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Originally Posted by Target70
I'd say rob has the thomas knight setup beat on aesthetics alone. But damn, 3 motors and 6 batteries!
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TK was really in a prototype phase. Almost proof-of-concept stuff. Rob has a commercial product. It's like the difference between the Chinese military vs. the U.S.A.s'. China has prototypes, tech demos and research papers. While the U.S. brings deployed battle tested hardware, process, supply chain, and tactics. Rob is that far ahead of where TK was. Most importantly, Rob's controller hardware/software looks to be much more sophisticated than what TK had developed long ago.
Or you can think about it from a materials and equipment prespective. TK went with 3 motors because a single motor didn't exist at the time to do what he wanted. However if TK had reached whatever air compressibility threshold he needed to maintain >10PSI what would that make the rest of his kit look like (batteries, cabling, controllers, etc)? Rob's TQ250 motor is up to the task of his tightly focused product. He's methodically reaching farther (TQ300) while keeping the product commercially feasible. TK had 6 batteries for the same reason. Today batts are available far cheapear and up to the task. Rob's setup, compact enough to be a drop-in replacement for the factory battery.
Things will get really interesting when someone comes up with a 24v kit that drops-in like Rob's. Chances of that happening soon however are slim with just how much engineering has gone into the current Phantom product.