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12-15-2016, 06:58 AM | #41 (permalink) |
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With the fan on the ESC, FBL and Reciever all mounted up front and a 5000mA pack and canopy in place, my 550x has good balance.
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12-15-2016, 12:00 PM | #42 (permalink) |
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550X has a good balance, you can balance it with 4000mah batteries too.
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12-25-2016, 12:08 PM | #43 (permalink) |
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Well I turned the LVC off on mine and no more premature shutoff's
However even at 2450rpm and 96mm tail blades I'm not happy with the tail performance. Mushy tail coming out of loops. Tail ratio is crazy low. I tried lower rpm and the tail was awful. Gonna order the align 106's and try them at 2450. Hopefully it'll be good then |
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T-rex 550 magnetic canopy mount
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The weather is windy, so i've done some tuning I hate the original align canopy mounts. I have a protos max v2, and the magnetic canopy mount is like heaven. These are the magnetic mount from t he protos. I had to cut the shorter, drill new hole into them, but they works very well on the 550
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12-28-2016, 03:44 PM | #45 (permalink) |
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Hi guys
Whats the LVC, did have a micro beast reset in midair |
12-28-2016, 10:20 PM | #46 (permalink) |
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Awesome canopy mounting. I'm still working on my canopy mount mod. I too own a Protos max v2
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12-28-2016, 10:24 PM | #47 (permalink) | |
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01-25-2017, 02:46 PM | #48 (permalink) |
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-2600 HS
If I know that I'm not going to fly smack/3d; shouldn't I go down to a 15T pinion for motor efficiency?
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01-26-2017, 12:31 AM | #49 (permalink) | |
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No other pinion size available, and the motor mount is not adjustable. So if you want lower headspeed, i would buy the 850kv version of the motor, not the 960kv.
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01-26-2017, 05:40 AM | #50 (permalink) |
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Non Adjust
Wow. Love it. Always liked the idea of a non adjustble motor. So I already got the 960kv.... Guess I'll just run 2450 and 2550 and see how i goes. Trying to decide on ESC... HW or Castle (Castle which I am familiar with); using an Ikon2.
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01-26-2017, 04:01 PM | #51 (permalink) |
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HW v4!
The stock ESC is good, very good. It is a HW 100A v4. Very good inbuilt gov, active freewheel. So you can use partial throttle without problems, unlike with a castle ESC. 2450-2550 rpm is good. I'm using 75-80-85% throttles, without any problems. So you are good to go with stock esc, stock motor. Just get decent batteries, motor is very powerful.
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02-09-2017, 02:59 AM | #53 (permalink) | |
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02-13-2017, 12:50 PM | #54 (permalink) | ||
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Sunday the temperature finally was in the + range. So we had a few flights
For my bithday my girlfriend gave me a soko heli tool, so i checked all the settings, and set it up again but this time with 0.1 degrees error. This made the Spirit flybarless rescue work like magic (it was already very good, biggest error it made was like 10-15 deegrees), anything i did the rescue was 85-90 deegres upwards, perfect!
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03-15-2017, 02:04 PM | #55 (permalink) | |
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Question: At 85% throttle what Hs it gives?? Because in the ALIGN video it goes at 2700rpm with the governor so kinda interested for smacking it around. |
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03-15-2017, 02:37 PM | #56 (permalink) | |
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At 85% it is at 2600 rpm according to the rpm out as i remember. This weekend i will go out and measure the rpms!
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04-19-2017, 08:09 AM | #57 (permalink) |
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I have been reading some uneasy stories about the HW esc's. A nasty tail kick that occurs on spool up. The reason I'm asking, I'm building a 550X and almost ready to maiden it so I was wondering if anyone has experienced this with the 550x using the RCEbl100a esc that comes with combo.
I think the conditions for this to occur are using the fbl gov. and esc gov set to fixed wing. Supposedly gives a nasty ramp up when it hands over gov. control to fbl. One guy said it was violent enough it destroyed the main blades from them smacking each other on ramp up. I'm running the ikon2.
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04-19-2017, 08:25 AM | #58 (permalink) |
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I heard about this kick, but also heard thet maybe HW introduced a fw update to deal with this behaviour?
If you aren't sure, just use the esc gov, hw v4 gov is great!
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04-19-2017, 12:59 PM | #59 (permalink) | |
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I appreciate any good advice from someone with more experience than I. My LHS doesn't deal in the bigger helis so I don't have anyone that I know of locally that could lead me in the right derection.
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04-19-2017, 01:53 PM | #60 (permalink) |
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No problem
Fbl gov is better because its proactiv. It knows that you pulled a lot of pitch and before the motor can slow down, it will add more throttle. But HW v4 esc has a ver very good esc gov. I think you are overthinking it. If fbl gov is 100% then v4 esc gov is 90-95%. So there is a little difference. Spirit has agov, but never tried it. I have CC edge esc, the gov is simply horrible in that one. But todays esc, i mean hw v4, kontronik, is waaaay better. Like night and day. I have never tried the gov in spirit, because esc gov is working fine :for me Try the esc gov, and if you think it is not performing good, then you can try the fbl gov. Ikon/brain has maybe the best gov, so either way you will be good. Hope it helps you
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