H4 Hornet

Long Range RC

Long Range RC

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This isn't a review as much as it is me sharing the quadcopter I have helped design and brought to life in my home town of Logan, Ohio. I have completed 4 prototypes as of 9-20-18 and I just put my 4th one together tonight. After putting this one together I must make on more trip to the laser shop for a minor adjustment.

I welcome any suggestions to help make this quad a killer flying machine. If they aren't to far out there I might just make a modification. I can have these frames cut out to order whenever someone wants one. It takes me two work days to get it cut out and then I order the arms and have them shipped to my house. All in all it can take me probably a week to get them together. I am going to buy a few to have on hand for faster shipping but I drought anyone will want one anyways. I am not that lucky. LOL

Here are some pictures of the H4-Hornet

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If you want to put a larger size motor on your quad I make these motor mount adapters. I use them on my DJI arms because I needed a larger scale motor to carry a thermal imager.

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Above picture has my Gaui 330x flying as well.
H4 Hornet has GPS Altitude and Position Lock

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H4 Horne Detaching Cam Mount.jpg

Thanks for checking out my system. I hope you like the pictures. I have been working on this project for 3 years and I love suggestions to make it better.

H4 Hornet Specs:
570 KV Motors
20 Amp blue series Hobby King ESC
DJI NAZA M-Lite with GPS System
14.8 V, 8,000 Mha Lipo Battery
11.1v 1,200 Mha Lipo Battery for FPV system and LED Lights
500 Mw 900 Mhz Video Transmitter
8" TV monitor, 32" Plasma Screen, and Video Goggles for viewing
Flat Pannel 900 Mhz and 2 foot Omni Directional Antennas with two receivers
Futaba 7c 2.4 Ghz radio
12" x 4.5 blades
 
My last flight test was 25.5 minutes before it landed itself but I had the failsafe set at 14.8 volts. I can go down to 12.8 volts without damaging the battery but I wont do it. I set my failsafe to 13.5 and I will be testing it soon. I am guessing I might get 35 minutes of flight time on these batteries.

I am asking $75.00 a frame plus shipping because I see others similar to mine for $110.00 without a camera mount. As far as weight of frame I am not sure yet but I will take it to my scale at work and get it for you. I am open for suggestions on the setup because I can change it a bit.
 
I'm amazed by your flight time. I already have some 540kv motors esc and other extra stuff. When I have time I might hit you up on your frame especially for just cruising around.
 
When I landed I still had a reading of 15.6 volts on my battery. I will figure out the jello I hope. It has something to do with the GoPro. I just bought it today and my first flight was so bad with jello you couldn't see it very good. this flight I changed it to 60 frames a sec and it fixed it a great deal.
 
Jello is not so bad. Did you balance your prop and motor? Yeah at 60 fps helps with the jello effect. My maiden flight was at 30fps just to really test my anti jello gimbal system. Are you flying FPV through your GoPro or are you just flying it line of site.
 
Here's a kinda fun video i made while my wife forced me to go work out with her. But I had to stop my back was hurting and starting flying my quad.

 
funny. I stream my video back to two base stations. I have a 7" tv in a case with a lead acid battery with a flat pannel antenna and I have a 24 dbi omni directional antenna on a tripod that transmits into a 30" tv in my van.
 
How come your youtube videos aren't blurry? My actual videos are crystal clear but they are about a gig of disk space so I have to reduce them down. How are you getting yours so clear?
 
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