Belt CP or Art Tech Falcon 3D?
11-16-2007, 08:30 AM
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Belt CP or Art Tech Falcon 3D?
Hello everyone,
Feeling like picking up this hobby again, after flown the Lama and many unsuccessful flights of the dF 60 maybe a year ago.
Saw these two birds and dunno which to choose from, as they costs almost identical @ approx $170 in a combo package comprising of BL motor and Lipo batts as standard. Seems these two looks promising, so was hoping to hear your views here. At the moment my feelings goes to the Belt CP, as I felt that they have certain level of quality in stock form( judging from ny previous Lama ).
Will appreciate any inputs!
Feeling like picking up this hobby again, after flown the Lama and many unsuccessful flights of the dF 60 maybe a year ago.
Saw these two birds and dunno which to choose from, as they costs almost identical @ approx $170 in a combo package comprising of BL motor and Lipo batts as standard. Seems these two looks promising, so was hoping to hear your views here. At the moment my feelings goes to the Belt CP, as I felt that they have certain level of quality in stock form( judging from ny previous Lama ).
Will appreciate any inputs!
11-16-2007, 09:21 AM
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RE: Belt CP or Art Tech Falcon 3D?
Just checked in rcgroups, quoting that the esc tends to burned up during the initial flights with stock electronics... is it true???[X(]
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RE: Belt CP or Art Tech Falcon 3D?
I don't know about the Axe CP, but the Falcon's electronics are not great. I lost my motor (and ESC) after about 50 flights or so. After about half a year the mechanical linkages on the rotor head made it very tough to keep the blades tracking well (the z-bends just wore out). That coupled with tail problems and a broken idle-up switch leading to a crash caused me to dump the Falcon-3d and move to a T-Rex 450SA. I got the SA for less than $600.00 (used) with nice components and two batteries. After over a year of flights with the SA I have not had one problem attributable to bad hardware or electronics (just bad flying!). I would avoid the Falcon.
Steve
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11-18-2007, 08:47 AM
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RE: Belt CP or Art Tech Falcon 3D?
ORIGINAL: stevennh
I don't know about the Axe CP, but the Falcon's electronics are not great. I lost my motor (and ESC) after about 50 flights or so. After about half a year the mechanical linkages on the rotor head made it very tough to keep the blades tracking well (the z-bends just wore out). That coupled with tail problems and a broken idle-up switch leading to a crash caused me to dump the Falcon-3d and move to a T-Rex 450SA. I got the SA for less than $600.00 (used) with nice components and two batteries. After over a year of flights with the SA I have not had one problem attributable to bad hardware or electronics (just bad flying!). I would avoid the Falcon.
Steve
I don't know about the Axe CP, but the Falcon's electronics are not great. I lost my motor (and ESC) after about 50 flights or so. After about half a year the mechanical linkages on the rotor head made it very tough to keep the blades tracking well (the z-bends just wore out). That coupled with tail problems and a broken idle-up switch leading to a crash caused me to dump the Falcon-3d and move to a T-Rex 450SA. I got the SA for less than $600.00 (used) with nice components and two batteries. After over a year of flights with the SA I have not had one problem attributable to bad hardware or electronics (just bad flying!). I would avoid the Falcon.
Steve
Right now I`m more confident in the esky product, and have heard it`s stock plastic hardware are getting better and better in design everyday. Anyway, she`s on the way in a few days time from ectrade.hk, so far cheapest @ $159.00 RTF with all the goodies( BL system, lipos, etc. ). Thanks for all the inputs folks, and wished me luck with this one k !
