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Blades, Night Flying and Painting > T-Rex 450SE and night flying rig...

jackheli
Elite Veteran
Location: Vancouver - Canada

Hi guys,

could you post some pictures of your T-Rex450 with the night gear installed?

I was wondering what lengths of cold light strings I would need and the number of drivers and locations for them.

What battery are you guys using to power this setup?

Thanks a lot.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new - Albert Einstein

04-17-2008 06:09 PM

S76 Mech
Elite Veteran
Location: Hatboro, Pa.

Yes Please, Me too !!!

~ Rick
Them Sireens did this to Pete. They loved him up and turned him into a horny toad

06-07-2008 01:04 AM

speeddemon370
Veteran
Location: Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada

Me 3

with 2 ears and 1 mouth you should listen twice as much as you talk

06-09-2008 03:12 AM

HOMEPAGE

DOperchal
Senior Heliman
Location: USAF Academy, CO

This is all I have right now but I will get some more later (yes I know that the tracking is off :rolleyes

. I am using the 1m light string, one for the canopy and one for the tail boom. Both strings are connected to one driver that i mount inside the canopy. The string on the canopy can be either wire tied or hot glued on, wire ties look better but the hot melt glue takes a lot less time. The blades are the standard align blades.

BOHICA

06-09-2008 05:04 AM

bingahead
Heliman
Location: Easton pa

a good set up would be for color wise is two blue cold light strings on the boom and tail connected to one driver.then you would want have orange on the landing gear and a ulta green for the canopy connected to another driver.i just seen this set up at mha funfly and am currently working on my set up.ill post pics as soon as i get it done.

wife said" either its me or the helis"...damn it was sad to see her go!!!

06-10-2008 05:37 PM

cassat
Veteran
Location: Alberta,Canada

Great. I was just going to post this question also!
Do the drivers power from the motor Lipo? or do you need another small lipo on top?

06-10-2008 07:28 PM

S76 Mech
Elite Veteran
Location: Hatboro, Pa.

Most drivers come with the connector that usually connects to a seperate pack via a JST type plug. If you choose to run off the ESC, u most probably will have to cut the battery connector off and solder the wires to the ESC leads.

Or, you could just run a small 2/3S lipo to run the wire.

Or, you could run a seperate lipo for the glow as I mentioned in the line above, and tap off that to run 11.1v (if your using a 3S) to power the K&B tail blade LEDs

~ Rick
Them Sireens did this to Pete. They loved him up and turned him into a horny toad

06-10-2008 09:09 PM

S76 Mech
Elite Veteran
Location: Hatboro, Pa.

hey bingahead

what does your screen-name mean?

If your speaking spanish, its funny! (pinga)

~ Rick
Them Sireens did this to Pete. They loved him up and turned him into a horny toad

06-10-2008 09:12 PM

bingahead
Heliman
Location: Easton pa

LOL!!!!...well if you really want ot know its pretty funny

BING UP SIDE YOUR HEAD!!!!

kind of a head hunter thing

so like mech was saying you can do either way run it off a seprate lipo or haveing to cut the leads in half to run it off your lipo battery

wife said" either its me or the helis"...damn it was sad to see her go!!!

06-10-2008 09:18 PM

gearset
Senior Heliman
Location: Thunder Bay Ontario

here is my 450 SA

align light string,drivers and blaids.

BFcarbon Rep , X-TREME 50 Team Canada, XP fuel

06-22-2008 08:35 PM

cassat
Veteran
Location: Alberta,Canada

Where? Do you see it?

06-22-2008 08:57 PM

speeddemon370
Veteran
Location: Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada

Quote
here is my 450 SA

Where is here?

with 2 ears and 1 mouth you should listen twice as much as you talk

06-22-2008 11:59 PM

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gearset
Senior Heliman
Location: Thunder Bay Ontario

opps.

BFcarbon Rep , X-TREME 50 Team Canada, XP fuel

06-23-2008 12:31 AM

speeddemon370
Veteran
Location: Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada

Looks good. How about a flying or at least spooled up pic?

with 2 ears and 1 mouth you should listen twice as much as you talk

06-23-2008 02:22 AM

HOMEPAGE

gearset
Senior Heliman
Location: Thunder Bay Ontario

BFcarbon Rep , X-TREME 50 Team Canada, XP fuel

06-23-2008 04:09 AM

speeddemon370
Veteran
Location: Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada

Thanks, I just don't know what it is about the tracers but I can't get enough of em. I'm not set up yet for night flyin. But I have to say that it is something that I am very much looking foreward to. Night heli's are without a doubt (for me anyways) the wierdest and coolest looking things I have ever layed eyes on.

Do you ever wonder how many ufo stories have erupted because someone was out night flying thier heli?

with 2 ears and 1 mouth you should listen twice as much as you talk

06-24-2008 02:36 AM

HOMEPAGE

electrosphere
Heliman
Location: perth, australia

NVFR450

My setup..
5meters of glow wire. 1 glow wire driver connected to 3A 6V UBEC... high intensity led on skid driven by 6v UBEC

06-24-2008 04:35 PM

gearset
Senior Heliman
Location: Thunder Bay Ontario

I re-vamped the 450, still need more leds on it but its a good start