My new Phantom

[andy_con]

looks awesome mate, always wanted to try this -





can it take the weight of a DSLR Adrian?

[buffo]

Flat pitch though, it drops out of the sky, and needs at least a few seconds of 'full beans' to recover. Something i didn't realize at the time.

Yeah, one of the first things I learned about flying quads is that they do not like rapid decent at all. You can stall the blades if you're not careful. (Incidentally, this same phenomenon caused a few of the early V-22 Osprey's to crash as well.)

can it take the weight of a DSLR Adrian?

Based on my previous research, the answer is no. It can lift the GoPro Hero 3, but that's nowhere near the weight of a DSLR. Max takeoff weight is a little less than a kilo, and that's gross weight - including the bird, the battery, the radio and gyro, plus the camera.

Adam

[steve-o]

Awesome vid! I gotta get me one of those. Looked like a helluva crash landing tho .. you sure your dad's ok?

[RGbee]

can it take the weight of a DSLR Adrian?

As Adam rightly said, unfortuntely no. The all up weight is around 1.3kg with the camera and gimbal installed.
I don't know of any quads that will take a DSLR. The Hexa's and Octocopter will though.
The one below is made by Mikrocopter and can take a heavy payload. Without the camera it is insanely fast

[RGbee]

Awesome vid! I gotta get me one of those. Looked like a helluva crash landing tho .. you sure your dad's ok?

Yeah, Steve-o. He was wearing a thick jumper, but it still left a blade mark on his arm. I gave him the snapped rotor as a souvenir.
I will be a lot more careful with it from now on.
What i love about it is it uses the NAZA-M flight controller, so it's ultra stable. You just set it down, turn it on and after a few minutes once the IMU's have warmed up and gained a GPS lock you can bring it to a hover and it'll literally just stay there.
Most of these machines will usually fly for 10 mins with a 3000Mah battery. However, this is one has a 5A 4s lipo, so it'll fly for around 25 minutes

[andy_con]

You should upgrade ;-)

As Adam rightly said, unfortuntely no. The all up weight is around 1.3kg with the camera and gimbal installed.
I don't know of any quads that will take a DSLR. The Hexa's and Octocopter will though.
The one below is made by Mikrocopter and can take a heavy payload. Without the camera it is insanely fast