MaxAdventure
Senior Heliman
Location: Boulder, Colorado
| The thing is when you go bigger, like a swift, the 500 class, etc, you're in to bigger batteries, more investment there. Then you have the inertia and mass going into a crash. I love the bigger electrics, and I've wanted a swift for some time as, however I'm a huge fan of the 450 class at 325mm blades and inexpensive (relatively) 11.1 2200 mAh battery due to it's minimal crash cost for the performance.
I've crashed my 600 electric once, lost a 5Ah 4S battery (I fly two 4S for 8S) and close to $100 in parts. My second battery must have been damanged, after a few flights with it, it blew a cell while I was in the air. I was able to land and pull the battery without damage, but there went a full set of batteries on top of the parts cost.
as for your new ebay deal;
Maybe that wouldn't be a bad place to start, less investment. As you are getting your collective pitch heli skills down, you won't be taxing the battery/esc/motor, so at 15C it's probably fine for a while. I guess you have to weight the cash outlay against how fast you progress and how much flying you want to do. Case in point, I outgrew my 'cheap' stuff in about 6 months. I manage to fly 4-5 times a week (on a good week) and am progressing okay with sim time mixed in. Last weekend my Telebee, which I thought would be a good bargain Gyro, just decided to stop working mid flight. I only broke a link, but I'm down a gyro.
It's a hard call when you don't have money to throw around and are getting started. I would have jumped at that deal when I got back into helis, now I can out-fly that equipment and would be afraid it would fail on the first flight.
-da (Max)
AMA 198798
issues? I have subscriptions... |
Sure Align makes great products but there are more helis out there to consider.
