12 DRONE Motors On My Back!? - DIY Paramotor - RCTESTFLIGHT 

Awesome Daniel! Yeah upgrade those wires! I ended up using. 6GA wires for all my harnesses and 8MM bullets for the connectors! Everything else would be at the limit! Keep it up and stay safe!

“I’ve never flown a paramotor before, so a prototype is a great way to learn, I’m just gonna run into the freeway.” I love this channel

Terrifying but awesome! Electric is the future of the sport, batteries just aren’t quite there to enjoy reasonable flight times. Stay safe!

Fun/dangerous project. I designed, built and fly my own RC parts paramotor. I recommend that you double check your figures to make sure that your batteries, wire gauges, connectors etc are all up to the huge amperage requirements. You really need a smooth hoop around the props with nothing sticking up to catch lines. You should not even have a zip tie sticking up. On mine, I slit some polyethylene pipe lengthwise and placed it over my hoop to cover the zip ties.

Paramotor pilot here! You need a round cage with no grabbing points. That's a must for getting those risers to come up nicely! I'm posting this into our community lol. Edit: I highly suggest that you work with the paramotoring community to make this work and do it safely. There are more flaws than what I first pointed out and you do need training because there is a ton wrong with technique here. I suggest checking out the scout paramotor channel design videos. Well wishes if you continue!

It's very interesting to see the trials and tribulations. Thank you VERY MUCH for not cutting your issues out of the video. Too many people only show the perfect situations and don't show all the steps that lead up to their success. They're just trying to show off instead of actually showing progress. APPRECIATED!

As a paragliding pilot of 35 years, my advice is don’t give up, you’ll make it if you try hard enough. If you try hard enough you cannot possibly fail! You have the best early type of inspiration I’ve seen yet, go for it.

Daniel, I’ve been watching you for years. You are a genius, and have balls as big as church bells.

1 vote for keep going. Try and make it as efficient as possible

great job! a round cage helps a lot in getting the wing up.

So much for the quiet serenity of gliding in the air.

Someone lend this man a wing... I hope to see you fly again with all batteries and new power cables

I actually clapped my hands when you took off for the first time!

Thanks for showing what goes wrong as well as what works it helps other from making the same error.

Oh man, its there, just power issue, this is going to work , don't scrap this.

Don't give up on this. Electric Paramotor is the future. Way more reliable, quieter, less maintenance overall making the sport safer. We just need the battery prices come down and storage capacity to go up. I would take Robert Durbin's advice to be safe.

Awesome vid! Nothing quite like testing a prototype out by flying in it. I can't wait to see when you get this mastered.

Safety - 10 outof 10! XD In every single detail or action. Safety just everywhere!

This was one of your most genuine, funny videos! I hope it continues with more success. You and Samm Sheperd should work together at some point, his design was cool.

nice man !! I dont even understand why someone would dislike this because its learning as well as innovation and this kids so smart .. I love hearing him think so i can then think in terms of solutions and making things better and work instead of just hating lie humanity does ... negativity and pessimism has taken ppl over turning em into sad sad ppl . go play ppl !!

Glad to see you still making content for your channel. You are brave, not only for putting your experiments on your back, but for sharing the process with everyone. Most people would only show the finished product.

You never quit. Stay with it.

This is so bad ass. Cant wait for the day electric paramotors are efficient enough for long flights.

I can’t believe how much you’ve accomplished in your young life. I recall the first video that I saw from your channel; You flew a homemade plane out of your bedroom window, FPV style. You’re an amazing young man, with an amazing future ahead of you. Way to go!!

This channel will never cease to amaze me

Yeh, you're going to want to use screw-down patch connectors. Solder's just not doing to hold up to the heat. I really like this kind of innovative thinking. Was awesome to see an electric paramotor taking flight. Congrats, and thanks for the video.

Mate you cannot give up on this. You have massive support from Peter, Flighttest, electricbike, rinoa, cody, dutchrc, rc pi and the legions of fans.. Keep at it mate, it will be worth it in the end. Id go a round frame. Maybe send a PM to Tucker Gott

Alishanmao did this with one big motor. There are also similar electric paramotors at the light aircraft show in Germany this year. All single prop, single motor. They also spaced the prop back away from the motor to the rear. Not sure why, but that's the trend. I'm a PPG pilot here in Utah.

Yes! Keep going! Super fun to see you paraglide too, and pushing things with electric. I’d look at a higher voltage, lower current 18650 battery based system. Look at what’s available with E-Bikes for batteries- they’re pushing us heavy humans around for many dozens of miles with a couple hundred dollars 0.5 - 1 kWh packs.

YOU, Sir, are a HERO!

I am following in your footsteps my good sir! you read my mind at each turn

Wow, all the nerds are here in the comment zone, awesome. Daniel, you got a new subber. Love innovators.

Huge props for being an adventurer.

I think you have just created a new way of doing paramotor business!

Crazy jealous! Keep it up! Your 90% there. Spend the money and get a good wing. Way to close to success to call it quits now.

Dude I can watch your videos all day thank you very much

Electric is the future of paramotoring! We need something refined like a DJI drone with a easily charged and swappable battery! Hope to build one myself someday if not available. Fun project to watch but a round cage would be much better! Have you flown gas motors before?

You're well on the right track. In my opinion, all you need to do is practice dozens and dozens of forward launches with the paramotor off first until you can do them in your sleep :)

When you fell backwards during testing, didn't it smash the props or damage the motors?

Flite Test NEEDS you Daniel!

Keep going please! Started paragliding myself, would love to DIY a paramotor =)

I'd love to see you try again with all four batteries and beefier wires and connectors. You got your feet off the ground and didn't die, which is better than they could do for decades

what if the battery/ESC catches fire in the air? any quick release for them to drop off

Awesome idea! Once the frame is reconfigured it will be great to see the progress!

As others have said, go up on wore sizes, etc, and also keep the wire harness short, so that you don't get ripple current issues. Ripple current can destroy ESC's, motors, and rob power. you can do these 3 things to fix it: 1 keep harnesses short 2 use LOW ESR CAPS near ESC's 3 use larger than necessary wire size.

Dont Give up! everybody here wants to see it into fruition. We need an alternative to gas motor

My God, you've come so very far and you're fearless, Thanks for the videos. I hope you end up wherever you wish! You are lucky that they aren't molded into you back, permanently!

Well done! Electric paramotors are the future!

Very VERY cool!! Keep going with this idea bro, PLEASE!!

For your wiring problem, just use 10 awg wire the entire way thru. That will definitely help with voltage and current flow. You cant be splitting your wires into that thin wire like that. Hope this helps! Mad props bro! Soo sick

This was both incredibly brilliant & insanely dangerous. I’ve never paramotored but I’ve seen enough to know how difficult it is, it’s really impressive you even got up in the air! But I can’t believe you actually tried to wire up 12 high current motors with 2 measly battery connectors lol. You always should add up the max current of each motor and wire appropriately. This video is 2 years old so hopefully you’ve learned to respect current :)

Besides upgrading your wiring, make a fire proof case, separate compartments for individual batteries, better still a quick release to jettison them in emergency. If your LiPo's caught fire it could be fatal, it takes a while to descend! I have just made several DIY fireproof lipo cases similar to bat-safe dot com but mine use ammo box lined with ceramic fibre & on the lid I drilled some holes, wrapped rockwool in wire mesh to filter the flames and keep the soot inside. For paramotor application you could use thinner steel to keep light. If the batteries go on fire in a box the heat, gas & smoke must escape but you could direct it somewhere with perhaps pipe fittings etc (rearwards!). Bravo for your project but please take more care, make it perfectly safe before you continue!!

Don't scrap it man! Keep goin! You got this far! I also want to see more! It's funny, I have the same color Mescal 4, and I'm just itching to build my own electric multi-rotor motor as well. Just keep it safe, fix the obvious, and be smart. Regardless, don't scrap it! Keep going!

"rctestflight", you are a champion. Good work man.

I really think you need to revisit this one. Paramotoring is freakin incredible, and you obviously possess both the necessary skills as well as resources to actually make some advancement with electric paramotors, which we need to finally make them become a real thing! And sooner rather than later would be good as well!!!

Finally, someone who has gotten away from conventional single engine rationale! Nice job. How did you figure out how many and how large of motors to use? Do you know how much thrust you are getting from each motor? Again, it is a pleasure seeing someone thinking outside of the ‘traditional’ methods.

For high current wire connections it's best to both crimp and solder, and make sure you strip the maximum length of wire so you fully penetrate each connector.

Mate you can't give up now!! :-) just up the gauge on the wiring or bus bar it for power distribution and definitely get an efficient wing !! :-) your onto something big here mate, cheers

Just use single motor my friend. Less bulky, simple and more powerful. lighter too :)

great video! try a round cage with no grabbing points and also pull the A's more to take the paraglider off the ground on takeoff, everything will be easier. looking forward to the next video!

Damn, you are amazing and insane man.

Tucker Gott has got to see this... I'm sure he'd also like to try it out too!

Jesus Christ, stay safe buddy, you're amazing!

Yeah, old wings suck. Please don’t abandon this project. You are miles ahead of others that would like to get off ground w electric power and you are learning a lot as you go along. I would very much like to see a thrust test when you have a chance to get around to it. After that I want to know how long you can run that system at full power once you have the wiring straight. Cheers!

Love the idea of a multi motor setup. I’ve often thought of doing something myself like this. Maybe you could wire your motors / batteries in groups so if you have a failure you would only loose a part of the capacity and not overload the remaining batteries. Say you had 4 batteries, and 12 motors, wire 3 motors to each battery. Looks great, I think your pretty close to a very nice system. Love the videos!

Been a sub for forever and I can’t tell you the last time one of your videos was in my feed.great video,hopefully they get in my feed more

I would switch to a traditional paramotor if you plan to continue. It's pretty cool that you were able to get off the ground, but you barely had enough thrust even with a dangerously oversized and unstable wing. Parmotors use significantly heavier loaded wings, because it's more dangerous to have a collapse compared to a paraglider, due to all the stuff there is to get tangled in. And with that being said, your prototype is going to kill you if you play with it too much more. Your cage design isn't mechanically sturdy enough, and if something slips, it's going to be easy to get a body part in one of the props. Also, you'd need to do a lot of testing to make damned sure that there's no probable flex direction that could possible get those props to slice your connections. Recovering from a collapse can be violent, and carbon fiber isn't going to save you from an inherently unstiff design, especially with those connections. If you have those tangle issues you had during launch in the air, or during climbout, it's going to be very bad news. Electrically, I'm even more concerned. The thing is just asking to catch on fire. You are very lucky that the solder melted out, because you were close to catching your wires on fire. I expect that your motors and batteries were being pushed well past their duty cycle and max current specifications, but even if you stayed inside them, they simply aren't reliable enough to be used in a human safety situation. If you are cruising along at 1000ft, and you get a battery fire on your back, you're just going to be barbecued alive. Hobby RC electronics simply aren't nearly safe enough for human flight. I'm an electrical engineer, and there's no way I'd trust my life to one of my own designs without close peer review from an experienced power electronics engineer.

You and your crazy projects always blows my mind..you're talented, man..

Those lipos are convenient, as they come in nice square packs, and are ready to plug up. But they can be super dangerous, as I'm sure you know. You definitely don't want an in-flight fire. You could build a super durable pack, with more legs, using 21700 cells. Or even 18650s. Just a thought. Nice job on the paramotor, BTW.

so awesome!!! you are a madman!!!!

Although it would make a great video, please put a decent firewall between you and them cells (incase of fire) and use a round (hoolahoop) cage so your not catching them risers! Feet were off the ground though, so it's a win!

You might like to test it on the ground at full power, until your batteries are flat, to make sure that the system can handle the load, plus you then know how long you have. Also I suggest make the edges of your frame so that lines cannot get caught. One way to do this, is to cut a bit of alkathene pipe long wise, then slip over the frame.

Don't scrap the project, use a higher gauge wire, run four 10awg for each set of 3 motors, and then stay at the 10awg down to your batterys, I would use 10 of those batterys to get the amparge alittle lower and Compacity up. On the other hand i would definalty build this to fly

Excellent idea 👍🙂

Very cool start.

Amazing, well done

Very fortunate the Lipo didn't go and send a 5ft torch through your spine. Might want to put a fire wall between you and the batteries (and probably put them in a box). It should be very possible to make it safer. Maybe make a rounded cage around the drone props so nothing gets tangled or damaged on bad take offs. Very cool. And love the rc rocket. Subscribed!

Really cool project!

Creative and Brave man!

Great Job!! This said I think this set up would be more appropriate to power a descent as opposed to power you up from the ground, you will save battery life. Just a thought.

Well done, keep up the good work

驚くばかり！ トルクなし、クラッチなし！ それは素晴らしいです！

Looking great. Upgrade those wires to at least the same gauge as the main leads coming out of the battery keep all wires as short as reasonable and with as few connectors as possible. This is a perfect case for electric as the load is light and the power requirement can be somewhat intermittent. Please don't give up you're on the verge of something awesome!

I love seeing the fails. Shows how true innovation happens.

Dude, wow. Nice job.

7:17 "so I was just pulling so much POWEEEEEERRR" What's the thrust of the 12x drone motors compared to the original paramotor setup????? Pleeeeease don't give up this project, we will LOVE watch you + I'm absolutely sure you'll have so much fun and love that too hahaaa ohhh yeaaahhh

For gods sake... beautiful carbon frame, elegant design, clean electronics.... BUT WHY THE ELASTIC ON THE TRIGGER? Please get yourself a proper spring =')

your ideas are awesome

Awesome dude!!! Hope you get it working!!

There's a reason why the cage on a paramotor is round and smooth. You're going to get your lines caught every time with that design.

1: your cage shape keep the lines from getting up 2: you dont know how to controle a Praglider , your 'Old' wing seems to be a 'preformance' wing so dont pull on the break toggles at all(not 2 inches) and symetrycally and she will go up kite without the motor at first 3 : use big wire and all the batterie , and stay low in case of fire

That rig should be putting out around 45-50kgs of trust and pulling close to 500amps at full throttle. Since the EC5 connectors are only rated to 120 amps its no surprise that happened. Good luck with the next attempt!

I look forward to electric paramotor flight and best wishes on your testing...but I highly recommend training before flying. It all seems easy until something challenges your flying skills. A suggestion might be to use an existing light frame such as a Miniplane and see if you can adapt your setup (this is what I fly). Take care up there!

Awesome Daniel! !

Im curious about how many watt-hours it takes for flying. just for comparison my electric bicycle takes 12 watt-hours per mile at 12mph, and like double that at 20mph. if your machine doesnt use many watt-hours to go a mile, your 1kwh battery could last quite a bit.

GO For It Daniel ! ! !

Hay great vid dude!! showing the first attempts where you fumbling , shows character :-) Might i make an suggestion with your esc / power cables. I fly myself EDF's and a rule is that you keep the DC cables (between Lipo and ESC as short as possible. so mount the ESC's in the center of the frame, and put the 3 AC cables to the engine through the Tubing to the motors. It prevents boiling the resistors and makes it more easy to tuck away the cabling... But great attempt i'll keep my eye out for the next version :-) regards Nico

I smiled when you took off. So good dud

Hey dude been following your stuff for quite a while now, came from RC too! Don't give up the dream! I want to build one myself as I just do freeflight at the moment and want to do power but not internal combustion. However, please do it properly, get a decent wing and groundhandle it as much as you can. Also don't know how much bench testing you did but might be worth doing some more before going out in the field and try it and finding out you'll pulling too much current or something like that. I'll defo be trying this mysel. Keep it up!

you got a tremendous amount of drag with that kind of construction (8 props and all the caving-stuff)