does anybody know how to make a piccoboard for micro electric helis with several different parts so that it would be cheaper? a piccoboard is just the mixing board that takes the input from the receiver and changes tail rotor and main rotor rpms accordingly.
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I just swaped my Picoboard out for seperate components. It is more expensive, a bit larger and heavier, but works better. You have to have a gyro, a main motor controller and a tail motor controller. Look at www.helihobby.com, they show how to hook it all up.

Steven

I'm making the switch to seperates too after I fried my piccoboard, www.aeromicro.com has great deals on esc's and gws rx's or you can get a Hitec rx from www.servocity.com which has free shipping. If you have a tx with revo mixing, all you need is a basic gyro, you may be able to find a used one on here or ezone for a good price, I just got a great deal on a csm 180 for $25!, couldn't believe it... If you don't have revo mixing on your tx then you need a head hold gyro, Futaba gy240 is a great choice which is about $100...

May end up a little more than a piccoboard but well worth it, my case proves that, with seperates, if something gets damaged you just replace it, with a piccoboard, you need to buy a whole piccoboard or you need to get everything again... Plus if there's a chance you may go brushless later then you should for sure go with seperates...

i have a CMS HGL 200 for sale. it is a great Heading Hold Gyro and weights only 6 grams, about 3 time lighter than the GY240... PM me if you are interested.... you can see the full specs at helihobby as well...
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how much?

well it is pretty much new and sells for about $100.- (at heliproz for example) PM me an offer...
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