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My Hurricane 550's first Hover - 12/8/2007 5:34:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		I got my Hurrance 550 last week and got a chance to test over it today. Today I took it out the the garage and spooled it up and made sure everything was trimmed out. Seeing those big blades spool up is an adrenilin rush! Everything checked out fine so I took it out for a quick test hover. I hovered it at waist level for a few minites and moved it around the back yard. This thing is ROCK steady. I used a gy401 for the first time and it held the tail like it was in a vise. Its realy to cold to fly now but i am hoping we get some kind of a warm run before winter realy pours on the cold. The only down side to this Heli I see so far are the power requirerments, it runs on two packs so even with my poly 4 charger I can only charge two flights of packs at a time. The Poly 4 also only charges 3000 mah so I wont be able to use 4100 packs. I thnk I'll grab 4 3200 packs and just charge them up to 3000.



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RE: My Hurricane 550's first Hover - 12/8/2007 9:49:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		Looks nice, I'm planning on getting the 550 myself in the new year. I've got about 8 3s1p batteries so hopefully I don't have to wait too much

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RE: My Hurricane 550's first Hover - 12/9/2007 12:45:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Druss,
Whats the mah on the batteries you have , I hear that the 2100's just arent enough. I think I'm going to order a couple of Hextronic 3200's and see if they hold up. They have them for $50 At that price I could get four or 6 if they hold up, I've used the Hextronic 2200's all year in my 450 and they have held up well.

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RE: My Hurricane 550's first Hover - 12/9/2007 3:58:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		I've got about 8 2200mah ones and 4 3500mah. most of them are 20C or 25C.

out of curiosity did you buy the version that came with servos? if not which ones did you put in?

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RE: My Hurricane 550's first Hover - 12/9/2007 4:13:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		Futaba Digital S3151 and S9254 on the tail. I got everything in one shot

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RE: My Hurricane 550's first Hover - 12/9/2007 5:49:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		do you find those servos underpowered at all? I'm thinking of using either the 9252 or JR 8717's. I've got an older JR 5000T gyro and a 9254 to go with it.

I have the futaba brushless BLS451 on my Trex 600N Pro and I'm thinking that I'll move them over to the hurricane and use the 8717's on the Trex.

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RE: My Hurricane 550's first Hover - 12/9/2007 2:05:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Even though the poly-4 will only charge at 3A max, you can charge 4100MAh or 3400Mah batteries without a problem. They just take longer to charge (as long as they are no more than 3s, or can the Poly-4 handle 4s?). That's a nice looking bird!

Steve

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RE: My Hurricane 550's first Hover - 12/9/2007 3:03:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Steve,
I dont understand, The manual ansd the dial only go upto 3000 mah. Wont it cutoff before the battery is fully charged?

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RE: My Hurricane 550's first Hover - 12/9/2007 3:08:09 PM   
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I just started flying Heli's this summer and wont be doing any real agressive flying for some time. I realy wont find out if they arent up to the task until next spring, winter will be closing down my flying

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RE: My Hurricane 550's first Hover - 12/9/2007 3:23:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		I've got a 550 and love it. It's an incredibly smooth machine, and even on the stock motor, with 25C 2250 packs, the model has remarkable punch similar to a 450 sized heli but with the stability of the larger birds. It really is quite a nice size!

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RE: My Hurricane 550's first Hover - 12/10/2007 12:37:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		The charger just limits the output to 1C based on the capacity of the pack. It will charge a 3200 Mah cell fine, but it will take more than an hour that's all. Just set your charger to 3000Mah and it will work fine (just slowly). The gross timeout is 3 hours so it should have plenty of time. These LiPo chargers charge at constant current and monitor the voltage. I have charged 2100Mah batteries with a 1A charger (it just took over two hours).

You should be fine as long as you stay under 4S.


Steve

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RE: My Hurricane 550's first Hover - 12/10/2007 2:17:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		These 450 size don't have this particular sound but a couple years ago, some guy had a big electric and sounded just like a turbine spooling up.

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RE: My Hurricane 550's first Hover - 12/10/2007 2:18:39 AM   
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got it
Thanks

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RE: My Hurricane 550's first Hover - 12/10/2007 2:49:02 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Cyclic Hardover

These 450 size don't have this particular sound but a couple years ago, some guy had a big electric and sounded just like a turbine spooling up.



If you like noisy models you might get a kick out of this.

http://www.truenorthernhobbies.com/mystuff/ehawkfirstflightfeb16.avi

This was the very first, untrimmed flight of a Century Hawk Pro .30 that I converted to electric power last winter. Because the hawk pro has no belts (torque tube driven tail) and uses a few different gears for power transfer, the amount of noise and gear whine the model generated during flight was pretty impressive for the models relatively small size.

My EP550 is nearly silent compared to this noisy thing! Even my t-rex 600 which has more power and a larger blade area isn't as loud.

< Message edited by credence -- 12/10/2007 2:52:34 AM >

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RE: My Hurricane 550's first Hover - 12/10/2007 4:46:49 AM