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Post by gagallagher04401 on Apr 9, 2009 12:19:08 GMT 1
Thanks fly. What should I be averaging on my Rhino 1550 3s 20C packs, (so I have a starting point on how long I can fly)
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Post by flydiver on Apr 9, 2009 15:58:39 GMT 1
Depends on your motor, prop and flying style. I'd start with 10" unless you find you are flying WOT a lot.
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Post by gagallagher04401 on Apr 9, 2009 16:15:35 GMT 1
I'm using stock electronics/motor for now.
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Post by flydiver on Apr 9, 2009 16:30:38 GMT 1
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Post by gagallagher04401 on Apr 9, 2009 17:05:21 GMT 1
Yup I have a bottle of Advil! LOL
I will say though I had my order within 4 days.
Yes I changed props I fly GWS 10X6 (orange ones)
I am on and off the throttle.
I do it all! HAHA
Fly where do you buy alot of your RC stuff?
Another thing that sucks where I am closest hobby shop is over 2 hours away.
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Post by flydiver on Apr 9, 2009 18:23:54 GMT 1
Where I buy depends on what I buy. These vendors are all decent: Heads Up RC: (basic stuff but outstanding site and service) Good prices. www.headsuprc.com/servlet/StoreFrontGWSProps - GWS specific but good prices for what he has. gwsprops.com/LightflightRC - good prices, great service www.lightflightrc.com/DonsRC-great guy, great service www.donsrc.com/cart/index.phpBPHobies - large site with lots of stuff. Diversity is off set by lower and more difficult service like most sites. Prefer them over Tower by a long shot. www.bphobbies.com/view.asp?id=V815101Occasionally hobby lobby or hobby people. I'm not a Tower fan-I think they are pretty self serving and give new folks a lot of bad advice. HC for large orders I combine with my buddy to defray shipping. A lot of their small stuff is junk (poor props, collet adapters, some dubro knock-offs, etc.) Good for batteries, some motors, turnigy ESC. If you paid for rapid shipping and only bought a few things did it end up being any real buying advantage? Folks crow about how cheap it is and the ones crowing loudest seem to completely ignore the shipping and other hassles. My closest shop is about an hour. The staff often doesn't know some critical stuff and they often don't have what I want anyway. I do try to shop there if I'm going to be there and give them some business. |
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Post by gagallagher04401 on Apr 9, 2009 18:51:18 GMT 1
Thanks Fly! I will be checking these sites out , and book marking them  George |
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Post by duck9191 on Apr 9, 2009 19:38:26 GMT 1
I use mostly only a few places, as I try to combine shipping. mostly hobby people (lots of sales latly), tower hobbies, hobbycity and once in a while headsuprc. tower doesn't give the best advice that's true. but their customer service has been good to me. too bad about the battery, but it does happen no matter where you shop, but its a bit harder to return with hobbycity.
my lhs is a joke. they literly have not got any inventory in at least for 2 years now. I have bought almost everything off there great planes and dubro hardware racks, they have no planes for sale either. worst of all they lie and miss lead people so they don't have to order anything. I have had a bellcrank for my savage on order for 2 years lol. he sold some youger kid a traxxas to deans adapter and told him to just shove the wire in with the pin, I ended up soldering it for him in the parking lot. so I envy you guys that's have a decent lsh lol. only good one around here is 150 mile trip to detroit.
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Post by flydiver on Apr 9, 2009 19:56:28 GMT 1
Hobby People have some unique sales occasionally, as does HL. That's when I tend to jump in. I'm a bargain shopper. What is often cheapest isn't necessarily a good buy. There is a lot of crap in this sport and hard for newbies to tell the difference.
My biggest gripe with Tower is their recommended packages and accessories for planes. My personal opinion often differs substantially. Of course they want you to buy their stuff but some of it just doesn't work well for the specified application.
Sadly amusing is the HC TowerPro motor/ESC packages with the gearbox mount that are bought by the thousands. Confuses newbies something awful and the TP ESC is awful for stick programming and a marginal ESC anyway. Then they nose them in and bend the noodle shaft almost immediately. Seems they should be sold by the 6-pack.
HeadsUp will give you a similar product for only a couple $$ more, immediate and unbelievably cheap shipping, great service, HUGE amount of info on the site about the motors/prop combos (which newbies need DESPERATELY!!!), and incredible email help. If you need warranty service it is NOW. Just bought some stuff from him last week.
No one should buy those TP combos from HC unless they already KNOW what they are doing. But, if they did, they wouldn't anyway most likely.
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Post by gagallagher04401 on Apr 9, 2009 20:17:54 GMT 1
My biggest beef is with a lot of these places is they think they know everything, and everyone but the people working in there company is dumb! "I am not dumb, I know I am not the smartest guy out there I do not try to be, but please do not treat me or talk to me like I am dumb" That bugs the hell out of me!
I work on/ customize and rebuild motorcycles for fun, you go into a dealership for instance, they think just because they have a nuts on that say Honda, or kawasaki, or whatever in the corner of it they KNOW IT ALL! and you and I are just morons. I do not business with dealerships unless I am buying a brand new motorcycle.
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Post by l8again on May 17, 2009 17:16:46 GMT 1
Well...finally moving into lipos' ! Bought a zippy 2200, which weighs one gram more than my 8 cell nimh. Question is...how to keep cg close to stock. Would I be better off trying to modify bb so that the battery goes straight down through the middle, or towards the back as most have done? If I go straight down the center, would have to find a way to keep battery from moving, but sure I could figure out something .
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Post by gagallagher04401 on May 17, 2009 20:24:59 GMT 1
Well the 2200 are heavier batteries.
I use Rhino 1550 * 1750's batteries I pretty much removed my batt box all together. I used double sided sticky adhesive pads and mounted the rx/esc to the side of the fueslage. I then put a length velcro on the inside front wall of the fueslage (the side where the motor leads cominto the opening of the fueslage. My battery stand verticle.
Works awesome. then if I need to adjust COG I tape a metal washer or to either the front or the rear to balance her out. (somehwere neat and hidden)
Hope this helps some.
George
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Post by admiralev on May 18, 2009 3:57:51 GMT 1
my lhs has a halfway decent inventory but i feel like there's no organization to the place. you have to dig thru piles of packages to find what you want. in my case they dont carry glow engines either so i have bought a few OS from tower. ive never had a problem with them but i have never built a plane from them with their combo and recommended products. i have upsized everything they recommend anyways as i look for a little bit more power for sticky situations (the wind at our field can get really wacky sometimes...shifts all over the place)
admiral
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