Cox Mircro Warbird brushless?

[edge5foamy]

I was wondering if any of you have changed over to brushless with these little airplanes, and what setup you used?

edge5foamy

[ATIS]

check in park flyers forum... there is a VERY LONG THREAD on the cox warbirds.... and yes, I run a EFlite 300 outrunner in a P-47..... with a 2s 330 mah lipo... and the best servo for it are the Blue Bird 303 (4grams each and very tiny but full geared servos not actuators)... just a FYI...

[ATIS]

Just a note... EFlite now makes a 180 and 250 BL outrunner motor...

www.horizonhobby.com

[bradyb]

What's the best source to purchase a number of these? We would like to purchase about 10 together and save on shipping. We're here in Salt Lake.
Thanks!

[edge5foamy]

10 airplanes, or 10 motors?

[edge5foamy]

I think I found the PERFECT brushless motor for these things, in about a week, vampowerpro.com will have some brushless 80 watt motors.

[edge5foamy]

bradyb, get the airplanes from www.CoxModels.com

[czechyour6]

what kind of ESC can be used with the brushless motors that are as tiny as the Pixie 7?

[fly_boy99]

heck make your own.

Several vendors offer 16 and 18mm stators.

I've got mine up to 50mph and it could do 70mph if I glass my wing.

:eek:

[chainlink]

tons of motors can fit. Most interesting I have seen is the micro bullet by little screamers, the c-20 from strongrcmotors, and am holding out hope for the new micro motor from gobrushless - that said a standard gbx from go brushless will fit in some of the birds (and I have had great results with that motor in several other planes - but I wimped out and put a c-20 in my Corsair).

[ronin4740]

what kind of ESC can be used with the brushless motors that are as tiny as the Pixie 7?

You could try one of these: https://www.unitedhobbies.com/UNITEDHOBBIES/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=4317

[Dr Kiwi]

Hacker has a new 5A brushless ESC - weight????

As for motors, a Microdan 2003 weighs 13g and produces a lot more than the 12g CDR Baby Bullets can manage. E-flite 250 and Cyclon Nano are two other good possibilities at about 15g-17g each.

[rickgode]

Here's my problem. I have some great pics of my p-40 brushless conversion with an eflight 180. That I will probably post tomorrow. I have the 180 completely inside the fuse. Should I be using the stock prop and spinner? I had to do some modifications to get it to attach to the 180, and with a 3s pack, the O-ring fails, and the prop comes off. I balanced some things and ran it up early yesterday and the O-ring failed by breaking! Do I need a different prop? If so is there a nose cone that matches?

[TommyB]

You could try one of these: https://www.unitedhobbies.com/UNITEDHOBBIES/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=4317

I have a couple of these controllers, and while they perform great, they are anything but lightweight. CC10 is probably half the weight. You may be able to remove some weight, but I still think it would be to heavy for these planes.

[chainlink]

I have both the UH and CC thunder birds. I prefer the CC. As for motors, with the small wings these planes have, it is my humble opinion that smaller props at higher rpm's are a better selection. Beside the torque issue, the planes would look funny swinging huge props.

I am currently flying mine with a 4.2x4.2 prop (but will probably test a 4.75x4.75 on it - I am using one of the 2900k/v c-20's and suspect that prop is a better match for the motor).

That said, with the 4.2" prop gives the plane more than adequate speed. Any power dive would be terminal - even large loops give me a good bit of flex.

[willin]

The HW-6A brushless controller is onle 6 grams and can be lightened to about 3 and a half grams or less I have read. This would be ideal if you are using 2S Lipos. Their HW__P10A weighs only 9grams (but could be lightened) and will easily take 3S Lipos. I found these on unitedhobbies website. The HW-6A has free shipping!

Robert

[Hoangsta]

Right now in my Focke Wulf FW-190, I have:

GWS 3020 prop
CC Thunderbird 9
Berg 4
2x S75 servos (elevator, Aileron)
Etec 300mAh 3s lipo
Feigao 12mm 4100kv inrunner

AUW. 4.7oz

So far, with the 3020 prop, it hauls butt. I'm going to try out a 3030 prop and see how that goes. After a full run, the motor is hot. Batteries are warm. Looks like my setup is somewhat near where it supposed to be. But I wanna try a different prop to get more speed out of it. Maybe I should've gone with the higher KV motor on 2s..