What did you do with your Blade 230s today?

[Me_How]

The grass grew tall and so I got adventurous with sticks jamming resulting in a metric ton of dumb thumbs at zero penalty over past few months. Then they cut the grass and I wrecked it a few times taking out main gear, blade grip, a link and the canopy. Finally after a year or two I could use my spares.

Today I went out at dusk again and flew my Night version. It is guaranteed to put a smile on my face. Totally awesome. Night version rules
2-3 weeks back flew at full moon. Love it

[[email protected]]

A few weeks ago I received a 230 V2 for fathers day, and of course the weather got wet and windy so I tried to get out and fly between the thunderstorms and the snow.

My goodness ladies and gentlemen, I am terribly rusty and it has become obvious my sight is getting worse.

I found a new place to fly where I have approximately twenty square acres void of trees so I won't lose sight and lose my heli again.

As soon as the weather settles down a bit, I will be able to get out any day I want to but for now, I have a little quad that I can fly around the apartment to help me work on orientation.

Soon, very soon.

[Psycho_dad]

Originally Posted by Brick

I have thought about the tri blade myself. I need something different

are you sure you can't use the 30% off on the US Wharehouse site ?

you just need to enter "MHjuly4" as a promo-code and you will get a 30% discount. I ordered mine out of the Vietnam store

[Flyguytruckguy]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

what flight mode are you in when checking? In flight mode 1 230s v2 gives 12 degrees + and like something less negative ... i forget what ... in flight mode 3 it gives 12/12

Finally figured out what the problem was. Found the answer on another post in the 230S thread. When checking your collective pitch, you either must disconnect the motors and take it out of HOLD mode or reset your HOLD pitch curve to 0,25,50,75,100. Failing that, you will only get false readings due to the funny HOLD mode pitch curve!

[Allan114]

Took my 230 out today for the first time in about 5 weeks. I've been down with some kind of virus that has really sapped the energy from me. I find I need to be on top form to fly the heli otherwise it will end in a crash. Had three flights and everything went ok. I seemed to pick up where I left off so that's a good thing.

[gyronut]

Took mine out tonite, put 3 more flights on it. Have the rates turned up to 115% on A/E. Flys great.

[Brick]

Originally Posted by gyronut

Took mine out tonite, put 3 more flights on it. Have the rates turned up to 115% on A/E. Flys great.

good to know, didn't know you could do that !

[Flyguytruckguy]

Note to all those who are trying to get a more responsive bird by "upping" the rates, me included. Looks like we are doing it wrong. Since "Airware Update 2.0", "Forward Programming" is available to increase (or decrease) rates. I'm not talking about gyro gains (PIDs), but actual degrees per second rates. Will have to update my transmitters for shure now!

[Bahmtek]

Today I got around to successfully modding the grip links made for the 270cfx which can be adjusted, into fitting the 230s All you have to do is lathe off a small amount of material (roughly .25mm) from cylindrical part of the link (stock grip diameter:2.89mm/stock 270cfx:3.14mm). You will also need to make sure you remove material evenly so that the links with be close if not identical in weight (mine were exactly .40g each). I used a standard drill (remove one side of the link at a time and chuck the threaded rod in the drill DO NOT OVER TIGHTEN) and 150 grit sandpaper to remove material and Plastx/microfiber to clean it up when done. Very easy upgrade IMO as it only took me about 30-45min from start to test flying. All seems well flight wise and I'm glad to be able to adjust the blade tracking on my huge 275mm lynx blades Posted a few project pics below:


https://ibb.co/k8VnKmV



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https://ibb.co/h7BjGNw



https://ibb.co/9V0k0Ld

[stick]

made a few changes to my 230s.The body and blades made a huge diff and I really like the trex 450 landing gear helps make it pop.From stock to not so stock lol
I have more micro heli shiny bits to put on later

[fiddle]

I like it!

[Brick]

I put a MicroHeli 3 Blade conversion on my 230s. The washout arm ball link broke on the second flight. kinda bummed me out on MicroHeli

[fiddle]

Originally Posted by Brick

I put a MicroHeli 3 Blade conversion on my 230s. The washout arm ball link broke on the second flight. kinda bummed me out on MicroHeli

Did you crash when it broke or manage to bring it down?

[stick]

Bummer on the part breaking,I know the feeling lol
Aside from that how did you like the 3 blade compared to the 2 blade?

[ks9818]

Finally got around putting the micro Heli cf tail blade , so far I love it .. tail authority seems to be much better and motor doesn’t “ squeal “ as much when doing 3 D . Also liking my zeal 238 cf blades I’ve had forever when I got my V1 , finally got around to putting them on my V2 ..

[fiddle]

I hovered it inverted several times - didn't even crash Still need to work up the nerve to try this on the 360cfx (no rescue).

[xv-townboy]

Finally replaced the original tailboom on my V1 as it was starting to look like a pretzel.
Picked up a two pack of purple anodized knitting needles at micheals for 8 bucks CAD which is about 6 bucks USD.The wall is at least double the thickness of the stock boom so I shortened it by about 1/4in..Works great and looks pretty cool too

[fiddle]

LOL - now i'm going to be raiding my wife's crochet/knit stash to fix my helicopters

[vic huijgens]

What are the sizes of the needles ?

Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-G950F met Tapatalk

[Brick]

Just for something new. I added a New MH canopy and a $23 MH Delrin main gear. The canopy looks awesome...but it weighs a ton. I thought the Delrin gear would be smooth....but, it is not round, and it shakes like a mutha.