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Change Mode on Esky ET4 2.4ghz transmitter (Honey Bee Fixed Pitch V2)

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:26:41 +0000

I accidently got a Mode 1 transmitter with my Esky Honey Bee Fixed Pitch V2. I prefer Mode 2, which is throttle on the left. Here are some pics and a PDF on how to swap it. No soldering involved.

Change Mode on Esky ET4 PDF

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Esky Honey Bee Fixed Pitch V2 Helicopter

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:49:58 +0000

For the 5 or so minutes I did fly the thing, before I burned out the 4in1 receiver, it was a blast. A very good helicopter for those wanting to move to the next level from Airhogs and coaxials.

I got the 2.4ghz version and they accidently sent me a Mode 1 (throttle on right). It comes with everything you need to get going. Charger, extra blades, and batteries.

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eSky Honey Bee Fixed Pitch V2 Fuse Mod (Fuse holder)

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:34:14 +0000

I made the mistake of burning out my 4in1 for my new Honey Bee v2. So in preparation for my new 4in1, I decided to install the fuse mod. Most tutorials showed how you can solder a 7.5A blade connector directly to the motor. However, I wanted to be able to replace or remove the fuse easily.

So here’s what you need:

Male/Female JST connector wires (the original motor connectors fit into the JST females perfectly)
7.5A mini blade fuse for main motor
3A mini blade fuse for tail motor
*** You can use the bigger blades too but I wanted to keep the weight down for the heli
Quick disconnectors
Shrink-wrap tubing (electrical tape would work too but not perferred)

1. Solder the black wires of the male/female connectors together. Use shrink-wrap to cover up the exposed solder joint.

2. Put the 2 red wires together but don’t solder them. I put shrink-wrap around them just to keep them together. These will connect to the fuse with the quick disconnectors.

3. Crimp on the quick disconnetors and plug in the blade fuse. I covered up the quick disconnects with shrink-wrap as well so I don’t short anything.

4. I made 2 fuse holders. One with a 3A fuse for the tail motor, and a 7.5A holder for the main motor.

5. Plug the male JST connector into the 4in1 of your Honey Bee. Plug the black motor cable into the female JST connector. NOTE: Make sure of the polarity too, red is positive, black is negative.

6. Zip-tie both the fuse holders to a location that is out of the way of the main gears and blades.

These fuse holder will work with all Honey Bee’s and co-axial heli’s like the V3/V4 Lama (they probably use 5A or 7.5A fuses). I’m going to make a set for the 2 main motors on the eSky Lama too.

More pictures:

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Flytech Dragonfly

admin — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:46:40 +0000

Wowwee Flytech Dragonfly

From WowWee, the company that brought us the Robosapien, the Flytech Dragonfly takes the skies. It flaps its wings like a real dragonfly but not as fast of course. It looks more like a bird. It terrifies my little cousin but amuses me.

Included in box:

Flytech Dragonfly
Transmitter (27mhz or 49mhz)
Antenna for transmitter
Spare set of wings
Spare propeller
Tail ribbon
Manual

It’s made of foam. And rightly so, this thing has to be light. One might think it is cheap and easily broken but I’ve crashed it many times and only had a nick on the paint job. The wings are thin, clear, cellophane like plastic from a bag but it is very strong. It won’t tear. There is a spare in case too.

The transmitter takes 6AA batteries to power itself and also charge the dragonfly.

My maiden flight ended up with it diving to ground. I didn’t bother to read the manual of course Then I realized that I needed to add the tail ribbon to give it some weight on the back so it wouldn’t dive so much. After that, it flew much better. I have yet to take it out side but I’m sure it would fly better in less confined spaces. It’s flapping wings reminds me more of a bird than a dragonfly.

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Air Hogs Reflex Micro Helicopter

admin — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:39:01 +0000

This micro heli is a step up from Air Hog's other micro heli, the Havoc. It's constructed of quality foam.

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Walkera 22e Helicopter

admin — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:37:37 +0000

This is my first helicopter. Prior to buying this, I spent hours and weeks on a flight simulator. I’m still not ready for a real flight. This is an incredibly affordable helicopter. I had my eye on a Venom Night Ranger 3D which is the North American version of this exact heli but it costs over twice as much. I heard that Walkera makes heli’s for a lot of other companies, including Venom Air Corps. This one probably rolls out the same factories. I realize that the Night Ranger 3D has better manuals, servos and electronics but they both crash the same hehe. I paid a measily $140CDN. This includes the heli, battery, transmitter, training kit, extra blades and shipping from China. It came much sooner than I thought. I have yet to fly it. I’m still praticing on a simulator. I picked up a used copy of RealFlight G2 on eBay and also use FMS. I use both of them with the 22e transmitter via a parallel cable I made.

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Walkera 22e Parallel cable

admin — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:36:08 +0000

This cable in conjuction with PPJOY, will let you use your 22e transmitter with pretty much every game in Windows. I use it with FMS and RealFlight G2.

You’ll need a DB25 hood, DB25 connector, 1W 10,000 ohm resister, BC548 transister, and a s-video cable.

Find out which wire on the s-video cable goes to which pin. Use a continuity tester.

1. Solder the 10K resistor from pin 10 to pin 16.
2. Solder the transistor from pin 10 to pin 18.
3. Solder the signal wire on the s-video connector to the center leg of the transistor
4. Solder the gound wire to pin 18.

Marvel at my bad solder job. It should look something like this.

Put on the hood.

Finished product.

Install PPJoy and add a new controller.

Edit the mappings for controller. I use just 4 axis with no buttons or POV’s (the TX doesn’t have any).

I also set the mappings for the axes.

This step is vital. You might have to assign an IRQ or enable EPP in the BIOS as well.

Remember to calibrate your controller in the Game Controller panel.

Here are my FMS mapping.

Setup for RealFlight G2.

Since PPJoy installs the controller as a regular gaming device it should work with every game in Windows. I prefer this cable to the mono cable. Have fun.

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Walkera 22e Mono cable

admin — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:35:15 +0000

Walkera 22e Mono cable

This is the simpliest cable you can make for your Walkera 22e TX to interface with your PC. It’s also the least expensive. It costs me 50 cents to make this.

On my notebook, this cable didn’t work too well since it was always very “jumpy”. Too much interference. However, on my desktop PC, it was fine. I prefer to use the parallel cable I made instead.

You need an S-Video cable, and a mono 3.5mm headphone jack. It has to be mono and not stereo.

Get yourself a continuity tester and find out which wire goes with what pin on the s-video plug. My multimeter has one built in, so when you touch one end of the wire with the pin, it beeps telling you complete a circuit.

It really doesn’t matter whether you solder the signal wire to the center and ground to the outside or vice versa. Just solder either one of them to the mono plug. Your axes are just reversed I think.

Put on the plug cover.

Completed jack.

Plug it into your computers mic-in jack. (Line-in works too for some)

Download SmartPropoPlus and put the winmm.dll file into the FMS directory.

Check your soundcard mixer settings. I maxed out the recording volume. Yours may differ so play around with your recording volume settings.

Click the Advanced controls and uncheck “mic boost”. I didn’t need it. But again since there are so many different soundcards, you may need it enabled.

Mute the output volume of your mic so you don’t hear the interference.

Run FMS and check that Smartpropoplus is installed properly. Controls -Analog Control… – Resources

Calibrate your TX with the following these mappings. If your channels are jittery and jumping up and down, adjust the input mic volume of your soundcard. No matter what I did, my laptops soundcard was always jumpy. My desktop’s was fine though.

If it still doesn’t work, open up a sound recorder and see if it’s picking up anything.

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