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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter... - 4/9/2005 9:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		What a bad design if you want to take the servos out next to the receiver you have to take the whole frame apart and that means dismantling the whole heli, anyone know how to take the servos out without taking the frame apart

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter... - 4/9/2005 1:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		Can anyone recommend a receiver which is better quality but compatible with tthe Walkera TX. I mean if I want to change the RX i need something which can do the mixing ? or is the mixing doing in the TX - and there I can use any RX ?



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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter... - 4/9/2005 3:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		I got mine out without the disassembly. I took the screws out of both servos and removed the right servo,facing the heli, first. Then the left one by wiggeling it out. They were both hung because of the electrical connecting wires. But who knows the way these #35's are put together (which is not very well) they may have done something to yours that you may have to take it apart. I changed all my servos which they work good now but every time I try to fly it, it spins to the left really bad. Ive adjusted the linkage, the trims in the TX, the gyro and the servo horns and nothing seems to stop the rotation. Any one out there have any idea how to fix that? It even does it with the tail rudder blades all the way to the right.

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/9/2005 4:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		hey rwithey,

tell us about the success of your new electrics with the walkera. i brought my radio reciever in a local hobby shop and try some servo and reciever but none of it seems to be working with the radio. i was planning to buy a new radio too but contemplating on buying one. tell us about it alright.
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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/9/2005 5:08 PM   
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My eBay supplier screwed up on the shipping (10 days, not shipped yet) made a threat to leave negative feedback and contact buyer protection if no refund. Got refund in PayPal today.......I'm off to HiFiRC to order a T-Rex for my electtics.

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hey rwithey,

tell us about the success of your new electrics with the walkera. i brought my radio reciever in a local hobby shop and try some servo and reciever but none of it seems to be working with the radio. i was planning to buy a new radio too but contemplating on buying one. tell us about it alright.
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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/9/2005 5:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		My heli originally kept turning left but when I switched the direction SW (tail lock) it solved it I also adj. the sensitivity just before it stated to oscillate

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/9/2005 5:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		I wished that would have happened to me. The money Ive spent on this thing and its still not off the ground. I could have gotten a T-rex. Let me know how you like it, for I soon shall have one myself or a Corona 120

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/9/2005 7:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		Its possible you could have a dodgy gyro best way to test it is disconnect the motor turn heli one way and look at the servo if you turn it to the left then the servo should move the linkage to the right

Also some people are saying that the servos chatter or move by them selves this might be caused because the servos and linkage were not put together in the neutral position, best way to test it is take the horn off the servo to see if it does it because if what the linkage is connected to can not go any further and the servo tries to push it more than it can go and it will cause the servo to oscillate

I just went to Walkera site and they have a new product coming out it’s a RC Trashcan LOL


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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/9/2005 7:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		There are 2 swithches on the back of the gyro. If 1 is direction whats the other for?

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter ... - 4/9/2005 8:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		Did anyone try the Walkera Dragonfly 40? I think this is the latest from Walkera.

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/9/2005 10:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don’t think the other one is for anything as when I moved it nothing happened and it would probably have a label next to it, maybe they use the same gyro for other things and use that switch

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/9/2005 11:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		I ordered mine through Ebay. Got in in 3 days (Hong Kong - Netherlands). Factory assembly was kinda crap. I took mine apart and rebuilt it. Now it's flying quite nicely (only indoors sofar). For the money I spent I think it's a good heli. I have flown Fixed Pitch before (Ikarus Piccolo) and think this was essential for getting this thing to work like it is working now.
Conclusion: Nice upgrade for FP microheli flyers, not recommended for newbies

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/10/2005 9:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hello! I was wondering if anyone could tell me if the "Real shogun" gear on the main drive, to the tail, fit the walkera 35? O and I never thanked a few of the guys that answered some questions for me on the RX, I just went ahead and replaced it. anyway thanks!

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter ... - 4/10/2005 10:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		hey guys how are you. These helicotpers are a GREAT deal for the money. for a little over 200 they offer a lot of bang for the buck! I'm actually an importer for these choppers! I have 22 left My price is only 214.99 with free shipping and sales tax included! check out my listing here

http://www.rcuniverse.com/market/item.cfm?itemID=89325

Please note The current price has been reduced to 214.99 I only have a few left.

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/11/2005 6:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		I just received a Walkera 22a over the weekend and most of the issues in this post discovered, prior to actually spinning up and trying to lift off, were present.....plus one more I can't find a post on. I'm taking my time and fine combing this pup each step of the way so......

right out of the box, my elevator and alieron controls were backwards. forward/backward movement of of tx right stick moved swash forwards/backwards.....thats the alierons. left/right tx right stick movement moved swash side to side.

I tried switching some servo's around on the receiver/mixer but though the unit is marked as to channel # and the directions define each # and function, the mixing element is confusing me.

Anyhoo....

Which servo goes to which channel (tail is fine and working, motor is on external) for the swash and pitch controls?

I guess I should also ask about the correct dip settings on the tx, just in case its a servo reversing issue?

Just looking for some help plz. I'm not daunted by the crappy elements of the hardware. I'm sure I'll crash and upgrade till the pup "fly's". I just want to have some fun with my kid (he's kickin my butt on the flight sim and picked up nose in and inverted control embarassingly fast)

thanks all,

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/12/2005 3:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		It will if your talking about the small tail drive gear that runs from your main motor gear. I just put one on mine today. However I still havent gotten the thing in the air yet. I have a 89 dollar dragonfly 4 thats better than this #35, at least I can hover it.

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter ... - 4/12/2005 8:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		J*Dizzle, you have got to be an idiot trying to sell those on this thread, the whole thing is about how crap the blooming things are!

And I dont know about the rest of you reading this thread, but it doesn't sit that well with me using this as an avertising medium. I am sure alot of us reading this sell heli stuff either through eBay or online somehow, if we can all refrain from advertising our products, maybe you can to.


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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter ... - 4/12/2005 8:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		PS. anybody trying to fly a #35 on anything less than a 1500 6C lithium battery is going to have real problems even taking off, and about 4 minutes flight time when they do! A 10.8V/650mAh Ni-MH Battery is totally crap, I have a higher amp hour battery in the crap solar lights in my garden! Trust me people, you buy one of these (I have one and I quite like it after upgrading it heavily) make sure you at least get a decent LiPo battery and charger (try to avoid cheap chinese chargers, this is you house/garage we are talking about burning after all!!) I would reccomend a 2000mAh 10C 11.1V battery.

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/12/2005 4:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, thanks for all the pointers....LOL

got the blades tracking as well last night.


I have a 28' X 34' family room in my basement with 9' cealings....cleared a good portion of the room and got a good 1m hover inside 100 sq feet. This after about 15 min of scooting around the floor, working on trim and worrying about that initial right slip as the heli leaves the ground. This was all under the first charge on an 1800 li-po (2 1/2 hours exactly charger had red light/ greenlight setup) battery that metered out to spec once the supplied charger indicated green. It had plent of off & ons through the setup, a couple spinnups to track the blades, etc. and still gave me 18 min of "flying". RX light never did loose the green light. After this session, the batter charge back to spec in 1 hr. 45min.

the stock TX is restricting in trim adjustments (to chuncky would be my term for it) to fine tune a stable hover. with the glitchy servo's, that's not really a major problem though. You really got to fly this little machine.....very touchy even with minute stick movements (think it and it moves ++).

I had no problem leaving the ground right between 1/2 and 3/4 throttle and backed off a "chunky Notch" to keep it between three and four feet from the floor. had to go between two throttle notches to keep it there which added a distraction.

Landing was uneventful...dropped throttle a couple notches, flared up a notch about a foot from the floor....back down a notch and shutdown from 6" to drop onto the training gear.

So....after two months of searching, a decision on the 22a, 9 days waiting, 4 hours setup.....

My eyes were wide, my lip was curled, my hands were sweaty, my thumbs were shaking, the cats and dogs were tucked under the beds and my 7 yo son was giggling uncontrolably. All this for $190.00. I've paid more for alot less.

No damage, no wear on gears, no blade strikes. Never would have happened out of the box. Needs quality electronics....badly. Truly worth the money. If i want more, there is tons of cool upgrades and bling available, dozens of stock parts dealers that seem very hungry and ready to work.

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/12/2005 5:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		BTW - I'm a 40yo male, 3 kids (7-19), 3 cats, 3 dogs, 3 horses.....3rd wife (no joking)....I'm a patient sole.

Been doing RC for 30 years. I've crashed 27 different planes many times apiece. Bought a shleuter (sp) helibaby ($1200 for the model alone) back in '81, K&B 40 - nitro) Cirrus 7. No gyro's back then...."flew it" till it was irrepairable 35 or so flights.

No matter what came out of the box from the store, I've always felt I got what I paid for......then paid alot more for repairs. I've been relaxing on the groung for the last 6 years with an RC10 electric buggy and 3 years with an awesome E-Maxx. My son flies a little electric RC plane when things are calm outside.

This is a hobby people....the goal is to buy it, make it fly and keep it flying as long as possible. After that you simply quit or buy another one. spending money is a givin. You couldn't get a .25 size plane off the ground for under $200 without a real challenge if at all. New in the box, $400 for my e-maxx, $375 for the RC10 and those tough little cars and trucks break and need upgrades..bearings, hightorque servo's....aluminum this and that...

These are helicopters. Good lord folks. The fact you can hover at all for under $400 is a true miricle of modern technology, manufacturing ( and cheap labor )

This forum is asking to much for too little and unfortunately its one of a very few non advertising sources of information for the public. Approaching this unique challenge (electric heli's) with the wrong attitude is potentially scaring away new comers to the hobby. If you really want to save money, look at this angle. The more people that buy and try electric heli's, the more the demand for kits, parts and upgrades. When the demand goes up, so does competition among manufactures and dealers. Quality and variety goes up and prices come down.

In the past, RC heli's cost k's just to get in the game. We can now experience this rush for the price of a show and dinner with the wife. Expense is going to be a constant with anything that leaves the ground controlled.

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/12/2005 6:37 PM   
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I'm working on my tx right now. Have a problem similar to yours only worse. Left throttle is running aileron & right stick is running rudder. Also sim is not recognizing tx.

Great you got yours in the air! Good Flying

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/12/2005 8:21 PM   
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These are helicopters. Good lord folks. The fact you can hover at all for under $400 is a true miricle of modern technology, manufacturing ( and cheap labor )



Back in the old days when I was in college, a basic gas heli just good eough to get you hover without all the fancy features costed more than one semester of the college tuituion. It's totally unheard of in a few years back that you could find the helicopter with full cyclic controls and hover for under $200 (#35).

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/12/2005 8:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		the d22a is a shaky RTF. If I wouldn't have gone over it good before spinning the "screws" and then brought up the throttle it would have connected a spinning part with something stationary......and wadded up.

With a new radio and electronics, upgraded swash and tail assembly...I'm expecting $550 and that's what it would take +/- to make this a "solid" machine. A base shogun (no upgrades), with the same JR electronics is about $650 best price.

Packaged d22a arrived on Saturday. The fun and rush I've had so far though was worth the $190 by itself. Even if it goes to pieces tonight at the local gym.....I've confirmed Electric Heli's is a fun time. Absolutely not a first RC Aircraft, no heli is good for RC beginners and I doubt seriously the d22a is the most stable micro/mini heli available. I got a cheap heli to see if the gig was for me. It hovered with stock equipment (might have gotten lucky...who knows).

I'm taking it to a gym tonight to work on that initial lift off move....its a "hold your breath moment" for me right now. Slips hard to the right even though its not a trim issue (stops slipping once in the air). Every liftoff means I get to practice landing too.

Time will tell on my new d22a. nuf from me.

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter R... - 4/13/2005 7:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is the worst mistake getting this crap I was hovering away from anything and for no reason the tail blade holder just ripped off the odd thing I made sure all the screws were tight now this thing is going in to the bin before I waste any more money on it, the next time I get a heli I will get a raptor

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RE: Walkera DragonFly #35 CCPM Electric RC Helicopter... - 4/14/2005 5:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		I've been flying two Walkera #4s,(Sabres) for about two months now. Although they're poor quality they're fun to fly and work well enough to learn how to fly. Ignoring all of the posts here, I purchased a Walkera #35 from RC-Dragonfly via EBAY for $185.00+shipping. What a piece of junk! I can't even get it off of the ground. At full speed, with 5 to 8 degrees of pitch it won't lift off of the ground. Then yesterday, while testing it, the tail blades brushed against some grass blades and the tail blade gear by the motor sheared off. WOW, what an incredible piece of China knock off junk.

Back in about 1990, I bought a couple of Shuttles. Still have'em. They worked OK but I lost interest before I learned how to fly. Kind of a pain to fly with the fuel noise issues. I love electric helicopters but I need some advice what to buy next. What can I get next that's kinda like the #35 but isn't a China knock off piece of junk.



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