{"id":12,"date":"2013-05-26T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-05-23T17:35:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T16:35:50","slug":"the-collection-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/rcmodels\/2013\/05\/the-collection-begins.html","title":{"rendered":"The Collection Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have made a start on my collection, courtesy of ebay<\/a>. First I acquired a Walkera QR Ladybird<\/a> without a transmitter, but with a fair few spares for \u00a337.00 inc P&P:<\/p>\n

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Next came a Walkera CB180D<\/a> FP Helicopter for \u00a360 inc P&P:<\/div>\n
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This came with a Walkera 2401 2.4GHz transmitter, and a load of spares.<\/div>\n
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Unfortunately, the Ladybird will not pair with the older 2401 transmitter, it requires the newer 2401D.<\/div>\n
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I was originally going to go down the Turnigy 9X<\/a> 2.4GHz  transmitter route, however after reading about the Deviation<\/a> Open Source project, decided to go down the Walkera Devo Transmitter route and bought a Walkera Devo 8 Transmitter for \u00a386.00 inc P&P.<\/div>\n
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It already had a bound entry for the Walkera QR Ladybird<\/a>, so attempted to fly it with that.<\/div>\n
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Firstly, after connecting the battery twice, the bind light stopped coming on! turns out the positive battery wire had come lose from the circuit board. Re-drill the hole and a little soldering later and it’s alive again.<\/div>\n
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Initial attempts at flying were a total disaster, the moment it attempted to lift off, it immediately flipped over – definitely something wrong here! I studied the propellers for a while and realised that they were not all turning the right way to generate lift, so moved some of them around.<\/div>\n
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The bug would still not fly, so I searched the web until I found the following image showing how it should be set up:<\/div>\n
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I moved a leg or two and moved the connectors and hey, we have a bug that flies!<\/div>\n
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It took a while to get a hang of the controls, but I am getting there slowly. One thing I do notice that I am not convinced is right, is that for no reason at all it will suddenly drop and require extra throttle to prevent it from hitting the floor.<\/div>\n
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It would also seem that this Walkera QR Ladybird<\/a> has been in the wars somewhat – only half the original frame still exists, the battery is held in place with a velcro strap and the leg mounts look a little cracked. Still I am not complaining, it is a V1 motherboard and any additional spares I may require are cheap enough on ebay<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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I then upgraded the Devo 8 to Version 3.00 of the Deviationtx<\/a> software using the Walkera Firmware upgrade tool and then went about setting up a new model for the Ladybird.<\/div>\n
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There are also plenty of configurations for models available on the Deviation Forums<\/a>, adding them to your transmitter is as simple as copying files to a USB drive, thanks to the USB interface on the transmitter.<\/div>\n
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By default, I think the Devo 8 can store up to 16 models, with the Deviationtx<\/a> software it can store up to 255.<\/div>\n
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Next up was a 16 in 1 Flight simulator package from Hong Kong, this came with numerous flight simulators, cables for the transmitters and a dongle to change which simulator to emulate.<\/div>\n
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According to the blurb for the Phoenix Simulator<\/a>, it does not support the Walkera Devo range of transmitters, however, because the Deviationtx<\/a> software allows the transmitter to behave like several different manufacturers transmitters, and thanks to this post<\/a> I am able to use my Devo 8 with the Phoenix Simulator<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Many different helicopters and planes, as well as many crashes later (all with no downtime between crashes) I am starting to get to grips with how to fly, all thanks to the simulator.<\/div>\n
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I am following the training instructions on RCHelicopterFun<\/a>, but have still yet to master hovering, still no rush, it will probably be a little while yet before I am brave enough to try and fly any helicopters for real.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have made a start on my collection, courtesy of ebay. First I acquired a Walkera QR Ladybird without a transmitter, but with a fair few spares for \u00a337.00 inc P&P: Next came a Walkera CB180D FP Helicopter for \u00a360 inc P&P: This came with a Walkera 2401 2.4GHz transmitter, and a load of spares. Unfortunately, the Ladybird…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/rcmodels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/rcmodels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/rcmodels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/rcmodels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/rcmodels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/rcmodels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/rcmodels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/rcmodels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/rcmodels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/rcmodels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/rcmodels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}