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Hi guys,
It's been a while....
I've finally gotten married, and moved and starting to settle down finally, and before the Mrs has any ideas I want to get back into my hobby. I've been flying a few helicopters of late, and am wanting to get something a bit bigger. I have been flying the MSRx and the MCPx without too any issues.
I was looking at the Blade 300x, anyone flown one of these? The 400x might be a little out of my price range right now, but would it be better putting a bit more money aside and getting something a bit beefier, or will the 300x be fine? Any other suggestions?
I've spent a lot of time flying the 300x on the phoenix flight sim
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Whats the difference between torque tube and belt tail?
450 is quite large!!
Is there anything wrong with the blade 300x? Or should I really look at that bigger model?
Partly thinking ease, and money... I do like the bigger helicopter. Just want to make sure I get the right thing with the right gear in it
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Thanks heli...
I may need to pick skidz and your brains as I look at putting one together.
Trying to work out gyros and servos etc... I've heard sooo many things!!
Look forward to getting something, but just don't want to end up with a lemon
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My thoughts are:
HK 450GT Pro V2 3D ($57.99)
NTM Rotor Drive 34000KV ($20.25)
Turnigy Nano tech batter ($17.95)
Orange Rx 6Ch with failsafe ($12.91)
HK401B AVCS head lock gyro ($21.73)
TGY 306 tail servo ($21.73)
Hobby King Digital Servo 2.2kg / 12.5g / .11sec
Combo Price: $5.72 (3 of)
Turnigy super brain 40ESC ($29.99)
325mm carbon blades ($8.34)
Is this likely to at least start me on a good heli that i can upgrade in time?
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Picture showed it coming with a pinion gear. 13T pinion with 150T main gear.
I did have a look first, or would you suggest still getting another pinion gear?
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I was considering that... seems cheaper to have a 2nd kit than it is to buy spares for some of these things.
I'll grab a few of everything I think, as a just in case... so point getting it up and going, and crash it 1st time I go out and have to wait for parts again!
What set up have you used in yours Kieran?
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Sweet!! thanks for that Dave.
I'm actually quite excited.
I'm going to get this one, and will possibly leave it looking they way it comes, except for a different canopy, but i'm going to do a project with the old man and put in a nice scale fuselage, but might do a 500 or 600 sized heli.
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Hey Dave,
What battery are you using with that motor?
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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 it has a 4A BEC, as opposed to 2A one. According to some forums, 2A is borderline insufficient to run digital servos.
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Hi Igor,
Sorry hadn't noticed an email pop up to say there had been activity on this thread.
Well I've bought the HK450 and well lets just say, I wish I had saved up and got something straight out of Align, blade or another quality manufacturer. I've had one servo on cyclic fry itself (means replacing all 3) got another cheap one (stripped that one out) meant another 3 servos. Now have decent Align servo's set up. It was running better. The tail servo was working ok.
I found out later that i've got the belt slightly twisted, so tail rotating same direction as the head (my fault, doesn't matter what heli i bought) and as such meant i had my tail blades in the wrong way.
Fixed tail blades up and have now bent the shaft in the tail grips, and have bent the main shaft. Haven't had it off the ground yet by the way.
I don't know how good the gyro is yet, but i would strongly suggest going a better quality kit. I'm now replacing my tail unit with the align one. Oh and the tools and screws out of HK are pretty cheap, i've destroyed a screwdriver trying to undo the ball links in the tail slider.
Upon saying that, with more experience I would have done a better job with this build.
so some of it is the lack of quality of the product, other is the lack of patience and experience of the builder (me).
So please don't hear me trying to turn you off the HK one, but i'm going to be building a 500 or 550 with the old man soon, and I'll be buying an original and not a clone.
Will be going for the good gyro etc....
So as it stands I need to get a few new planes cos i have 7 servos that need a home!!
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hahaha yes, mine has already become a hybrid, soon the tail assembley will join the list of align parts. It now has the align main shaft and servos. Canopy will be changed soon as well.... just really don't like that canopy that comes with it!!
Hmmm.... you make an interesting offer there Dave, you offer that just as I was going to start to bug dad and build a goblin 500!!
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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.
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Hey Igor,
I'm new to the hobby in both helis and planes.
If you have experience with building then you'll probably be ok.
Your best bet is getting down to the field and having a chat with the guys like skidz. Wealth of knowlege and information.
The cheap frame certainly a plus, but be prepared to have to replace certain parts fairly quickly.
If I had built mine correctly and not been stupid main shaft n tail still would be ok. But be prepared to replace some things very quickly.
I know several ppl who have had no problems n plenty that have.
Certainly a good radio is a start. I got my dx8 n was doing lots of SIM time.
Hopefully it'll mean when I do finally succeed in getting the bird airborne I'll be better equipped.
Bit of extra money sometimes doesn't go astray!