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Originally Posted by zirt57

That's the beauty of it, you don't have to do anything special. When you connect your receiver to your flight controller, the receiver will get it's power from there.

- Jeff

so there is no need for dedicated power source, just connect the receiver to the FC /all needed channels/ is that correct?

Originally Posted by TheGunMan

so there is no need for dedicated power source, just connect the receiver to the FC /all needed channels/ is that correct?

Correct.

Originally Posted by techcapsule

if you want instant gratification spend the money and buy an MK I did. For a $700.00 quad the X650 performs famously in my opinion but I still adore my X650 and cant wait till it can perform as well as the MK because it will for half the price...

It has been over five weeks since release of the gps, so I don't think it's fair to say I'm looking for instant gratification.

I don't have any personal experience with an mk, so I can't comment on a comparison of an xa 650 to an mk, I'll leave that to those that do.

I am a fan of xAircraft. For the price, I think the x650 is a great quad.

Thanks,
Joe

Originally Posted by seafarer

Hi Guys, So here are the first test videos from the X8.

X8 - 2x x650 escs, 8x x650 motors, x650 props all around, modified x650 motor mounts

4 mins of flight time burns 1400 mah from each battery (2 2200 mah batteries)

Photoship One mkTR camera mount, stabilized on roll and tilt.
Canon t2i with zenitar 16mm lens

Stabilized with smoothcam in FCP

http://vimeo.com/24540999

Nice work Nick,
Do you have a picture of your X8 with the mkTR camera mount? Are you using XAircraft FC to do the stabalization.
Thanks,
Ken

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Does anyone know the pinout for the futaba R6208SB receiver and which pin goes where to the FC

I don't want to burn something

Originally Posted by zirt57

Sorry rabone. No, you didn't. I'm just tired of the complaints. Some of course are valid. At least it's not like in other threads were the vendor is denying any problems or is blaming the customers. Here XAircraft has admitted that some (quite a few ok, before I get flamed ) are having problems and they are working on it. I guess I've just learned a little more patience as I get older but the complaints have wore me down a bit.

What I would like to see is a little more innovation from the X650 & X450 owners. Lets see what we can build. So far I have a X8 and a hexa. I just got my new camera mount today (3 axis ) and will post pictures once it has been mounted. I also promise to post more pictures of my X8 as I am cleaning up the wiring and came up with a way of making it look more professional. One of the ideas behind the X450 was for the DIYers to build something. Lets see some more action. Camera mounts, what have you. Has anyone come up with a good camera mount for the GoPro on the X450? Lets see your drawings and ideas.

- Jeff

can't wait until the pictures come out. and see video from the camera itself.

Originally Posted by seafarer

Hi Guys, So here are the first test videos from the X8.

X8 - 2x x650 escs, 8x x650 motors, x650 props all around, modified x650 motor mounts

4 mins of flight time burns 1400 mah from each battery (2 2200 mah batteries)

Photoship One mkTR camera mount, stabilized on roll and tilt.
Canon t2i with zenitar 16mm lens

Stabilized with smoothcam in FCP

http://vimeo.com/24540999

Congratulations. That's great that you got it working, and working well. Camera weighs +/- 580g which is good.

Please show us your setup and what it looks like, motor mounts etc. I think I will order some X650 motors and a X650 Esc and go for the full X8 as my experiment with the X8 using X450 motors failed badly.

How is the handling? and any adjustments to the settings

Cheers
Rob

Hi Josh or anyone. Going back to my X8 using the X450 Esc and motors that I built. My one Esc burnt out and the one X450 motor continued running when landed.

I think the problem could be the signal cable extensions (linking the FC to the ESC) that I bought. If they were not connecting properly, could that cause a burnt ESC and also keep the one motor running?

Thanks for any input
Rob

Is there anywhere I can by motor mounts for my X8 project?
Or do I have to build it my self

Originally Posted by nestergaard

Is there anywhere I can by motor mounts for my X8 project?
Or do I have to build it my self

you could try quadframes.co.uk , i bought a 450 frame off them and it is superb and took 20mins to put together

Originally Posted by wiggysk10

you could try quadframes.co.uk , i bought a 450 frame off them and it is superb and took 20mins to put together

Thx! I will check it out

Do you think I can use the standard motors, esc & props of a X450 if I want to build a Y6 with this frame : http://www.baseframes.de/Frame-Y600/1,000000137060,8,1 ?
Or should I look for another combinaison of motors/esc/props ?

Originally Posted by wiggysk10

you could try quadframes.co.uk , i bought a 450 frame off them and it is superb and took 20mins to put together

I didn´t find any motor mounts on that page. Anyone knows where to buy for x8?