Can someone recommend me a heavy lifting drone? I have some surveying equipment, it weighs about 7kg and I want to do 30 minutes of surveying per charge. My budget is £3,000. I know this is the /diy/ board but /g/ doesn't know anything about drones so I ask here.
>>948474
Rent a fucking chopper with a pilot.
A drone will be too expensive to operate, rent or buy. It's too early in the hype cycle for usable and effective commerical drone applications.
If you're thinking of buying or building a drone and operate it yourself, prepare your anus. CAA, FAA and comparable aviation agencies will rape you.
This drone needs to be gas powered and is WAYYYYYYYYYY too heavy to operate legally within a mile of population.
Don't be a faggot. Drones are not a solution.
>>948474
>My budget is £3,000
Keep dreaming buddy, even light weight commercial drones are going to be pushing £10,000
>>948530
20 KG you're right fuckwad
7 kg of payload
Will require a 4 kilo petrol engine, 2-4 kg frame, a petrol tank, and many, many electronics.
It will have a total weight of more than 20kg, even without a payload.
You'll never have enough mechanical and electrical enigineering knowledge to make it yourself.
Nobody will make it for you unless you got like unlimited resources to pay for research, parts and labor. Drone delivery time: >2 years, cost: 250k.
The very, very few people that have such a humongous drone (if they even exist) and will rent it out to you.
Fuck I remember there was this faggot on /diy/ who had a petrol powered drone, it weighed like 15 kg and could only lift like 3kg.
Just forget your autistic fairy tale
>>948530
Ps 20kg is the maximum allowed drone weight before you need it to have a tailnumber(like a licenceplate for your plane) and you need to prove that your drone won't fall apart midair. AKA you will need to have it tested very thoroughly. This testing is like 10-20k GBP.
Having a tailnumber means you need to get clearance with your local ATC and shit like that before you can take off.
ITT: dronefags gonna fag
>>948541
Why not just use bigger propellers and more batteries? I'm pretty sure petrol isn't necessary for this. It's mostly hovering over a small area while it surveys, doesn't really need to accelerate much or travel far. Surely there's a drone that can do that?
>>948474
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Mercy
Why does it need to fly?
Just buy a muck truck for £2k and carry 300kg of your crap to the site.
>>948544
A majority of the country is uncontrolled airspace, class g. There's no atc even if you're flying an actual plane. The n number has nothing to do with it.
I don't know too much about drones but isn't there anything lighter you can use to survey?
>>948564
No this is specialist equipment. /diy/ is awfully negative. I thought this was the "solutions" board. Everyone here is acting like I am asking for antigravity. It's 7kg ffs, I've seen drones lift a whole human.
>>948549
>Why not just use bigger propellers and more batteries?
I'm sure nobody ever thought of that dude
quick go patent it
>>948597
Just because nobody is selling it doesn't mean it won't work.
Just get a trained eagle.
The female Harpy Eagle has been recorded body weighing of 12.3kg and its common knowledge they can carry up to half their body weight.
So either bread one with a body mass of 14kg or lose a few kg of your equipment.
Also eagles are badass and will give you more street cred than a homemade drone.
>>948605
interesting. i'd need some sort of suspension on the gimbal though.
>>948605
You'd probably need insurance though for when it rakes out your eyes or hunts small children...
>>948474
>Can someone recommend me a heavy lifting drone?
why not go with an aerostat ?
http://www.galaxyblimps.com/outdoor50.html
60lbs cargo
6hr + flight time
top speed 30~40mph
>>948608
>Act of god.
>>948504
Drone is too expensive -> get a chopper
Are you retarded? He'll go over his total budget in one afternoon with a chopper
>>948541
This is absolutely not true just look up heavy lift drone on you be there's dozens of them that lift way more than 7 kg
>>948661
But for half an hour?
google HobbyKing Beerlift
Just do this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F0Q0v7H_9Q
22kg should be more than enough.
>Op turns up at his clients property to do a spot of surveying.
>He takes his new drone out of his van.
>Fills the payload with his surveying equipment.
>Turns on the device.
>It amazing shoot up to height of 100 feet with ease.
>It suddenly veers off the left
>Hitting into power cables, blowing the fusees in his clients house.
>Then crashes into a pond.
>???
>Profit.
>>948607
Boy do I have the answer:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/30/chicken-based-camera-stabilization-more-effective-than-the-human/
>>948474
Its 4:13 am. And I just wanna say you all are shit at /diy/ poor op here wants a way to use his survey equipment easily and thinks a drone is what he needs.. That is incorrect. But no need to laugh at him without any helpful input.
OP what you want is actually an RC blimp. Or a weather baloon with little motors to scoot it around.. If you follow what the RC submarine guys do and have a small aircompressor INSIDE your blimp when you want to raise/lower the height its easily done by compressing the air (to lower) and to release the air (to raise) the blimp could stay in one spot for an extended period of time if not for hours if you attached it to the ground with a little bit of rope. Id say if you really wanted to diy it. Could possibly be done for under 1000 shekels easily.
30KG battery powered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7QWYlmePCI
>>948882
Thanks.
>>948474
OP, what type of Surveying equipment are you planning to lift with the drone?
Is it going to actually be doing survey measurements while lifted? Are you messing about with aerial photogrammetry or what?
or are you just transporting some equipment to a high or remote position?
Are you messing about with aerial photogrammetry or what?
>>948948
yeah it's 3D scanning, scan takes a while hence it needs to be held up for a while.
Miniature hot air balloon tied to an rc car with a long rope. You're welcome.
>heavy lifting drone
That's a contradictory statement, OP
>>948474
maybe look at RC blimps instead
>>948952
>3D scanning,
sounds like a good idea. but yeah, scanners weigh a lot for most drones. maybe a miniature hot air balloon like others suggested.
Or a good sized RC copter?
But how do you relate your aerial captured point clouds to the site? Onboard GPS?
or redundancy with points tied from the ground?
>>949482 here,
Actually OP. RC based scanning/mapping is sort of a fantasy /diy/ project of mine.
I want to build my own RC vehicle that can 3D scan/map out small interior areas of buildings or even outdoor sites and structures.
Would be pretty awesome.
