Long range quadcopter fpv 20km/40km 2013/12/2808:23

sorry i trie to understand what is special,,is this cause she do a long run
with just battery ?
hard to understand cause i speak french

Your video was my main inspiration for my long range long autonomy cheap
quad based on the almost same motors, afro slim esc, 3x4S 5Ah batteries and
16″ APC propellers, I think my drone is heavier than yours but I hardly fly
more than 35min and with a total distance of 25-30km… Thant means you
still DOUBLE my specs!!

I made a video about it :

90% efficiency i would imagine !!!

Wow , nice work …. Very efficient build you did there

nice!

Sort out your crap video link. Ever heard of an LC filter?

i love low KV fat motors

what FC , Frame , Motor and battery you use ?

What is the FPV video link? Is it digital or an analog link?
What frequency do you use for transmitting your FPV link? Do you know the
current draw of it?
I am an RF engineer and trying to calculate current consumption to design a
low current, high power output network device with video storage buffer and
network control. If you’re interested, I can go into further detail. It
will be licensed and unlicensed frequency band, but will have the ability
to send buffered packets back for real time monitoring as well as other
functions.
I know you haven’t responded to a lot of questions, so if this is ignored,
I understand. I have another channel which receives a ton of comments and
they’re a pain to answer at times. Thanks for your video.. inspiring, but
makes me worry about power consumption unless it is variable and I use
higher gain antennas.

+Ralf Englert True – as long as you don´t have a ham radio license ….
(1.2GHz is 23cm amateur radio band – have a look on the band plan to know
what frequencies to use exactly) you´re probably allowed to transmit up to
200W like me ^^

What is the music track – great Video

can you post your specs battery motors etc.

what song is this?

waaaaaaaaaah 63 minutes total flying ? i’ve got just one question.. WHAT IS
YOUR MAGIC CONFIG ? ^^

+alexdemarck That’s not a magic. My latest result was 62 minutes and 54km
of distance travelled on a single battery charge.

Hehehe =D ??

lordy loo! what setup are you using? :O

Awesome!! I’ve very interested in your specifications for this.. please
share.. 

The AMA has had a nice long standing peace with the FAA to stay the fuck
out of the model world and we promised a few things. Two of them were that
we would stay UNDER 400 feet and the other is that we would not go out of
line of sight. With FPV becoming so popular (and I get why it’s so popular,
I wanna build a FPV race quad) and people going too high and flying in
places they’re not supposed to, the FAA has decided to reevaluate their
rules on modelers. Not just drone pilots will be affected by these new
guidelines, even RC helicopter pilots like myself will likely suffer these
new regulations. I would say do us all a favor and try not to be crazy and
they will leave us alone but I think it’s too late… All I can say now is,
be ready for the new laws that will probably come out in 2015 regarding
model flight in the US.

That is fucking impressive!!! This is something I’d love to have, even 5km
range would be great.

What transmitter output power were you using on the video feed and the
remote? I love the hook-ins (GPS, alt etc).

Just a thought, have you tried sending a mate up into the air around 400m
in a fixed hover with a repeater for the video feed to have 20km out 600m
up to above 400m up? Would give two absolute direct legs and greatly
increase the reception of the video feed that got rather shady 20km out.

With a good few kilo extra payload ability that would be handy to go down
the street for a bottle of milk rofl.

Are these things able to hover still with just an adjustment wheel say of
the elevator (where you thump the wheel up to elevate than back slightly to
hover)? Obviously wind would be a factor if there was wind but with a
similar video link ability I’m sure it would be easy to correct the
position regularly.

You act like you’re not being greedy but you are 5km is 5000 meters do you
know how much it would cost to get a 5km distance quadcopter

with baromic altitude or ultrasound sensors you can control / lock height

That is fucking impressive!!! This is something I’d love to have, even 5km range would be great.

What transmitter output power were you using on the video feed and the remote? I love the hook-ins (GPS, alt etc).

Just a thought, have you tried sending a mate up into the air around 400m in a fixed hover with a repeater for the video feed to have 20km out 600m up to above 400m up? Would give two absolute direct legs and greatly increase the reception of the video feed that got rather shady 20km out.

With a good few kilo extra payload ability that would be handy to go down the street for a bottle of milk rofl.

Are these things able to hover still with just an adjustment wheel say of the elevator (where you thump the wheel up to elevate than back slightly to hover)? Obviously wind would be a factor if there was wind but with a similar video link ability I’m sure it would be easy to correct the position regularly.

Mate that’s fantastic! That’s my 1st time to see a MultiRotor fly 20klms. Very impressive!
I’ve got similar motors (4830-420kv) running 6S on my Y6 Trooper and they are super efficient! I can get 35 minutes with 16,000mAh 6S pack!
What airframe did you use?

+paulkazjack he uses the classic 5010-14 motors that have very low Amp
usage and he hides the battery he used with the FPV screen on purpose…
its propably a 18650 custom made battery… it’s very easy for anyone to
make a setup like this

for that kind of a copter you need high power and big batteries…. the
setup on the video is for very light copter and Li-Ion batteries of 18650
type which can withstand a deep discharge under 3.3V…

+paulkazjack Good question. The current draw seems strangely low. That
could be if AUW of his quad was about 1kg or less – hardly possible. Mine
consumes about 19A, but I’ve put inside a really huge battery 🙂

I am not at all convinced by this. 

Very cool. Where is the HD video from the other camera?

What are best motors to run 11″ on 4s?
Need replacement for my 3kg hexa. I would be happy for 10-15 minutes flight
time
Thanks for help!

how do you make a cheap quadcopter go far?

troll

I seen people taking old routers with 2.4 GHz antennas and making them
longer distance.

+Atradies Inc. “Throw money at it” is an alternative answer. The point is that it takes money to fly long distance. Adding long-distance capability to a cheap quad makes it an expensive quad.

I seen people taking old routers with 2.4 GHz antennas and making them longer distance.

For me, a quadcopter with 1.5-2 km range distance, 100 mts heigth, and 30 minuts fligth could be great. But your quad is very fantastic.

Are you in taichung area?

+cncmoh thats the altitude man…..the distance is at the bottom….

@cncmoh thats the altitude man…..the distance is at the bottom….

+Mike L so if you have money to throw at it. What are your suggestions?

How much you spend it for all parts and materials for assembling that
quadcopter?

You have a list with all materials and parts that you used, and a tutorial
how you constructed ?

Just did some simple math… and seems like this video is fake. And that’s why. Power for hovering is about 70 Watt. Let’s suppose he achieved a very high efficiency for a multirotor, something like 14 gram/Watt. From here we can get the AUW of his copter. it’s 980 gram. For the entire flight his copter comsumed 6700 mah. Let’s suppose he discharged the pack “to zero”, so the capacity results to be about 7000 mah. Let’s put on the weights all the components: 80 gram each motor, 10 ESC, 30 each prop, 15 for camera, FC is 20 gramm, VTX is 20 + 10 for antenna, RC RX with antennas is about 30 gram. So total: 320+40+120+15+20+20+10+30 = 575 gram. Let’s suppose the frame weighs almost nothing, smth about 200 gramm all in all )) So for the battery we have 980 – 575 – 200 = 205 gram. Since it’s a 3S battery, the energy density is 11.1*7/0.2 = 388.5 Watt*h/kg And this is a f..ing miracle!!! Could somebody point me to a shop where I can buy such a pack?! I’ll immediately buy a wagon of them!))

@cncmoh He’s a cheater. Read the latest comments.

Great vid I subscribed.

é um sacador e mentiroso..o motor é pra 4s..fake fake fake

i look for this frame but i didnt found….could you send you a link ?

I call BS! Won’t supply details of build to support claim. Only thing he was successful at was special effects in the video.

lächerlich……….

THATS A FCKN JOKE !!!!!!

+Atradies Inc. look for coiled antennas and read up on how exactly they work. Basically any normal antenna (like the clover leaf ones) has a spherical area of effect around it where it is able to send and pick up signals. A coiled antenna (with equal electronic specs) will increase the range but only in one direction, while decreasing its range in the opposite direction. These antennas aren’t that expensive and as far as I know, they can double or triple your range (in the direction you’re pointing that antenna) without having to add anything besides those antennas.
But read up on this subject, there is more to it than what I just said.

+Long Range Quadcopter
Oh yeah at the end of the video he posts about using 17 inch props lol. Yep busted!
-17″ props pitched for 50kph that only draw 2amps per motor in forward flight is complete hogwash
-he posts about having an AUW of 1500 grams (at the bottom of the page in response to Jo sh)
wow, 21 grams of thrust per watt, that IS impressive!

Sorry, you are totally right about him being a phoney. 70 watts is both his hover and his 50 kph (averaged) forward flight watt draw (if we go by 0:44 and 7:59 to get a gauge of hover). I have never seen a quadcopter that hovers at the same or more watt draw as forward flight.

Google translate quotes his responses as answers involving him bragging about how his “skill” was the determining factor in his success, rather than say hard work and engineering, also when questioned about his rather magical achievement seemingly answered with some kind of insult about go play in a sandbox like a kid and “from now on I’m not answering any further questions!”

For anyone still not getting it he quotes his motors as being 490 kv motors but this is what the specs on a 490kv motor actually looks like (they don’t post 3s tests because it’s so far out of realistic range, but they post 4s results)

+parajared fpv in other words, there're too many inconsistencies between his words and OSD readings, so at least for me it's all clear. Never mind, all this story is already buried in the past 😉 Now I aim at 25-27km range which also not seems impossible.

Can you send me the configuration ? motor, battery, esc ?? tks

+Mike L Best answer lol XD

omg u do it on 3S… ppl with 6S only can do 15kmh… u relly pro mannn!!!!

how much price of this camera ?

if you could bring it back after that, i would be amazed.

Crap! Now I feel silly for thinking this was real for all this time. I assumed it was something similar to EndOfDays quad from RC Groups, only equipped with FPV. Great job with the debunking. I’m glad I no longer believe this hoax, thanks.

so this is ok to collect cigarrets from shop?

what is the motor type ?

+daniel belanger
hey I feel you there, too much (FAR too much) in Australia is “Americanised”. Our radio laws, many of our other laws (except free speech and guns grrr) and the number of dumbfucks who can’t differentiate that “halloween” trick or treating is American not fucking Australian is disgusting. Everyone has forgotten the TRUE meaning of all hallows eve, the night when noone should be out.

Spelling and everything else is becoming “Americanised” by too many as well who are too stupid to know the difference between colour and color for example.

+daniel belanger
I wonder if FPV could be declared “in view”?

hello I searched all the internet but can’t find a transmitter and receiver which have long range of flight about 10 km can you please suggest some transmitter which have long range about 10 km. please reply I am subscribed user.

Hey what you use motor 63 minute and only 6000 mah. Very little

sir cn i know ur all setup like transmitter receiver motor battery like etc

why can I see the props at 10x ?

How are you? I want to get these drones how and how much they cost