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A lot of ARF’s have this issue it seems. I always beef up the area with triangle stock and epoxy on my planes. But on something of this size, you may find access to the area difficult (I don’t have the Mini Pulse to look at).
I do.
Beefing up the gear area is fairly easy. Add a few strips of light ply to widen the load carrying area.
The best thing to do however is to MAKE a "break away" area, so a landing gear collapse does not take a big part of the fuselage with it.
Nylon bolts help with this.
I broke the gear on a small Reactor 3D last weekend where I had purposely not re-inforced the area after a prior gear pullout.
Instead I made the area able to break cleanly off.
During a hard landing, this is exactly what it did, preserving the plane, wing and fuse.
The repair was trivial. Re-insert broken break-away block with epoxy, wait 30 minutes, re-attach gear, fly the next day.
ORIGINAL: Acs_guitars
You are correct in theory…. These two are so close together I don’t think you would notice a huge difference.
I've flown both motors on a Brio 10.
The 910kv produce anemic performance on the heavier Brio, while the 1020kv produced adecuate but not stellar performance... both motors came out...
I transferred the 910kv to the Mini-Pulse, and found it to be absolutely PERFECT for this plane.
You get plenty of speed, and LOONG flight times with a 1800-2200mAh LiPo pack, while not overloading even a 15-18c pack.