Jim Forrest

Get expert help? - I've got the best bunch of experts I could wish for - right here! We are almost there - with your help you've identified and sorted the 4 big problems that I thought I had - 1. Battery charging - now completely sorted and done. 2. Powering the receiver - now I know where the power comes from so I'll leave the BAT plug empty on the receiver. 3. Battery connection - just a plug mismatch which I can easily correct by changing the Deans for a female XT60. I have one so a simple soldering job. 4. The Y lead with yellow flags - I don't need the landing lights so I'll leave them out. As far as the Manual goes - do you remember those early Japanese instructions for their radios - Wind button round for click Light up green signal glowing Wind searching knob for transmitter Etc. Etc. Well that's my manual - but it's titled HC Hobby Mosquito! It has 26 pages - 7 of which are for the assembly with 50% of those in Chinese! However, all of the leads terminating in the fuselage are colour flagged so even I can't cock that bit up! I will however connect everything up and then connect the battery for a fleeting instant - just in case. The props are off and the thing is effectively nailed to the ceiling so it's not going anywhere. Thanks for your help chaps - I will report back (assuming I survive !)   @import url(http://www.modelflying.co.uk/CuteEditor_Files/Style/SyntaxHighlighter.css);@import url(/CuteEditor_Files/public_forums.css);

Life is never easy is it? Anyway - a pic of the bits/connectors that I have -   The battery power leads have a twin pin socket. The motor supply lead has bullet connectors that match the wires coming from the motors - but it has the Deans connector which doesn't fit the battery plug. The lead with yellow flags has the correct connector for the receiver - but the 3 pin connectors on each of the leads. It strikes me that I need to connect the Deans into the battery plug, and branch off to supply the receiver. Am I right? The problems - 1. Is there a Deans/twin pin socket adaptor made? 2. The lead with the yellow flags has a plug which matches the BAT connection on the receiver but the 3 pin plugs go into similarly flagged wires coming back from the wings - but I'm not sure where they go (UC?) The problem is the lead is marked CH7 - and there isn't a CH7 on the receiver - and the other 6 are all full. 3. It seems that I need another cable to connect from the battery plug to the receiver BAT connection. The battery has two wires - but the BAT conn has 3 pins, one of which is marked S. Any ideas? 4. As for the ESC's - I don't appear to have these - the motors have three wires feeding them - starting off all black and terminating in black, yellow and red at the motor -   Whether the ESC is buried in the engine/UC nacelle I can't tell. That bit came preassembled.   @import url(http://www.modelflying.co.uk/CuteEditor_Files/Style/SyntaxHighlighter.css);@import url(/CuteEditor_Files/public_forums.css);

Thankyou Pete and Graham. Thanks to your instructions Pete I now have a fully charged battery. All I've got to do is get it connected to the plane! By the way - you mentioned the ESC's - what are they? Graham - I used to fly early RC (batteries like half bricks and high wing balsa/dope aircraft) many years ago at West Malling FC. Your comments re flying the Mossie are quite right - I wouldn't attempt it. An experience with a 200 quid helicopter a while back which instantly thought it was a chainsaw and attacked a tree taught me to learn first. The tree won. I bought the Mossie because along with the Spit and the Lanc, it is one of the most beautiful aircraft that Britain ever produced. It currently hangs in my Den on 60lb trace cord (fishing line) and will stay there. But I want to run the motors, flaps, UC etc - hence buying all the RC kit. The model came with an Ghz AFHDS receiver which has 6 channels and an identical 3 pin BAT connection. I have connected all 6 channels but the BAT is a real problem. I have a cable marked CH7 with the correct BAT connection, but it terminates in 2 off 3 pin plugs (pins protruding). This doesn't match the battery of course. Another cable has the Deans plug and 2 Y cables, one with 2 red wires with female bullet connectors, and 2 black terminating in male bullet connectors. The battery has a red and a black wire with female bullets. So if I connect the two male bullets it will dead short the battery! I need a cable with a black male bullet and a red male bullet, terminating in a 3 pin connector for the receiver. I could make it from the cables I have but the 3 BAT pins on the RX are marked S, plus, and minus. What goes on the S? Under the BAT markings it says 4.5 - 6.6V BIND. No idea what that means either! Getting there slowly though!   I will try to sort out some pics. @import url(/CuteEditor_Files/public_forums.css);

I have bought an HC Hobby Mosquito - what a beautiful model it is. I don't actually want to fly it - it is suspended from my Den ceiling. However, I want to drop thhe undercarriage, so I have a receiver (came with the kit), a LiPo Turnigy 2.2 battery, and a Turnigy Acucell 6 charger. My problems are - 1. Connecting the battery to the charger doesn't seem to do anything. The text screen stays as saying LiPo Charge (0.1A at 3.7V (15)), the inbuilt cooling fan doesn't run, and as far as I can tell no charging is taking place. The larger (power) battery wires are plugged in as is the four pin socket into the charger. 2. On the Mossie there are 6 channels on the receiver - the 7th socket is marked as battery. But I have a cable marked as CH-7 which ends in 2 x 3 pin connectors (male pins). Where does it go? 3. The receiver has a three pin socket marked BAT - but the battery has two power leads (for the motors?) and a four pin plug! 2. Another cable in the kit has two spade fittings (quite substantial) which feeds two sets of black and red power cables (presumably for the motors). But where does the spade end go? 3. Yet another cable is a 3 pin plug with a loop attached connecting pin 1 to pin 3. Where does this go? Sadly the manual is practically useless and just tells you to connect all of the plugs. By now you've worked out that I am a complete novice at this so your help will be much appreciated chaps. @import url(http://www.modelflying.co.uk/CuteEditor_Files/Style/SyntaxHighlighter.css);@import url(/CuteEditor_Files/public_forums.css);