New to Multirotors from Melbourne, Australia

[DarkStar]

Hi All,

I'm a long time RC enthusiast but am just getting started in multirotors. I'm from Melbourne, Australia and during the week I'm a mech engineer.

A friend of mine got me interested in multis, after he built a great little quadcopter and successfully demo-ed it at work. Myself being interested in aerospace and particularly UAS technology, I immediately became interested and decided to start out by building a hexrotor. I have a hexa frame kit from Xaircraft, and at the moment it's partially complete (I'll post a photo below). I'm having some minor issues getting all the motors and ESCs to work nicely together, but I think I'm making progress - I might check out the rest of the forum then make another post if it hasn't already been covered.

My long term goal is to build a multirotor UAV, which incorporates some FPV elements, for long range photography and real time video surveillance. But for now stage 1 is just getting the RC Hexa to fly and mastering the controls.

Anyway I hope to contribute a bit to the forums and I'm sure I'll get a lot out of them to help me as I continue the journey and meet some fellow enthusiasts and experts.

Cheers,

Andrew

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[nicwilke]

Welcome to the forum.
What is your flight controller?
I'm just up the road in Albury, and used to have the Xaircraft hexacopter. They are a cool functional frame.

 

[fredor]

Welcome Andrew
I am in Brisbane and fly a NAZA Quad with GPS very pleased with it though like everything a couple of teething problems
Fred

 

[DarkStar]

Thanks, guys.

I'm just using a basic KK2 controller board from HobbyKing. It has a nice LCD screen which makes set up and calibration fairly easy and intuitive.

At the moment I'm remaking some of the cables using some more robust connectors. I find the battery balance connectors on LiPo batteries are particularly unreliable.

Andrew

 

[Vortex]

Hi Andrew, Welcome aboard and to to the wonderful world of MultiRotors where you'll laugh and cry, be amazingly happy and deeply sad all at once but you'll have a great time doing it.

Regards,

Lance...Up in Sunny Cairns (that's when we're not having an eclipse)