OK. You people suck :-P Now I'm torn again. Let's see what the deals are like on the Align kits in a couple of months time.

Doh, you're right Samste. Much better to have one connector than four. Also that means leaving the batteries stock and only doing the soldering once. I've never actually soldered that many wires toget...

Looks right to me. Parallel is the connection you want here. The only concern is the length of wire from the battery to the four way split. You want that to be as thick and as short as possible. I wou...

Sorry skidz, I mean blade strike. Makes sense about the FBL heads working/wearing the servos much harder than flybar ones. I'd say FBL is way in the future for me, going to get comfortable with simple...

Fair enough. When the servo kicks it after a tail strike, which gear does strip out? The external one or of the internal ones? For the ESC, I'm liking the look of Superbrain 60A rather than 40A, as i...

Dave, I think you won me over with the HK el-cheapo build. I got really lost with HK servos as there were millions of them and I thought I needed to get 4 $30 ones plus expensive gyro. At around $250 ...

Thanks for the warm welcome today guys. Had a good chat to Skidz who seems to have the wisdom of the Internet when it comes to building helis :) Funnily enough, turns out that smuzz was my lecturer a...

Anyone with a heli going to be around the field this long weekend? I might come around and say hello...

Hi all. I'm very new to RC-anything and have just caught the heli bug. I'm about 40 batteries into my mSRX and loving it so far. Seems like a good excuse to dust off those almost forgotten electronics...