Sunday, June 27, 2010

RC Powers F-22 EB

After a year or more of researching RC planes, I have decided to jump into the hobby and get a F-22 Easy Build from RCPowers.

I bought the kit because it was on sale for the same price i could buy all of the parts, and the parts were out of stock unless i bought the kit.

After i got my transmitter and my receiver it took me about an hour all together to figure out how to bind them together. I had to find the manual for my transmitter to finally figure it out. ( I was just plugging in the ESC in wrong...)

Here is a diagram i found of how to hook up your servos to the receiver to get the same set up that Dave Powers has on his F-22 EB.





I will only hook up the elevators and the aileron with my V-tail mixer to make my elevons, that is where i will get all of my control of the aircraft.

Oh yeah, and as I was testing my servos I smoked my ESC (speed controller) because the plugs touched each other since they were not hooked up to the motor, so I had to order a new one

but now i know what not to do... more pictures to come later, because i just recently finished building the body of my first pllane, now i just have to wait for the ESC to come in the mail and install my electronics