Originally Posted by Dr.M

Hey gmphoto,

what a great description of the heli! awesome summary of plusses and minuses. I did find a way to deal with both removing and reinstalling the bolt on the bottom of the main shaft through the autorotation hub. Maybe I'll post about it later if people are interested. And I don't think the canopy is ugly :P

Speaking of parts on backorder, does anybody know if any of the 450 clones and/or Trex versions has the rudder control arm compatible with the BA? The part I need and cannot find is the CopterX (CX450BA-02-07) Metal Rudder Control Arm.

Thanks.

But the romance may have come to a premature end...

Ehirobo appear to have put the price up to...wait for it...USD$319.99 for the flybarless kit!!!!!!!!!

It's either a mistake or they read my post!

Originally Posted by gmphoto

Thanks.

But the romance may have come to a premature end...

Ehirobo appear to have put the price up to...wait for it...USD$319.99 for the flybarless kit!!!!!!!!!

It's either a mistake or they read my post!

i don't think it's a mistake. I've been seeing the BA FBL kit at $319 for about 6 months... waiting for a sale.

Originally Posted by Dr.M

i don't think it's a mistake. I've been seeing the BA FBL kit at $319 for about 6 months... waiting for a sale.

Bugger!

i have posted some videos of the gyros performance on the cx 1x1000 thread even with
the 250 heli. here is a sample of slow rate tail movement cx500 with the cx gyro

Copter X 500 with CX 1X-1000 gyro (2 min 24 sec)

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Originally Posted by Dr.M

very nice flying for your flying buddy, soneebee. I honestly did not see any difference between the two gyros. But I was really disappointed with the stock CX GY240 gyro and I'm a little disinclined to buy another CopterX gyro.

Can you please try a few slow pirouetting circuits to examine the low-speed behavior of the 1X-1000? Even crappy piezo gyros can feel the heli zooming aroudn, but only the higher end ones will accurately deal with small and/or slow yaw changes.

thanks, soneebee. good times.

I just tried out a new set of 4 Gens Ace 2200mAh 30c batteries. They were a great boost over my aging set of Flightmax. They all came in perfectly balanced and the internal resistance on each cell was 1 ohm resting internal resistance. I just need to get them broken in so I can see what they can really do.

Originally Posted by Zeta30

I just tried out a new set of 4 Gens Ace 2200mAh 30c batteries. They were a great boost over my aging set of Flightmax. They all came in perfectly balanced and the internal resistance on each cell was 1 ohm resting internal resistance. I just need to get them broken in so I can see what they can really do.

1 ohm is huge . Imagine these things flying around under 15 amps load with a total 3 ohm resistance. This means the battery itself would burn 675 Watts (RI^2). All this power would be dissipated as heat, which would make the battery melt in less than a minute.

good, new lipos should have between 0.01 and 0.03 ohm internal resistance (each cell). B-grade lipos may go up to 0.08 ohm/cell, but anything more than than means lots of heat and poor performance.

Speaking of bad lipos, I just got a BatteryHobby 3s from ehirobo and it came more than 0.5V out of balance (3.46, 3.86, 3.89V). It was so bad, my charger almost caught fire trying to balance it. I had to slow-charge the first cell individually on a separate 1S charger until it got to the same voltage as the others. I'll give it a try tomorrow in my BA and see if it works at all.

Originally Posted by Dr.M

1 ohm is huge . Imagine these things flying around under 15 amps load with a total 3 ohm resistance. This means the battery itself would burn 675 Watts (RI^2). All this power would be dissipated as heat, which would make the battery melt in less than a minute.

good, new lipos should have between 0.01 and 0.03 ohm internal resistance (each cell). B-grade lipos may go up to 0.08 ohm/cell, but anything more than than means lots of heat and poor performance.

Speaking of bad lipos, I just got a BatteryHobby 3s from ehirobo and it came more than 0.5V out of balance (3.46, 3.86, 3.89V). It was so bad, my charger almost caught fire trying to balance it. I had to slow-charge the first cell individually on a separate 1S charger until it got to the same voltage as the others. I'll give it a try tomorrow in my BA and see if it works at all.

Sorry, typo on my part they are at 1 mili ohms, not ohms.

tomorrow will be another flying day. hehehe.. but it will be the FIrst 3DX competition to be held here... gota get the cameras rolling.. as it will be something to watch...

Originally Posted by soneebee

tomorrow will be another flying day. hehehe.. but it will be the FIrst 3DX competition to be held here... gota get the cameras rolling.. as it will be something to watch...

so, how was it?

Originally Posted by Dr.M

so, how was it?

its currently ongoing there is a kid here that is really good he is only 10 yrs old from thailand and is really good when i get home ill upload the videos of the day

as promised this is the really good kid from thailand... wow he flies really cool.. he also won the contest for his division..

3DX Philippines July 2, 2011 (3 min 34 sec)

Originally Posted by soneebee

as promised this is the really good kid from thailand... wow he flies really cool.. he also won the contest for his division..

That inverted auto at the end was really impressive. I wish I had 1/8 of his skill

oh.. yes.. they were all doing that manuver
and boy this guys were doing really great...

Originally Posted by Zeta30

That inverted auto at the end was really impressive. I wish I had 1/8 of his skill

but that kid is no match with this girl.... wow she really knows how to fly her heli

3DX Philippines July 2, 2011 (6 min 58 sec)