Micro-Maniac
Elite Veteran
Location: Pasco,Washington Formerly: Captain Chaos
| Well, I did it.
I got bored and and for kicks I stole a Park 400 4100kv and Quark 33A ESC out of my miniEdge540 as I haven't been flying it lately.
It was super simple other than having to make my own power Y harness.
I use Deans 2B Micro Plugs - Watched a friend's JST melt ruining batt & all.
I used a 3" servo Y harness between the RX, ESC, and 3-in-1.
I used two 3" servo extensions for adaptors between the RX and 3-in-1 which I replaced the plastic ends with the plastic ends off a couple of my old S75 servos to convert them from female to male and so didn't have to do any cutting and soldering or anything there.
I'm using an 8t pinion on the Park 400 and have my throttle curves reduced to 62% (surprised at the torque differences within 5%). - TP1320 11.1v lipos - DX6 radio.
Maiden flight was in normal mode only and very windy conditions with the throttle curve still at 100% - Spooled it up and lifting off it shot past hover directly to spiralling missile into the stratosphere - Holy cripes! - I had a real fun time trying to get it back between the pitchy high wind, touchy head speed and torquey/spinny tail - I spent the rest of the pack finding a nice top end for the throttle curve and flying circuits in the wind with a kinda torquey loose tail.
I brought it in - Charged it up - And setup my idle-up according to what I ended up with in normal mode.
The next flight I decided to switch to idle-up before lifting off to see how it was going to transition and avoid torquing it in the air - It transitioned very well to my strait 62% throttle curve in idle-up and I flew it around some making minor adjustments - The strait throttle curve eliminated the tail torquing so I didn't need to add any revo.
Then I put it inverted and flew some of the smoothest inverted circuits and hovers ever with this thing even in the high wind - I got a little cocky and did some really low inverted hovers and ended up drilling it into the dirt, which I recovered from, but something moved and my motor pinion began slipping off the main gear ending that test session - I swear to you I completely buried the entire flybar and paddles in the loose dirt/sand up to the main blades and flew out of it leaving behind a plume of dust - Crazy cool.
I'm really surprised at how easily it took to the over-kill brushless conversion and how smooth it flew in idle-up - I expected to be hassling with the gyro and proportional pots and dialing in revo etc etc etc - But nope - None of that.
I'm really liking it so I guess I'm going to have to invest in a proper brushless setup for it so I can put this over-kill back in my Edge. |
