Mouldy

There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that youll find the 500 easier to fly then the 450!

well the difficulty youll have is that when switching back to 0 from 1 is matching the pitch, ie youll be flying in idle 1 at say 3/4 stick, switch back to 0 and 3/4 stick wont be the same pitch setting, itll probably be a lot more! But have to agree, each to their own! 

Erm.....thats not the way to do it!! I land in idle 1, well actually I hover around 2 feet from the ground and the hit throttle hold which basically means I do a two foot auto! Need to get the confidence higher to hit throttle hold and practice proper auto's!

Flying 3D is going to pull a lot more current then general flying of circuits etc. Would expect 7-8 minutes for this type of flying.

Missed out the auto bit, sorry! All of the T-rex leccy's have a one way bearing in the main drive train so can all auto rotate. Have even seen inverted auto's done with 450's and 500's! Sounds like the Titans set up is similar. Dont get into the habit of shutting the throttle when flying a heli, wont stand you in good stead later in life!!

Definatly the 500. I bought a 450 v2 and am having fun with it, but a 500 would be much better. The 450 is fast, small and light so it accelerates very quickly and gets very small even quicker! Bonus is that parts are cheap as are batteries. The 500 is smoother to fly, copes with winds better and is just under twice the size of the 450. It will fly on 5s cells very well and go ballistic on 6S, but neither size need to be big in the MaH stakes so arnt mega expensive. It also flys well out of the box except if you fit a carbon boom. If you do this then it needs to be grounded due to causing interference and yes this includes 2.4! The 600 flys even better then the 500 but the down side is that it needs 6S 4200's to fly and 8S cells to fly proper 3D. Also needs various parts upgrading to fly good 3D so all in all is a very expensive machine. 500 gets my vote! 

YOu need to set your pitch and throttle curves my boy! I fly a T-rex 450 and have a number of different settings:- Idle up switch in the 'off' position gives me -1 to +10 degress of pitch and the motor works as it would on an aircraft, ie stick shut = motor off, stick fully forward = full throttle. Idle 1 gives me 90% throttle all the time regardless of where the throttle stick is moved to, HOWEVER.......pitch curve is now giving me 0 degrees of pitch at half stick, +10 at full stick and -10 with the stick back. idle 2 gives me as above but with 100% throttle If you have any asperations t fly 3d or indeed just gentle aerobatics then you need to get used to flying idle 1 + 2 really. Youll find that the heli will fly better anyway as the first setting tends to find the head speed bogging down. Hope this helps! Ian 

OK, from the horse's mouth, ie Hacker. I brushed up me German and was given the following data:- "The BEC Voltage is 5,5Volts. The SB-Typs are good for 2,5A duration and peaks of 4,5A." Hope this is of some help. Ian 

Agreed, but the point being is that 2.4 dosent seem to care much as to what voltage it cuts out at. The original post of this thread indicates that this was a maiden flight. Im also guessing that the battery would be fully charged. So unless it was a duff battery, (possible), then why would the RX lock out?

http://www.hacker-motor.com/deutsch/ Unfortunatly they dont do English! My understanding of Specktrum gear is it locks out if the battery voltage drops below a given point. This point dosent seem very specific? Ive never had this happen with 35! 

I run a Sebart Katana with 35mhz equipment installed.  Same ESC and Im using the internal BEC. This BEC is rated at up to 6 servos, (digital or otherwise, 2 being the minimum number to use), and the Katana is only running 4. I suspect that the Sukhoi is the same. I have no problems at all with this set up. I believe the BEC supplies 5V to servo's/RX although Im not entierely sure of the current draw and cant find any detail of this on their site. Im also led to believe that the BEC in the Hacker SB series of ESC is above average in that is stable up to and including the use of 6S Lipos. Sorry to here about the plane, but if you get another and insist on using 2.4gig then I would use a seperate RX battery. Alternatively stick to 35meg. My ten penneth. 

Makes sense, just wasnt sure! The AC supply is throwing 12V at a max of 5A so I thought this might be the root cause, but when we attatched the B6 to the same battery as the BC8 had been connected to it still onlly threw 2.1A out the other end. Thanks Tim. Ian 

Quick question regarding the B6.....and hopefully a quick answer! A mate of mine has bought one of these as he couldnt stomach the price of the Bantam BC8. Among his growing collection of Lipos is 2 FP 6S 4900's. When these are put on charge with the B6 the maximum current sent at start of charge is 2.1A. The same battery using my charger, (BC8), is being sent a current of 4.9A whcih is what I would expect when the battery has been used. Obviously the current ramps down as the battery capacity increases. Any ideas? It dosent matter if the B6 is on battery power or mains, still the same 2.1A. as you can imagine, it takes an age to charge such a big battery at such a low rate! 

http://www.modelflying.co.uk/forum/forummessages/mps/dt/1/UTN/1933/V/6/SP/ OK heres the link. Wasnt for you Myron as Tim asked for it!!!!! Feel free to use it in anyway that you wish though.....

I posted a link a while back re. Flight power batteries. Think it was in the bargain area. If you cant find it let me know and Ill re-post it after I find it!!