TaleSpin
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Hey all,
So I built a Drake II shrunk down to 36" WS from water resistant foam and taped it up (images attached, sorry forgot to take photos when I built the motor mount and wing, but used standard FT folding technique with the silhouette of the Drake II as guide for the wing and paint sticks with FT firewall for the mount). Yea I took the name a bit literal and taped a Mallard Duck Drake theme on it. I also modified the build slightly putting the floats on the wing since I don't really like the float spar appearance that it uses standard.
I currently have a Emax 2822 with a 6x4.5x3 prop and a BLHeli 30A esc using a 3s 2500mah xt60 battery. Upon maidening it today, I'm realizing I'm just not getting enough thrust with this motor and the undersized prop. She flies, but has trouble climbing (though I got to notice some gentle stall characteristics lol). There is no space for a bigger prop, so I'm going to have to swap the motor and/or ESC.
I have an Emax RS 2205 laying around, would this be a suitable alternative
? If so, I'm going to have to change to a different 30A ESCs also d/t different size bullet connectors on the RS2205 and the BLHeli 30A ESC, and thus could use an ESC recommendation. Really I'm just looking for an good combo of an ESC and motor that would be a good replacement here considering 6" prop is going to be my limit and I'm hoping to stick with XT-60 connector on the battery side.
I figured the simplest solutions for me would be either use that RS 2205 and find an ESC, or stick with the same ESC and find a different motor (but am open to swapping both (keep in mind I have the firewall from the full size plane swappables from FT and prefer not to drill more holes or rebuild the engine mounts (might have to swap firewalls if I use that RS2205 anyway though)). I'd appreciate anybody's $0.02. Sorry if this seems like a question that's been asked before in other threads, I didn't really find my answer through the forum browsing I'd done so far :black_eyed:.
Thanks in advance
So I built a Drake II shrunk down to 36" WS from water resistant foam and taped it up (images attached, sorry forgot to take photos when I built the motor mount and wing, but used standard FT folding technique with the silhouette of the Drake II as guide for the wing and paint sticks with FT firewall for the mount). Yea I took the name a bit literal and taped a Mallard Duck Drake theme on it. I also modified the build slightly putting the floats on the wing since I don't really like the float spar appearance that it uses standard.
I currently have a Emax 2822 with a 6x4.5x3 prop and a BLHeli 30A esc using a 3s 2500mah xt60 battery. Upon maidening it today, I'm realizing I'm just not getting enough thrust with this motor and the undersized prop. She flies, but has trouble climbing (though I got to notice some gentle stall characteristics lol). There is no space for a bigger prop, so I'm going to have to swap the motor and/or ESC.
I have an Emax RS 2205 laying around, would this be a suitable alternative
? If so, I'm going to have to change to a different 30A ESCs also d/t different size bullet connectors on the RS2205 and the BLHeli 30A ESC, and thus could use an ESC recommendation. Really I'm just looking for an good combo of an ESC and motor that would be a good replacement here considering 6" prop is going to be my limit and I'm hoping to stick with XT-60 connector on the battery side. I figured the simplest solutions for me would be either use that RS 2205 and find an ESC, or stick with the same ESC and find a different motor (but am open to swapping both (keep in mind I have the firewall from the full size plane swappables from FT and prefer not to drill more holes or rebuild the engine mounts (might have to swap firewalls if I use that RS2205 anyway though)). I'd appreciate anybody's $0.02. Sorry if this seems like a question that's been asked before in other threads, I didn't really find my answer through the forum browsing I'd done so far :black_eyed:.
Thanks in advance
