Ever since the Fox started using its designated battery, the 1800 Nanotech, it has suffered from a buzz. Initially I thought this was because the motor mount wasn't tight enough, and then I thought that perhaps it was because the firewall wasn't sturdy enough, gluing in a second mount in tandem to beef things up.
And so the imbalance persisted since I'm not sure how to balance folding props. However the other day I found a spare set of Walrus props and decided to install them on the Fox.
This works surprisingly well and they seem to provide quite sufficient thrust for the Fox, which is much sleeker than its portly donor plane.
So, the Fox now has white props to match its colour scheme, and is flying quite happily with cheap plastic instead of swishy carbon fibre...
I'd bought the Rarebear along with the suggested "ballistic" upgrade battery, the 4S nanotech 45-90C, which promised incredible performance. They were quite right, except the little plane end up being so fast that I can't possibly fly it at that speed, spending most of the time just over half throttle and occasionally bumping it to around two-thirds.
However I have done a battery swap with the Radjet, flying that on the little 4S's and running the Rarebear on the 3S 1300's. This afternoon I flew the Rarebear twice, firstly on a 25-35C and then on a 25-50C. One wouldn't expect much difference, however the 25-50C is, in my opinion, the perfect battery for the Rarebear; it makes the plane significantly fast enough to keep you on your toes but remains controllable enough to make super-low flyby's at full throttle, which is how I like to fly my fast planes. Anyway, so I think the swap will be permanent, the Rarebear happily swooping around on the 3S and the Radjet screaming around on 4S...
