500 Folding Y6

By scottychop on Oct 03, 2015

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500 sized Folding Y6 - Mulitwii

Part List

Frame

HobbyKing X900 Tricopter Glass Fiber Multi-Rotor Frame (2 builds)
Hobbyking.com
$22.27

Flight Controller

Flip MWC Flight Controller 1.5 (2 builds)
Readytoflyquads.com
$12.00

ESCs

6 x F-20A Fire Red series SimonK-(RapidESC)
Readytoflyquads.com
$48.00

Motors

Hobbypower Emax Mt2213 935kv 2212 Brushless Motor for DJI F450 X525 Quadcopter Hexcopter(Pack of 4pcs) (2 builds)
Amazon.com
$49.96

Motors

3 x Simple Y6/X8 Motor Mounts
Store.flitetest.com
$9.00

Motors

2 x Witespy Red Special Motor
Readytoflyquads.com
$20.00

Propellers

3 x HQ Prop 10x4.5 MM Fiberglass Composite Prop (Orange)
Readytoflyquads.com
$13.86

Propellers

2 x Red Special Prop Adapter
Readytoflyquads.com
$4.50
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Discussion

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scottychop   Oct 03, 2015  

I just started a new build that will be nice and small when folded. I used the X900 tricopter plates and shortened the arms to around 10.5 inches. I had to shorten the rear arm another inch because it interfered with the FC. The motors are mounted, arms are loosely tightened and wires run. I am using a custom Y6 power harness.

Whiffles   Oct 14, 2015 

How's your Y6 coming along?

scottychop   Oct 18, 2015 
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Been sitting. I am going to try to carve out some time this week to get it flying.

scottychop   Oct 04, 2015  

Managed to snag a minutes today to get the wires sorted and plugged in, plus configured the multiwii board to Y6 using pins A0 and A1.

Whiffles   Oct 04, 2015 

Great! You can add photos to your posts here to use the discussion as a build log.

Whiffles   Oct 03, 2015  

Wow that's cheap for a Y6. I'd like to hear how it performs.

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