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05-30-2008, 07:02 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Anyone have a Caliber 6 yet? How is it different from a Caliber 5 ?
Thinking of getting a new heli... The Caliber 6 seems expensive compared to the caliber 5. Is it worth it?
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07-18-2008, 01:52 AM | #2 (permalink) |
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Cal6 is basically cal5 with all the optional upgrades fitted and a few little changes apart from those.
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07-21-2008, 12:18 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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I'm building a Caliber 6 right now. The most important upgrade to the 6 from the 5 is the change to pull/pull tail rotor linkages like the 90 and 450V. Also, it comes with hardware to setup for eCCPM as standard.
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08-12-2008, 08:29 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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I don't have the Caliber6, but isn't the Caliber6 one-way a better upgrade from the Caliber 5 than the pull pull tail linkage?
The Caliber5 comes with carbon blades, the Caliber6 does not. On all three of my Caliber5 helis I rid the z-bend and and use a ball link instead. What's the benefit of the pull-pull comparing to the push-pull?
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08-12-2008, 10:04 AM | #5 (permalink) |
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You're right, my words "most important" may have been a bit generous. The new auto hub and pulley is fantastic. The hub is machined aluminum and bolts into the new pulley like the Caliber 90. Not having a 5 myself, I don't know the mean time between failure of the old system, but I don't see this new system ever failing.
There are no Z-bends anywhere on the 6. The Pull/Pull tail control is much more accurate, and eliminates lateral loads on both the servo arm and the pitch control arm. Any slop that develops in the system can be taken up in the pull/pull rods. This, combined with the top/bottom pitch slider links, makes for a very tight tail control system. This is why the C90 uses it. Think also of the fact that high performance IMAC and Pattern airplanes usually use a pull/pull system on the rudder. Oh, and another improvement is the much larger fuel tank on the 6, although it makes installing a header tank a bit awkward, and I have yet to find a suitable place to put it. I'm also running a mixture servo with a MGP, so I can't mount it forward of the engine either. I may try using the Caliber 90 style fuel pickup. |
08-23-2008, 03:29 AM | #6 (permalink) |
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I have Caliber 6 and it is now in the air. I've done about 4 or 5 short flights on it now and it looks really good but I can't really compare to a cal5 cause I don't have one... Tail seems very stable though and it's better with the wind than my cal3.
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