DucktileMedia
Drone Enthusiast
thats friggin insane! I've never flown more than 12 minutes with my f450 and a 5500 4s. kloner, what heli does that flight time? obviously 6s and large props.
Aluminum arms for dji flamewheel frames
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LeeT
Wannabe AP Dude
I am getting ready to buy new motors, props and batteries. Would really like to know your combination.
Thanks,
photobobga
Member
Kloner... can you elaborate please? 59 minutes seems very unusual indeed.
Maymidroix
Member
Nice build. What is the size of those props and KV rating of those motors?
won't you break the board now instead of the arms. If the arms break under load the next weak point is the board it self and with an intergrated pcb board that's more to change. I would of prefured an adapter to allow you to use carbon fiber tubbing that way you can simply add a longer or shorter tube on what you want. Then a mount for the motor and your set.
Jareth_Atian
Member
haha49,
I think that Kloner/Aerial Mob is selling a kit like that. And you're correct...Using these aluminum arms, in a bad enough crash the F550 top and bottom plates are more likely to be damaged than if the stock plastic arms were used.
Personally...I upgrade my MR's to improve their flying behavior not their crashing behavior.
(Kloner's kit *does* look pretty good and I'd probably use those arms on a TBS frame....but I went with the AIMDROIX arms for my dji F550. Arm length is just about what I was hoping for, less fiddling to get motors level, easier to mount ESC's cleanly, and the aluminum helps with heat dissipation.)
I think that Kloner/Aerial Mob is selling a kit like that. And you're correct...Using these aluminum arms, in a bad enough crash the F550 top and bottom plates are more likely to be damaged than if the stock plastic arms were used.
Personally...I upgrade my MR's to improve their flying behavior not their crashing behavior.
(Kloner's kit *does* look pretty good and I'd probably use those arms on a TBS frame....but I went with the AIMDROIX arms for my dji F550. Arm length is just about what I was hoping for, less fiddling to get motors level, easier to mount ESC's cleanly, and the aluminum helps with heat dissipation.)
haha49,
I think that Kloner/Aerial Mob is selling a kit like that. And you're correct...Using these aluminum arms, in a bad enough crash the F550 top and bottom plates are more likely to be damaged than if the stock plastic arms were used.
Personally...I upgrade my MR's to improve their flying behavior not their crashing behavior.
(Kloner's kit *does* look pretty good and I'd probably use those arms on a TBS frame....but I went with the AIMDROIX arms for my dji F550. Arm length is just about what I was hoping for, less fiddling to get motors level, easier to mount ESC's cleanly, and the aluminum helps with heat dissipation.)
My motors on the stock arms are ice cold or room temp when I'm done flying I use a 4s lipo though and I cut down on allot of weight by using lightweight parts.
fltundra
Member
The stock arms are junk, nothing like the Aimdroix regular length or extended arms.
Jareth_Atian
Member
My motors on the stock arms were ice cold or room temp when I was done flying, too...but with longer arms, I was going to go with larger props. According to the specification sheet on t-motor's web page, at least, the temperature would go up by several degrees with the larger prop.
I can say from personal experience that the board will be destroyed in a crash with the aluminum arms. Top plate cracked in three places and two on the bottom plate. Here's the crash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6nqcPBpz2o&sns=em
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6nqcPBpz2o&sns=em
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Jindalee10368
Member
Hi all
New here, first post, but have been reading up like crazy recently, with a view to building up something based on the F450.
Thanks for all the contributions in this thread... makes great reading and learning material for noobs like me. :tennis:
These arms look great.
Out of stock at the moment at ReadyMadeRC. :-(
I'm hoping they will become available soon, and have submitted the request for notification when in stock again.
Now a dumb question... where on Earth can you purchase the F450 top and lower plates only?
It seems like a waste of money buying a stock frame kit, if the stock arms are put to one side from the get go.
I have search many on-line store can't seem to find the lower & upper plates, except for http://www.quadcopters.co.uk/dji-flame-wheel-f450-lower-plate-321-p.asp
With potential crashes, I would have thought these items would be more readily available than what they are.
(I'm in Australia)
Cheers,
Adam
New here, first post, but have been reading up like crazy recently, with a view to building up something based on the F450.
Thanks for all the contributions in this thread... makes great reading and learning material for noobs like me. :tennis:
These arms look great.
Out of stock at the moment at ReadyMadeRC. :-(
I'm hoping they will become available soon, and have submitted the request for notification when in stock again.
Now a dumb question... where on Earth can you purchase the F450 top and lower plates only?
It seems like a waste of money buying a stock frame kit, if the stock arms are put to one side from the get go.
I have search many on-line store can't seem to find the lower & upper plates, except for http://www.quadcopters.co.uk/dji-flame-wheel-f450-lower-plate-321-p.asp
With potential crashes, I would have thought these items would be more readily available than what they are.
(I'm in Australia)
Cheers,
Adam
LeeT
Wannabe AP Dude
Jareth_Atian
Member
Century Heli will sell the top and bottom boards by themselves:
http://www.centuryheli.com/products/productdetail.htm?prtnm=DJIF550CB
http://www.centuryheli.com/products/productdetail.htm?prtnm=DJIF550CB
AboveAllAP
Member
Jindalee10368
Member
Thanks for the replies, guys.
Funny how some of these stores never come up when Googling.
With the OEM arms, I never really liked the idea of blind nuts pressed into plastic for this reason:
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And if a big enough crash with the Aimdroix ally arms shifts the weakest point to either upper/lower board, at 23 bucks for a set, it's no huge $$ loss.
Funny how some of these stores never come up when Googling.
Perfect!
With the OEM arms, I never really liked the idea of blind nuts pressed into plastic for this reason:
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And if a big enough crash with the Aimdroix ally arms shifts the weakest point to either upper/lower board, at 23 bucks for a set, it's no huge $$ loss.
