Hi! Flying enthousiate and flight time specialist.

[Jebarus]

Hi

I'm Charles, from Ottawa, Canada. I started flying with helicopters (450 size), and went into acrobatic flying with mini-helicopters (mCPx bl). I then started multicopter flying. Heli was fun, but way too much time to repair.

I also recently graduated from a M.Sc. Mech Eng, and I started a company multicopter related. My collegue and I designed a dynamometer. We started this project because we were designing a small direct drive helicopter, and we had to spend a lot of time building a custom tool to select the motor and propeller, and improve flight time.

Cheers!

 

[fengshuidrone]

Really cool but WAY out of my wallet size. Looks like the retail cost is designed to quickly recover design and development costs, but, try and take too large a bite and it will bite you back with low sales and an inability to turn a profit by limiting your market to only those with really deep pockets. Like I said, the device is way cool but I can live without it at that price. I'm sure there are those who can afford it but the market gets really limited when you automatically dial out little people like me.

 

[Jebarus]

Thank! I completely understand your point of view. We thought a lot about this, and we decided to start with a very high quality tool, with the features and precision required by researchers, businesses, and serious hobbyists. The software is constantly improving, and we want to make sure to get this right.

In the future though, we may have a hobbyist version. From experience, a dynamometer is as useful to a quad designer as an oscilloscope is to an electronic engineer.

 

[fengshuidrone]

Yes, and I am a quad designer and consider myself a serious hobbyist. I just don't have a budget for that. It would be a useful tool ....................
Unfortunately for you there are people here who could go ahead and build one on their own using some simple arduino programming. I have actually thought about doing something like that using a load sensor in the past but I lost interest when I found that I was getting satisfactory results using an ecalc at zero cost to me. Good luck with your venture. Like I said, it IS really nice.