Setup
Recently, I came in to the possession of a motor test stand (RCBenchmark 1520) so I started to make some measurements and do a Setup test for the Inside F5J (Turnigy 2217 860kv), with a 10×6″ prop and a variation with the larger 11×6″ prop. First I put the props and spinner on the balancer. Remarkably, one of the props only needed a bit of sanding after which the total system was statically as dynamically pretty well balanced!
Then, I mounted the setup on the test bench and run some tests. I logged (approx.) 10%, 20%, 30%,…..90% Throttle.
The Motor/prop setups that I have tested are:
- Turnigy 2217 20turn 860kv 22A Outrunner & 10×6″ HK carbon folding prop
- Turnigy 2217 20turn 860kv 22A Outrunner & 11×6″ Aeronaut CAM prop
- PROPDRIVE v2 2830 1100KV & Aeronaut CAM prop
The Motor has arrived!
Funny how a €14,- motor from China comes in a nice box, with fasteners, shrink-wrap, multiple prop-adapters, spare axel, bullet-connectors and rubberbands for a flexible prop adaptor…
Inside F5J Hobbyking motor choice
Motor choice Inside F5J
Well, The bullet is through the church (as we say in dutch…). After long searching on the Hobbyking website, during which Hobbyking changed their category layout (nice work guys! Now I realy can’t find anything anymore and it was shit to begin with!!!), we have made our choices for the Inside F5J Hobbyking motor and servo’s setup. Basically, we have chosen a setup of about €100,- (ex transport), which I think is quite good, compared to the advised setup with the Hacker motor/esc and the graupner servos. The latter would set you back approximately €350,-. This effectively means that we can afford to f#ck up our setup about 3 times… Sounds good to me!