going to buy a t-rex 450
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Hi all
I am new to this hobby but so far love, I can’t say the wife feels the same LOL.
I have a lama v3 but really don’t have the room to really learn how to fly an rc heli in my house, having said that I am able to hover the little thing for a full battery pack, and I wanted an out door one.
I was going to buy the falcon 3d for 300 bucks, but I got a bad feeling about it, you get what you pay for kind of feeling, and decided if I am gonna do it, I am gonna do it right!
So this is what I will buy.
First the g3.5 sim, I will practice with this for a good while.
Then I will buy this;
It is a kit from deetee enterprises; cost for the kit is 900
T Rex 450S Base Kit + Align 430L Brushless Motor + Futaba 6Ch Mini PCM Rcvr & Crystal + Futaba 9CHPS Transmitter + Futaba GY401 HH Gyro + 1 ea MicroHeli 9650 Tail Servo Mount + 1 ea Futaba 9650 Digital Tail Servo + 3 ea HiTec HS56HB Servos + Align RC 2100mAh 18 C Li-Poly Battery Pack + Deans Connectors + Velcro Strip + Blinky Cell Balancer
Plus I will buy the e-station bc-8 lipo charger.
What I want to know is, am I making a mistake by buying this or should I buy the flacon 3d to learn on first...?
I am in no way in a hurry to buy anything and really just want to do it all the right way, I know enough about this hobby that its all about patience, patience, practice, practice and a lot more patience...
Thanx for any help
I am new to this hobby but so far love, I can’t say the wife feels the same LOL.
I have a lama v3 but really don’t have the room to really learn how to fly an rc heli in my house, having said that I am able to hover the little thing for a full battery pack, and I wanted an out door one.
I was going to buy the falcon 3d for 300 bucks, but I got a bad feeling about it, you get what you pay for kind of feeling, and decided if I am gonna do it, I am gonna do it right!
So this is what I will buy.
First the g3.5 sim, I will practice with this for a good while.
Then I will buy this;
It is a kit from deetee enterprises; cost for the kit is 900
T Rex 450S Base Kit + Align 430L Brushless Motor + Futaba 6Ch Mini PCM Rcvr & Crystal + Futaba 9CHPS Transmitter + Futaba GY401 HH Gyro + 1 ea MicroHeli 9650 Tail Servo Mount + 1 ea Futaba 9650 Digital Tail Servo + 3 ea HiTec HS56HB Servos + Align RC 2100mAh 18 C Li-Poly Battery Pack + Deans Connectors + Velcro Strip + Blinky Cell Balancer
Plus I will buy the e-station bc-8 lipo charger.
What I want to know is, am I making a mistake by buying this or should I buy the flacon 3d to learn on first...?
I am in no way in a hurry to buy anything and really just want to do it all the right way, I know enough about this hobby that its all about patience, patience, practice, practice and a lot more patience...
Thanx for any help
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Dont forget the ESC......inless its in the KIT.
Price seems kinda high....u can get a SE set up for that price.
Id check around some more? I have a SA upgraded with all CNC and a DX7 setup .....im at like $875....though i went with the Align gyro and Hitek 65MG and a 81 for the tail.
Hope this helps
Price seems kinda high....u can get a SE set up for that price.
Id check around some more? I have a SA upgraded with all CNC and a DX7 setup .....im at like $875....though i went with the Align gyro and Hitek 65MG and a 81 for the tail.
Hope this helps
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Welcome SpeedDemon,
You can't go wrong with any of the Trex's. I recently found this on another thread, Its very informative for New guys and old guys alike
read this.... http://www.dream-models.com/eco/flying-index.html
You can't go wrong with any of the Trex's. I recently found this on another thread, Its very informative for New guys and old guys alike
read this.... http://www.dream-models.com/eco/flying-index.html
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hi
i have already studdied radds, thank you for the link.
the only thing i am doing diff is i got the phoenix-sim as i heard it is supposed to be the new standard, hopefully i will get that with my futaba 9chps super this week.
i have a lama v3 but there just comes a point where it gets boring trying to use it in a house going from room to room! LOL i need someting a little more chalenging.
thanx for all the info!
i have already studdied radds, thank you for the link.
the only thing i am doing diff is i got the phoenix-sim as i heard it is supposed to be the new standard, hopefully i will get that with my futaba 9chps super this week.
i have a lama v3 but there just comes a point where it gets boring trying to use it in a house going from room to room! LOL i need someting a little more chalenging.
thanx for all the info!
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Tired of the Lama? Use it for heli rescues!!!
Make some bent wire 'army men' with their arms up in a loop. Use the skid of the heli to try to hook the men, transport them to a safe landing zone (a table or counter), drop him off, and then go back for the next man.
Make some bent wire 'army men' with their arms up in a loop. Use the skid of the heli to try to hook the men, transport them to a safe landing zone (a table or counter), drop him off, and then go back for the next man.
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Tired of the Lama? Use it for heli rescues!!!
Make some bent wire 'army men' with their arms up in a loop. Use the skid of the heli to try to hook the men, transport them to a safe landing zone (a table or counter), drop him off, and then go back for the next man.
Tired of the Lama? Use it for heli rescues!!!
Make some bent wire 'army men' with their arms up in a loop. Use the skid of the heli to try to hook the men, transport them to a safe landing zone (a table or counter), drop him off, and then go back for the next man.
LOL
i read that in another post, i am guesing it was you, and have been doing that, plus i found it really drives my cats nuts to tie one of their toy mice to a string, however the first time i tied it a little too tight and my cat was a little to quick, hehe he took the hole thing down.
its deff fun and i will continue to use it even after i get a trex but obviusly it is more 'toy' than anything else, not something i really want to spend my time doing.
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Speedemon -
I too recently entered the hobby! I started off with a Blade CP Pro that I got for christmas. Had no idea my christmas present would end up costing me more than was spent on it in the first place - Either way - I got sick of fighting the piss poor electric drive tail rotor and got an MX-400. It didn't take long for me to find that that thing just breaks a lot - one time some linkage came loose during flight, not to mention it was the first flight after a repair, and it slammed straight down with some serious heat on it. Needless to say - I got sick of that too. Thats when I bought my T-Rex 450 SE. What a dream machine! Even with a cheap gyro it holds that tail like a fat chick grips a Big Mac! Either way - I only crashed the rex one time - and that was on purpose. The only reason I dumped it was because it was night and after progressing from just hovering around to forward flight - I kinda flew out from under my light - Lost orientation and figured best to dump it in that grass rather than smash it into something else hard. It was around a $25 repair - not calculating that my spindles came in a bag of 4 and my main shafts came in a bag of 3. In saying this - I highly recommend the 450 SE - the aluminum parts did'nt have a single ding in them and over-all performance over plastic parts in a crash are, IMO, highly rated! This thing flies like a rocketship and I love it! Good luck with your set-up! Ohh yeah - one more thing - I recommend getting a Spektrum radio - the short antennae, I feel, doesn't get in your way on the bird, nor on the TX. Besides that I think it's the shiznit! I've had a lot of glitches with the old style 72 mhz radios - hell a radar detector will knock you out of the sky - don't ask how I know ($125 later)
I too recently entered the hobby! I started off with a Blade CP Pro that I got for christmas. Had no idea my christmas present would end up costing me more than was spent on it in the first place - Either way - I got sick of fighting the piss poor electric drive tail rotor and got an MX-400. It didn't take long for me to find that that thing just breaks a lot - one time some linkage came loose during flight, not to mention it was the first flight after a repair, and it slammed straight down with some serious heat on it. Needless to say - I got sick of that too. Thats when I bought my T-Rex 450 SE. What a dream machine! Even with a cheap gyro it holds that tail like a fat chick grips a Big Mac! Either way - I only crashed the rex one time - and that was on purpose. The only reason I dumped it was because it was night and after progressing from just hovering around to forward flight - I kinda flew out from under my light - Lost orientation and figured best to dump it in that grass rather than smash it into something else hard. It was around a $25 repair - not calculating that my spindles came in a bag of 4 and my main shafts came in a bag of 3. In saying this - I highly recommend the 450 SE - the aluminum parts did'nt have a single ding in them and over-all performance over plastic parts in a crash are, IMO, highly rated! This thing flies like a rocketship and I love it! Good luck with your set-up! Ohh yeah - one more thing - I recommend getting a Spektrum radio - the short antennae, I feel, doesn't get in your way on the bird, nor on the TX. Besides that I think it's the shiznit! I've had a lot of glitches with the old style 72 mhz radios - hell a radar detector will knock you out of the sky - don't ask how I know ($125 later)
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thanx soop
you said all the things i wanted to hear!
with the exception of the radio! i already got the futaba so i can start using it with the flight sim...oh well i will see how it goes, i was really close to getting spektrum...
anyway thanx again for the info
you said all the things i wanted to hear!
with the exception of the radio! i already got the futaba so i can start using it with the flight sim...oh well i will see how it goes, i was really close to getting spektrum...
anyway thanx again for the info
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Well speed - Glad to help out - You know if you experience any glitches in that radio and you decide later that you'd rather have a spektrum - they have adapters for Futaba to convert it to a spektrum. I beleive attaches on to your transmitter and it hooks into your radio via the trainer port, and then all that's needed is a spektrum receiver - You can find it on the spektrum site if it interests you. You probably wont have any problems with your Futaba - I just went spektrum because it's the new hottness!