Recent content by PhoenixFord

Understood. Yea between working 7 days a week, shift changes at work, allergies and planning for my 30th wedding anniversary, I haven't even found time to maiden my 210r. But I still try to sneak in a little PC time for studying.

One of the benefits of being a heli pilot is learning to use your radio to adjust flight curves. Not saying I'm good at it. But I have an understanding of what it's for and basically how to use it. Your radio is the key to RC. You can build the best model in the world. But you won't be able to...

I've been using this trick to troubleshoot groundfault circuits for a long time. I have a home made device for use on 120V circuits using a standard incandescent light bulb.

The reg's on the FC are for outputs to your peripheral devices like camera's, vTx's and Rx's. So "yes" (the peripheral's) are protected. But the FC itself (being connected directly to the battery) doesn't have ANY protection.

It's just a precaution really. Not required but highly recommended. Anything connected directly to the battery (and not run through a power conditioner) needs some sort of protection.

Except it looks like you will need to add one of these. VVV 4x Panasonic FM 470uF 35v Low-ESR radial capacitors caps 105C 10mm 10x20 | eBay

Hope you can find a good charger on sale too. :p

Nice - What about charging these bad boys?

You probably already know this. But not all manufacturers make CCW wound motors.

I received my "Orange" USB interface a couple of days ago. Installed and used it on "Freerider" last night. Everything worked great. I tried to install DRL on my laptop and it wouldn't run. Guess I should have checked the Spec's first. ??? I contacted Horizon Hobby about the prospect of the...

I've been working with 3 wire (3 Phase) motors for more than 30 years. And I have never been able to depend on just simply connecting a motor and having it rotate in the direction needed (every time). These "little" motors and speed controllers may be more reliable (or consistent) about how they...

Since I'm still pretty new to quads, what I'm about to say, I haven't had the opportunity to try yet. But I do know that it is possible to do. - Heli pilots adjust all their rates (in the software) to full acro control. Then simply adjust their rates in the transmitter to achieve different...

What software are you running? Is it the same software already installed on the flight controller?

If you let out the magic smoke, there should be a nice tell-tell sign in the form of a black smudge. Magic smoke usually leaves a foot print where it exit's.

I got mine at RadioShack. Not very expensive. 470uF 35V