Archive for July, 2008
It’s time to get outside and play with RC model helicopters. Bring your family out and see what it can do! Every outing is great when you have the funnest toy any kid can ever ask for!
In this digital age, it is often difficult to get your child to get into the great outdoors and actually play with you. Sounds crazy, or it would have years ago, but now kids want to be with their digital toys more than they want to be in the park on a nice day. What’s incredible is that this phenomena is affected an entire generation of kids today and no matter how much pulling, the kids pull harder the other way. It is a time tested fact that instead of the difficult process of pulling kids towards you, you should in fact entice them with something that is both fun and positive to their lives. RC airplanes are a great way to lead a kid into the outdoors and give the kid something inactive to do while there; great fun for the whole family.
• To install a new battery you will need to remove the body from the RC model helicopter to access the internal components.
• The helicopter will have either a foam or plastic body which will have to be cut to remove it.
• The foam body will have a vertical seam which can be cut open with either a hobby or utility knife.
• The plastic body can be cut open either at the horizontal seam at the bottom or by cutting it vertically front to back.
• Once the body is removed you will find the battery near the front of the helicopter it is flat and silver, approximately 2″x 1.5″ in size.
• There will be two wires connecting the battery to the main circuit board, these will need to be un-soldered from the battery.
• With these wires removed the battery can be taken out of the helicopter, it is held in with a few pieces of clear tape that can be cut or peeled off.
• The replacement battery can be held in with any kind of tape.
• When soldering the new battery the power wires please ensure that the red wire is connected to the battery terminal labeled with the “+” and the black wire is to the terminal labeled with a “-”. Connecting this backwards will cause damage to the battery and circuit board. Be careful to not short out the two battery terminals as it will damage the battery and may cause fire.
• You will notice that the original battery also had a small circuit board connected to it, this is to prevent an overdischarge on the battery. It is not necessary on the new battery however it can be soldered and applied to the new replacement battery to help prevent damage.
• Once the battery is in place the body can be re-installed using scotch tape or glue
The rainy days can either be fun or not. When you have your RC airplane out there, the last thing that you need is for the heavens to pour its water over you. But don’t blame the heavens if it rains.
Keeping a good performing RC airplane is not very hard to do. Though it can take most of your time for doing it, if you look at your work in the end, you won’t regret it in any way.
Since there are parts of your plane that are made out of plastic AND metal, be concerned with the plastic made parts more. They are prone to easy wear, tear and cracks. Replace any parts that are in this condition. The metal parts are not an exception, do check them as well.
When you check all these, you wouldn’t be worried at taking your planes outside – even if it rains.
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