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Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
04-16-2008, 06:47 PM
Replies: 11,215
Views: 630,113
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Struggling with Single Rotor basics

hey, all - still going - here's a quick video of the little walkera 5#5b in the hotel room - the heater kicked on right in the middle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzn85k7n6hg
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
03-07-2008, 11:22 AM
Replies: 11,215
Views: 630,113
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Struggling with Single Rotor basics

stump is right, my cx2 charger had holes for both 7.4 and 11.1 - i assumedthe 11.1 was unconnected, but i guess i could have used it all along to charge a cp batt ! - oh well, live and learn

i...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
03-06-2008, 10:54 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 612
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Unhappy with horizon

horizon techs are, by far, university of illinois engineering students working long hours in a soldershop to pay off their slave love contracts

cut 'em some slack and realize they know nothing...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
03-06-2008, 10:45 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,012
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Buy the Blade 400 or repair the Walkera..

get the 400 - keep the 36's servos, assuming they fit, for the 400 when they crap out

dx6i is limited, and not strictly a heli radio, but a good radio for limited range stuff - unknown about...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-27-2008, 04:24 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 3,150
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Hoo T Hoo!!!!

i agree that the blade cp is the best 300-size collective pitch trainer - once you learn on it, you can fly anything - its a squirrely, jumpy. pain in the ass, problematic frigging pos, with a loose...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-21-2008, 11:48 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,608
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Personal injuries.

i started flying helis inside after the seasons changed and it got cold

we got a brand new coffee table for christmas, and i got a brand new scale airport

gkids came over and one cutely...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-21-2008, 11:29 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 652
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Transplant - CP Pro guts into this?? Looks interesting...

ok, i found the rotor blade length or rotor diameter for the kit bird -a little big, more like a king 2 than a cp - i think the cp motor would be a underpowered seeing as it has to push the tail too...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-21-2008, 11:17 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 839
Posted By scale_edge

RE: just had to share this, prolly been seen

oh man, just goes to show the differences between rc toys and helis, after the crash the toys live on and the helis die! - i've always said that rc heli's aren't toys, and this proves it i think

...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-21-2008, 10:43 AM
Replies: 11,215
Views: 630,113
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Struggling with Single Rotor basics

hey, all

well, its another crummy day here in the hardwoods of north central alabama - i flew a little schweizer 300 full-size yesterday and i soooo want a scale version to fly every day- i have...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-18-2008, 10:19 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,641
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Decision Day for me - 400 or Trex 450 SA?

uh, where;s the power supply for the charger?

anyway - if, or should i say when, you kill a servo on the 400, get the metal gear ones - something about the blade design causes the servos to be...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-17-2008, 02:43 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 5,989
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Blade 400 Feathering Shaft?

the b400 servos are crap - replace them with metal gear servos

dial out some of that massive negative pitch, too - no need for that much neg pitch in normal unless you are way high up in a...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-17-2008, 02:12 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,214
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Weird B 400 accident

i just checked mine and yep, it was loose !!!!! - man, you saved my scale a-star !!!

thanks for posting this, and for the joker for giving me a laugh - i do have a falcon 3d and yes the motor...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-10-2008, 06:40 PM
Replies: 11,215
Views: 630,113
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Struggling with Single Rotor basics

well, just when you think its going well, something always hits the fan - it turns out the darling sweet blade 400 can't do counterclockwise rotor rotation like the bell 206, too many problems to...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-10-2008, 12:35 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 11,110
Posted By scale_edge

RE: blade 400 pics with upgrades

the scale 2-blade teeter head finally arrived and it fit the 400 shaft like a glove (anti-rotation swash bracket is still to come - pics forthcoming at that point), but counterclockwise main rotor...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-09-2008, 09:26 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 393
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Servo trouble on a B400?

if it works, it works - you were lucky - main damage to b400 servos is hard landings or crashes crapping out the cheap plastic gears

edge
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-09-2008, 09:09 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 993
Posted By scale_edge

RE: JCS Hobbies Plasti-Blade for CPP

i'm liking the look of the spiral wrap - probably light too - if you get too much weight back there you'll have problems getting the nose down and have to put some forward on the swash, which could...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-09-2008, 09:03 AM
Replies: 11,215
Views: 630,113
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Struggling with Single Rotor basics

stump, when changing the rx to the ar6100, be sure to note which plug goes where, and make sure the signal line is on the signal wire and the plugs aren't flipped, also watch the + and - on the main...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-09-2008, 08:49 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 702
Posted By scale_edge

RE: radds?

the big thing about radds is that is gets you used to the noise and fury of the cp heli, in a funny way - he kinda sounds like my dad, bless him

http://www.dream-models.com/eco/flying-index.html
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-08-2008, 05:29 PM
Replies: 11,215
Views: 630,113
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Struggling with Single Rotor basics

the cx2 tx *probably* won't work with the ccpm helis, simply because its not ccpm - gotta have that pitch in the swash mix to have ccpm, and the cx2 doesn't have swash mix

you could use my 'oh...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-07-2008, 07:39 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 2,761
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Here's what happens when a CX2 falls out of the sky from 200 feet.

length of the antenna relates to the wavelength of the frequency (ham radio addiction previous to helicopter addiction)

i had the 'turn on the tx, plug in the lipo, no orange light, unplug the...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-07-2008, 07:18 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 5,211
Posted By scale_edge

RE: BLADE 400 PNP!!!

blade 400 pimp?, oh not pimp, pnp !!! (plug n play?) - is that like an arf?

"The completely factory assembled airframe allows the Blade 400 3D PNP to be ready for hovering and 3D aerobatics once...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-07-2008, 06:47 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 2,833
Posted By scale_edge

RE: Cheap LED navigation Lights on CX CX2 (update)

here ya go:

nav lights are steady (always on) red (on the left when viewed from the back) and green (right when viewed from the back) either on the front tips of the skids, or under the body...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-07-2008, 11:40 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 555
Posted By scale_edge

RE: blade cp radio glitchs

my normal mode is -1 (to get it back down in wind), +5 in the middle and +10 at wot - for 3-d you'll need -10 to +10 wot with 0 in the middle

edge
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-07-2008, 11:32 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 533
Posted By scale_edge

RE: CX and Lama so different?

fly very similar - walkera coax is the same design - blade cx2 is a little more tougher and comes with spectrum, although walkera now has a spectrum too - no local parts support at my lhs for the...
Forum: E-Flite Helicopters
02-07-2008, 11:23 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,683
Posted By scale_edge

RE: What would you do next (if you had the money)?

convert the 600 to a 3-blade scale head, but the head alone is 300$ and i already need 400$ worth of the big servos to get the 600 in the air

the bigger they are, the more expensive the parts...
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