Xircom
Veteran
Location: Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia
| Me too I have to find time, of course the more time you have also the more time you can fly - and the more you fly, the more experience you have. As for the voyager, we all know, that it has not been initially designed to perform acrobatic flight, in fact it has been designed as cost-effective entry solution for all those who have standard servo, as well as existing NiMH batteries from RC cars or elsewhere, also the spares are very affordable. And at the end of the day, the heli has quite a big size, so that it's stable to fly.
Soon there has been all sort of upgrades available, starting from Brushless Set over many carbon and alu. parts to make it stronger (K&S and Quick), but upgrading a single part is just soon followed by others as well, so that in my case there is very few original parts only - but even if you upgrade almost everything - still it does not reach the level of today's 3D machines like Lepton or TRex for sure, in my opinion. For example the gear ratio is quite high, so that even you take a small pinion gear, you still need a high KV motor to make the headspeed big enough not to wobble around when it's getting close to end of battery. That was reason of my last crash, then I realized that it's much better to use governor function to avoid this. Althogh the orgiginal JR Brushless Set (NHA 300BL) is quite ok (actually I bought it because it was cheap in the set together with the heli, also the alu motor holder is otherwise difficult to get), the governor could be much better still, so I ended up to buy another ESC with a nice governor.
Having this nice ESC now, being able to handle 4S battery and strong upgrades all over the place, soon the wish of more power (and efficiency) comes up as well, and so I am wondering if I have to change the motor as well for this. The motor seems to be B40 8S, and that is probably a problem for 4S, I haven't seen that combination recommended anywhere so far. Maybe I will try after buying the offical Hacker B40 cooler, and set the governor on an acceptable level.
Ultimatively I also have decided to buy a lepton now, which I am sure will help me to the next level (e.g. inverted), which I am fine only on Reflex so far. This is why I have decided to make the best out of the existing VE, use the stability and solid flight ability and nice size to add the Bell 230 cabi, just recently also bought some remote controlled lights, which will be a pleasure to see.
So that is the story, and in case anyone hanging around once in Tokyo, let me know, always looking forward for tricks. |
Thanks !
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