Cool, no doubt I'll add what I call 'fruit' to the XM-6 over the coming months/years (different colour nacelles and boots perhaps later). Looks are important, that's why I like tidy wires on my flight controllers, and I'm cable tie king!!! :tennis: Thanks for all the questions you are answering, I'm sure we'll all calm down on the questions soon. I think its just great to have droidworx on board. heheh. I hope we dont chase you away...
Yep, cant wait really. All ready now I think to get the exact machine in the air that I've wanted since I started this stuff last November. So, with the 4 week wait time, a few weeks to build it (I have a 2 year old, will need to do it after 7pm every night) I think this XM-6 will have its maiden flight to mark my 1st 12 months of multirotors. Perhaps I'll light a cake with 12 candles (one for every month) and hover over it to blow them out!!!! Yeah, that'll be cool (and weird)... I'm doing it.
The VM-6 is ordered. I can't justify a big machine - I suspect I'll diy a 900-1000mm one day but I simply want something light, strong and NEW! I'm almost in the DW club
I'm what I regard as a typical Kiwi diy modeler. I've been APing for 5 years part time with a heli and started the multicopter thing 2 years ago. I have a "disposable fpv quad", a good diy quad and my main light-weight diy octo. Well after two years, I am not convinced that I can diy build better than what I fly (commercially) now... Time to treat myself
Pete
Let me know if you have any other questions!I build my own camera mounts. Any idea how height between the dirt and under the VM u/c? It fits an AV130... so how high is that???
Pete
Thanks for the info. I'm very excited about the build in October, and I'm even considering the PDB you have, and have 2 uBecs connected in with the ESC's.... I'm really going to be super neat with this build, and keep weight as low as possible. I'll be using a ZeroTech YS-X6 system for the XM-6, or if smaller, their soon to be released YS-X4 controller with GPS.Hi Nic,
The folding booms are actually not available yet - they'll be an optional extra once we have finished the final tests. We're expecting to know more about release date within the next 3 weeks... Sorry - I hope you're not disappointed now...?
I owe you the weight of your XM-6: it's just over 1kg, 1029 with dome, 1097 with crash cage (you'll receive both) and this includes boots and nacelles etc. Mind you - it is an approximate weight - we have disassembled are frames to be reassembled again with the new manuals we're making now and the only other craft are fully rigged up. So we weighed all the components and added it all up - works too...
Sorry it took so long to come back! Was crazy busy last week and had to catch up on some sleep and some sanity this weekend...
