I love electric helicopters! But I love Nitro helicopters more lol they hold a special place in my heart because that’s what I learn to fly on and grew up flying. I personally think everybody should have at least one nitro helicopter in their collection it’s just such a different flight experience!
Sweet I was hoping you would do a nitro build. Personally Im not a fan of nitro anymore. I had a few nitro planes and a car. Absolutely hate the cleanup and tuning deal. Electric is just so much easier to deal with and more power!
I’ve done a few Nitro builds on the channel. Yes electric definitely has more power and no mess or cleanup but personally you just don’t have the smell and sound of a Nitro and there’s just some thing about the pipe screaming smoke coming out that is just so much better to me. But I still love my electric helis!
Hey Jeff, Love your channel!! Do you by chance know the part #’s of the SRXL2 receiver and the satellite? Looking at moving up from my OMP M1/M2 and Blade Fusion 360 into some of the bigger 580 sized models. Just trying to make sense of the receiver and satellite setup. Plan to go with the ikon2 and a hobbywing esc, hoping to have telemetry on my IX14. Thanks in advance!
Sadly i had a very very hard crash on my raw 580 this weekend. It almost needs a new kit because a lot of stuff broke ( I literally mean a lot). It was idiotic from me ruining the tx16s and i knew it was not trust worthy for a big model but i just sold my vbar for a profit, and the model suddenly discontinued while doing a dive and went straight to the ground and take in mind it was still spinning so you know what that would look like. Might. Sadly only the tail servo and the furthest cyclic servo survived. Might use these servos on a plane and get a new nimbus 550 kit to try something new
I have had the tx16 for years and trust it 100% to all of my aircraft . Never had an issue. What rx were you using? Where was it placed? What happened during the crash? What did your fbl logs say?
Unfortunately that’s the reason I quit using my TX 16 us. I crashed two helicopters because of signal loss and I was only 10 feet in front of me. I can’t trust the radio to fly anything at all nor will I risk crashing a expensive helicopter because of it. A lot of guys like them and use them but I personally would never. You gotta be careful running helicopters servos and airplanes because you cannot set the frequency and you can hurt the servo.
@@westhobbiesrc8051 no you can't, even my flysky radio let me do that, but the default i believe is probably 50 hertz from a standard rx, at least thats what it was with my flysky recievers at default. won't hurt them, just won't run at full potential. I actually burnt up a nice futaba digital servo with my flysky radio by cranking the frequency on the radio and it got super super hot really fast and was done. Fbl lets us choose the frequency, but for planes you won't hurt any servo using with it.
Oh…that will do it. Not your transmitters fault. Stick with spektrum for the heli’s and you won’t have a problem. Don’t fly radiomaster or Frsky receivers.
@@lechiffre2617 love my Fusion 270 but do your self a huge favor and replace the FBL unit. The 626 in junk and will tip over almost every time and cost you in blades and servo gear sets. I went to iKon FBL in mine and very happy.
@@westhobbiesrc8051 the one i bought is the kit without any fbl unit. So this is karma. I only can buy a msh brain in my country. I will give it a try. Thx.
Well Explainded ! Tks Jeff for taking time ! 😎
Thank you for watching! I greatly appreciate it!
Thanks for the video! Without this video I never would have figured out how to get a clutch stack from a use Kraken Nitro that I bought apart!
Another Phenomenal Build, Jeff!
Looking forward to Part 2!
Thank you Larry! I greatly appreciate it!
New build content! Yessssss
Always new contract!
Excellent job as usual👍
Thank you! I appreciate it.
Awesome vid 👌🏻
Thank you!
Flying electric since 2009, looking forward to learn about a nitro heli build.
I love electric helicopters! But I love Nitro helicopters more lol they hold a special place in my heart because that’s what I learn to fly on and grew up flying. I personally think everybody should have at least one nitro helicopter in their collection it’s just such a different flight experience!
@@westhobbiesrc8051 Just could be I might build my next 580 on nitro one day :) Keep these awesome videos coming please!
@@nasirsaeedkhan you should! It fly’s amazing! Dont worry! Videos are not going anywhere!
Notifs on!
Heck yeah!
Sweet I was hoping you would do a nitro build. Personally Im not a fan of nitro anymore. I had a few nitro planes and a car. Absolutely hate the cleanup and tuning deal. Electric is just so much easier to deal with and more power!
I’ve done a few Nitro builds on the channel. Yes electric definitely has more power and no mess or cleanup but personally you just don’t have the smell and sound of a Nitro and there’s just some thing about the pipe screaming smoke coming out that is just so much better to me. But I still love my electric helis!
Is it worth spending the extra money on the OS 55HZ-R DRS engine over the standard 55HZ-H?
@@joslinnick I’m personally not a fan of pumped engines and never run them but some people love pumped engines. More stuff to go wrong!
Hey Jeff, Love your channel!!
Do you by chance know the part #’s of the SRXL2 receiver and the satellite? Looking at moving up from my OMP M1/M2 and Blade Fusion 360 into some of the bigger 580 sized models.
Just trying to make sense of the receiver and satellite setup. Plan to go with the ikon2 and a hobbywing esc, hoping to have telemetry on my IX14.
Thanks in advance!
Hey Cody, Thank you! The SRXL2 is SPM4651T and the DSMX Satellite is SPM9745. The 580 is a fantastic heli and a great choice.
@@westhobbiesrc8051 Thanks for the quick response and the part #’s!
Keep up the awesome work and great content!
@@codyreilander9048 thank you! I, glad you enjoy the channel!
Oh Jeff by the way my chase 360 also needs a motor
Not a problem, I can give you a couple different options on what to go with.
@@westhobbiesrc8051 ok that's good
Can you tell me on how money will I need to send to you
Sadly i had a very very hard crash on my raw 580 this weekend. It almost needs a new kit because a lot of stuff broke ( I literally mean a lot). It was idiotic from me ruining the tx16s and i knew it was not trust worthy for a big model but i just sold my vbar for a profit, and the model suddenly discontinued while doing a dive and went straight to the ground and take in mind it was still spinning so you know what that would look like. Might. Sadly only the tail servo and the furthest cyclic servo survived. Might use these servos on a plane and get a new nimbus 550 kit to try something new
I have had the tx16 for years and trust it 100% to all of my aircraft . Never had an issue. What rx were you using? Where was it placed? What happened during the crash? What did your fbl logs say?
Unfortunately that’s the reason I quit using my TX 16 us. I crashed two helicopters because of signal loss and I was only 10 feet in front of me. I can’t trust the radio to fly anything at all nor will I risk crashing a expensive helicopter because of it. A lot of guys like them and use them but I personally would never. You gotta be careful running helicopters servos and airplanes because you cannot set the frequency and you can hurt the servo.
@@westhobbiesrc8051 no you can't, even my flysky radio let me do that, but the default i believe is probably 50 hertz from a standard rx, at least thats what it was with my flysky recievers at default. won't hurt them, just won't run at full potential. I actually burnt up a nice futaba digital servo with my flysky radio by cranking the frequency on the radio and it got super super hot really fast and was done. Fbl lets us choose the frequency, but for planes you won't hurt any servo using with it.
@@Dcscockpit i was using a r161 reviver on the rx plate. The fbl is totalled but the rx was still usable but i threw it
Oh…that will do it. Not your transmitters fault. Stick with spektrum for the heli’s and you won’t have a problem. Don’t fly radiomaster or Frsky receivers.
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Thank you!
Man, your pace of new models is too high for me. I cant keep up...
I am very fortunate to be able to build a lot of models. some are mine, some are customer builds but I do have a lot of Helis!
@@westhobbiesrc8051 im fortunate as well - will receive a brand new fusion 270 this week...
@@lechiffre2617 love my Fusion 270 but do your self a huge favor and replace the FBL unit. The 626 in junk and will tip over almost every time and cost you in blades and servo gear sets. I went to iKon FBL in mine and very happy.
@@westhobbiesrc8051 the one i bought is the kit without any fbl unit. So this is karma. I only can buy a msh brain in my country. I will give it a try. Thx.