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ORIGINAL: Kozzy_98

Well I am now uploading my videos from today.

Just a question about the videos and codecs.. I edited one (added credits to and cut out a little) in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. Original size of the file was 190MB, after rendering it was 1.37GB. If anyone does use Premiere Pro, can I have their rendering settings?

Everything is sloooowly uploading to youtube, should finish sometime tomorrow

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ORIGINAL: ahamay

Recieved the turnighy plush 40amp BESC on Friday and I"ve just run it up on the bench with a spare rx and spare motor to test the soft start and low and behold it's working great, so that's good news.

I just checked one of my helis that the soft start is not working on with the programming card and it's definately set to very soft.  Before I transplant it out of the heli, I'll try setting it back to defaults and set it up again.  Might just get lucky.

Jonesy

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ORIGINAL: ingleburn

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ORIGINAL: ahamay

Recieved the turnighy plush 40amp BESC on Friday and I"ve just run it up on the bench with a spare rx and spare motor to test the soft start and low and behold it's working great, so that's good news.

I just checked one of my helis that the soft start is not working on with the programming card and it's definately set to very soft.  Before I transplant it out of the heli, I'll try setting it back to defaults and set it up again.  Might just get lucky.

Jonesy

Let me know how you go with the ones that dont work because neither of mine work.
Also what do you set your timing to? Mine are set to medium but not sure of the difference.

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ORIGINAL: ahamay

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ORIGINAL: ingleburn

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ORIGINAL: ahamay

Recieved the turnighy plush 40amp BESC on Friday and I"ve just run it up on the bench with a spare rx and spare motor to test the soft start and low and behold it's working great, so that's good news.

I just checked one of my helis that the soft start is not working on with the programming card and it's definately set to very soft.  Before I transplant it out of the heli, I'll try setting it back to defaults and set it up again.  Might just get lucky.

Jonesy

Let me know how you go with the ones that dont work because neither of mine work.
Also what do you set your timing to? Mine are set to medium but not sure of the difference.

Just transplanting the new one in and the old one out.  Stuffed around with all the settings on the old one, defaults..changed a few things, soft, instead of super soft etc...no go. The esc works perfect, except for the soft start, but it's too easy to strip a maingear without it imho so it's gone.

I'm running mine on the defaults low timing.  I tried middle and high way back when I was building the GT.  The motor ran hotter on high timing (or could have been coinsidence), but there was no noticable power increase between the three so i've left it on low and had no issues. If I had to take an uneducated stab in the dark I"d say there's no difference between the 3.

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ORIGINAL: Kozzy_98

Here are the videos!

Sorry about my speech in the maiden flight and how none of what I said made any sense! I was trying to make sure I didn't crash a maiden on camera
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dowo_bZNt7M[/youtube
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma505i4BbO8[/youtube
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdMjrbIbydU[/youtube
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc3AX9uBMfU[/youtube

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ORIGINAL: mnemennth


On my 450-sized motors, I'll typically run a new motor for a pack or two to get the bearings nice & loose; then, since they have a shaft that's long enough to reach both bearings, I'll turn the stator around and use its own bearings as the head to balance against. I then mark the top side & tape bits of 1mm lead solder between the magnets at that location until I get no discernable heavy spot. I then weigh the lead, mix up 1/4 gram or so of epoxy, cut out an equivalent amount of the lead, and epoxy the lead in place where it was taped previously. After it cures, I can typically get it dead-on by adding a few drops of epoxy to or cutting away from that mass with a Dremel and diamond bits. This process is time-consuming, but usually necessary with even some of the best name brand motors.

I dunno how I'd do it on a motor with a short shaft or where the prop adapter is on the bell end, and I'm always looking for a better way of doing things.

mnem
*Slightly imbalanced*

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ORIGINAL: Edmund2

In great anticipation on Saturday morning I started my PC at home to watch the videos posted last week, only to find big gaps on my screen where the videos are supposed to be, not even a little crossed out block I would sometimes get at work. Anybody with some advise as to why it would not display as I never had that problem before?  Did not try it later on the weekend again.

Then finished the todoos and took a drive to the club where I found only two die hards waiting for a lull in the wind as the windsocks were straight. Saw some great flying when they eventually took to the air but also noted the effect the wind had on their 700's. DId not even plug in my lipo on the 550E as my skillset would not have handled the changing wind. 

Had to settle for some indoor mcpx flying when I returned home.

Edmund

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ORIGINAL: rikybob

Hiya Mnnmemenenenne - Me thinx I will sit and wait. I don't have the patience that Kozz and the like do to build a quad. I want to buy an ARF (at a decent price) down the road a piece that is fairly dumb a s s proof to fly and had the Fat Shark thing going so's I can fly around and violate a half dozen laws! I suspect I'm about a year or so away from one that does all that! In the mean time......

"....Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me ladd..."

Hiya Edmund! Dunno about the Youtube issue. Never heard of it! As for winds, yah when it gets up to 15kt at the field, i don't fly!

Work today, then off in the afternoon and will slip over to the lake and sail a bit. Funny, I was getting comfy with the range of the radios because I let the airboat get out about 75 yards. Then I heard a malfunction. Was able to limp in and found that the motor came loose from the mount. Grrrrrrr! almost cut a motor line in two and stranded me boat.

Closer inspection for that the picture in the HK Swamp Dawg advert incorrectly shows the motor mount orientation. It is backward! DOH!

Fun stuff and hope all your Mondays/Tuesdays are nice!

b

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ORIGINAL: ingleburn

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ORIGINAL: Edmund2

In great anticipation on Saturday morning I started my PC at home to watch the videos posted last week, only to find big gaps on my screen where the videos are supposed to be, not even a little crossed out block I would sometimes get at work. Anybody with some advise as to why it would not display as I never had that problem before?  Did not try it later on the weekend again.

Then finished the todoos and took a drive to the club where I found only two die hards waiting for a lull in the wind as the windsocks were straight. Saw some great flying when they eventually took to the air but also noted the effect the wind had on their 700's. DId not even plug in my lipo on the 550E as my skillset would not have handled the changing wind. 

Had to settle for some indoor mcpx flying when I returned home.

Edmund

Usually means that flash player has crashed. Closing it down and opening it up again usually fixes it but Im sure IT guru Jonesy will know a lot more than me.
Shame about the wind, its been like that here for the last day or two.

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ORIGINAL: ingleburn

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ORIGINAL: rikybob

Hiya Mnnmemenenenne - Me thinx I will sit and wait. I don't have the patience that Kozz and the like do to build a quad. I want to buy an ARF (at a decent price) down the road a piece that is fairly dumb a s s proof to fly and had the Fat Shark thing going so's I can fly around and violate a half dozen laws! I suspect I'm about a year or so away from one that does all that! In the mean time......

''....Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me ladd...''

Hiya Edmund! Dunno about the Youtube issue. Never heard of it! As for winds, yah when it gets up to 15kt at the field, i don't fly!

Work today, then off in the afternoon and will slip over to the lake and sail a bit. Funny, I was getting comfy with the range of the radios because I let the airboat get out about 75 yards. Then I heard a malfunction. Was able to limp in and found that the motor came loose from the mount. Grrrrrrr! almost cut a motor line in two and stranded me boat.

Closer inspection for that the picture in the HK Swamp Dawg advert incorrectly shows the motor mount orientation. It is backward! DOH!

Fun stuff and hope all your Mondays/Tuesdays are nice!

b

Time for some loctite then Brian.  No nice Tuesday for me. Back to work after 4 weeks off.

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ORIGINAL: ahamay

Heads up for the AU guys, we've been smashed with spam and a trojan claiming to be from telstra.com billing yesterday and today.  IT contains a zip file and the email looks word for work the same as the legit telstra email bill.  Watch out for these.  Legit telstra email bills have the PDF bill attached not a zip file with a trojan inside. None of the mainstream anti-virus products have updated signatures yet to detect this variant.

Jonesy