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Originally posted by curlyculp View Post
Like others that have been reported. At the 90 in a landing approach, about 45 degrees angle of bank, maybe 10 degrees nose low, just froze up and stopped responding. Drove right into the ground.
Reading all the threads about the blue box, wondering why something as simple as flight controls are routed through it? I may buy another, but I'll bypass the box and go direct from receiver to Elevator, Aileron, flaps, Rudder.
But if the blue box fails will it cut power to the receiver??Pat
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Originally posted by James View PostGot my redemption flights in today. Got her back together since my NEFI crash, all she needed was a new fuselage and nose gear. What a beauty in the sky! I went naked for the first 2 flights and then just the sidewinders for 2 more.
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Originally posted by RCjetdude View Post
A video on here? Where?
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Hey guys,
I am working on my bird and I am going to bypass the blue box - not because I do not trust it (although it is hard) but to be able to control each servo separately.
I was wondering on how you did the bypass for the wings? Did you completely get rid of the wing connectors? I am thinking about keeping the cables and soldering servo plugs on it. Any tips/advices?
Best regards,
Jens
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Originally posted by Quax View PostHey guys,
I am working on my bird and I am going to bypass the blue box - not because I do not trust it (although it is hard) but to be able to control each servo separately.
I was wondering on how you did the bypass for the wings? Did you completely get rid of the wing connectors? I am thinking about keeping the cables and soldering servo plugs on it. Any tips/advices?
Best regards,
Jens
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Decided to break my HobbySquawk cherry today. My name is Andrew, been in the hobby 21 years now, and help man the phones at Motion RC. The FW F/A-18C is my 5th Freewing offering and I gotta say.... the sexiest RC plane I have ever owned! I checked/performed the Service Bulletin items and although my stock electronics worked just fine I decided to do something different with this build and show how it, or an FW plane, can be flown without using the MCB Box. Maiden will be TODAY!
Before the MCB boxes were put into many of Freewings planes to simplify the wiring you had the Landing Gear Door Sequencer and LED Light Controller doing those jobs. Using those items I laid out all the electronic guts of an F/A-18C Blue Angel, wired it up accordingly with direct connections to all control surfaces, and wouldn't ya know... no smoke came out of anything! Again, ALL stock electronics were tested and worked fine. This is NOT a must-do, I just wanted to try a different route. I added HS-85's to the elevators and busted out the soldering iron to reverse one. I did add one FUN item to the mix: the FW 90mm 12-Blade EDF 6S Power System w/ 4068-1835kV Inrunner Motor. I will be using the 9-blade fan from the stock unit with it along with the stock 130amp ESC wired with a Castle 10amp BEC set to 5.3V to feed my Admiral RX600SP gyro/receiver. The stock unit make's plenty of power but I have a hard time leaving anything stock. I'm betting the inrunner motor coupled with the 9-blade will offer a nice bump in performance without sucking down the battery a whole lot faster. I also added 2 of the Hobby Eagle Capacitors to my setup which will constantly keep a clean 5V of power running to all components. They're $2 and Hobby Eagle includes them with their gyros so I figured it couldn't hurt and it's cheap insurance. Anyway, I can't wait to see how this feels/flies and will be reporting back here to share. If you have any questions about what i've done here feel free to ask!
*FW Landing Gear Cabin Sequencer V2: https://www.motionrc.com/…/freewing-landing-gear-door-seque…
*FW LED Light Controller V3: https://www.motionrc.com/…/freewing-led-light-controller-v3…
*HobbyEagle Capacitor: https://www.motionrc.com/p…/hobbyeagle-16v-ez-plug-capacitor
*FW 90mm 12-Blade EDF 6S Power System w/ 4068-1835kV Inrunner Motor: https://www.motionrc.com/…/freewing-90mm-12-blade-edf-6s-po…
*Hitec HS-85MG Premium Metal Gear Micro Servo https://www.motionrc.com/…/hitec-hs-85mg-premium-metal-gear…10 Photos
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Good to see you on the board Andrew! Here's to a successful maiden! I would say yours looks ready to roll! Now kick those tires and light the fires!My YouTube RC videos:
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Originally posted by Quax View PostHey guys,
I am working on my bird and I am going to bypass the blue box - not because I do not trust it (although it is hard) but to be able to control each servo separately.
I was wondering on how you did the bypass for the wings? Did you completely get rid of the wing connectors? I am thinking about keeping the cables and soldering servo plugs on it. Any tips/advices?
Best regards,
Jens
The ribbon cables from the wing share a common ground, so you will need to remove it (and the connector board in the wing) completely and run servo extensions to all plugs and run them direct to your receiver.Pat
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Originally posted by Quax View PostHey guys,
I am working on my bird and I am going to bypass the blue box - not because I do not trust it (although it is hard) but to be able to control each servo separately.
I was wondering on how you did the bypass for the wings? Did you completely get rid of the wing connectors? I am thinking about keeping the cables and soldering servo plugs on it. Any tips/advice?
Best regards,
Jens
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As others have said I removed the interconnection boards and their interconnection wires and ran individual extensions. Each servo got plugged into a separate receiver slot on a 12ch receiver.
Andrew, welcome. Not sure if you did anything but the bearings in the horizontal stabs have play that should be addressed.
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Wasn't there a FW or MRC rep here who was answering questions about the airplane for a while? Been missing in action with all these reports of system failures. I haven't been flying that long, but I have exactly one horrific crash prior to this, and that one was all my fault. I've never lost control of an airplane prior to this one, and it sounds like I'm far from the only one with the experience with the Hornet.
What's Freewing/MRC thinking about it? THinking it was a bad run of blue boxes? Holding their breath? Planning free upgrades of the box for anyone who wants one? Any bones gonna be thrown to the many of us who lost airplanes due to no fault of our own?
Bueller? Bueller?
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Originally posted by Evan D View PostAs others have said I removed the interconnection boards and their interconnection wires and ran individual extensions. Each servo got plugged into a separate receiver slot on a 12ch receiver.
Andrew, welcome. Not sure if you did anything but the bearings in the horizontal stabs have play that should be addressed.
Here's how I wired mine up. I went over the recipe in my post above with the links. I have a video I could post going over this entire setup if it would help.
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Do a search here on "bearing" And you'll find a few mentions. Do it on the RCG thread and you'll have 20.
Originally posted by RCGuy83 View Post
I have not heard or seen any bearing slop? I thought the bearing assemblies felt pretty darn good stock. What bearing slop are you guys seeing?
Here's how I wired mine up. I went over the recipe in my post above with the links. I have a video I could post going over this entire setup if it would help.
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Originally posted by curlyculp View PostWasn't there a FW or MRC rep here who was answering questions about the airplane for a while? Been missing in action with all these reports of system failures. I haven't been flying that long, but I have exactly one horrific crash prior to this, and that one was all my fault. I've never lost control of an airplane prior to this one, and it sounds like I'm far from the only one with the experience with the Hornet.
What's Freewing/MRC thinking about it? THinking it was a bad run of blue boxes? Holding their breath? Planning free upgrades of the box for anyone who wants one? Any bones gonna be thrown to the many of us who lost airplanes due to no fault of our own?
Bueller? Bueller?
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Got to redeem my pilot error maiden on my customer base gray F-18 yesterday. Was so happy to finally this beautiful VMFA-115 Silver Eagles scheme in the air! I recently bought a scale and weighed all the 3d printed ordnance I had created for that unsuccessful maiden and all totaled I had an extra 493g of weight and never CG'd it!
Oh well, past is past, excited to keep flying this gorgeous bird!
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Originally posted by curlyculp View PostWasn't there a FW or MRC rep here who was answering questions about the airplane for a while? Been missing in action with all these reports of system failures. I haven't been flying that long, but I have exactly one horrific crash prior to this, and that one was all my fault. I've never lost control of an airplane prior to this one, and it sounds like I'm far from the only one with the experience with the Hornet.
What's Freewing/MRC thinking about it? THinking it was a bad run of blue boxes? Holding their breath? Planning free upgrades of the box for anyone who wants one? Any bones gonna be thrown to the many of us who lost airplanes due to no fault of our own?
Bueller? Bueller?
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