A DD gimbal, based on the Freefly 3 axis gimbal should not be a problem. I just hope they will make a upgrade version to replace the servo's for Direct Drive motor's & a control unit to drive them (like Alexmos)

work in progress

Looks like a really nice and tidy machine. So that dampening system actually runs through the top plates? All that wire can't be light though, have you weighed it yet?

After testing a lot of motors we decided to go for a Plettenberg Orbit motor for our Kratos

Motor test for our new Flexacopter Kratos (8 min 45 sec)

Wow, what a monster at 10KW peak!

One question concerning the wire dampeners, do they only work properly on compression would they be also effective on tensile load?

More like 1300W

Originally Posted by Henni

Wow, what a monster at 10KW peak!

One question concerning the wire dampeners, do they only work properly on compression would they be also effective on tensile load?

I was assuming that you were going to use 8 of them in total ;-)

So what about the wire dampeners, secret information? Like the fact that they seem to be very effective yet very easy and cheap to make (not talking about the perfection u do)

You right with 8 of them 10,4KW

Total lifting power 33,6kg

For sure no secret, google is your friend lots of information about wiredampers.

Originally Posted by Henni

I was assuming that you were going to use 8 of them in total ;-)

So what about the wire dampeners, secret information? Like the fact that they seem to be very effective yet very easy and cheap to make (not talking about the perfection u do)

I have to ask. Couldn't you get away with much smaller COTS wire-dampeners than custom machined ones? I recognize half the fun may be designing your own...

The wiredampers on the Kratos are designed for lifting High-End Pro camera's in the range of 4>6kg, simple remove 4 of them and you are in the range of 1>3kg camera's, fine tuning is also possible by simple removing single wires with a 1.3mm hex driver, no glue is used with this dampers.

You can buy of the shelf wiredampers (also not cheap!!) but than you don't get the flexability we have now and it wil spoil the looks

Don't know what COTS means though

Originally Posted by ilektron

I have to ask. Couldn't you get away with much smaller COTS wire-dampeners than custom machined ones? I recognize half the fun may be designing your own...

Which ESC's are you using? Look similar to YGE's

That's our own water proof coated 32bit 6S-60A ESC with actif braking made by MGM.

Originally Posted by topgearuk

Which ESC's are you using? Look similar to YGE's

Originally Posted by holco

That's our own water proof coated 32bit 6S-60A ESC with actif braking made by MGM.

Very nice! I'm sure they will work great... Any reason you went with Active braking?

Better rpm decreasing respons, especially with large prop's.

But with the software tool you simply can adjust it from 0>100

video#3 How to Program X-SERIES Speed Controller Using PC (2 min 20 sec)

Originally Posted by topgearuk

Very nice! I'm sure they will work great... Any reason you went with Active braking?

Originally Posted by holco

Better rpm decreasing respons, especially with large prop's.

But with the software tool you simply can adjust it from 0>100

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB8sfhl1gmw

Makes total sense!

How's that wiring up coming a long? That's my favorite bit.. Lol