So I was out running the other day and i had this crazy idea – what if I could take some components that I had lying around and make a drone that could run off of 12s, instead of just the measly 6s that they currently run on. I wasn’t sure whether or not it would work, and I knew there would definitely be challenges to making it not blow up on 12 cell voltage (that’s 50v). It turned out absolutely insane and I’m stoked to share it with you!
Shout out to @quadmovr who somehow managed to drop a video on the same freaking day! (i filmed this yesterday)
Parts on this drone:
Motors: (TURNS OUT THEY DID GET RELEASED!)
ESC: APD 120 //
Flight Controller: Hobbywing G3 //
VTX : TBS Unify //
Receiver: Futaba:
VTX Antenna: TBS Triumph //
Frame: Project 399 Practice Rig:
Camera: Runcam Racer //
Lipo: CNHL Ministar 6s //
Prop: HQ 6x4x3 //
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DJI Products with this Drone:
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DJI Receiver Directional Antennas: TrueRC Patch for DJI — (requires 2, not necessary, but amazing)
DJI Receiver Omni Antennas: TrueRC Stubby Singularity — (purchase 1, comes with 4)
Other Peripherals:
Goggles: Fatshark HDO —
DJI Goggles: DJI Goggles and 2 Air Units —
Goggle Receiver Module: IMRC Rapidfire —
Goggle DVR Accessory: IMRC Powerplay —
Goggle Battery Replacement: 18500 Batteries — (go in powerplay)
Radio: Taranis 9XD —
TBS Crossfire : TBS Crossfire —
Patch Antenna : TrueRC MX2 Patch Antenna —
Omni Antenna: TrueRC Matchstick Long –
FPV Bag: Think Tank FPV Airport —
Solder: —
Soldering Iron: TS100 —
Lipo Charger: HOTA 15A —
Drone Camera: GoPro Hero Session 5 //
Drone Camera: GoPro Hero 6 //
Big Main Vlogging Camera: Sony A7III //
Big Main Vlogging Camera Wide Lens: Sony 10-18 //
Big Main Vlogging Camera Long Lens: Sony 85 1.8 //
Mic for Vlogging Camera: Rhode Video Mic Go //
Tripod in the Sky: DJI Mavic //
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What other crazy videos do you want to see during this crazy time of live? I LOVE just tinkering and trying to come up with things to push the limits, so I wanna know what you’re thinking!
Parts on this drone:
Motors: (TURNS OUT THEY DID GET RELEASED!)
ESC: APD 120 //
Flight Controller: Hobbywing G3 //
VTX : TBS Unify //
Receiver: Futaba:
VTX Antenna: TBS Triumph //
Frame: Project 399 Practice Rig:
Camera: Runcam Racer //
Lipo: CNHL Ministar 6s //
Prop: HQ 6x4x3 //
Just watched ya vid with bardot boys you were nervous as.
How hard did you look with those pretty boys. Plz tell me you know Mr steel I wanna see him slaughter that 12 S slayer
Put a CADDX Vista on a Tinyhawk 2 freestyle.
Nurk, have you ever lost a quad? I lost my first one today. IT SUCKS!!! Argghhhh!!
Can you show how to make it in video nurk?
While I watched this vid my gf asked me: Jesus what’s that sound??????
Scheiße??
My stomach dropped when i saw him plug in the PDB resting on top of all those solder splatters lol
what a mess on the table
doing a quick math a 5 inch prop at 15000 rpm is almost 0.8 mach at the props tips, that is the most efficient point, beyond that you need exponential power to gain more speed, becouse drag increases exponentially too, and not taking in account that for going faster the kwad fuselage has to tilt increasing the frontal area and creating more drag, and in certain point prop will explode, theres no so much real gain in speed, thats why almost no propeller aircraft could breake sound barrier too,the only bad ass thing with that setup is acceleration
That sounds GREAT!!!!! Its literally makes you want to duck no matter where you are lmao!!!!!! And after that you can just call it “The millennium falcon” lol
? That is nuts.. love it!
Glad you love it! Was fun to work on i t!
I would like to buy a 12s drone Nurk
I would like to buy that drone if you want to sale it…
Another Cool Drone video Using Follow Me and Cameraman
17:10 „scheise“ lmao
Nice Samsung smart watch, I have one too ?
@shane tillery power play
If we ever figure out variable pitch props, drones will be 400+ miles an hour.
What pwms did u use and also @ 7:30 you can use a (BEC) a batter eliminator circuit, And you can just keep one batt to power everything…and/or Buck converter/step down module in conjunction with PDB.
Cool, can I strap a red komodo on it?!
You can definitely strap one on. Would it fly? Who knows.
Bloody hell that is fast she is like a sports car in the air oh sports bike Air
love your flying, really smooth.
So, I did 800kv x 50v which gives you potential 40000 rpm if my maths is correct.
My 2.5″ quad as a comparison, runs 6000kv motors running 3s. Works out at a potential 75000 rpm on a fully charged lipo.
So you are not actually getting crazy high prop speeds. To get some real over the top gains surely you want to up the kv a bit as that will give you the higher head speeds?
Anyhoo, nice quad ?
Nice forward flip with long coasting rollout there at the end!
What in the world was that sound @ 16:17?!
dunno if anyone gives a shit but in less than 15 minutes I hacked my girl friends Instagram password using InstaPwn. You can find it by Googling for Instapwn password hack 😀
@Omari Zaiden Checking it out right now. Seems good so far.
Hello Bud, nice video, was wondering if you have lost drones in the river at all? Also I have been thinking of designing some undercarriage for a drone, seems an overlooked category to me, obviously there is the weight issue but I think landing gear would be nice.
When he landed he looked so happy lmao
I love all your videos
Yawn
Your bench shows your own organization
That thing is awesome I love the sound it sounds like a supercharger kind of
As someone who has only just picked up a second hand Yuneec Q500 GPS based drone, and therefore knows very little about drones, how critical is mm perfect battery placement, weight distribution and the centre of gravity on how these things fly?
There is clearly an aircraft nearby…over here that means STOP immediately……No matter how high you fly…
“LITTLE COLLECTION”
That’s some insane flying. Skills ?
I like your nice and clean workspace ?
You gonna crash that thing and pop those lipo packs and boom with fire and smoke. Be careful man!
Cereal connecter? I thought it was series.
Jesus, I’m so glad I found your channel but sad that I’m just finding it. You’re an amazing drone pilot! Keep that shit up bro!
nurk* Agggghhgggggggg
Normal people * omg that’s fucking insane ??
Back from a run?
forget the drone….
what a nice looking dog
Love your dog!
Jaw Drop at the size of some 🙂
What’s up with the goggles? Is that a solar panel?
Why would you thumbs down this vid lol ? I went to like it, so it saved so I can share it to my buddy and dammm 244 sad people out there lol ?
21:43 That was a remarkably good impression there
You know @ 10:15 your dog open that window on his own to see what was going on right lol
He’s a smort boi
what is that white box on your head? enormous battery?
I’m Lost if its 12s its only 44 volts…. But why would you even put 12s on a 3 blade 4 inch prop mini copter lol? There low Kv motors as well! Not like there heavy lifting. Your 6s build had more power/ speed tot he blades compared to this. Now if you had like 4 turn 4500Kv motors @ 12s that would be funny and also rip the blades off from just pure force. Why not extend the arms slightly and add like 6 inch Cf props. That thing would cook . Not trying to bash yeah! I have some rather large drones. In the 24 inch blade range I use to take Arial videos for logging and flooded areas when asked. “commercially” Running 12s systems on two drones with 250kv motors. @ 6x 24 inch props 16degree pitch I can fly 5dsl cameras for about 45 minutes 20,000 packs. Just saying that purpose it makes sense! for a slow tinny build puzzled! Get some dental drill motors on that @ 12s lol!
12 * 4.2 = 50.4..
yepper
Can’t you just run the logic from the balance plug of a battery?
that made me nervous for this build.
16:16 it was a weird sound I don’t want to tell you what it sounded like
16:16
Yo it’s sounded digital like a bird
Since when did YouTube give whole episodes of coco melon AS AN AD??I watched the entire thing cuz I forgot what I clicked on and didn’t bother changing it and when it finished I noticed I was watching drones not cocomelon (maybe not whole episodes but it was 3 minutes)
What would it cost for someone who wants to get into drone racing like a basic beginner set up?
the sound is just a result of the rpm. you can fit a higher kv motor and run it at lower V and get the same sound. p=iv. i and v are proportional to power so its all the same. that being said if u are running any of your components at or near rated max then they wont last long and will be losing a whole bunch of energy in heat.
SPeed run? How fast was it flying?
Did you try flying this inside? Haha….awesome man.
Awesome channel BTW!
ive never seen someone make irl fpv look like the simulator, this things just TEARS through wind
Crazy idea that works fine
Can this drone or an FPV can fly upside down?
I love how he said „Scheisse“ (german for „shit“) at 17:10 ??❤️?
Scheisse hahahaha Gut Gelernt 🙂
18:50 youre welcome
Impressive Stuff Dude!
Pffff my 5S Strangedrive sounds better 🙂
“measly 6S that they currently run on”
me: cries in drone that runs on 3S
Make it 12s 64 blade! Check the YT video of the dude with the 64 blade quad…
How many quads you got on the bottom of that Lake?
Did I hear him say XYZ is good up to 14s, (moowaahahaha)
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God damn. Cool video. Insane drone and drone piloting. I enjoyed this a ton and am amazed at where this tech has gotten. These things are bananas.