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e-E-Flite Blade CP CX 400-3D > New Blade CP Pro!

lsnover
Senior Heliman
Location: Bath, PA

Looks like some nice changes in the works for the Blade.

Suppoesd to be easily upgradable to Brushless.

Hopefully we can upgrade existing units with a few parts, as it seems to be the existing Blade with the Bell/Hiller parts, symetrical blades, Lip pack and a new 3 in 1 control unit.

http://www.horizonhobby.com/Product...ProdID=EFLH1300

Nice new headlock Gyro too as an Option:
http://www.horizonhobby.com/Product...rodID=EFLRG90HL

Cheers!
Lee

04-06-2006 Over year old.

dct
Veteran
Location: San Angelo TX.

We will see...

**Now doing Forward Flight And EASY 3d! And having a Ball !!**

04-06-2006 Over year old.

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Awais
Senior Heliman
Location: Mississauga, Ontario - Canada

That gyro looks like the standard telebee/zoom/align gyro. HeliDirect has it for $60.

04-06-2006 Over year old.

heligrom
Senior Heliman
Location: Long Island NY, USA

i may have to get myself one of them gyros.

i'm really angry. i just got an "older" regular blade CP. hopefully it will be able to use the HH gyro

T-rex 450S CF, Blade CX, Blade CP, A few planks

04-06-2006 Over year old.

k0tbt
Senior Heliman
Location: Eagan, MN

The receiver is separate from the 3-in-1? That should make it easier for JR people to "hack" it.

Karl

A trash bag is standard equipment in my field box.

04-06-2006 Over year old.

astroflyer
Senior Heliman
Location: Milford, Nova Scotia, Canada

Well, IMHO they've only gone half way. Why not get rid of those tail rotor motors and supply it with a belt drive? then they could truly call it the cp pro!

cheers
Papa Sharptooth

Bouncing about the living room, my then three year old grandson declared himself "a kangaroo".
"If you're a Kangaroo, what is Grampie", I ask.
His reply: "you a dinosaur"

04-06-2006 Over year old.

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heligrom
Senior Heliman
Location: Long Island NY, USA

i would love a belt drive, but it would require a big CP makeover and would probably jack up the price. i dont mind the electric tail. did the DD mod and havent had probs since

T-rex 450S CF, Blade CX, Blade CP, A few planks

04-06-2006 Over year old.

400HeliPilot
Senior Heliman
Location: Boca Raton, Fl - USA

Heligrom, you can "easily" use a HH gyro & brushless motor on the stock blade setup. Just open the 4-in-1 and solder 3 wires (real easy to get at), one ground, one +5V, one rudder signal. Connect these 3 to HH gyro, connect gyro output to a $8, ~5A ESC for tail (before you do, cut, remove, disable, tape small red 5V wire BEC from ESC connector), plug tailmotor into this ESC (parallel the ESC power leads to the 4in1 so it gets juice). Enjoy the locked tail.

If you haven't a computer TX, you'll need a $6 hardware mixer for rate mode, HH should lock without this (I use HH for take off/landing flipping from compu-TX).

BL setup (main or tail for that matter) is done the same way. Personally, I only like the 4-in-1 as a 6ch RX anyway so I do away with the rest by "cutting off" where CH3/CH4 (throttle/rudder) connect to the gyro/mixer board & trash that, then re-cover the 6CH RX board with sub-c batt clear heatshrink & cut open the 6CH and crystal area.

Same tricks work on the CX, I've done them, altho really a PG-03 rate unit is overkill flying indoor.

04-06-2006 Over year old.

monterey_tip
Veteran
Location: Monterey, Ca - USA

Maybe easy for you??? Sounds like something I could really mess up!

I agree, why doesn't the pro get rid of the tail motor like the Honeybee cool and king?

04-07-2006 Over year old.

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tesspc
Heliman
Location: Limoges Ontario Canada

Looks a lot like the HonneyBee CP2....Wonder what the gyro and Brushless upgrade will sell for?

A man without wings is a man without dreams

04-07-2006 Over year old.

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walter23
Senior Heliman
Location: calgary ab

I guess if the frame and stuff are the same, us blade CP owners can get the newer 3-in-1s once we hit the ground hard enough to trash our 4-in-1s

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Another blade CP first-time heli owner.

04-07-2006 Over year old.

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