Roban EC130 Build Part 5 - Fitting scale details & first full flight.
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2024
- In part 5 of the Roban EC130 Build series, we finally get to see how this large scale RC helicopter flies, and get to experience just how well (or poorly) a fenestron tail rotor works.
This is the best part of every new RC helicopter build in my opinion. It combines fear, fun and a great sense of accomplishment into one single event. It can also end in disaster, but that possibility has been greatly minimized by the progressive baby steps taken in this build thus far. A good deal of confidence in the helicopter, components, build & setup has therefor already been established.
It is however this first proper maiden flight of every heli I have ever built, that I remember the most; it's just one big reason why I and so many others love this hobby so much. The last 2 months all coalesce into this single flight. I also haven't been this excited about a fresh RC heli build since I flew my first turbine powered RC helicopter back in 2009. This one as well is introducing an unknown element I have no prior experience with - the fenestron tail rotor.
Before flying the Roban EC130 however, there are both internal and external scale details that have to be installed along with the ESC cooling fan, and lastly rechecking the center of gravity.
Video Chapters:
0:00 Scale Seats
1:46 Interior Carpet
3:38 Instrument Panel
4:45 Exterior Details
8:19 ESC Cooling Fan
8:43 Test Flight
14:53 Post Flight Analysis
Roban EC130 800 RC Helicopter Build Series:
Part 1 - Unboxing: • Roban EC130 RC Helicop...
Part 2 - Component Selection: • Roban EC130 RC Helicop...
Part 3 - Building Mechanics, Setup & Test Flight: • RC Helicopter Build - ...
Part 4 - Fitting Mechanics & Maiden Flight: • Scale RC Helicopter Bu...
Part 5 - Scale Details & First Full Flight: • Roban EC130 Build Part...
Part 6 - Scale Pilot & Dialed In Flight : • Big Scale RC Helicopte...
List of components I'm using in this Roban 800 Super Scale EC130:
- Roban 800 Super Scale EC130 RC Heli Kit:
www.motionrc.com/products/rob...
- Flight Batteries: Gens Ace 6S 5100 mAh 80C LiPo
www.buddyrc.com/products/gens...
- RX Battery: Gens Ace 2S 2400 mAh RX LiPo
www.buddyrc.com/collections/2...
- Egodrift Scale Collection brushless motor 4035hs 460kv:
www.helidirect.com/products/e...
- Castle Phoenix Edge HV 50V 120A ESC:
www.helidirect.com/products/p...
- Bavarian Demon 3X Flybarless System:
www.motionrc.com/products/bav...
- KST Brushless HV Digital BLS815-V2 Cyclic Servo:
www.buddyrc.com/collections/k...
- KST Brushless HV Digital High Torque X20-3612 Fenestron Tail Servo:
www.buddyrc.com/collections/k...
Resources:
Roban EC130 RC helicopter 800 English Manual:
www.rchelicopterfun.com/suppo...
Want to learn all about RC helicopters? Please visit my website:
www.rchelicopterfun.com/
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This video is for information purposes only; it's no substitute for the years of collective pitch RC helicopter building & flying experience required to successfully put one of these big Roban scale kits together & fly it.
Please consider giving a thumbs up & subscribe if you enjoy the content - thank you & thanks for watching :) - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Roban EC130 800 RC Helicopter Build Series:
Part 1 - Unboxing: czcams.com/video/3qM_1fg9110/video.html
Part 2 - Component Selection: czcams.com/video/ycq4jW7JVao/video.html
Part 3 - Building Mechanics, Setup & Test Flight: czcams.com/video/eDRr7n3Zq4g/video.html
Part 4 - Fitting Mechanics & Maiden Flight: czcams.com/video/NocHFV8f90c/video.html
Part 5 - Scale Details & Full Flight: czcams.com/video/1Grlqsldf6M/video.html
Part 6 - Scale Pilot & Dialed In Flight : czcams.com/video/axMc8rBeIQs/video.html
Bigger the Helicopter. Less you would need glasses . Lol awesome build . Love scale helicopter. I try to fly scale . 3D flying will stop my heart . Lol
Your OCDness and attention to detail does my heart good. Everything about your helicopter is fantastic!
I'll stay quiet, too. WOW !!
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Wow that looks like the helicopter 🚁 that my wife and I rode on in the Grand Canyon lol Awesome Detail Love it
beautiful build !
Thank you Josh.
Such a beautiful bird, well flown!😎👍
Thanks 🙂
Beautiful helicopter and a very well made video. Really nice to see a model helicopter fly in a scale manner. As impressive as it is, to watch someone fly acrobatic/3D, however, I get a head ache from watching that stuff. Scale like flying, on the other hand, is simply wonderful to watch. Thank you, John. Hopefully you will have many future hours flying the Roban. Steve in Surrey BC.
Thanks Steve - always nice to hear from a fellow BCer 🙂👍
Such a beautiful heli.
Thanks & thanks for watching 🙂
Gorgeous machine, John. I love how smoothly you fly. Your garage, BTW, looks so organised. Love it. 👍
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As always John you're a master builder and pilot. Awesome job my friend, thumbs up!
Thanks James - much appreciated 👍🙂
Stunning looking model! You did a great job on it! It flies really nice too!
Thanks & thanks for watching 👍
Congrats on your build it looks Absolutely Stunning..
Well done. Congratulations.
Very impressive man. Looks and fly's great.
What a landscape! And a beautiful helicopter, gorgeous!
Remark: Better bigger helicopters, always!!! 😂🤣😂🤣
That's just gorgeous, John. Well done. Been following the journey and glad to finally see her first full flight.
Also always admire your attention to details and deep knowledge in helicopter flight dynamics. Keep it up.
Beautiful!
Thank you. Cheers & happy helidays 🙂
Have been waiting for this vid. Great job mate. Bring on the next build!
Beautiful brid and first flight, congrats! I like the solo shot camera too. I will look one to added to my gear. I often flight solo.
Nice Job !
Thanks for the visit
Congratulations on a great fully equipped flight! It looks just as good in the air as it dose static . Looking forward to seeing how the pilot and maybe a passenger dresses up this new bird!
Beautiful helicopter.
Beautiful heli!
Beautiful build... These scale birds are the bee's knees
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So great! Thanks for posting
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Incredible job! Beautiful helicopter
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My goodness John, just awesome! I would kill for a place like that to fly...lol. The helicopter looks great in the air! As far as the tail, a good pilot can fly anything, you make it look easy. Cheers
Excellent first shakedown! Lovely looking heli stunning. Great informative vid as usual, looking forward to more flights with it! 👍
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Wow, what a nice Heli. I love it.
Wish you many Years, good flights with it.
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Extraordinary Build John and a Fantastic and uneventful proper first flight. Your details are above and beyond my friend, overall I give you a solid 95/100. Once the Pilot & Headsets are in, I'll be bumping that up slightly to 112/100! Incredible as always and Thank you for sharing your incredible journey with us. Best to You and your Family, as always and take care John!
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Awesome
Nice 👍
Hey there John, nice build. I used to work for Papillon as a pilot/mechanic and I have worked on and flown that very aircraft when it was painted in Papillons previous color scheme.
Very cool Paul 👍
Wow just WOW! Beautiful! You are a very talented man with superior flying skills. Absolutely love watching your videos. I hope some day I can fly half as great as you.
Thanks for the visit & comments. If I can learn to fly these egg beaters, anyone can 🙂
Amazing heli and amazing video series too. Thank you very much for sharing!! Best regards from Brasilia, Brazil.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Absolutely beautiful John as usual you never fail to impress Oh ya you live in one of the most beautiful places I miss the mountains may God bless
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Hi john thanks, for the good advice a gentelmen at Emotion RC had told me the demonx3 has a stabailzation system that could be switch on that beginners and advance pilots can use as a saftey feature . I think he is thinking of the bavarian Axon
Awesome build, although I prefer the dark "carpet" but that's just my personal preference.
Yep, and that's what great with these scale projects - you can customize them any way you wish 🙂
Nice flight. What gyro are you using? I'm a futaba CGY fan.
Bavarian Demon fan here 🙂
Hi John. Quick question. What’s the difference between the Demon 3axis Gyro and the FlyWing H1 Gyro? I currently have the Roban EC 135, and was looking into some good gyros. Thanks
The H1 is a GPS autopilot system; ie. zero skill needed to fly and could not be used (successfully anyway) on a big scale bird due to lack of tunability. See my review on it: czcams.com/video/taNEI680-68/video.html
The Bavarian Demon 3X on the other hand is a meat & potatoes flybarless system. No gimmicks, just lots of tuneability with rock solid performance and reliability.
My page on best flybarless system may also be of interest: www.rchelicopterfun.com/best-flybarless-system.html
The best flybarless gyro system for your EC135 is likely one/s you have used in the past successfully with your other large collective pitch helicopters so you are intimately familiar with their function, feel & setup.
Looks fantastic John enjoyed the series. Have you ever had a scale bird and used two 3S batteries Vs a 6S due to space limitations your thought on that negative and positive please?
Hi Ron, Nope, never had any 6S heli (scale or otherwise) that I've used 2x3S in series over a single 6S. I've only used single 6S packs in those instances and on those helicopters. Downsides to running two packs over a single include more connectors & generally longer power harnesses which can introduce voltage drops and higher ripple. Two packs in series are also generally going to be heavier than a single pack (of the same capacity). Lastly, it's generally more costly getting say two 3S 5000 mAh packs over a single 6S 5000 mAh pack. Of course if running two 3S packs over a single 6S because of space restrictions or correct weight distribution is required, it's a compromise that must be made.
@@Rchelicopterfun Thanks John, appreciate the info, just watched your videos, Fitment Fun and the use of the PT 600 ESP may need to go in that direction. What motor are you running in those mechanics for the Bell 222 and the Airwolf. I have all the other equipment sourced.
I cover 600esp component suggestions (including motors) on my 600ESP component page:
www.rchelicopterfun.com/600esp-component-suggestions.html
Hi John, before I buy that kind of heli is there any issues about the tail rotor? Because I heard some of the owner of roban here in AU had some issues about the feneston rotor. Thanks for your reply
@nelsonaguilar8074 - As I said in this video and in the part 6 video, the Roban Fenestron works superb, provided you pair it with a good/strong tail servo and you also understand no large & heavy scale helicopter is going to have the same kind of tail authority & performance a smaller agile 3D machine will have. I have over 40 flights on this thing now - no issues & a joy to fly.
@@Rchelicopterfun Thanks John for the info
How are the servos working out for you?
Perfect.
Hello Jhon.. how you solved the pitch up effect? thanks
Slowed the decay rate in the FBL system.
@@Rchelicopterfun Thanks John... i don't know if ikon has that option.. will check but the heli is doing the same as yours.
Thanks
Really nice machine. I think it looks too clean though, especially that turbine exhaust. Have a look at how the wargaming guys do weathering.
You do realize weathering is one of the last items on the to-do list with a complex scale heli build; and is not something anyone would even think about during the very first full test flight. Regardless, weathering was done last winter after about 25 fights once I knew everything was working correctly.
Fair enough, not trying to insult your work, just pointing out something a lot of RC people don't think of. @@Rchelicopterfun
That is likely because RC aircraft are working models, not static, and thus the primary importance for RC aviators is how well they fly, are maintained, and look in the sky from dozens to hundreds of feet away. Counting rivets is usually the last thing on an RC aviators mind but on a scale project like this, most of us will add some detail, but again, it's not rivet level as it doesn't have to be. Efforts are much better spent performing proper mechanical maintenance which on a model like this, just like full size, is ongoing - that's half the fun of the hobby.
Moreover, on a full size commercial civilian aircraft like the Papillon helicopters tour company livery here, their full size fleet are always immaculate for their clients, being detailed weekly and have very little visible weathering to speak of over an above the normal heat oxidation on the stainless exhaust and some slight carbon exhaust downwash build up on the top of the boom heat shield. Easily emulated within 30 seconds and airbrush in hand 😉
Yeah, your last sentence was my point. Huge visual improvement for very little effort. I do get what you mean about the mechanical stuff, used to fly myself, its been a few years, but got a really good deal on a Trex 450... @@Rchelicopterfun