check out the coolest night setup ever!

[bryguy17]

so i've felt like throwing together a night setup for my rex, since most of the time i get to fly is after dark sadly. what came of this is the most ghetto night setup ever. basically, i hacked the led lights from a spinning toy that makes nifty patterns into a set of beat up 315's. everything is just scoth taped onto one blade, the battery box is screwed to the head in place of the button, and theres about 8" of lead solder taped down the length of the other blade to balance (it actually does balance). i need to go pick up some glow wire to finish things off, as the blinking keychain taped to the tail boom doesnt help a lot with orientation.

alas, onto the pictures

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p15/ibryguy17i/helinightsetup001.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p15/ibryguy17i/helinightsetup002.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p15/ibryguy17i/helinightsetup004.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p15/ibryguy17i/helinightsetup005.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p15/ibryguy17i/helinightsetup008.jpg
look at all the pretty colors!

[Neppo1345]

I really wouldn't trust scotch tape.........

However...that does look pretty in the dark

[bryguy17]

all of the tape goes around the leading edge so i dont doubt its stickyness. i test hovered it and nothing got dislodged

[cflight]

Hey it looks great! I can hear Elvis in the back ground! "...in the ghetto..."

[bullaculla]

Looks good, but what happens when a wire comes off and gets tangled up in your head? Night blades are only $50 with a charger, align driver $12, cold glo wire $8 each. thats all i need to get my 450se in the air at night. and everything is wire tied. even the the glo wires on the canopy :mrgreen:

[bryguy17]

im not doing anything crazy with this, pretty much just using it for hovering practice after hours, and screwing with my neighbors, who wonder wth that whirring colorufl thing is. i plan on picking up some glow wire and night blades at some point (probably when i go back to school and have to fly at night even more) at that point things will cease to be ghetto, but budget conflicts limit my choices at the moment. this was free instead of spending 70 bucks for real stuff :mrgreen:

[bullaculla]

im not doing anything crazy with this, pretty much just using it for hovering practice after hours, and screwing with my neighbors, who wonder wth that whirring colorufl thing is. i plan on picking up some glow wire and night blades at some point (probably when i go back to school and have to fly at night even more) at that point things will cease to be ghetto, but budget conflicts limit my choices at the moment. this was free instead of spending 70 bucks for real stuff :mrgreen:

Very true. you win for homegrown setup tho! :mrgreen:
One thing about night flying, it attracts more attention. I ususally fly at night near my house at a local park/baseball field and all kinds of people come out cause they think its a UFO or something :lol:

[Kindling Maker]

I would just use night vision Goggles.

[bryguy17]

I would just use night vision Goggles.

that would be awesome, but far mroe expensive than free :roll:

[Camp]

Mother of invention!