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by servowire
4402 days ago
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I fly quad and tricopters a lot, and this is very unsafe. Any motor beyond 2210 size are flying meat-cutters. Even the plastic props, but especially the carbonfiber once can seriously cut flesh, en tendons. You see; these bruhless motors have mass in their bell, and once they rotate they won't stop (like a gasser). They keep chopping. Story time. A flying buddy had his micro-quad (only 5 inch props) setup on the table. He bumped into the remote and throttle lock was not engaged. One of the props cut his wrist, and hit a few arteries and tendons. They had to pull back a tendon from inside his arm (so he told me). I feel sick just thinking how it looked. All he said at that moment was "I'm going to need a Doctor". Another story. I had a tricopter on top of the table. I was calibrating with (my mistake) props attached. I programmed the arduino telling it to arm when a certain switch was "On". But this switch was already on. The moment the Atmel cpu initalized it send the motors to "Arm" and in a panic I grabbed the remote hitting the throttle a bit. The battery was beside the tricopter so it was light. It took of, chopped off the chandeleer's power cable, in to the teak-wooden table and my arm. It was a mess and I still have a scar 2 inches long. It needed stitching. It was only 20% of throttle. To the point: Tie-ing a meatgrinder, even if it's a Parrot, to a dog is a bad idea. So please don't try this on your favorite mutt. At the very least use propguards or impellors. |
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