Bartman
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Going back to the original topic of redundancy, how many of you have had hands on experience with one or more motors failing on on Octo? And what were the results? It look like there are not that many!!
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I have a Mikrokopter guided XY8 that had a blinky motor controller. Twice it caused the motor to stop and twice the helicopter took it in stride and kept flying as if nothing was wrong. The first time I saw that the motor had stopped and I landed immediately. The second time I didn't see that one motor wasn't turning until after I had finished the flight and was returning to land.
I also had a motor come apart on my Hoverfly guided XY8 but I was close to the ground and it landed hard. It all happened too quickly to really know if I made the situation worse trying to maintain control after the prop flew off. It might have done better if I just stood there for a second and watched to see what it wanted to do. The prop flew off in an instant with no warning and it was a little bit of a shock, then in an instant it was landing on the pavement, bouncing, then on its head.
Mactadpole also had a coaxial quad lose a motor and it landed without incident, look in his blog for the video.
Bart