Who has the best price on the Blade CP? Please advise. Thanks

And then there's all the time to recover. Like when you do something totally ignorant like I just did. I bought new lipos and just happened to put the connectors on backwards. ESC's have a real problem with reversed polarity batteries. They get so mad they spit sparks and smoke and then they throw a real tantrum and refuse to work for you any more. Guess I'll fly planes while I wait for a new 4-in-1. Anybody know if it's possible to use a regular brushed esc in the 4-in-1 to save a few bucks?

I've heard somebody has it for 189. Do a google search. The first result is usually price quotes. And of course check E-bay.

How do you adjust the blade tracking. I think we use the pitch control links but thats what confuses me. How does adjusting the pitch raise or lower the tips of the blades?

Thanks

Short link to blade grip. Make longer to bring the blade up, shorter to bring a blade down. Bringing the low blade up will lower the head speed and make the heli more docile. I just answered your private message too... I think it went, let me know. What makes the blade come up is that it grabs more air and up she goes. Only make 1/2 turn adjustments at a time, thats usually all it takes to bring them in line with each other.

The reason it lowers head speed is you are putting in negative pitch. You should try to raise whichever blade is low to keep head speed up. You can put in too much negative very quickly and the heli won't lift off or you'll risk burning out motors due to requiring full throttle all the time. Which gives you no where to go if you need to avoid a crash.

An easy way to determine which blade is low is using a marker, draw too thin lines on th tip of one blade and a thicker single line on the other. Then spin up the blades and you can easily tell which blade is lagging. Make sure you set the tracking at a higher speed because that's where you'll be when flying. I clamp mine to the table across the skids so it can't lift off.

Zooland, you have it backwards there. Pitching the blade down by lenghtening the short link, is giving it more positive pitch, not negetive. This lowers the head speed and brings the blade up cause it grabs more air.

I didn't say "pitch it down", I said raise the low blade, which means you add positive pitch to the blade. But you're probably right in that it would grab more air and in turn lower the head speed. I've been trying to get an infrared tach to check my head speed so I missed that one. But anyway you still want to raise the low blade by adding positive.

I thought thats what you really meant... just thought i'd point it out to you that you said negetive in the other post.

I lucked out. The short melted the connection on the positive terminal before any major damage was done. I was able to resolder the board and now it's working again. Hooray, now if the wind cooperates tomorrow I get to play after all.

Like I always tell my kids. Listen to what I mean, not what i say. Had the right idea, just wrong term.

Be careful, don't go to high until your confident that it is truely ok. It sounds to me like you got real lucky. I can imagine how quickly you scrambled to disconnect that batt. Good job !!! And we all make mistakes once in a while. I have a good friend who had a LiPo Batt explode due to wrong polarity charging. It was in a bunker though, I won't mention any names. LOL

Zooland, is that like gettin the wrong part in the right box ? LOL

Actually I have a switch on the battery so I only had it on for a second. Check out my pic folder. I'm pretty proud of it, and now extremely glad I put it on.

I kooked, but you dont have any pics in your hanger. Wrong place ?

Hey Guys,

I was doing some searching last night and found the following BladeCP heli for Real Flight G3. It's a modified Watt Not. It looks pretty cool. Flies pretty good. It's closer to the Blade than any of the other helis in G3.

http://www.wattflyer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4538

Anyway, for those of you with G3, it's pretty fun...

Doug

Rats !!! I have G2....

Hi guys,

I read the posts and dream about getting to fly again. I live in Canada, and will only be able
to start flying again in late May, when the snow is gone.

We lose most of our snow about the 3rd week of April, but then it takes about a month just for the fields
to dry up because of the extreme amount of water around, as the ground is still frozen, so the water doesn't
absorb until a few weeks later.

anyway love seeing you guys ( most of you ) can fly year round I guess.

Mark in Canada

Yaeh, the weather is great in the living room... LOL

They're in my gallery. Just click the shortcut on the post that says gallery.


djdavid-can you look at the specs for the G3 model? Maybe we can write one for G2 using the parameters. I can't open a G3 file because of the format, but if I have the specs I can make a model for G2.

Retract of the previous comment on fixing the ESC in the 4-in-1. It worked fine until I flipped it in idle up and "pop". Back to the drawing board.

Thats a bummer.... Now what ???

I'll try to fix it again, but in the meantime I guess I'm stuck with buying a new one. Cause now even if I get it working I can't trust it.

Okay
Here is the newby question of the day. I was looking on the Thunder Power web site, thinking of ordering the TP1320-3SJ, specs are:
1320 mAh, 3 cells (11.1V), JST connector, 4-pin balancer connector
Rating: 13C (17A) continuous, 20C (27A) burst
Dimension: 34mm x 65mm x 19mm
Weight: 84gm
and the TP910-3S for when the day comes for doing some aerobatics, specs are:
910 mAh, 3 cells (11.1V), 4-pin balancer connector
Rating: 16C (14.5A) continuous,24C (22A) burst
Dimension: 34mm x 66mm x 15mm
Weight: 65 grams
The 1320 has both a JST connector and a 4-pin balancer.
The 910 has just a 4-pin balancer, and apparently no JST connector, and they don't seem to offer a TP910-3SJ.
2 questions, what is the purpose and use of the balancer, and, how do you connect the 910 that has no JST connector?
Thanks,
Kiiski

Mr Z, I agree, it wouldn't be worth it. Mr K , Im a newbie and I can't help with that, but I bet someone has the answers.