Is that a UFO on mark 0:57?

Originally Posted by Daemon

Here's a fairly methodical X8 flight with telemetry, demonstrating the power required
for various modes. Min sink, 35mph, 45mph, max climb, top speed.. etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPv9cPWpVf0
News heli was orbiting around the area in the first part of the video. I didn't
spot anything interesting on the highway for em, so assume they were watching me.

It was so brutally slow to overlay the OSD info that way, that I missed the hard cuts,
so the video feels a little raw. Oh, and keep in mind that my X8 is a bit battered
and has flight camera, video Tx and antenna all outside the fuse so should be able
to make an X8 more efficient than this. My guess is with a clean one, cruise level
at maybe 6.5A (3S pack).

ian

"News heli was orbiting around the area in the first part of the video. I didn't
spot anything interesting on the highway for em, so assume they were watching me."

Can hear the heli before launch and see it in the distance 5 or 6 times in the first 5 mins.
They orbited the area several times.

ian

I have no doubt posting this will cause more debate than it's worth, but below is spreadsheet calculator I put together a while back and that I use. Once you've done a few test flights to plug in the initial figures, it can pretty accurately predict what the maximum range your plane will do at a given powered speed, with a given battery capacity.

Anyway, the default values plugged in are ones I've garnered from Ian's last flight video.

Play with the battery capacity (C:13) and Flight Speed (E:14) cells and see how these affect the 'Current', 'Flight Duration' and 'Max Range' cells

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/267254/Forum...htRange-X8.xls

Something doesn't seem to add up. You have C12 current (stall speed) listed as 1.7A/h.
That's not possible. If I set it to anything realistic (7-8A) then the range drops to nothing.
BTW, amp/h is not a unit we ever use. A is instantaneous current. A*h is unit of capacity.

If you look at the instantaneous mWh/km value in the OSD, can use it to calculate expected range
(which it does on the fly as well, based on the pre-set battery capacity, which was 4000mAh for this flight,
even though I was using a 5000mAh battery).
It's affected by wind and current battery voltage, but I think at 35mph with my plane (not as slippery as it could be) it is
conservatively somewhere around 1600-1800mWh/km.
A 3S 5000Ah battery contains roughly 55500mW*h of power (depends on what you choose for nominal voltage).
Therefore 55500mW / 1800mWh/km = 30.8_km or about 19 miles. At 1600mWh/km it'd be about 21 miles.
Probably eek out a few more miles at min sink airspeed.

ian

Yup, valid point on units of current - changed.

The spreadsheet was something I compiled a while back for a big-winged Easy Star I had; a plane I could fly and work out some of the real data for. In the case of the X8, I don't have one to fly yet, but based on the calculated stall speed (17.7 mph) I simply back-calculated the stall speed current from some of the data in your video e.g. 10A @ 30 MPH (or whatever it was)

Anyway, based on your video, if you just leave the stall speed as 1.7A (be this right or wrong) all the other calculations should follow suit and be pretty accurate for your X8 - enabling the effect of changing flight-speed and battery capacity to be seen on current draw and flight range.

long endurance flight : WING X8

flight time 1hour 25 minutes !!

2x 5000mAh Nano Tech Lipos
3548/790 KV Turnigy
80A Turnigy
IISI Telemetrie

MY WING X8:

She looks nice in Black.

Originally Posted by campilot

long endurance flight : WING X8

flight time 1hour 25 minutes !!

2x 5000mAh Nano Tech Lipos
3548/790 KV Turnigy
80A Turnigy
IISI Telemetrie

Originally Posted by campilot

long endurance flight : WING X8

flight time 1hour 25 minutes !!

2x 5000mAh Nano Tech Lipos
3548/790 KV Turnigy
80A Turnigy
IISI Telemetrie

Fantastic! 4S, or 3S with a large prop? What size prop were you using?

love the look of that x8, im also interested in cell number

Nicely done CamPilot. It does look good in black.
I too am interested to know the prop and cell count.

I dont have a X8 yet-I preordred one, but all the hardware are in the house

I have a 3548 900 kv, a 12*6 foldable prop, 4s 5000 lipos (a lot off them) And a 70A opto bec

Originally Posted by RolandS888

Nicely done CamPilot. It does look good in black.
I too am interested to know the prop and cell count.

cam-pilot´s setup:

4s 5000mah
prop.: 11x8
motor: 600W/790kv

BTW....he´s one of the best RC Pilots in Austria

damn, he got 1h 25m from a 5Ah? thats pretty nice.. guess i dont need to use both my 5Ah batteries then

[QUOTE=campilot;20992120]long endurance flight : WING X8

flight time 1hour 25 minutes !!

2x 5000mAh Nano Tech Lipos
3548/790 KV Turnigy
80A Turnigy
IISI Telemetrie

This is a super, great flight. I have the same battery and engine, propeller only 12/8