Well, iv been working on my Edge 540 for the past 2 days and have it mostly finished. I have a few questions to ask before I test every thing. How do you guys put the battrey on? Do you velcro it?. Also should I velcro the ESC or should I glue it on?

Most installations I have seen glued the motor control on and velcro the battery on.

I velcro on speed control, rcvr. and batt so I can easily switch them from plane to plane.

Yeah I like the velcro idea myself. Now do I have to soder the moter to the ESC or are there some kind of addapter I can use?

I use a connector so that if I'm programming the transmitter I can disconnect the motor in case I push the wrong button and end up with the motor going wide open. Guess how I learned that trick Are you using brushed or brushless so I can tell you what to get? And what size motor? Not absolutely necessary to use a connector, but a good idea.

This is my set up. The plane is done (looks awesome) and Im just waiting for my Hitec dual conversion crystal to come in. The only thing I still have to do is hook the wires up. I found some shrink wrap that I was giong to use. Where do most of you put your battery? I have mine velcrod to the side. Here is my set up.

Jeti Advance 08-3P Controller
Radial Mnt For Axi 22 Series
AXIMP-1
Axi 2208/34 External Rotor MTR
FP-T6NFK 6ch Futaba Conquest Radio
Hitec Electron 6 Receiver
Hitec Dual Conversion crystal
Three HS-55 servos
ElectriFly 3cell 720 mAh c8
Dynamite - Vision Peak Ultra AC/DC Charger
Slowflyer 10x4.7 Prop

I use a mini Deans four pin plug. Cut the one pin off where the groove is so you have a three pin plug If the motor turns the wrong way, switch the plug around 180 degrees. Do all your testing without the prop on. Hope this helps.
PS Make sure your speed controller and batt. are capable of delivering the amps your motor requires. A good investment for testing is a Wattmeter.

I just orderd some mini Deans three pin plugs. I can't wait to get this plane in the air.

Hopefully, you ordered the 3-pin non-polarized connectors. The normal 3-pin Deans is polarized the ASTRO520 is not.

What will happen if they are not polarized? I also ordered a slowflyer 9x4.7 prop to bring down the amp load.

On the polarized pins, one pin is offset a little further out so they can't be plugged in backwards. The unpolarized pins are all spaced the same distance apart so they can be. On the Mini Deans, the fourth offset pin is cut off so you end up with three pins the same distance apart, or unpolarized.

The three pin should still work as long as I test the moter before I put the conector on so I know which way its going to turn, right?

The velcro idea is a good one except I have seen equipment come flying on the plane especially battery packs due to their weight. I use double faced servo tape to hold all the equipment in place, not as easy to remove but it stays put in flight. For connectors I use BEC's.

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That will work.
I have a Flat 540 with a 2025 Himax carrying a 2100 ma batt. To hold the batt on, I cut a foot long piece of half in. wide fibre glass packing tape. Stick it sticky side to sticky side so you have a piece 6 in. long.Put a piece of male velcro on one end, and female on the other so you essentially have a belt held together with velcro. Cut two slots in the wing, the the width of the batt. apart and feed the tape through and strap your batt in. Velcro on the wing and batt. will keep it in place. Hope this helps.

I will see what happens. The velcro holding the batt. seems to be strong, it takes alot to pull it off. I will see how it works and if it dosn't hold good I will do the strap idea. Im just wating for my dual conversion crystal, 3pin deans connector, JST Femal charger connector and the slowflyer 9x4.7 prop. I sapose I could use the 10x3.8 but I think that it will be to many amps for the batt. I should have the plane flying by this weekend.

I pluged the ESC into the Electron 6 on ch 6 pluged the servos in. Don't no which ones go where but figured somthing would happen. I pluged the battery into the ESC and it instantly became very,very hot so I unpuged it before it had a chance to blow up. What happend? Im charging the battery now so I will try a test run again later. I don't want to blow my new plane up.

Hears an update. Charged the battrey which is what I should of done first. Got a nice 725 mAh which means the battery was dead the first time I tryed it but I still don't know why it got very hot. Hooked everything up all servos worked, motor ran backwards so I switched 2 of the wires around and all is good. The Axi is one powerfule little motor. Im in the process of glueing the servos down and then Im going to do a final hook up of all the wires. Radio is in the pre flight charge, the lipo is toped off and ready to go. One last adjustment of the servos and It looks like another shocky (my first shocky and first 3d plane) will be taking the skys. I will keep you all posted on my progress.

Anyone have a recommendation for a good wattmeter?

Wavetech or fluke volt meter.

hi, i fly the shockflyer using:


720 mah 2 cell and axi 2208/36 and 1047 prop. i think this allows me
to achieve less than 250g of weight for comfortable flying
even in moderate wing. you wont get crazy power, but just enough
for midthrottle hover, which is good enough in my case.

the cells, being less than 50g easily sticks using velcro. i use
the same setup for all foamies 300g and below. it seems to work
well for me.i also cant imagine going to 3 cells because the amp
draw would have been too high, and throttle management is key.

Just came back from the first flight off my Shock flyer. I brought my Sky scooter pro II and decided to fly that before I flew the Shocky. I ended up breaking my Sooter into 2 pieces. The wind would pick up sometimes and I didn't want to through the Scooter into the wind because it would take the plane over the road(I wont do that again). So I put the scooter parts back into my car and got out the Shocky. I figured seeing as this would be my first flight I would do a ground roll take off (into the wind). I applied some power held full back on the stick and she took off in about 10 feet once off the ground I applyed full power and the Shocky went up like a modle rocket. I cought some wind and figured this was the end off my new Shocky. I regaind control and flew the traffic pattern in for a nice landing. The Shocky came down so slow that there was no ground roll. I had the idel cut off at half so the prop would be spining at a low RPM. It looked awesome as I touched down and there was my littel Shocky sitting there with the prop still going ready for another go at it. So next time up I tryed a few aerobatics like rolls, lops, hovers. I didn't want to get over confident so I came in for a nother nice dead stop landing. I decided to try it one more time. I took off from the grass and climbed up and tryed some slow flight. My third and last landing was just as good as the first 2. I have to say I never thought this plane would handle taking off from grass but it did. I also didn't think it would handle the 5-10 mph wind gusts but it did. This is a fun very powerfule little plane and Im very pleased that I picked the Shock Flyer.

This was my setup during the flight
Shock Flyer Edge 540
Jeti Advance 08-3P Controller
Radial Mnt For Axi 22 Series
AXIMP-1
Axi 2208/34 External Rotor MTR
FP-T6NFK Futaba Conquest Radio
Hitec Electron 6 Receiver
Three HS-55 servos
Electrifly 3 Cell 720 mAh
I took off my 10x3.8 prop and put on the Slowflyer 9x4.7 Prop before the flight

Im also makeing a skid for the rudder so when I land it wont damage the foam.

I have also just bought a edge 540 shocky, and i want to know if your fusalage twists. I have tried everything to stop it, but it wont go away. Is it ok to have this, and still fly?

it will fly, to stop it, take two peices of foam, cut to 1" wide stips the length of the tail, from the hinge of elevator to back of wing... bevel both sides of the peice to 45 degrees, place this peice down the tail, connecting the horizontal and vertical profiles, ie. make a triangle... tail twist GONE