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Honeybee King v2 tuner shop - 6/28/2007 1:40:48 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey guys, thought I would start a thread dedicated to upgrades and set-ups for our King v2's. I hope we can get a bunch of good technical information in here and help each other on modifying and upgrading our birds. Lots of pics please, I know I like pics and I really like seeing what other ideas people have. Post all the good links you can and lets have fun. I am doing the sonix 300 cnc tail upgrade right now and plan to post pics and reviews as fast as I am done. I have a question for somebody with an engineering degree. I replaced my boom, but at a 90 from my lateral axis. I know the King has a slight offset and I am curious about the easiest way to duplicate that slight bend (and if it is nec.). My replacement works fine but under correction it is almost too responsive. I can run a template, but it is tough to get the exact bend.

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RE: Honeybee King v2 tuner shop - 6/28/2007 3:48:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		OK, I'll start this off. I just got these mini antena's in and will be putting one on the HBK II tonight. The pic is on a ESky Lama just to check it out and it works great. Bought them from Hobby-Lobby for $6.90. Sorry for the lousy pics, it's my camera phone. If anyone wants clearer one's let me know and I'll repost using my Canon Digital.



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RE: Honeybee King v2 tuner shop - 6/28/2007 3:55:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Second Mod. Rusty (aka betapilot) hooked me up with the ESky 3900 motor and Align pinion. The Align pinion is long and at the end with the set screw it tapers out. With this combo you have to shim the motor up so the pinion meshes with the gear in the right spot. One solution is to add washers between the motor and frame. What I did was make a large spacer out of aluminum instead of the two washers. Again, sorry for the cra....py pics. I'll be sure to use the good camera from now on.

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RE: Honeybee King v2 tuner shop - 6/28/2007 6:09:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		I would like to give Betapilot, and the rest of you guys a big THANK YOU for all of the help you have given us! I have been in this hobby for 20 years (cars, buggies, boats, fixed wing) and have learned many things the hard (and expensive) way. My first real mod was the fabrication of an alloy suspension support for my son's buggy back in 1988. There were no web RC threads such as we have today and I doubt that I would have been able or willing to continue with this helicopter hobby if it wasn't for RCU. Besides, I'm going to order a HB King 2 this fall and will need all the help I can get (my first mod or up grade will be a BL motor and ESC ). I also want to improve, if needed, the tail rotor pitch servo mounting as well and will need help with the setup (pitch, etc) on this heli.

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RE: Honeybee King v2 tuner shop - 6/28/2007 10:57:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		this is where I came when I was green, the forums. I learned unfortunately the hard lessons too, but that is what we are here to prevent. I finised my cnc tail upgrade made by Sonix, (good stuff), and it looks very cool, I will post some pics shortly. It was a bugger to get set right and I am till a little wigged about the reverse tail, but I am still checking things out and will post detailed install and set-up info.

Nice pics Greg, did you modify your frame when you put that b/l on it?

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RE: Honeybee King v2 tuner shop - 6/29/2007 12:18:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		No need to mod the frame. The 3900 drops right in.

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RE: Honeybee King v2 tuner shop - 6/29/2007 7:08:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Pics of the tail upgrade - careful when you do this, you must reverse gyro and rudder switch on tx. took me a minute to figure that one out, but man is the tail awesome now. pitch adjustment is made by moving the servo forward or backward, super easy. Well worth the money, feather shaft is super strong, no bends here. Also, check the canopy, fit perfect with no mods and almost no change to the cg. crappy pictures, I need a new camera.

Rusty

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RE: Honeybee King v2 tuner shop - 6/29/2007 7:10:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		tail pics

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RE: Honeybee King v2 tuner shop - 6/30/2007 6:06:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		OK...where'd you get the canopy...looks like a T-Rex LOL! Tail looks pretty good but you know what...the stock tail seems fairly good in it's own right. If there's anything I learned with 1 blade CP and 2 CP-Pro's under my belt, don't bling unless it's really needed. I smoked that stock motor and since I thought it was the broke in motor, I've been working on installing the 3100kv brushless and ESC, I'll fit the 11T when it gets here. I also had NO IDEA that the brushless motors, the body turns...what a suprise that was (LOL). I did what you said and went with the JST on the battery...keeps things compatable with common stuff (most 10C 3 cell Li-Po's, etc).
I read the programming guide for the ESC...Yeah, I got it...not really that complicated. I'll read it 3 more times before I actually try to program it. I know I got to program out the brake and a couple other areas that need attention. I did run the motor up a little with out a load...man it's quiet.

Before the motor took a dump tonight, I had some nice flight time with the 290mm blades. They're nice and increase stability a great deal. I was able to execute perfect pirouettes smoothly...normally, I'm jerky doing them. Since it's late, I decided not to program tonight. Some of the settings are self explanitory, others will be a guess on what's right but I'll get 'er done. I'll opt for a more constant headspeed hold in the programming so my hover altitude will be more consistant. Brushed motors flux in speed too much but I don't think I'll see that in brushless.

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RE: Honeybee King v2 tuner shop - 6/30/2007 6:58:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		Ok, since you insist on bustin me, its actually a shogun zoom canopy, much sterdier, (did I speel that rite), and comes in many attractive colors. My buddy bought a heli max and I have carried much guilt over not being able to talk him out of it, but the one thing it has is a cool canopy. It just looks like it is better quality, and the kings looks like a recycled version of the cp2. I like the king canopy, just wanted something different.

On the tail, I have had several tail in landings and have bent my feathering shaft every time, it is very tender and if it is slightly bent it will skip and it throws the direction of the belt off, you notice the boom getting very hot in center where there should be no friction. the new tail upgrade has a billet gear with deeper teeth and a viagra strong shaft, plus the roller guide at the top side of the belt. I foresee the belt becoming an issue if it gets out of line and as any points of resistance. The big lie is that I am very concerned about belt preservation and don't care at all how it looks!

Rusty

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RE: Honeybee King v2 tuner shop - 7/1/2007 1:02:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		Got the HBK set up with the BL and ESC and got at few batteries run through. The belt kept popping off. I read the posts on some of the fixes but here's what I did. This is a 0.18 mm shim. So far I have not had it come off. the frying was before the shim. I'll make a pretty one once I see that this works ok.

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