Official FlightLine OV-10 Bronco Discussion Thread

[Evan D]

Anyone, can you give me the following please?

- Weight of the completed plane ready to fly without battery

- How many Watts and Amps is each stock motor pulling

[Evan D]

Sorry about your loss... 🤔

[Mr D]

13th flight, exploring the edge of the envelope. This is NOT a manufacturing defect, but Pilot Error! Too slow of a loop with a significant crosswind at too low of an altitude. Accelerated stall and spiral dive into the ground. New fuselage, cockpit and center wing section and she will fly again.

[jimmyp51d]

Bronco Ov-10 $th Flight

[Jpmcdo]

I just purchased a Fliteline OV10a bronco. I attached one motor and ESC to my receiver along with the BEC. One motor runs. However, the other motor will not run. I have the throttle in the correct position on both an AR610 receiver and a AR637T receiver. For testing I plugged the BEC into Aux1 as well as the bind plug socket. I've tested with both an Ix12 and a DX9. Both are bound. It was an effort to get the bind to start. Does anyone have any ideas? Sounds like the ESC is bad. When connected to the receiver, the receiver bound light is not on and there are no beeps counting the cells in the battery. IT's just dead. I also noticed the motors will not turn easily unless they are connected to the battery. Once connected they spin easily by hand. Which is confusing for me since I could see the one that works needing a signal from the ESC so I assume something is getting through the suspected bad ESC. Any ideas?

[jimmyp51d]

Bronco Ov-10 Third Flight

[jimmyp51d]

Bronco Ov-10 Second Flight

[jimmyp51d]

OV -10 Bronco Maiden

[Evan D]

The ESC wires are marked throttle and per plane go into the blue box marked throttle and aux1. As noted the male to male goes from the aux1 to whatever channel is throttle on your receiver.

[MikeT]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ture=emb_title



Mike

[xviper]

Different brands of receivers label their ports differently. Spektrum "throttle" channel is ch.1. Best to see if the ports are labelled. Plus, there are 3 leads that are tagged "throttle". The one coming from the UBEC is MIS-labelled. It is NOT a throttle lead. It gets plugged into any empty port on the RX. If no empty port then use a "Y" on any port and plug it into that. Always note polarity.

[themudduck]

I’m having a wiring issue. I’m new to this so bare with me. Where do I plug the throttle servos into??

Is this a trick question? Electric planes don't have throttle servos. Plug the lead from the blue box marked "throttle" into the throttle channel on your receiver.

[FreightShaker69]

I’m having a wiring issue. I’m new to this so bare with me. Where do I plug the throttle servos into??

[yf22raptor]

Just learning how to airbrush rocket pods belly tank and turbo exhaust pianted ..

[jimmyp51d]

I wired my elevator from blue box to rx and seems to work fine, I see we’re James has it wire going from elevator going straight to rx does it matter if it goes thru blue box? Hopefully will maiden tomorrow, thanks Jimmy

[Evan D]

RC Juice is the US importer... And cheaper for me with free shipping. Not sure what going to Canada will do.

https://www.rcjuice.com/motor-esc/brushless-aircraft-motors/airplane-motors/hobbystar/hobbystar-2826-3548-brushless-outrunner-motor.html

[xviper]

I have two 60A ESCs from the Tigercat and two Hobby Star 3458 900kV motors ready to install.

I also have two 60A ESCs on the way. I found this on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/HobbyStar-Bru.../dp/B075LZPGJD
It says they are unavailable at this time. Where else can they be found? Why are they also designated "2826"?

[boomer108]

Finished putting a matte clear coat on mine yesterday and started putting together today. I was putting the horizontal stab on and when I went to install the right side it would not go into the pocket. Found the assembler had put to left side line up pins on the stab. Started a ticket and sent Motion a picture. To be continued.

[Evan D]

X, sometimes you and I just disagree... But this time it's a BIG he11 yeah! Even before I got mine I was worried and had started researching. When a friend maidened his and it had ZERO vertical and barley pulled a loop my thoughts were validated.

I have two 60A ESCs from the Tigercat and two Hobby Star 3458 900kV motors ready to install. I really wanted their 1100kV but they were out of stock (and thought about their 790kV and put it on a single 6S Lipo. I'll start with APCe 11x8 two bladed props and I have good quality black 2" spinners. It looks like it'll be about 52A and 750W per side. But it's a starting point.

Why these motors you may ask? First in the US they are cheap $26 each. I've used them on other planes and even though they are cheap the seem to be great for the money. In addition the X mount has the same exact mounting pattern and the overall length is exactly the same as the little bitty stock motors.

I just got my base coat painted so I can start putting her together. I can do the insignia and other markings, which will mostly be airbrushed with stencils after I do some flight...

... at my altitude of almost 3500 feet, I found this plane (stock) to be somewhat anemic (read: under-powered).

...Next up: increase the size of the ESCs and putting on the counter-rotating Scimitar props (10x8x5) from the EC1500. These props (on lower kv motors) make the EC1500 really lively. If the motors won't handle it, I'll get ones that will. Flew for about 7 minutes (3.8v/cell) on twin 4000 Admirals.

[xviper]

Right on xviper
Round and round and round does get boring real fast and so does loops but doing touch n goes is a fine art skill that more pilots need to hone their landing skill levels on and this bird in stock power will take that abuse all day long.

Interesting that you said this. On my second flight this morning, "touch and goes" were all I did on this plane just to get the hang of it and to not get bored. Touch and goes can be difficult if the field is busy due to too much activity on or over the runway.
Vertical "figure 8's" can be a lot of fun, too, but requires gobs of power. That's what the Eflite P-51 was for this morning.