<p>It is just about possible to make a quadcopter fly with brushed DC motors, but almost no one uses them. They are heavy and need to be run pretty hard, which wears out the brushes in a few hours. Generally you'll only see them on cheap toys, and then they're probably geared to use large props for very low performance.</p>
<p>If you want a cheap motor with reasonable performance as a starting point for designing the rest of the drone, I suggest the Racestar 2205 with 5&quot; props, at least 30amp ESCs, and a 1500mAh 4s battery. That was a pretty standard 'freestyle FPV' build about 5 years ago, and pretty cheap now.</p>
<p>If you want to see what's popular now, I recommend <a href="http://fpvKnowItAll.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://fpvKnowItAll.com</a></p>

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Hmm... Interesting! Only the diving features are still pondering...
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<p>I am planning to make own drone which flies and dives (Some servo motors used to change between fly and dive-mode). But is a normal DC motor or a micro motor good enough (It flies and dives under tens of meters happily.), or are special motors needed for diving and flying. And what would be the lowest rpm and/or torque? So the drone would not be very big or heavy (something like here? <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=drone&amp;page=1&amp;type=things&amp;sort=relevant" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=drone&amp;page=1&amp;type=things&amp;sort=relevant</a>) it's 3D printable.</p>

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Which DC motors (or others) are good enough for my multi-function drone?
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# Which DC motors (or others) are good enough for my multi-function drone?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-08-21)

I am planning to make own drone which flies and dives (Some servo motors used to change between fly and dive-mode). But is a normal DC motor or a micro motor good enough (It flies and dives under tens of meters happily.), or are special motors needed for diving and flying. And what would be the lowest rpm and/or torque? So the drone would not be very big or heavy (something like here? <https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=drone&page=1&type=things&sort=relevant>) it's 3D printable.

**Tags:** quadcopters, brushless-motors, drone-frame, toy-grade-drone, homemade-drone


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2023-08-22. Score: 1

It is just about possible to make a quadcopter fly with brushed DC motors, but almost no one uses them. They are heavy and need to be run pretty hard, which wears out the brushes in a few hours. Generally you'll only see them on cheap toys, and then they're probably geared to use large props for very low performance.

If you want a cheap motor with reasonable performance as a starting point for designing the rest of the drone, I suggest the Racestar 2205 with 5" props, at least 30amp ESCs, and a 1500mAh 4s battery. That was a pretty standard 'freestyle FPV' build about 5 years ago, and pretty cheap now.

If you want to see what's popular now, I recommend <http://fpvKnowItAll.com>

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> **username_0**: Hmm... Interesting! Only the diving features are still pondering...  

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