Zflyer
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Made in lockdown madness. All foamboard conrrtuction, except lift motor mount, and the thrust motor supports have a carbon rod sandwiched between the foamboard uprights. Both motor work. Now the problem. It tends to swing right, I make the assumption this is torque from the left motor. Do I offset the thrust motor or nibble bits out of the skirt on the right handside. Skirt is also foamboard with vertical cuts. The length is 16inch (400mm) in width 12 3/4 inch (325mm)
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Have you considered using the Graupner foam board for skinning. I have used it on a delta and it works a treat as it is very flexible. Comes is a variety of thickness
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I have no idea if this has been tried before and I appreciate that most of us are of a certain vintage. This has its advantages. Most of us have left work, however we still have colleagues and new staff working at out former employers. Why dont we contact those associations we belonged to and see if they would put a couple of lines in their inhouse magazine asking if they would like to take up the hobby and point them in the direction of the BMFA, LMA etc.
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first class service and quick!!
Zflyer replied to Andy Shailer's topic in R/C Retailers / Distributors / Manufacturers
Gents, not criticising any of the suppliers, they all do their best to get orders out the same day. I think we need to say thank you to the postal service and couriers. -
CANCEL THE ABOVE. BRAIN FADE LOL
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Anyone know how this connects to a spektrum rx. The diagram is not helpful and esc on electric aircraft go to the no.2 port on the rx.
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Its correct to say it can be altered via the tx. However the u/c has a servo for the nose and seperate servo for the main so any alteration would apply to both servos and could cause other problems with travel. I retract servo for the main and standard servo for the nose might work as the dedicated retract servo just swings through 180.
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Have purchased the Hi tec servo programmer. Manual not good and internet vids sketchy. Purchased soi can program servo to use on retract servo. The wing u/c servo is ok but the nosewheel servo goes through the 180 and stresses the rod and arm. I think programming the servo i can " destress" the system. Just wanted to know if anyone else had done the same
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Uno Wot is good, Boomerang good as is Arising Star. All for electric as well
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I have HK walrus and Night Walrus and didnt have any problem with c of g as I recall, but will check over weekend as they are both my ladies . In any event they are cracking to fly.
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New limit on groups in England from Monday?
Zflyer replied to Geoff S's topic in All Things Model Flying
Should you to choose to go to your club field to fly you normally go alone. If others are there observe social distancing and if closer than 2metres wear a mask. You may also wish to sign in as this would help track and trace in the event someone had it. Dont share anything unless you sanitise first. Even if more than six provided you are 2 metres away no infringement. Seems to me they are sensible and do no break any rules. -
How do you clean your glow engined models after flying?
Zflyer replied to Jonathan M's topic in IC Engines
Elbow Grease £1 a bottle and/or Elbow Grease wipes. (Dont know if the latter are enviroment friendly) -
Scratch build. Now the problem two motors one for lift and one for thrust. How do you tie them to the tx, the thrust goes to to the throttle but when plugging the esc in for the lift motor it gives the beep error. Clearly it doesnt like any other of the channels. Does it need a multirotor control board or is there some way of mixing on the tx (Spektrum DX8) Both motor have their own battery and esc, the positive lead removed from the lift esc to the receiver.
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My original question was would it work. I apologise for being a dumb brum with no knowledge of electronics. I mistakenly believed that as the balance leads were connected to individual cells they would carry single cell voltage, clearly that is not the case as the voltage increase across the cells. Making that assumption I thought by distributing the load across the cells I would help in balancing the lipo. I have listened and will obviously use another more practical solution. A little less judgement and presumption (as I did with the voltage) might not go amiss
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I chose to do it this way as I thought, perhaps wrongly that it would help with balance, however the ma is so small it probably makes no difference. As for the diagram being different from the picture it is not. In any event its working, but I may well consider just using the BEC. Sheessh it wasn't intended to get people agitated. Cold beer !!! In the UK LOL
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I have connected the LED's to the balance connectior on a 3s lipo as per my diagram. All working with no apparent problems.
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Gents the LED's all have resistors and I have literally just tried using them in parallel and have found no difference in brightness.
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Thank you Dennis, that makes sense, though I would have thought as both are wired in parallel it would have been okay. Phil, the leds are wired to separate cells via the balance led.
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I intend to power a set of LED's using the balance lead of my lipo., The LED's are set to cell voltage. Will the below arrangement work.
