helimatt
Key Veteran
Location: Lafayette, IN
| I am guilty of never usinga tach on my helicopters, so I can only talk in relative terms.
Originally I flew a 600L motor and 10T pinion, and it was pretty good, but I was not pushing it terribly hard.
I flew that motor until it seemed to get degraded and did not produce good power. I installed a different L motor, it was very good, and I flew that one a lot (10T pinion still). Then the top bearing on that one went bad, so put in a 1650kv 600XL motor, which shortened the run times, but gave okay power (not that much more than the L I had just been running). That motor shaft sheared after approx 15 flights, then I temporarily reinstalled the old-old L motor, and ordered the Z30A.
On 16T pinion the Z30A gives the best headspeed by far and 5 minutes of 3D and I'm right at 4000mAh put back into the pack. I might shorten the flights to 4:30.
I put in ThunderTiger green paddles in place of the stock ones at the same time I installed the Z30 motor. Man, the cyclic is very fast now.
This is not unlimited power. It will bog doing continuous flips, or if you try to speed up the tick-tocs too much. I have a hodge-podge of packs, the newest is a TP 5000 V2, its great, but gets pretty warm. The older TT V1 is just in the last few flights suddenly performing very badly. It has about, oh, 50 cycles-- I think I'm going to send it back to Thunderpower, and my two FlightPowers are going back to them both are doing badly and have less than 80 cycles.
The Airthunder is doing well still, but not as powerful as the TT V2.
I recommend you consider the Z50, 1170kV version- might need to order it from the UK though.
Never, ever, ever, ever give up. |
why doesn't someone tell me these things...
