stealth916
Veteran
Location: Rocklin, CA
| After a few flights with the Esky blades, I do notice that they bog down the motor pretty hard coming out of some maneuvers. I am using the 9T motor from my Blade aero enhancement kit. I never got enough time with the Eflite sym blades to compare the bogging,
Also, after a few flights with the DD tail I can make some comments. It does fly much smoother, and also the noise from the tail motor is much less than with the geared setup. It blends in with the noise from the main rotor now and sounds a lot better. It seems to hold much better on hard climb outs, but I can't really tell with the motor bogging down like it is. I also haven't tried turning up the gyro gain. But there is no doubt that this DD setup is way more responsive to the gyro inputs, and you can probably get some more gain for sure.
The DD tail motor (can) temp after a 10 minute FF flight using the 4.5 x 3 prop never gets over 100 degrees F. The main motor can gets to 119F and the main motor commutator gets to 126F. This is flying about 5 mins of idle up and 5 mins of normal. I am using a K-type thermistor contact probe for temp readings.
For general FF and FFF, the Esky blades are no problem as-is. That is shown by the low motor temp. They also fly smooth and track well.
But I am still going to try cutting somewhere between 10-20mm off of another set of Esky blades and see if the bogging is helped.
I am still very happy with the Esky parts I am using. |
