Kloner - I see (on FB) that back in march you filmed some in Anza? Cool - my folks live in Aguanga at Lake Riverside - they're both full scale pilots and live on the runway, my father just finished building an RV12... Actually just got back from there visiting...
At the time that I was building this rig initially, many were using SimonK but things move fast and sometimes you're penalized for being an early adopter :) It wasn't until after we had our issues that folks were reporting similar issues - some reporting much greater losses with full camera...
Thanks Steve. I have an email in with KDE - looking forward to chatting with them.
When you say that you've heard horror stories - I'm assuming this is with SimonK equipped ESCs?
Thanks Steve. We have considered this route but wanted more headroom than what the Hercules III offers (30amp cont / 60amp burst from what I recall). Have heard nothing but great reviews and have almost pulled the trigger a couple of times.
Ha! Nice, that was not in the description, nor were those ESCs to market yet when we spec'd everything out. No doubt we are one of many who found out the hard way ;)
Thanks for the insight Kloner. So, you're saying it wasn't an issue of power spec but of firmware yes? Are folks staying away from SimonK for these motors that you know of?
Hey guys. Some of you might have followed along with my build of our Gryphon Dynamics X8 over at www.gimb.al
Initial test flight was successful but we had what we believe to be ESC failure during a 15lb weight lift test.
ESCs were Maytech 75amp with Simon K. Motors: Tmotor u7 490kv.
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