The other day I was talking to someone on YouTube about the differences between RaceFlight and CleanFlight, and the advantages of F4 powered flight controllers. One suggested advantage of RaceFlight was that it can run on a broken prop. I wanted to see if a quadcopter can fly on a broken prop, and if so, then does it really need to run RaceFlight at 32KHz to do so.
Today I was flying with my friend Chris. In a crash he broke a few of his props, which reminded me that I wanted to test this. We picked the prop that was damaged, but still theoretically flyable. The others were just a hub 🙂 The prop is supposed to be a 4 bladed 5045.
As you can see, the damaged prop has a one full blade missing and about 1/3rd of another blade chipped off as well. So that adds up to 33% of the blade surface area missing and a very unbalanced setup.
I am running this on one of the original Tanky Drone prototypes with AfroMini flight controller powered by an F1 chip, running current CleanFlight at 500Hz (2000 loop time). Yes, it’s that “out of date.” And yet, as you can see, it flies perfectly fine! It’s smooth and very stable. The motor with the broken prop does heat up a lot more than the other one, and I didn’t want to bust a bearing, so it’s only a short clip.
Excellent. Could you post some fpv footage that will give us an idea of the
oscillations involved? I will request similar footage from the raceflight
camp.
I have a feeling betaflight has improved massively (3.x), thus an F3 FC
seems like a good option.
I love Tanky awesome
wow
thats the best racing drone ive seen so far! I love tanky
Of course it’s flying okay – one rotor is decentralized, but still have the
same number of blades and approximately the same lifting power.
I really like the look of this and all the weight perfectly in the middle
of it with battery under
where can i buy this,it isnt on kickstarter anymore
Love Tanky, amazing product!
Love Tanky!
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When do you think it will be on market? I really want one.
How can I purchase one?????????
So what now that it wasn’t funded people are fools looks great and was
hoping I wasn’t let’s and upset that you weren’t funded stupid things make
it and a great product doesn’t don’t understand still what happens now for
those who want one? Help let me know please thanks and good luck ?….