First build from WA Australia

For those looking to get started the whole site is a treasure chest of information. Hangloose deserves a lot of credit with his sharing of 3D files which made my life a lot easier I highly recommend reading Hangloose build. I modified his motor mount and then did a scan of my Axis mast and created a fairing to hide the motor cable as I felt it was causing quite a bit of drag which I confirmed with some Computational Fluid Dynamics analysis. I will look to upload them if anyone shows any interest in trying them.


First cross section is of the of the original cable mount. You can see the dark blue drag turbulence it causes. While running wires inside the mast is the best solution I did not want to drill may mast as I am yet certain on what postions I wish to use it. so I created a fairing that slides over the mast and has a channel to run the cable.



Which resulted in the following CFD results. You can see that the drag is reduced significantly and I do notice a difference.

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