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Absolutely not. Full load on the Pixhawk is using <10% of the processor resources.

Ok, so there's some comments here like: The thing is, it's not about the payload, it's about the thrust reserve. In this case, it seems you have tons of thrust reserve even with the payload. If you had a more common thrust reserve of maybe only 30%, things would be different. Not to take...

Wow, that's fantastic that it flew that well with the load. Now, is this machine "overpowered"? ie: how much %throttle does it take to hover, do you know?

Yeah, I use them only for quads and a "medium-lift" Octo. Ideally what I'd like to see if a power distribution board where the ESC's solder directly on. That way they are replaceable. Add a BEC power supply, and you have a nice system.

At $35 each, it's just not something I worry about.

What does that mean? I'm starting to take paid engineering/systems/programming type work on this stuff, so the free help may be getting thinner though. ;)

Huh, interesting. I'd like to keep track of that project.

You're building a turbine powered helicopter? Or do I misread this? IMO, they're all pretty much the same thing, and the only way to differentiate them is the quality of the components, and the quality of the manufacture. These things are pretty un-knowable, even for experienced guys let...

How are you guys determining which ESC is better than another? Seems to me like most of them on the market are practically identical with no innovation at all. Most run a really slow 8-bit Atmega processor which is why they're limited to 16 MHz PWM rate. Seems the only way to tell one from...

Evidence? Or baseless accusation?

I've done this on some number of boards and it's fairly straight forward. The only trick, is to connect MP and do a compass test to make sure the onboard mag is truly disabled before plugging in the external one. Some people have not cut deeply enough and had both mags active which is not...

Having the camera below the frame is done out of necessity. Obviously having the camera above the frame would not work for the application. But placing everything else, including the batteries below the frame is done, I believe, because of a mis-education and lack of understanding of physics...

Simply put, an X8 has a demonstrated ability to fly easily with one motor out. Dead prop drag or not, it's not really a debatable point, it's proven. 6 are probably the worst, actually. Many can no t fly with one motor out. And you have 50% more failure points than a quad which also can't...

Arducopter makes absolutely no assumption about balance. It makes no difference whatsoever. We don't even have a parameter for CG location. The basic fact is: multirotors are not more stable with weight hanging below them. They are most stable with the CG in the plane of the props. If it...

Ok, guess I just never noticed.

Ed, do you have some business relationship with DJI now? I notice your sig line, never saw that before.

Or an H8. ;) So many people coming out of the woodwork lately. I really wish there wasn't this cloak-and-dagger-ish secrecy. If people have facts, they should not be afraid to state them clearly, and put their name behind it.

Did Canadian dealers have to go through DJI NA? So they're affected too?

I've got that on an F450, does that count?

All you have to do is look at the price on equivalent products for helicopters to know that they had a very aggressive "whatever the market will bear" pricing strategy. ;) And yeah, that cribs episode seemed to indicate that they were making a LOT of money. That huge office, and only two...