mrbrooks3

Last updated: 27 Jun 2009

If you have been following this post, you'll know that in Jan I started a new hobby - RC Helicopters. I started out with a Honeybee FP and now have started building one of my two 450 class helis.

27th June 2009

Thanks to some excellent pointers from the Heliguy.com forum, i've sussed the problem with the motor - a badly soldered joint was causing the motor to run in 2 phases opposed to 3. So corrected that, sorted some other issues with the tail and it was time to fly....

...after a nervous first spool up, the tail was whipping around the wrong direction - doh, reversed the rudder. Spool up second time, this time tail whipping around (pirouetting) - what now - then figured i had the reverse switch on the gyro set wrongly. Once set, I had a rock solid tail - and i mean rock solid...

anyway enough blabbing some video...

26th June 2009

Something is amiss. I cannot for the life of me get any life out of the brushless motor. It jerks around whilst drawing huge ampage from the battery. A bit purplexed....

19th June 2009

Not much progress, soldered bullet connectors onto ESC and motor

18th June 2009

Yahoo, today I received some more parts for the 450, so phase 2 of the build can begin. Parts arriving today:-

Turnigy 2836-3700Kv motor
TURNIGY Plush 40amp Speed Controller
MKS DS480 Digital Servo
3 x HXT900 Servos

17th June 2009

Well i have bought myself two Dragon Sky 450, which are Trex 450 clones. I am currently building one, this can be seen below.

The details of the Honey Bee FP can be found here

Some pictures of my heli

Added some video of some of my flights. Nose-in still proving to be a bit elusive - can't quite get my head into acting in reverse.

Also have treated my self to a new transmitter - a Spektrum DX7.

Happy new year

Some of our Xmas photos 2008

Last updated: 07 Jan 2009

Lets start 2009 off with some pictures of Xmas 2008.

Two new albums added

Last updated: 26 Nov 2008

I've added two more photo collections for November, the first is a collection of photos from two visits to Marwell Zoo. The second collection is just a random set of photos, mostly of Daniel pottering around the house

Grr..Why is GoDaddy so slow

How shared hosting spoiled my day

Created: 15 Nov 2008

Found the cause of the poor performance of the photo album. I was using the Exif information from my images to pull out information such as width and height, but my logic to do so was running at 15 to 20ms per image on my dev machine, but running at an awful 300ms on my shared hosting platform...grrrrr.

So i've turned off this feature and i'll think you'll see the performance is far better.