Post by patinsunnyhills on Feb 25, 2009 20:48:10 GMT 1
Hello everyone.
First post but I have been reading, well, almost all the threads here. Great advice and lots of good reading.
I just bought my Super cub a couple weeks ago and I love it. Its a great plane and its my first. Me and her had a few troubles at first until I got over my fear by letting her fly above 20 feet. I was a little afraid to let it rip at first and after a few tumbles by letting her fly close to the ground until I pushed the throttle full power and elevator up, we had some great flights since. Ive learned some inverted flights, loops, stalls and near about every trick you can do with these planes.
After my very first flight with her I took off when a gust of wind threw her backwards and she flipped wing over wing a couple times and took a small chunk of foam off the end, I took her home and put packing tape around the edges of the plane. This really helped allot as it endured a few crashes since with no damage or at the least, very minor damage that gorilla glue took care of.
One night I was standing out in my yard in front of my four lane residential street just running the plane back and forth down on the ground (without taking off) just to get the feel of the remote, how it steers coming toward me and going away. I did take off once, mind you, we do have street lights but I thought how cool it would be if it had lights on it.
I don’t have pics yet but for those who haven’t put lights on and wish to, I have installed two super bright whites underneath the fuse (I will move them to the cowling), two blinking reds on top near the middle wing, a red on the left, a green on the right and a yellow on the top of the tail wing.
When I first ventured into putting LED's on this plane, I drew a schematic and built a board that attached underneath the middle wing that fit comfortably in the fuse with 100 ohm, 1/4 watt resistors to convert a 6 volt battery to at least 2-3 volts for each light. I had to many wires and it made everything bulky plus, the 6 volt 105 MaH battery I used only lasted an hour ... the lights looked really cool though!
I took everything apart because my contraption I felt was to bulky and my 22 gauge wire was putting to much weight on the plane.
I went back to radio shack and bought 22 and 24 gauge coil (transformer wire) It has minimum coating and light weight. I wired directly from the planes battery connection to a switch mounted in the side of the fuse underneath the wing. Each LED, instead of having all resistors on a board as mentioned above, I soldered the resistors to the positive side of the LED and put heat shrink tubing around the leads. Then I took a white heat shrink tube large enough to go over the two I just did while fitting part of the LED into it. I took my soldering iron and melted a line in the wing to tight fit the combination of LED and resister into. I then packaged taped over the lights and the fitting.
I ran a green 22 gauge line (negative) and a red 24 line to each light, taped to the backside of the wings and underneath the fuse. I haven’t finished this project yet with green, red, blinking and yellow lights with the new way I wired this up. For what I do have is a Super white, 10mm 28,000 mcd light under the fuse (will put two in the cowling later) and two 5 mm super bright white, 10 degree, 7000 mcd with heat shrink tube fit with only part of the tip of the bulb sticking out mounted in the middle of each side of the wing. Because I am now connected directly into the planes battery source, I assumed each resistor had to convert down from 9.6 volts. Some light required 1/2 watt 100 ohm, while others 220 ohm or 330 ohm 1/2 watt. I did use a multimeter to make sure my voltage the other side of the resistor met the requirements and didn’t not go over the max forward voltage of the LED.
This site helped me determine my led resistance I need, led.linear1.org/1led.wiz
I’m sorry I don’t have pictures yet, I will once I dig back into this project. I flew the plane this morning before sun-up and it looks super bad ass when the plane is coming toward you. I cant wait to install the other lights the way I had it before and I will be able to determine from the different color lights, which way my plane is orientated ... for now, all I can see at night is the front of the plane.
Ive got some mini strobe lights I’m going to experiment with and see if I can't incorporate into the plane ... if not, I found a website that sells blinking whites (not found in radio shack) that I would like to incorporate along side of the red and green I will put on the side of the wings.
Happy Flying!
First post but I have been reading, well, almost all the threads here. Great advice and lots of good reading.
I just bought my Super cub a couple weeks ago and I love it. Its a great plane and its my first. Me and her had a few troubles at first until I got over my fear by letting her fly above 20 feet. I was a little afraid to let it rip at first and after a few tumbles by letting her fly close to the ground until I pushed the throttle full power and elevator up, we had some great flights since. Ive learned some inverted flights, loops, stalls and near about every trick you can do with these planes.
After my very first flight with her I took off when a gust of wind threw her backwards and she flipped wing over wing a couple times and took a small chunk of foam off the end, I took her home and put packing tape around the edges of the plane. This really helped allot as it endured a few crashes since with no damage or at the least, very minor damage that gorilla glue took care of.
One night I was standing out in my yard in front of my four lane residential street just running the plane back and forth down on the ground (without taking off) just to get the feel of the remote, how it steers coming toward me and going away. I did take off once, mind you, we do have street lights but I thought how cool it would be if it had lights on it.
I don’t have pics yet but for those who haven’t put lights on and wish to, I have installed two super bright whites underneath the fuse (I will move them to the cowling), two blinking reds on top near the middle wing, a red on the left, a green on the right and a yellow on the top of the tail wing.
When I first ventured into putting LED's on this plane, I drew a schematic and built a board that attached underneath the middle wing that fit comfortably in the fuse with 100 ohm, 1/4 watt resistors to convert a 6 volt battery to at least 2-3 volts for each light. I had to many wires and it made everything bulky plus, the 6 volt 105 MaH battery I used only lasted an hour ... the lights looked really cool though!
I took everything apart because my contraption I felt was to bulky and my 22 gauge wire was putting to much weight on the plane.
I went back to radio shack and bought 22 and 24 gauge coil (transformer wire) It has minimum coating and light weight. I wired directly from the planes battery connection to a switch mounted in the side of the fuse underneath the wing. Each LED, instead of having all resistors on a board as mentioned above, I soldered the resistors to the positive side of the LED and put heat shrink tubing around the leads. Then I took a white heat shrink tube large enough to go over the two I just did while fitting part of the LED into it. I took my soldering iron and melted a line in the wing to tight fit the combination of LED and resister into. I then packaged taped over the lights and the fitting.
I ran a green 22 gauge line (negative) and a red 24 line to each light, taped to the backside of the wings and underneath the fuse. I haven’t finished this project yet with green, red, blinking and yellow lights with the new way I wired this up. For what I do have is a Super white, 10mm 28,000 mcd light under the fuse (will put two in the cowling later) and two 5 mm super bright white, 10 degree, 7000 mcd with heat shrink tube fit with only part of the tip of the bulb sticking out mounted in the middle of each side of the wing. Because I am now connected directly into the planes battery source, I assumed each resistor had to convert down from 9.6 volts. Some light required 1/2 watt 100 ohm, while others 220 ohm or 330 ohm 1/2 watt. I did use a multimeter to make sure my voltage the other side of the resistor met the requirements and didn’t not go over the max forward voltage of the LED.
This site helped me determine my led resistance I need, led.linear1.org/1led.wiz
I’m sorry I don’t have pictures yet, I will once I dig back into this project. I flew the plane this morning before sun-up and it looks super bad ass when the plane is coming toward you. I cant wait to install the other lights the way I had it before and I will be able to determine from the different color lights, which way my plane is orientated ... for now, all I can see at night is the front of the plane.
Ive got some mini strobe lights I’m going to experiment with and see if I can't incorporate into the plane ... if not, I found a website that sells blinking whites (not found in radio shack) that I would like to incorporate along side of the red and green I will put on the side of the wings.
Happy Flying!
3 red flasher and one white constant or just cut out the ones you don't want. They even have a 3 wire set that will switch off with your transmitter.