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This is my most current setup that I would reccomend to anyonee who flys T-Rex 450x helicopters. I have the SAB carbon's 305mm blades. Zooms paddles with the weights, which provides excellent stability even in windy conditions. I switched to the APEX 2200 Lipo which really gives a good power during flights. Of coarse the AON 3500KV motor is AwSoMe!!! Plus the full metal head and tail help to reduce slop and work together to form a great flying heli. Updated 11/14/05
This is my current setup as of 9/20/05 and if you have the chance and like the bling upgrade to the full metal head from Align, it is completely worth every penny(I think it is, other people may disagree). This head makes all of the difference, and the metal tail housing helps to increase the travel of the tail slider for increased Piro Rates!!! Update 9/27/05 Newest update) I now have the CNC alerion arms and I switch to the one piece whip antenna. All of these upgrades I have made make all the difference. This thing flys like no other micro heli I have ever flown before. Foward flight is amazing, with this AON motor(3500kv) 3D manuveres are done with ease.Tick-Tocks, Piro flips, you name it, it can be done, i've seen it :)
This tip is for all of you that fly T-Rex's. If you have recently had a crash(where the blades have come in contact with the ground) and you get your heli up and running and you don't have a lot of power or the motor even cuts out you may have burned out your speed control. What happens is when your blades contact the ground and your throttle is still in the up or power on position, this creates a spike in the voltage in the speed control which will permanently damage the speed control. So the tip is, if you know you are going to crash or have crashed immediately power off the throttle of pay the price in your speed control or motor.
I didn't take any photos directly after the crash because the battery in my camera was dead :( The list of broken parts are: HS1013 Tail drive gear Assembly XL$9.29, which was the cause of my crash, I went inverted and the top of the pully that the belt goes around broke off and the heli piroed inverted into the ground. HP2021Main Drive Gear Assembly with one way bearing $12.00, Pitch Control Arm $10.59(snapped in half), Main fram set $16.59(I used this for the front servo holders) Total: $52.47 That is without factoring in the Main blades, Blade grips, Flybar spindle, great looking canopy and my afternoon:) Here are some pictures of my T-Rex after I put all of the great new parts on.
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