Tricopter Setup + First Flight

by TheTurbulenceShow | December 25, 2013 | (0) Posted in Projects

***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.

 

COMMENTS

Sirglider on January 24, 2014
Interesting review with the modifications. I have added toothpicks to hold the booms as my tricopter fell of the sky once with all three propellers eating eachother at the back...
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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TheTurbulenceShow on January 26, 2014
Thanks for the info, I'm going to try that soon, we should have a video up by next week. sorry for delays i havent been around lately, but i will surely continue to post more videos!
Thanks
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PaladinDG on January 24, 2014
Good job... thanks for taking the time to share your work. I am just starting to scratch build my 1st tricopter using David's plan, so it is nice to see what other people are doing and their mods. I will probably use a metal retainer clip instead of the extra screw, but that works too
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TheTurbulenceShow on January 26, 2014
yaa i see what you mean, i got really excited and decided to just use anything, if you need any help just message me or comment here, i know i had a rough time biulding mine.
i will post updates soon(by next weekend).
-TheturbulenceShow
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dammuozz on January 27, 2014
Hi! Nice quality video!! Just wanted to tell you I use dt750 on my quad and used to fix propellers the way you do and propeller broke off really easily.

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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Tricopter Setup + First Flight