I have a phantom and want to go bigge rbut need help

[indianashogman]

Hi my name is Chuck Brenner from southern indiana , I have a dji pohantom 1 and as you all know , the flight times are falling into the 6 min range now and I want to make a quad from the parts of my phantom. I will keep the gps, naza, and all that drive except the esc s and the motors. I want to get a larger frame and put over sized motors and esc s and higher voltage to match the motors and larger props.
I'm looking for much longer flight times , and more payload capabilities , but my end goal is a glass fiber alien frame with gopro on gimbal with fpv . But i want to be able to also put a thermal setup for night time scouting of wild hogs.
My issue is that I have only had my quad for just over a month and I'm not that swift with tecky stuff, but i do know how to solder and I do know the difference between inrunners and outrunners and that lifepo4 is lower power output than lipo s . But how to determine what kind and size esc s for what size motors ???????
I want the largest and most efficient system that I can put together and try to keep price in mind. Can anyone help me with this project ????????

 

[indianashogman]

P.S. I'm selling stuff on ebay to begin this project ....... so it will be over the next couple months this will all come together.

 

[indianashogman]

This is the motors I would like to use on my project; Emax MT4114-340kv. They are 65.00 each and a max thrust of 2020g (17.8 lbs total ) and use a 15" prop. with a 6s 10000 mah . How much flight time with gopro ,and gimbal and fpv. can anyone speculate ? Or does anyone know of a better battery setup ???

 

[W. Reimer]

without some additional info it's impossible to tell you what sort of times you'd be looking at. What's the AUW of the multi your building going to be? A quad, a hex, and Octo? Are you going to add things like OSD, bluetooth connectivity, FPV? Will you run a single 10K 6S batteries to twin 5K batteries? What's the weight of the batteries?

There are almost limitless combinations, with lift, thrust, motors, props, sec's, airframes add-ons, battery systems all intimately connected to your outcome. Also, what are your expectations, quantified? are you looking for 10 minutes, or 20? What sort of flying will you be doing?

 

[indianashogman]

I guess im really asking is, which gives better flight time ? one 6s 10,000 or two 5,000s . And what configurations with heavy payloads give good flight times. By heavy , I mean gimbal, gopro, osd, fpv, headlight, landing gear. By good flight times, I mean 20 mins . or so.