Diabolo UL

[F1 Rocket]

Originally Posted by Puttputt maru

Are you talking about the heli or the BD

BOTH!

[HilliHeli]

OK,
Now I would like to see some video !!

(want to hear how smooth that Henseleit pinion is )

[F1 Rocket]

Lol
I will see if I can get someone to video a flight. But I think you guys will fall asleep watching me. I'm an old guy. Started flying helicopter toys in the late 70's

[F1 Rocket]

Empty weight.

[wstuart]

Awesome heli man!

I want one

I have a diabolo that i fly light with a pyro 700, 3700 packs and a jive pro esc.

I think putting those electronics on an airframe like this would take it to another level. Im thinking about getting one.

[trillian]

Originally Posted by F1 Rocket

Empty weight.

That's amazingly light. It's about what my TDR would weigh if I removed the buffer pack.

[Nick Maxwell Products]

Looking forward to seeing you fly this at Orlando. That is incredibly light.

Nick

[F1 Rocket]

Originally Posted by Nick Maxwell Products

Looking forward to seeing you fly this at Orlando. That is incredibly light.

Nick

And I'm looking forward to your impression after you've flown it

[Freeskiken]

I love this setup. Can't keep thinking about it. I am going to build one when I can. How does it fly ? Can you post a video please...

MKS HBL575 SL servos for cyclic
MKS HV9780 tail servo (yes it's a mini servo)
Xnova 4025-560
Hobbywing HV 130V4 esc
Jeti REX 7 receiver
bavarianDEMON Axon FBL system
Jlog telemetry interface
Helix 715 main blades
JR 105 tail blades
Pulse 45C 12s 3000 pa

[prototype3a]

You'll get longer flights if you lower your voltage to 8s or 10s. I can get 15min on a 6s5000 with my 600se but it is probably a full pound lighter than your bird since it's 8lb on the nose with the 6s5000 in it. I could get it lighter as I have HBL950/980 in it right now. I really should pick up another 9780 and pop that in it since I already have the mount adapters to do it.

[DemetriusUSN]

She looks awesome! My setup:
Align BL815H x 3
Align BL855H x 1
KDE 700XF 455 G3
Kosmik 160hv
20t pinion
Pulse 7s 5000mzh 65c and 45c packs
Beastx Plus w/ rx and sat
I haven't had time to text6it,dealing with a family emergency and mine weights 14lbs.

[AcesFull]

+1 on would like to see a vid from Danny! sounds like a cool setup with the 4025 560

[thepiper92]

I really like the black and yellow color scheme, sort of menacing looking. Perhaps I'll have to do something similar with my 550. Is the canopy a flat black? What did you use to color the fin?

[im4711]

Cannot be much more happy -> finally have my Diabolo L up and running. Took a few flights today. Weight without battery is close to Danny's while I only have the 5000 mAh stick packs at the moment . So total flying weight for mine with the 5000 mAh packs is 10.6lb.
I could easy shave off 0.6lb if using the 4000 mAh packs. So I may try that next weekend.

[im4711]

OK - after flying the Diabolo L for a few times I did do some more tuning today. Since I do have the 5000 mAh 12s stick packs I still keep using those which does bring the weight a bit up to the 4.8kg. However I was able to work on tuning today quite a bit. Tried different rpm settings and tweaked tail for it.

!!! I am using the older HC3sx on it. So the Axon would be a bit better on the tail. Because of that I ended up with 115 mm tail blades.
My lowest rpm today for slow motion 3d was 850 rpm. Since I noticed minor issues because tail being a bit soft and not holding the way I like it I ended up finding 950 rpm as a good starting point.

My current rpm settings are 950 to freak out the folks at the field a bit, 1250 rpm to actually have some more fun and 1600 and 1800 rpm for the kicking around. What was funny to see for me -> at 950 rpm I stopped flying at 13:40 Minutes. I had pulled 2580 mAh from the 5000 mAh pack at that time. So 20 minutes flight time is doable for slow motion 3d flying.

[im4711]

Little video

Diabolo L (1 min 48 sec)

[Raptorapture]

Thanks for the tour. It could be called Black Light Edition. Love the colour scheme! You don't happen to know if some of the Black anodized parts are the same as in the Black Edition?

[Ozzy Mozzy]

Looks really nice, love the all black anodized parts

[im4711]

Originally Posted by Raptorapture

Thanks for the tour. It could be called Black Light Edition. Love the colour scheme! You don't happen to know if some of the Black anodized parts are the same as in the Black Edition?

they actually are -> you could call it the Diabolo L BE They have been so kind and swapped the parts for black anodized parts. I had the regular Diabolo before and admit I simply love it the way it turned out with the L. It is light as it should be (flying that way is awesome - great agility, less disk load and therefore pretty cool even at low rpm). We often put way to much into our machines. I still have to put a smaller battery in it. I am sure the 3000 mAh like Danny uses is more then enough and the 800 rpm should be doable that way.

[plankdriver]

"This is a very efficient heli"

That is exactly what I SAID in January 2012 after flying mine. And that was the regular Diabolo.
I am set on building a light edition.

Diabolos ROCK

Santiago