ORIGINAL: theradioflyer
We have to talk! I'd love to hack my blade up to a brushless! I don't have any new vids though. I do have a lot more control over it but it still slides around. It's like flying on a big bubble, you just have to try to be on the top of it
The depron tail does great things for forward flight. For 1, the Blade tends to climd in fast forward flight. Second is it's tendency to yaw hard right.
This is a pic of the tail I built, it's very effective in forward flight. It doesn't eliminate the bad habits of forward flight but it certainly helps!
If anyone wants, I'll take different picture views of the tail to give you a 3D look. Main tail has the tail blade cut out. The horizontal fin has negative pitch. The 2 tail fins from bottom add right yaw. A small carbon rod braces it all. You could build the same out of balsa.
BTW I'm a RedWings Fan[:@]
GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!
Sorry to hear about your luck (re: Red Wings)... Being a Canadian, and seeing as the Leafs are out (as usual), it's the Sens now... we'll see how it pans out
As for the 4-in-1, the hack is really quite easy. You just take the 4-in-1 apart, and on the board (there are two boards inside) with the pins, you can see that ch 3 and ch 4 pins have been cut short. Get yourself a servo extension cable, and solder the three wires to the three pins on ch3. Put the 4-in-1 back together, sticking the servo extension cable that you soldered to ch3 out the hole where ch5 is, and screw it back together. Then you connect the ESC to the servo extension wire you soldered in. The only difficult part is the soldering (tight space for some), and make sure your iron isn't too hot. Tinning the wires on the extension cable before you solder will really help make it quick. I think it's kind of dumb that they used short pins and blocked ch 3 with plastic, but I guess for some it forces them to upgrade to a CP pro, all seperates , or something else. Time for the mod is about 5 minutes if you're good at soldering.
Good luck!
