***Hi this is our first article on the flite test website. My friend and I made a youtube channel called TheTubulenceShow, where we are going to upload frequent videos about our RC adventures!!! it would be pretty awesome if you could stop by and check out our videos, we would also appreciate some constructive critisism.
https://www.youtube.com/theturbulenceshow
Thanks Alot - Shalev and Oran.
Now onto the actual article.
We built the David Windestal tricopter body frame with a minor adjustment.
the only thing we did diferently was that we added a screw behind each of the booms because the friction fit wasnt tight enough to hold the legs in place. (we made the frame out of wood)
when we took the tricopter out for it's first flight, we noticed that we had an insane amount of control over it, we were flying straight into the ground (sidenote we were astonished by how durable this tricopter was, we were flying over a hard surface and literally crashed it directly into the ground and nothing broke) so what we did to fix this problem was we raised the expos to 40% and that took care of the problem really well.
I'm very interested in your MultiWii setup as I have ordered one to replace my KK2 on mine. But an advice: put it in the CG of your tricopter, it will work much better. So center of the board at the interesection of the booms. Then which soft and PID settings do you use? Default? I think some tuning will help you much ;)
Keep going
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i will post updates soon(by next weekend).
-TheturbulenceShow
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The problem is the prop bottom needs to lay on a flat surface for distributing force. On the first crash the lower nut will destroy the prop hub from the inside because all the force is on the area touched by the nut. Putting a wooden (or metal) washer under the prop solves the problem.
Sorry for my bad english, however you can listen to david at minute 34
(Flite Test : Tricopter - SCRATCH BUILD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCPMC_fiSMI
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