Mini-Titan e325 Night Flying LED Setup Progress

I am working to convert my ACE Mini-Titan e325 to a night-flying setup. Since winter is on the way, the only time I’ll be able to fly is later on in the day when the sun is low, or gone so this is a perfect excuse to play with lighting. I purchased 2 feet of […]
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Tags: Electronics, Helicopter, led, mini-titan, Night Flying, Soldering
NEAT Fair 2010 Photographs and Videos

There are quite a few photos that I’ve uploaded and they’re in the gallery below, just open them and use the left/right buttons at the bottom of the viewer pane to move between photos. There were a lot of great pilots at the NEAT fair and some really fun events as well. The helicopter section […]
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Tags: drone, FPV, Helicopter, Octacopter, Photography, Plane, Radio Control
Analyzing Your Radio Controlled Helicopters Current Consumption

I’ve been flying quite a bit and not paying much attention to the load I’ve been putting on my speed controller. Today I plugged my CC50 ICE into the computer to check out my last few flights. I was quite surprised. Most of my flying did not load the ESC as much as I had […]
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Tags: e325, Electronics, heli, Helicopter, mini-titan, Radio Control, rc
Trying Out Some Low Cost Outrunner Brushless Motors from eBay

These outrunner brushless motors were shipped straight from China and took about two weeks to arrive and cost about $12 each shipped. Here are a couple of high resolution photos of these motors, they have a nice flat gold color to the ends and the bell is chromed a good overall appearance at first look. […]
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Tags: brushless motor, Helicopter, model, outrunner brushless motor, Plane, Radio Control, rc
E-Flite Power 90 Brushless Motor Rebuild

Hi folks, as you may know from watching the videos, I put my Twist 60 into mother earth a couple of weeks ago which resulted in some damage to the brushless electric motor I use to power it. Most of the damage was to the bearings, they sounded kind of crunchy. I also replaced the […]
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Tags: Electronics, Radio Control