Phils Tricopter build, starting basic.

[rokit5]

Having a few spare 450 arms and frmae boards I thought I would give the tricopter a go.
Remodeling the bottom 450 board to have a single arm at the back and fabricating a top board from 1.5mm carbon fibre.
Next job, the servo motor rocker for the rear.



More phots as the fram progresses.

Any tips and advice would be a great help.

[Balders]

have you sorted a steering mechanism for the rear yet?  I followed exactly the RCExplorer 2.5 build for mine.  Works like a charm.

My first multi was a tri, and I';ve always loved ';em.

All my "over water" video';s have been from my fpv tricopter.

Only comment I would have is, one really neat thing about my hexa';s is the fold up into nothing, whereas I guess yours is gonna be fixed.

Even still, I';m sure you';ll enjoy it immensly. Yaw authority is rock solid.

[rokit5]

have you sorted a steering mechanism for the rear yet?  I followed exactly the RCExplorer 2.5 build for mine.  Works like a charm.

My first multi was a tri, and I';ve always loved ';em.

All my "over water" video';s have been from my fpv tricopter.

Only comment I would have is, one really neat thing about my hexa';s is the fold up into nothing, whereas I guess yours is gonna be fixed.

Even still, I';m sure you';ll enjoy it immensly. Yaw authority is rock solid.

I';ll take a look. I';m going to use a Savox MG micro because their toguey and small. I have those 9g servos but i don';t rate them, not for something so inportent.

[rokit5]

Desided to use a Hitec HS-985MG servo because it was lying around from when i built rock crawlers.



Still some refining to do to tidy it up but this should work.

[Balders]

simple as can be, although I';m not sure about all the lifting force effectively going through the servo rather than a shaft/pivot.

[rokit5]

It should work fine, its got 9.5kg.cm of stall torgue my only concern is the 62g weight.

[rokit5]

Desided against the direct servo mount and if it were that easy everyone would be doing it that way. Went with Barderses idea instead, makes more sense if its a proven design and much lighter.

[rokit5]

Finish the tricopter last night but sadly no flying today, weathers shite.
Still got the gains to dial in but hopefully that won';t take to long.

[Gaza07]

Looks very good rokit well done 

[rokit5]

First flight:

A battle against the wind but i needed a quick flight fix.