Big hello from Italy (newbie)

Maxwoodpecker

Maxwoodpecker

Woodworker loving wood!!
Hi to all of you, i'm very happy to be part of you!! (sorry for my english, i'll do my best....;))
I'm a very very newbie, i haven't jet had anything to do with any chind of rc. I have been serching and youtoobing for a cupple of week, and found out that my most scary thing, once built everything, is the tuning!!!! I know how a pc works, but i'm not very good at fiddling with it, i don't understand much of programming.... The pro thing is that i'm quite good with hand crafts, with building and sodering and stuff like that. So i might be able to build wonderfull quadcopter but not been able to tune it so it can fly correctly!!!
From what i have learnt fron my serches is: the propellors get energy from the motor. The motor speed is controlled by the ESC. The ESC is plugged into the "brain", the brain is plugged into a reciver that talks to the transmitter (that should be the "thing" in my hand to pilot the drone). I also understand that there are a tons of chind of everything!!!!! Like, in the brain can be also connected a gps, a fpv controller and also a gibal controller. Plus other staff.

Now, my future budget will be around €400/500 at the most. I will use it primary for privat and hobby arial video and if i could have it flying for around 20 minutes it would be grat!!. Can i have a brain that has at least a cupple of ways to fly(maybe autoleveling, if i leave the stics it will stay still, and semy manual and full manual), that i can in the future plug a gps stabilization system, a sjcam 4000 fpv and a gimbal controller?

And now acupple of other questions:)( i will put numbers on the questions so it will be easier to answer....):
1- is the f450 frame ok for my project?
2- Propellors, are the 1045 ok for my purpose? How do they work? The bigger the better? Smaller but more/less angle better? Help!!!
3- Motors(is it right that the lover the kv means the more power??), how much power do i need? What's the best combine for propellors/motors?
4- Flight controller(the brain if i'm not wrong), which one should i choose so i will not get creazy tuning it but enought to satisfy my needs?
5- Reciver, does there exist a "multy" reciver, depending on how many things i need to comand or there is just a recive that does everything?
6- I have an sjcam sj4000 action cam. I would like to use this one for now to shoot videos and also to do the fps. Is that possible?
7- Most important, wich transmittere should i buy?? How many channels, with or without lcd, ecc ecc??
8- i would like to place che camera ON the drone and not hanging under, does there exist a 1 or 2 way gimbal?

Wow, i didn't think i had soooooooo many questions:p.Sorry for that. Hope not to bother you with theese tons of questions, but i thought i might do it all at once so i could have a better prospective on were i am going to land in.....
One last question( but i don't know if i'm aloud to...), were could i buy everything in Europe??

Thanks for the patience.:D:D
 
Sorry, after all this saying i forgot to tell you that tomorrow i will recive Syma X11 2.4G 4CH Mini 6 assi Gyro RC Quadcopter to learn to fly with.. hope it will be ok. I also purched 6 spare batteys.
 
Nice looking mod BTW.

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Looks like a bottom feeder, did you make it?
 
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Well I'll just throw this up here with a few comments.

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Props are matched to the motors you choose. Compare the the 11V numbers for each prop. Under AMPs we see that a 20A ESC will work for both. The 1047 prop will provide more thrust (it will lift more and be more responsive to throttle ), but will be pulling ~45% more AMPs than the 9047. But that ~45% more AMPs only increases the 9047's thrust by ~14%. So we end up with about ~25% lower efficiency, which in general will result in shorter flight times. For these motors a 1045 prop (less aggressive pitch angle) will drop the AMP load a bit (and the thrust) but will probably be a decent compromise for efficiency/thrust/flight times.

You'll probably want motors similar to these , size and KV.
 
Hi, I got the X11 just today. I'll try and learn to fly in the next few weeks. Meanwhile I would like to start searching for the various parts for the next shopping charts.... :)
 
Jackson said:
Well I'll just throw this up here with a few comments.

1(848).jpg

Props are matched to the motors you choose. Compare the the 11V numbers for each prop. Under AMPs we see that a 20A ESC will work for both. The 1047 prop will provide more thrust (it will lift more and be more responsive to throttle ), but will be pulling ~45% more AMPs than the 9047. But that ~45% more AMPs only increases the 9047's thrust by ~14%. So we end up with about ~25% lower efficiency, which in general will result in shorter flight times. For these motors a 1045 prop (less aggressive pitch angle) will drop the AMP load a bit (and the thrust) but will probably be a decent compromise for efficiency/thrust/flight times.

You'll probably want motors similar to these , size and KV.
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Ok, now i had a bit of time to read cerfully, thanks a loto for the very easy understanding explaination!!!:)
 
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