i have a friend giving me his ultimate fx 3d plane and was wondering the best set up that worked for you guys. lots of feed back please. want to buy the stuff soon. appreciate all your stories or advise in advance.

Cade

I have just finished mine. It has hs-55 servos all around, park 400 outrunner 740kv with a pheonix 10 amp esc. I am going to be running a 10x4.7 on it. For my batterie I have a TP1320 3C li-po battery. Shouldn't really get any bigger than that battery.

Although I havn't flown it yet, I know it'll fly just great!!

LeBlanc

hey thx leblanc what are the flight times for your setup? is there a chart that people go by for different airplane wieghts, or trial and error.

cade

Hey,

I don't know a chart or anything like that.... sorry

All though I have maidened the ultimate last friday and it turned out that my prop was quite small for it. With the 10x4.7 it was pretty bad flying, then I tried the 11x4.7 with a huge difference in flight performance! So the next time I am going to go fly I am going to put a 12x6 on it. My esc is working fine with it.

As for flight times, I usually fly for about 9-10 min flights. Although after I landed I saw that my battery pack still had quite a bit a power left to it, so I am thinking more of a 12-15 min flight, which is awsome.

As for the motor, before you buy I think that getting the park 400 920kv motor is going to be better, I would like the extra power, although I haven't tried it yet with the 12x6.

As for flight caracteristics asides the little lack of power, this thing really floats, landings are as easy as they get, just keep enough power so that the nose stays up and a little up elevator, and then it just floats down like a piece of paper floating down. As for the 3D capabilities, I haven't gotten the chance to but I did manage to hover for a little while, I hardly needed any ailerons to countereact with the torque and just a little up for elevator.

If you need any help with anything, I'll try and help out the best I can.


Thanks

LeBlanc

My current set up in the FX as follows:
Park 400 920kv out runner, 10x4.7 or 11x3.8 slowfly APC prop, E-Flite 20A esc Kokam 1250mah 3 cell lipo, E-flite S75 servos and JR 610 rx.

920kv Park 400 out runner with 10x4.7 apc works very well. I have flown mine with the 370 inrunner on the stock box with the 12x6 and it also good. had the 400 740kv out runner but wasnt so good. Leblanc the 740 kv works best with an 11x7 apc slow fly, I think the 12x6 will load it a bit too much for a 10A ESC. My set up with the 920kv park 400 out runner and a 1250mah Kokam 3 cell produces around 150 watts, which relates to about 13 amps on a full charged lipo.
Got the 740 kv out runner in a green models spirit 3d at the moment and the 11x7 works good with that motor.