gorn
Elite Veteran
Location: Western Australia
| Hi Isaac
Decisions decisions eh? lol
Well I flew mine tonight, and I can honestly say im very happy with it.
Flew very predictably and smooth, naturally has rather quick cyclic, way way faster than my shogun was.
I have some carbon paddles here that weigh a little bit more, so Im going to try those tomorrow afternoon. Always windy here so stable good, twitchy bad lol.
I tach'd it as well, at full pitch (I think Im getting 9deg, have to adjust that) Im getting 2480rpm.
This is with a medusa 3400 on an 11 tooth pinion.
I just flew in normal mode so HS was prob a bit low at hover.
Will setup Idle 1 either tomorrow or wed.
Absolutly stoked that its doing what it should do.
After all this, the only thing I really want to change is the canopy. Its a bit brittle around the mounting holes (have to drill those yourself)
Im going to suggest to Steve that he has the canopy holes pre-drilled and with some rubber grommets so that the plastic doesnt get torn up.
2 things that crapped me though were the main gear, though I see HD have already got a new type on the website. To late for me, I got the Microheli main gear and 3 spares 
The other thing that sucked was that I wasnt getting equal throw on each washout arm. These are not adjustable either, same as Align.
I took the plastic ball links off the arms and measured them, and they were exactly the same. Only thing I could come up with was that 1 washout arm didnt have its hole drilled quite deep enough. I fixed this by filing down the threaded end of the ball link, did the trick, but annoying.
The head wobble was VERY offputting and made me quite disheartened, but I have to say, ive seen it first hand now, at low revs ie: not even lifting off, it wobbles and you can see the boom moving, once the rpm come up it stops wobbling altogether. Tracking was perfect.
I dont have any scales yet, so I havent been able to weigh the tail blades or the paddles, so Im probably still getting some minor vibes from those. Only reason I could tell that is I put training gear on it for its maiden tonight (just in case, has saved my skin before), and I could see one of the balls vibrating a lil bit. High frequency, not a shake or anything like that.
Sooooo, I would say as far as value for money go's, excellent....providing you are prepared for some minor though irritating work. I guess this is the price of the low price lol.
They have also released some new blade grips and I think feathering spindles as well.
Im going to ask Steve tonight what the head parts are in aid of.
He has stated on RCG that he will do a barebones package with no motor or esc for a naturally lower rate. If I were you, Id do that for sure. Get yourself a nice motor from whoever you like, even Align make some nice motors, and a quality esc. I highly recommend the Quark 33. Bit fiddly to setup, Im still fiddling with it as I think I have the timing set wrong lol, but a quality esc, and from memory only about $80US.
If you get the HDX make sure you buy their feathering spindles as the Align ones dont fit Im told. Main shafts are the same except the Align are better quality, so get those.
Blades are very nicely finished carbons, but they NEED ballancing lol.
Thats all I can think of for a roundup of my thoughts thus far mate.
Whatever you buy, i hope that you have a lot of fun with it.
I have a Quick of Japan EP8 due this week , but the build will take me a while. Fundage is always a problem there lol.
Any questions feel free to ask, Im more than happy to let you know my thoughts
Cheers
If you bling it, they will come :D |
