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Exceed Blazing Star......Your experiences..?? - 3/15/2008 5:35:28 AM   
wilga12



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Status: offline 		Hey All...

I hope that this is the right area for this post..??

I'm not sure just how long the Exceed Blazing Star has been out..?

Probably many of you know it is a Co-axial,...But a bit bigger than the E-flite CX and has alot of aluminum in places that the CX and the CX2 do not..


Anyway I've done the searches of this and other forums,.. to find very little.. Could those of you with some hands on experience give me your views in all the popular areas of comparison.??

I'm looking for another Co-ax that's bigger and possibly a step up from the CX's...The initial pics that I've seen look pretty good to me..


One last thing Raidentech and Xheli are the only places that I've found these for sale... Anyone else have some ideas as where else to look..??
And maybe even some prices..??


As always Thanks to all who answer here.....You guys are where I come for these kinda' questions...


.....................................Dave..

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RE: Exceed Blazing Star......Your experiences..?? - 3/15/2008 11:01:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		Why would you even want to continue with a larger scale in a coaxual configuration? your world of RC helicopters will only start when you learn to fly with single rotor, fixed and then collective pitch sytems.

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RE: Exceed Blazing Star......Your experiences..?? - 3/15/2008 11:38:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		That's Odd,... I don't recall asking for someone to weigh in on whether or not I Should continue my training with a co-ax or not,....Hmmmm..!

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RE: Exceed Blazing Star......Your experiences..?? - 3/28/2008 3:12:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		I recently purchased the Exceed Blazing Star. After I bought the lama v4 for my first heli (I'm a beginner too). I was not impressed with it at all. It was not ready to fly right out of the box and after trimming and tweaking and even had to replace one of the servos due to the fact that it froze up and stopped working. I also went throught many sets of blades. Out of sheer frustration and determination to get something that I could work with, I got the exceed blazing star. I researched and looked around the net comparing prices. I bought it through X-Heli.com for $129(that seemed to be the going price some sites listed it for more) I also bourght the training kit hoping to save on blades. It was ready to fly out of the box! A little trimming here and there, but in my opinion it is a good step above the lama v4 which has been compared to the CX2. The components are better quality and of course the heli is larger, it's about 17" long. I am able to fly this thing inside and outside. The Lama is strictly an indoor heli. So, yes I too in being a beginner found it necessary to buy more than one co-axial heli to "practice" with. I need to get another battery pack or maybe 2 because the flight time is about 12 minutes.

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RE: Exceed Blazing Star......Your experiences..?? - 3/28/2008 3:16:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		Oh, One more thing. I saw somewhere the the blazing star is a Walkera 53#1 clone. So I have been looking at the walkera for spares since there is not a lot of sites with spares for the blazing star yet. I think you would happy with this heli.
Good Luck!

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RE: Exceed Blazing Star......Your experiences..?? - 3/31/2008 5:30:55 AM   
wilga12



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Status: offline 		Hey Robby,....................................Howgoesit..??


Welcome to RC Univ. I see you are quite new,...At least,.. under that Pen name or alias...


Thanks for taking the time to give me your views on the Blazing Star..(BS).. And I'm very glad that you found the BS a step up,.. not only in size but also a bit in quality...

Does the BS hold it's trim adjustments well,..??. Buy this, I mean,.. While at hover,.. When the battery is fresh,..If you adjust the trim to keep the nose from swinging right or left,..by the time the battery pack has run down,.or nearly so, are you reaching for the trim again,.. to re-adjust for the nose starting to swing again..??

Are the blades for upper and lower rotors,.. interchangeable..??

And what are the measurements, in mm,.. of the battery pack. ?? In your looking for additional packs,...Did you find that the pack size is pretty standard,..or hard to find..??

Oh,...Do you yet know how many blades are in the replacement order,..from Xheli or Raidentech,... They give you almost NO info on their sites,when ordering parts... Except to tell you how much money to send them,for the parts...


Thanks for your time,here...........................................................Dave..

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RE: Exceed Blazing Star......Your experiences..?? - 4/2/2008 3:15:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi Dave,
Thank you for the welcome. Yes I am very new. In fact, I am still learning the terminology conserning this hobby. I have a bit of bad news though, I had a bad crash Sunday. I took it out to an unfamiliar park and tried to fly it. My usual place had been invaded with soccer moms and the like. I really wasn't too comfortable in this place anyway because it was a little too windy for my liking. So when I got the BS up in the air it experienced some interference. I landed it but I took it back up and this time the interference caused the blades to slap together. BS then went out of control landed on the pavement about 30 yards away and far off of the grass it had started on. The body was fine, landing gear solid. Rotor blades........ destoryed. I had to order another set of blades from Raiden. The blades seems to me to be pretty steardy. I did read somewhere about the BS and how something with the antennea can cause you to have inference problems. So BS is in repair right now. I did order a back-up battery. I ordered it through ToySonics.com Fast shipping and not too expensive. The pack is a little thinner than the pack that came with the heli which was a tight fit in the battery compartment. This new battery fits better and looks snug enough to stay put. As far as it keeping its trim, I couldn't tell you since mine crashed after only a minute or 2 of flight. Well, That's all I have for now! I will be back out there as soon as the new blades come in.

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RE: Exceed Blazing Star......Your experiences..?? - 4/7/2008 4:28:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have had a blazing star for about two weeks. It hovers ok for about 30 seconds then starts to drift sometimes out of control. You can adjust everything out then it will change the next time you fly. The gyro is almost non existing and the mixer between the two motors is not there either. It will spin around for no reason. When you ask for help your told thats just the way it is. It is very well built however the radio receiver in my opinion is junk if a guy could get a different receiver or hook up a gyro to it you would have a very nice helicopter to bad they stop short and put in such a junk radio. The walkera 53 #1 is the same thing so buying that radio wont help. I would pay more for the same helicopter with a good radio maybe a CX2 radio would work.

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RE: Exceed Blazing Star......Your experiences..?? - 4/7/2008 6:38:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi Ray...

I think that you are on the right track with your thinking about the receiver and or the 3-in-one electronics that would come from a CX or CX2 I have a pair of CX's and as I was reading your post here,.. I was thinking that very same thing. That is absolutely LOUSY support if one could call it that ... I like the looks of the chopper so well that I might just buy one to see if I can stick the CX electronics in the BStar,...and get it to fly right..?


Thank You very much for your input...We that own these lil guys are gonna have to stick together to kinda swap stories to make up a lil bit for the tremendous lack of factory support....It was the factory or the place that you bought the copter, that told you that,.. that was just the way they were..?? Was it not..??


May the force be with you on any electronics mods that you undertake..

...............................Dave..

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RE: Exceed Blazing Star......Your experiences..?? - 4/7/2008 11:11:39 PM   
rayq


 

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Status: offline 		Hi Dave let me ask you this how well does your cx2 hover? The one I saw you could hover till the battery was dead. The thing I notice on some of these helis is the servos do not pull straight to the back or to the side they pull at an angle so instead of your helicopter moving straight back for example it will back up at an angle. If you want to move to the side you need slight forward stick and then to the side other wise it will go into a crazy orbit. You dont notice that on the CX do you? And yes the place that I bought it from told me that was the way it is. I asked questions one time about my Syma air mars was doing orbits I was told thats the way those where also and that a 4 channel would not have that problem because the 2 channels are a cheap toy so I bought a 4 and guess what I have the same problem. The 2 channel is more stable and easier to fly.

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RE: Exceed Blazing Star......Your experiences..?? - 4/8/2008 4:47:37 AM   
wilga12



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Status: offline 		Ray,...........

Yes I can hover till the batt goes low enough that it will land itself for lack of power to stay aloft.. But this is not to say that as I'm nearing the shut-down point that I don't have to feed in a lil extra right or left rudder and or a lil extra throttle to stay off the ground till the end..

I only have the CX not the CX2,...and these are also controlled with only two channels on the swashplate at the 4 and 8 O'clock positions,...roughly..
I believe that I do notice a non-pure right or left movement of the chopper when right or left aileron is applied alone,...So yes,..I think that mine also gives a lil,unwanted, forward or back movement as well. I also,... believe that this will be reduced with the addition of a third or fourth channel affecting the swashplate,..so more pure movements can be achieved..

The four channel chopper that you got that is now giving you "Crazy Orbits",...What Brand and model was this and it was a single rotor,...Right..??

I'm guessing that the 2 channel that you consider easier to fly is the Co-axial Blazing Star...Right..?? Or do you have other 2 channel rigs..??

I sincerely hope what I've said here helps you out,... As I'm not a long time Heli pilot,...My two CX's are my first helis...




Later Amigo,...............................Dave..

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RE: Exceed Blazing Star......Your experiences..?? - 4/8/2008 2:46:20 PM   
rayq


 

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Status: offline 		The airmars is the 2 channel the blazing star is four channel one time I plugged it in and the bottom rotor spun up at full power for know reason then it went into this 3 foot wide orbit I shut it down readjusted the servo extent and it flew ok but never the same twice I would pay to see anyone hold a hover with the blazing star for 3 min.

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RE: Exceed Blazing Star......Your experiences..?? - 4/8/2008 6:59:02 PM   
wilga12



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Status: offline 		Man,... I'm really confused,..Now..

When one talks of "Channels" are they not also talking about the number of "servos" used in a particular model,...Assuming one servo per channel..??

If so,... Then your B.S. has four servos on board..?? WoW my CX only has two servos on board..

..........................Dave

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RE: Exceed Blazing Star......Your experiences..?? - 4/8/2008 8:49:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		Up and down is one channel spin left to right is the second back and forth is th third and side to side is the fourth.

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