Jason Merkle
Senior Heliman
Location: Champaign, IL
| Rich you are exactly right!
Loading the tail motor due to a stalled tail rotor can result in premature motor failure. Be sure to keep the tail rotor blade out of the grass, carpet or otherwise uneven surface that could stall it and you should be in good shape.
Previous Honey Bee models did use the N20 tail motors but some of the later models do also use the N30 motors. The difference for us is that we simply would not accept the N20 motors as E-Sky did and waited to release the Blade CP until we were confident in the tail motor performance (and other various things covered in other threads comparing the HB and BCP).
While not everyone has had the same success we and others have had with our tail motors, more people have had good luck with the BCP tail motors than the tail motor on any other helis in this class. That said there are always possible alternatives such as DD, but from the reports we have heard the motor life is not significantly better than with the stock geared motor when cared for properly.
For more info and tips on tail motor life, see the bulletin and tips page we have here:
http://www.horizonhobby.com/Shop/By...ProdID=EFLH1100 |
