[kclark069]

She is built and ready for maiden!!!!

A big to Max for his help!!

As you can see in the first picture, it looked like it was going to be a tight squeeze to get it all inside!! I got it all in and still had room to spare! Not much, but still had room.

I must say it looks pretty darn sleek with the small footprint of the Horizon HD V3 camera!!

[kclark069]

The CG is set at 95mm from Leading edge of the wing. There is plenty of room fore and aft of the video TX battery to zero in the CG after flying.

I plan to add a wing facing HK 1080p Wing Cam and a Rear Facing Go Pro to the top of the wing. This will only add 142g (5oz) in total to the weight. This behemoth will not even notice it!! I have included pictures showing where I will place the cameras. They had 0 effect on the CG!!

[kclark069]

I put the power setup on my watt meter. This was with the 12x8 CF folding prop. I saw as high as 562W at 39 A draw. This was with a battery that was not fully charged. In the picture you will see the battery was quite drained and still produced 539w at 38A. If I use the 50W/1lbs for sport flying. This means it can handle 11.25lbs plane. The weight came in at 2552g (5lbs 10.3 oz). This means I have double to power needed!! I expect to get flight times of 30min+ if I glide alot.

I also have a 12x6.5 CF folding prop I will try one day. I will see if it draws less power or more.

[kclark069]

While I had the Watt meter out, I decided to see what the Camera, Video TX and OSD is drawing. With the camera recording the total draw was .91 A. With it not recording it is .82 A. I am using the 3S 2200mAh batteries from FoxTech. Looks like I can get almost 2 hours of flying from this battery!

[Max]

Looking good!

Nice placement of the GPS

[bcsaltchucker]

I like this new CF boom Skywalker! Can't want to see the video.

I am curious to see how well the 5.8 video will be given the aft location of the antennas, and the antenna type chosen. It kind of goes against what I have learned and experienced with 5.8 video .. but then it seems sometimes the results are polar opposite of what I'd expect anyways. I was super detailed and careful to eliminate interference on my Penguin build (using Cat6 shielded cable and USB shielded cable), and yet the video link reception turned out to be poor. Meanwhile a couple of my other builds have videolink performing flawlessly with hardly any effort made at all, and components mashed together!

[stikflyer]

Curious as to how BEVRC and HK responded when you contacted them with your problems. I am contemplating an order as well. Looking forward to the maiden video.

[bcsaltchucker]

tell you the truth, I do not buy FPV electronics from HK at all, and only some from BEV. ReadymadeRC in the US has good prices on their items and absolutely stellar customer service. I have purchased from NGHobbies in Toronto also without issues. I have been lucky to never have an issue with any product from HK, BEV or NGH. One time RMRC left out an item, but had it to me within a week.

If you read all the FPV forums, RMRC is uber-popular precisely because of their customer service (and the best selection out there)

BEV-RC has one of the worst customer service reputations. The best out of China is FoxtechFPV.com, with good products and support, limited but growing (esp for multirotors) selection. Foxtech owner is very active on RCGroups Video Piloting forum, for quick support if needed.

Thing is BEV has the the X8, and all the various Skywalkers and nobody else has all these planes if that is what you want to fly.

[polix]

+1 to above, RMRC is likely the most dependable of all my suppliers.

I don't mind HK, i've had 20+ orders from them so far, but certain things (antennas, etc) i only trust to RMRC.

There was even a time i had to order some SMA adapters for a holiday rush order, forget them, ordered from RMRC via fedex, got them in 2 days...

if it weren't for that it would have been a sad sad holiday

i just sent a list of stuff to the local high school to order from RMRC for their balloon project, the guy ordered on saturday night, stuff was dropped off at the post office by sunday

can't beat that level of service

[bcsaltchucker]

Yeah HK is good for a LOT of stuff, I just don't like their FPV lineup, and the better stuff is always out of stock.

I buy pretty much all my motors, ESCs, props, hardware, wiring, and just a crapload of other stuff from HK. Maybe $300 a month from HK. But tend to be buying planes from elsewhere lately. Also make purchases for higher end goods from the US.