the air, and not much jelo on the camera. Maybe I will do some modification to the camera mount to get all jelo away, but I have to do some fine tuning of the KK2.0 board first. To see if it is necessary.

Uppdate 29-04-2013 short flight movie.