LEDS are great but needs a multi color solid light setting for better orientation... moving LEDS look cool but makes a visual reference harder to obtain. Used to fly a tiny JJ1000 quad at night in the summer when it's cool and could fly it a block away up high where in the daytime it would just disappear at a quarter or less the distance. After seeing the price for the factory LEDs a simple DIY is the way to go. Amazing little aircraft ;-)
Hey Thanks! With the LED controlled from the flight controller you have no choice but to use their patterns. I am working on an external solution that I can program to my own patterns or fixed designs.
Actually, and speaking from personal experience, they do just fine as-is. Your small quad has little to offer as far as LED brightness goes. The Ultrix is MUCH brighter, and nobody has complained about visibility, including myself: images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41UxrTLNQ1L._AC_.jpg I've never had a problem with the blinking patterns at night, as the entire plane glows to some extent. The green and red lights at the wingtips do NOT blink in most settings provide more than enough visuals for orientation. Here's my own install video. Happy flying! th-cam.com/video/YAAv0KnzAR8/w-d-xo.html
@@Doggeslife Just watched your P38 mod, I'm planning to do something similar. I have almost completed a mod of the Flybear B17 using this DSM Rx with ESC : bit.ly/DSM4CHRx
@@Doggeslife On a dark moonless night using red lights in place of white light like an astronomer does setting up a scope waiting for night vision to kick in... the humble DC powered JJ1000 is actually quite bright lit up through its thin white shell which creates great 2 color orientation fading in color in and out of turns. The picture shown does not do the design justice as the light it produces is filtered and won't blind you in the dark after takeoff close by. Even under street lights the JJ1000 can be seen a block away at night but it excels in a dark sky. Neighbors often described it as a little flashing ball of light even though it doesn't flash. For LOS flying night orientation using lights is much better than day time LOS orientation but there are considerations that don't apply in the daytime to consider and degrees of success in good orientation lighting. If you are flying a ridge at night you want to see the outline of the trees and free area lift line. And yes the exposed LEDs are much brighter and way better for distance but a dimmer is needed to use up close and not lose your night vision so you can see your surroundings in the dark too. With that issue of basic biology aside my gripe with the current LED programming "trend" is the first thing lights on any aircraft should do is provide heading orientation at all times to TO ALL OBSERVERS who know the color code. That means 4 pilots in opposite locations looking at a 5th aircraft in the middle will ALL know which way ALL aircraft are moving relative to the observers frame of reference simply by observing its color. After basic heading orientation is established a finer level of orientation involving outline shape and how pitch, roll and yaw affect the visual view of of an RC aircraft flown LOS is a consideration which can involve colors mixing to create unique hues in color relative to certain common maneuvers. But flashing fast moving lights changing color for artistic benefits of a light show IMO just make the aircraft's visual space dizzy compared to solid lights providing information to changes in orientation. If the FAA was paying attention to RC Hobby technology this wouldn't be being said to their deaf ears blind to basic logic due to supporting an agenda that puts harmless foam gliders in the same class as helicopters and multi-rotor aircraft of all types which is the equivalency of matching the physics of a foam pillow falling compared to a high speed bullet with RC aircraft being based on weight alone with no consideration for density size ratios and speed, etc. The FAA manages so many different classes of full scale aircraft it would take time to research just how many with one class inside of another class but since RC aircraft are nothing but smaller scale model aircraft that shows the insincerity and disrespect the FAA and it's lobbyists are showing RC community. The FAA is demanding money from from the public to "regulate" RC aircraft, one of the safest hobbies on the planet... at least until the FAA gets done with it. On it's own the RC Hobby itself just keeps getting safer... unlike full scale jetliners the FAA fails to regulate properly. I think the FAA should do it's job in the real world before trying to "fix" something in the scale model world that's not broken and only charge money where needed excluding their own personal bank accounts.
Hey thanks! I have developed it further to mimic all the patterns of the ultrix board. It fits on a small arduino 20mm square board. It can be used with your own LED's or the ultrix strips. Please consider subscribing if you have not done so already!
@@1nformatica Can't believe people tolerate being robbed like that... I can see a few bucks but that's outright theft. BUT NOT AS BAD AS YOUR GRANDMOTHER BEING PULLED OVER BY THE POLICE AND HAVING TO HAND OVER HER CASH, JEWELRY OR A JACKET BECAUSE SHE "LOOKS LIKE A DRUG DEALER" WHEN IN REALITY THE DRUG DEALER GOT SMART AND JOINED THE POLICE FORCE BECAUSE THE PAY IS BETTER. Cracks me up when police in America try to play honest and act tough as if they didn't see the same Inside Edition to know what's going on and protect the US Constitution.
Brilliant!
May I suggest having the LEDs point into the foam (especially the rear ones) It glows the foam and looks awesome.
Great job!
Hey thanks! I may try a different type of LED and do that. Please consider subscribing if you haven't done so already!!
Yes, the factory lights mount aimed into the foam so that the foam itself glows. Like this: th-cam.com/video/Vu8tFgD6Bpc/w-d-xo.html
Really fantastic mod, my friend!!! 😃
Looks amazing!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thanks Mario, hope to get some flight video up soon! Keep safe!
You “LED” us through this process in your normal eminent style.
Thanks Tom, wouldn't want to have LED you astray!!
LEDS are great but needs a multi color solid light setting for better orientation... moving LEDS look cool but makes a visual reference harder to obtain. Used to fly a tiny JJ1000 quad at night in the summer when it's cool and could fly it a block away up high where in the daytime it would just disappear at a quarter or less the distance. After seeing the price for the factory LEDs a simple DIY is the way to go. Amazing little aircraft ;-)
Hey Thanks! With the LED controlled from the flight controller you have no choice but to use their patterns. I am working on an external solution that I can program to my own patterns or fixed designs.
Actually, and speaking from personal experience, they do just fine as-is. Your small quad has little to offer as far as LED brightness goes. The Ultrix is MUCH brighter, and nobody has complained about visibility, including myself: images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41UxrTLNQ1L._AC_.jpg
I've never had a problem with the blinking patterns at night, as the entire plane glows to some extent. The green and red lights at the wingtips do NOT blink in most settings provide more than enough visuals for orientation.
Here's my own install video. Happy flying!
th-cam.com/video/YAAv0KnzAR8/w-d-xo.html
@@Doggeslife Just watched your P38 mod, I'm planning to do something similar. I have almost completed a mod of the Flybear B17 using this DSM Rx with ESC : bit.ly/DSM4CHRx
@@Doggeslife On a dark moonless night using red lights in place of white light like an astronomer does setting up a scope waiting for night vision to kick in... the humble DC powered JJ1000 is actually quite bright lit up through its thin white shell which creates great 2 color orientation fading in color in and out of turns. The picture shown does not do the design justice as the light it produces is filtered and won't blind you in the dark after takeoff close by. Even under street lights the JJ1000 can be seen a block away at night but it excels in a dark sky. Neighbors often described it as a little flashing ball of light even though it doesn't flash. For LOS flying night orientation using lights is much better than day time LOS orientation but there are considerations that don't apply in the daytime to consider and degrees of success in good orientation lighting. If you are flying a ridge at night you want to see the outline of the trees and free area lift line. And yes the exposed LEDs are much brighter and way better for distance but a dimmer is needed to use up close and not lose your night vision so you can see your surroundings in the dark too.
With that issue of basic biology aside my gripe with the current LED programming "trend" is the first thing lights on any aircraft should do is provide heading orientation at all times to TO ALL OBSERVERS who know the color code. That means 4 pilots in opposite locations looking at a 5th aircraft in the middle will ALL know which way ALL aircraft are moving relative to the observers frame of reference simply by observing its color. After basic heading orientation is established a finer level of orientation involving outline shape and how pitch, roll and yaw affect the visual view of of an RC aircraft flown LOS is a consideration which can involve colors mixing to create unique hues in color relative to certain common maneuvers. But flashing fast moving lights changing color for artistic benefits of a light show IMO just make the aircraft's visual space dizzy compared to solid lights providing information to changes in orientation.
If the FAA was paying attention to RC Hobby technology this wouldn't be being said to their deaf ears blind to basic logic due to supporting an agenda that puts harmless foam gliders in the same class as helicopters and multi-rotor aircraft of all types which is the equivalency of matching the physics of a foam pillow falling compared to a high speed bullet with RC aircraft being based on weight alone with no consideration for density size ratios and speed, etc. The FAA manages so many different classes of full scale aircraft it would take time to research just how many with one class inside of another class but since RC aircraft are nothing but smaller scale model aircraft that shows the insincerity and disrespect the FAA and it's lobbyists are showing RC community. The FAA is demanding money from from the public to "regulate" RC aircraft, one of the safest hobbies on the planet... at least until the FAA gets done with it. On it's own the RC Hobby itself just keeps getting safer... unlike full scale jetliners the FAA fails to regulate properly. I think the FAA should do it's job in the real world before trying to "fix" something in the scale model world that's not broken and only charge money where needed excluding their own personal bank accounts.
Nice
Hey thanks! I have developed it further to mimic all the patterns of the ultrix board. It fits on a small arduino 20mm square board. It can be used with your own LED's or the ultrix strips. Please consider subscribing if you have not done so already!
Doesn't really cut it! Excellent.
Hey thanks! I try to inject a little understated British humour when I can! Please consider subscribing if you haven't done so already!!
not available in EU... joking ha... show on ebay
The only eBay listings ship from the USA. Import duties and tax in Spain will add a minimum of €30 on top so I will wait thanks.
@@1nformatica Can't believe people tolerate being robbed like that... I can see a few bucks but that's outright theft. BUT NOT AS BAD AS YOUR GRANDMOTHER BEING PULLED OVER BY THE POLICE AND HAVING TO HAND OVER HER CASH, JEWELRY OR A JACKET BECAUSE SHE "LOOKS LIKE A DRUG DEALER" WHEN IN REALITY THE DRUG DEALER GOT SMART AND JOINED THE POLICE FORCE BECAUSE THE PAY IS BETTER. Cracks me up when police in America try to play honest and act tough as if they didn't see the same Inside Edition to know what's going on and protect the US Constitution.
@@1nformatica terrible. Why add so much cost on top of imports if it's not competing with local products?
@@Doggeslife It's the same in most EU countries. You get panned for importing anything from outside the EU especially the USA!