Wooden props
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I have used them but I don’t recommend them myself. Not that they are bad at all I just think there are more advanced options out there. From my experience the best choice is real carbon fiber like T motor or stick with the original props. If I can help in any way just give me a shout.
Interesting question. In my local hobby shop, all the props are on hooks on the wall. Once you get around the 12" size and up, there are more wooden props, and when they get really big (24") they are all wood. Might be some scale thing with the RC planes, although I'd think plastic or nylon with aluminum paint might be more real than wooden for some scale aircraft that use aluminum props. I'll have to as the owner about that.
The reason for the question is because of the price factor. It seems companies are making a killing on cf props because it’s the thing to have now a days. Even the cf props have a wood core in them. Can just about buy a whole set of wood props for the price of 2 cf props. What makes the cf props worth twice as much? Yes they are a few grams lighter and they are more ridged but other than that what is better about them than a wooden prop? I’ve used wooden props on rc planes for 20 plus years and never had a problem with them but I can’t really compare that to use on a multi rotor tho. I use xoar cf props now and there is only one reason I do not like them. What didn’t you like about the wooden props on an i1?
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The wooden props I tried were heavier than stock and carbon fiber. Also the ones I tried were really out of balance and took quite a bit of balancing to get them perfect. It wasn’t that I didn’t like them it was more I did t want to go through balancing them for each setup I do and the additional weight. The Carbon fiber props that Tmotor puts out are solid carbon fiber not wood core. If I were going to use carbon fiber T motor would be the only brand I would use. Again not knocking the wood props they definitely have served well over many years. For me carbon fiber seems to be the better choice if you do not want to use dark crops. Also flight time seem to be les if I were going to use carbon fiber T motor would be the only brand I would use. Again not knocking the wood props they definitely have served well over many years. For me carbon fiber seems to be the better choice if you do not want to use stock props. Also flight time was list with the wooden props versus carbon fiber and or stock but not by much. In the end I think it is just a simple personal preference to what you trust the most and want to use. I think there are many different solutions out there that In the end work perfectly fine.
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Not sure my friend but I have cut them in half and they were solid carbon fiber strand throughout.
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It’s probably just a ad banner they put with them. Maybe send them a note to stop their false advertising. Lol. It’s doing nothing but hurting their sales with them I’d think.
Right from their description “ featuring sandwich construction with corkwood cores for low weight and an aerodynamic cross section.” Wonder why they changed. I’d rather trust a complete carbon than a corkwood core with a layer of carbon on it. Xoars are corkwood cored also.
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I will do a test soon again and chop a set in half. I don’t know that anything has changed. I will just get a new set and see what’s inside. That’s the way to know for sure. Happy flying buddy
don't use anything other than the original props. If you go CF or wood, it will only cause increased vibration. There is less shock absorption in stiffer blades. The stiffer blades are great for performance flying but not if you're trying to keep vibration to a minimum for a camera.
Think of putting low profile tires on your car. Yes, it will handle great, but the ride will suck.
The fact that the blades bend when you pick the bird up by the tips of the blades is not a bad thing. Remember the lift force is distributed across the entire blade surface, not just the tip. So you don't get as much bending as you might thinks. What you get is shock absorption.
Think of putting low profile tires on your car. Yes, it will handle great, but the ride will suck.
The fact that the blades bend when you pick the bird up by the tips of the blades is not a bad thing. Remember the lift force is distributed across the entire blade surface, not just the tip. So you don't get as much bending as you might thinks. What you get is shock absorption.
I run xoar cf props now and do not have any problems with vibration transferred back to the camera. You are right in saying that the stiffer blades will transfer more or more aggressive vibrations back to the camera. That has been proven, hence one reason why I started this thread. Wooden props are stiffer than the plastic but they will deaden some of the vibrations. Which also has been proven in a thread that is not on this site. Was looking for first hand experience used on the i1 for wooden props. What I mostly wondered about was the weight difference and how it effected the drone because a stock plastic 1345 is 18g, reinforced plastic1360 is 25g, wood 1450 is 33g and the 1448 t motor cf is 17g.
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