Mitchilito
Senior Heliman
Location: Morehead City, NC USA
| The saga continues. . .
As you might recall this machine started out as a bone-stock Blade CP Plus that my brother sent me in the mail. That was a BUNCH of versions ago. This pic shows "V2" with the crappy MicroHeli head (this is the oldest pic I could find):
Here's the V40 particulars:
Horizon bling head, MicroHeli frame, MicroHeli swash, Century Hummingbird Elite main gear with autorotation clutch and shortened HARD mainshaft (cool), HDX300 outrunner main with 10t pinion, HK outrunner tail with machined tail motor mount (SUH-weeeet), Castle Creations Phoenix 25 main controller, Thunderbird-6 tail controller (EDIT: the 6 died - installed a T-Bird 9), Futaba 401 gyro, Spektrum reciever, and Spektrum DSP75 digital servos programmed to the "Heli Tailrotor" mode (fastested mode). The only stock things left on this monster are the carbon tail boom (shortened 1 inch) and the landing gear.
Here's the MicroHeli frame with the Century maingear and shaft. There are several reasons I went to this gear/shaft setup: the stock shafts are BUTTER soft and stock gears are whimpy and the tooth form S*CKS. This Century gear runs soooo much smoother and is much beefier:
 
I changed out the Thunderbird 18 main controller for the Phoenix because I needed the extra programming the Phoenix provides: I set it up with a slow initial spool up (T-bird doesn't have that option) and a soft lipo cutoff at 10.5 volts. Here's a shot of the piggybacked CC controllers on the special front mount:
I tried the Feigao with the Futaba 401 but it wasn't quite up to handling the HDX300's torque. The Feigao is old - maybe a new one would work better but I went ahead and put the little HK outrunner back on the tail with a GWS 4x3. It works GREAT with the 401 - much better than the Feigao:
I only got to fly it once this morning but it's working fantastic and it is nothing less than a total MONSTER. Soon I'll be pulling the HDX off for a Neumotor Razor 350 but until then the HDX is rocking pretty good! BTW: I weighed it without the battery and it weights 10 grams more than the bone stock Blade CP V2 - and that's with the boat anchor HDX300. The razor will knock off that 10 grams for basically equal weight. Not bad for a machine with STELLAR performance.
In case you were wondering: I'm having FUN:
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