@garyhgaryh's next project: Tarot X8 Octorotor

ruouttaurmind posted some pics said Mon, May 18th 2015 at 6:10pm ET

What do you think Gary? 41 inches across from motor shaft. 15 inch rotors tied to eight 4214 320KV motors. 22lb max takeoff weight. 15lb payload capacity. 15 inch clearance for gimbal/photo equipement... This thing looks like a beasty.
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garyhgaryh said Mon, May 18th 2015 at 9:41pm ET:

Wow, how much is that? or is it one of these build it yourself products?

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- @garyhgaryh Well it wouldn't be your project without some building necessary! The frame is 2785 Chinese Yuan (about $450) directly from Tarot. I'm sure the ones in the pics are >$1K builds.
  
  ruouttaurmind said Mon, May 18th 2015 at 10:22pm ET
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- @garyhgaryh I was just poking around on the Chinese vendors websites. Just for fun I tossed into my shopping cart all the bits necessary to build one of those clone F550 hexacopters. Using all the cheapest parts it came to $180 plus radio and battery. That included APM compatable FC, GPS, Compass. Using better quality components (SimonK ESC's, Arducopter FC, Sunnysky Motors, etc) came to $215 plus radio and battery. Using all top shelf stuff it was hovering around $300 plus radio and battery. Though it's another $100 to upgrade to a 32bit Pixhawk FC or NAZA-M v2.
  
  ruouttaurmind said Tue, May 19th 2015 at 3:27pm ET
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- @ruouttaurmind Wow, that is not bad at all!!
  
  garyhgaryh said Tue, May 19th 2015 at 7:30pm ET
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- @ruouttaurmind Hmm... I happen to be looking for a new quad. That thing looks pretty sweet! edit: I guess I mean doublequad
  
  crapstick said Wed, May 20th 2015 at 8:19pm ET
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