Silverburn
Member
Hi all,
Just looking to see what others have for flight times with their Y6's. I am concerned about the weight of mine - 1.85kg without batteries, GoPros or gimbals. Throw on 2 x 4500mah 4S packs, and it's close to 2.7kg! It is a very solid build though - 25mm, 240mm carbon arms, and 3mm plate. My flight times - admittedly squirting at 60-85kph for the entire flight - are around 14 minutes (I get too bored doing hover flight tests). This seems low for 9000mah, and I think it's just the weight. The other problem is the 9000mah makes it really top heavy. While it doesn't seem to affect the handling, I am worried about it.
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Apart from that, it does fly well, and hovers at around 40-45% throttle (according to the APM).
I have got some 4S2P 6600's coming, which will save me around 300g; I'm hoping this weight saving won't have too much penalty on flight times. Running multiple packs is a bit of a pain too, if I'm honest.
Specs:
Quadframe Y6 Pro frame, with 25mm, 240mm arms, 150mm CF legs.
APM 2.6 with GPS, minimOSD and telemetry
Spektrum AR8000 + TM1000 + Alt & Voltage sensors
6 x Multistar 30A
6 x tmotor 2216-11 (900kv)
3 x 1045 RCtimer CF props
3 x 1147 RCtimer CF props
0420 board cam, and 250mw fatshark 5.8tx
So what flight times are you guys getting, and on what weight and battery packs?
Just looking to see what others have for flight times with their Y6's. I am concerned about the weight of mine - 1.85kg without batteries, GoPros or gimbals. Throw on 2 x 4500mah 4S packs, and it's close to 2.7kg! It is a very solid build though - 25mm, 240mm carbon arms, and 3mm plate. My flight times - admittedly squirting at 60-85kph for the entire flight - are around 14 minutes (I get too bored doing hover flight tests). This seems low for 9000mah, and I think it's just the weight. The other problem is the 9000mah makes it really top heavy. While it doesn't seem to affect the handling, I am worried about it.
View attachment 17714
Apart from that, it does fly well, and hovers at around 40-45% throttle (according to the APM).
I have got some 4S2P 6600's coming, which will save me around 300g; I'm hoping this weight saving won't have too much penalty on flight times. Running multiple packs is a bit of a pain too, if I'm honest.
Specs:
Quadframe Y6 Pro frame, with 25mm, 240mm arms, 150mm CF legs.
APM 2.6 with GPS, minimOSD and telemetry
Spektrum AR8000 + TM1000 + Alt & Voltage sensors
6 x Multistar 30A
6 x tmotor 2216-11 (900kv)
3 x 1045 RCtimer CF props
3 x 1147 RCtimer CF props
0420 board cam, and 250mw fatshark 5.8tx
So what flight times are you guys getting, and on what weight and battery packs?
