Phew ! After 7 continuous hours of self-brainstorming and moments of EUREKA! turned to 'What the hell was I thinking' !
This is the product.
presenting to you custom made Quad Retracts.
Used Metal Geared Servo (4) and other basic stuff combined with my brain :P XD
Enjoy.
And yes, they work fine, the feet take good amount of load , tried bumping it too , no issues :)
Let me know what do you think :)
And yes, video is bein uploaded, will link soon :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcYq1uSaXxY&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcYq1uSaXxY&feature=youtu.be)
Video :)
awsome... bro :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
thanks man :D
wlcome..
SK19(something), here it is.
Well that's a really good video. :D
Regards,
Aman.
Good stuff :thumbsup:
Apart from the "bling factor" what benefit is there ?
Dynamic CG.
Quad is more stable when the legs are retracted :)
okay - I'll take your word for it.
How much weight do all your mods add. ?
total weight of the quad with the 5kmAh LiPo is 1.4KG
Seeing that I have 4.4KG of thrust at hand. Pretty decent :D
you have 4.4Kg thrust !!! , I don't think so - you can't take the max. thrust in to consideration
alright, then 4Kg it is :D
Still more than enough
No man, it is motor max. thrust added together , you have to consider half of that :)
??? each motor has a thrust of 1.1KG with 1045 props... i have a quad so 4kg .
I dont understand what you're saying ???
:goodjob: These retracts are really cool!
Thanks :D
@parichya , I think we have discussed about thrust calculation of Multirotors on gtalk once
you cannot add up the max. thrust of each motor to calculate your AUW -for the thrust of each motor is 1.1Kg you cant fly a quad with AUW of 4.4 Kg - with these motors your AUW must be around 2.2Kg so that you can hover at Half throttle.
see all i know is that using the previous motors My quad lifted off at approx 65% throttle, with the new ones ( and the new 5000mAh LiPo it lift at approx 35%
Seems pretty descent to me :)
What is your AUW as of now with all these add ons ?
AUW as in ?
assuming it to be the gross weight.
its 1.4KG with everything
then it's fine :) you can safely have up to 2Kg (if you have max. thrust of 4Kg)
can I know your motors ?
turnigy aerodrive 1100kv
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And here it is again :D
Updated them a bit.
Basic mechanism remains the same.
But modified the main legs and included stoppers to take impacts, along with longer and modified legs that allow landing even with the legs retracted :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TikFNLfNZqU (//http://)
Cool Mod {:)} {:)} {:)}
I'm certainly gonna include this mod in my next quad :)
cool :) ensure that you have decent thrust in the setup . its all metal ( assuming you'll go the same way i did ) and adds some weight to it :)
That looks really good. Will be waiting fir the video :)
Regards,:D
Aman.
I already did :P
the in-flight usage .. yes will do that soon :)
awesome thing ;)
yea that it is :D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNP3Fv2XqnE&feature=youtu.be (//http://)
Here is the video with the retracts in action :)
Good one :thumbsup:
thanks, modifying the quad now a bit ...
cool, see if you can do this with just one servo ? if you do crack it, post the design for us
it can be done with one servo, the requisites are that it should be a powerful one ( around 12KG/cm Stall Torque ) and movement> 60'
I had initially planned that, but thought that ill start from the basic 4-servo model , and later ( when in have the money to buy stuff ) make the one servo model.