Drone Motor Thrust Tester

RE: Drone Motor Thrust Tester

genebren — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:24:32 GMT

Great project, with top notch documentation/write-up! I really enjoy the 3D prints (again) and the control panel display was very nice. Keep up the good work!

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carmelito — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:23:55 GMT

Very useful project, thanks for sharing.. Let me guess, is it a EMAX 2204, 2300 KV motor ? it has been been the most trust worthy motor for my flying wing [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-f86ecd9e-ee5c-46b9-8d7e-c5071d7c1fc0/1732.contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16] ..

Carmelito

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jw0752 — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 04:34:34 GMT

Wow! Awesome project. I really enjoyed reading about it.

John

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three-phase — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:56:42 GMT

Excellent project and write up. Thanks for sharing.

Kind regards.

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14rhb — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 20:36:52 GMT

In such a short blog you've captured and written up another very professional project, well done.

I don't have a drone but I do particularly like your Qt GUI design approach, so thank you for including the code so I can see how that is achieved [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-f86ecd9e-ee5c-46b9-8d7e-c5071d7c1fc0/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

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phoenixcomm — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:23:45 GMT

[mention:1fea68f71fde47f2beff1fc2c7890056:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] I love it. you are sic.! This is just what I need to test the thrust of my experimental aircraft ducted turbine!! woopie! thank you so much. I will have to scale this up quite a bit as my engine weighs in at about 100lbs.

I want to experiment with the number of blades on the fan. 4, 8, 16, 32 etc. plus I have designed a small 2-3 stage compressor but I need to check the gear ratios.

~~ Cris

PS I will also need to check the pressure , and airflow in each of the sections of the motor

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DAB — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:09:17 GMT

Nice project.

Good build idea using the 3D printed parts.

DAB

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fmilburn — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:54:06 GMT

That is very nicely done and extremely well documented. I have been wanting to upgrade the simple User Interfaces I have been writing in Python so will spend some time looking at what you have done there.

RE: Drone Motor Thrust Tester

neuromodulator — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:49:18 GMT

Nice project, I did something similar a few weeks ago. My motor was just a little bit bigger, but was I far less confident of the system, just for safety I performed tests where in case that propellers break they would cause no major damage.

I remember lot of people using setups like this to measure the thrust of different propellers. One drawback though is that they characterize the behavior of the propeller when there is no wind speed. Building a wind tunnel could be interesting, but probably expensive too.