RC BLog: Pretorian 435: Winter's a comin'!

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Winter's a comin'!

Now that I am not so distracted starting up a new job, I am getting back into the RC Lab and flying again. I've been out a couple of times, but this past Sunday was just beautiful. Its getting colder, and the sun is setting earlier. I got out late since I decided late and had a couple of batteries to charge, but once it was clear that Detroit was embarrassing themselves, I headed just up the road to Joppa Hill fields.

I flew the MX2 uneventfully, going through the two sets of 5S batteries I have (it flies 10S). She flew gracefully, with ease. Also brought out the Eflite Ultimate and flew three packs of crazy aerobatics as the sun set.

I had also brought out the HDX 500SE. She continues to have gyro and electrical problems that I cannot get a handle on. I think they are related, some sort of amp surge. I have changed out the receiver and the ESC without improvement. I suspect a bad servo, but haven't been able to reproduce this problem with the servo tester. I will need to replace them one at a time... something I am not looking to do anytime soon. I still have a Trex 600 to build, and another Trex 600 to rebuild! So she sits on the bench...

Speaking of building...

I still have the FMS 2300mm AWS28 glider I bought, opened in box, which I will put together next.

And look what Mr. Postman brought me today!

Its the General Hobby Skyline MSX-R 30cc I got to replace the 30cc Sbach I crashed back in Gulfport last summer. This is my spring project, moving all the servos and electronics, then the power plant, over to this plane.

I also just bought (yeah, I know... yet another plane) an Eflite J-3 Cub 450 sized. I did get a new receiver to go with this, but have a 480 motor (I think, at least I know I have a couple of 450 Sport motors) and 40amp ESCs on hand, also got some EXI metal gear digital sub-micro servos. The goal is to put her on some DuBro 7" skis and fly her off the snow!