duck legs

glowingturnip

glowingturnip

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are there any better long landing gear legs than these that I can go for, for an SK450 frame ?

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on Amazon

They just look a bit flimsy, I can imagine them snapping off all over the place. Maybe I just need to buy several packets.


(PS I couldn't post this in the Components subforum for some reason)
 
I have these on one of my quads and I noticed they vibrate a lot on take off and can confuse the flight controller a bit. Calms down after take off. I broke a set of these as well on a soft landing. I Know they do some ones that go on the end of the quadcopter arms that are more stable.
 
yeah, I did see some of those actually:

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here

Bit pricey though, about 7x more than the others at £35, and I imagine would put quite a bit of stress on the arms if you had a heavy/sideways landing.

Looks better though imho, I might see if I can find some cheaper ones
 
they do a shorter version for about £10 still gives good clearance. There a few 3d printed versions available cheaper.
 
You can always spend a little more and get power retracts , like the align quads use , at the end of the day your better off with the ones that fit to the base plate , not extend the main legs if you crash the force will snap arms faster then normal
 
i was idly wondering if you could add some kind of ultra light but strong (aluminium, carbon fibre) cross-frame to the wide legged version, in an X shape, joining all the feet together at the bottom. Would make it more resilient in a crash since all the legs will take the force, and should give clearance for the gimbal/be out of shot.

But I'll probably go for the cheap legs to start with, see how I get on.
 
found the wide legged ones on Hobbyking shipping from the European warehouse for £8, rather than £34 from Amazon (:eek:) so I've gone for those. Let's see if they're frame-crackers or not...
 
its the problem with gimbals we are better fliers without long legs but we need them so we can use gimbals for video and photography.
 
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