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Paul 20/01/2021
Really nice quality helicopter that is well presented and packaged in a good quality box. Its just small enough to get away with flying in a larger indoor room, but really is designed for a larger hall or outdoors in calm winds. Two things I have found: 1. You must not tighten the main rotor blades onto the grips. Leave them lose or you will experience a lot of unwanted lead/lag vibration in flight (this is covered in flight manual trouble shooting guide). 2. The E130 loves flying outdoors, BUT it exhibits terrible un-commanded pitch nose up at speed when flying in anything other than zero wind. This is really irritating and in my opinion spoils what is a very good helicopter. It might be the 3/6g flight controller or perhaps just a limitation of the RC controller. It would be nice to be able to turn off the full stabilisation for a richer flight experience if this would prevent the nose pitch up. The instructions and Eachine website hint at being able to put the model on Spectrum 2.4 DSM2/X transmitters which would transform its performance and possibly remove some of the inherent stability traits that I found flying outdoors with that irritating random 'pitch up and stop/start flying backwards' when flying in slight winds. However there is no visible way of plugging a DSM2/X Rx to the FC mother board as far as I can see, and it is possible that the instructions are a simple adaptation from the E160 and are in error. That said if anyone knows how to add a DSM2/X receiver then please let me and the community know. So overall its a good helicopter, really good even, for the price I paid. The quality is excellent (pity there is no option for a CNC head and Swash), and I would give it a full 5 stars but for the FC performance at speed and the inability to remove some of the inherent stability via the Radio controller. That pitch up and stop/start flying backwards is really annoying and you just cant push through it with the supplied RC. Hope this helps.
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Q: Does anyone know how to set this up on DSM2/X please?

Asked by Paul on 2021-01-16 05:10:44

KMOTER2 Not support. I have a Spektrum DX8e transmitter and have not been able to pair it.

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Paul 12/07/2020
A quick initial review of the E160 for Spectrum/JR users and a few thoughts based on my initial experience - and I am in no way a 3D pilot. The E160 is designed for Futaba S-FHSS users to bind and fly but Spectrum/JR users fear not and read on! I bound a Redcon DSMX satellite receiver to my DX8e radio using a full size DSMX receiver as a host. Plug the pre-bound satellite receiver into the DSM port on the flybarless control board on the helicopter fuselage. I attached the receiver to the top of the elevator servo using a 3M foam pad.You MUST set up the pitch and throttle curves on your TX BEFORE powering up the helicopter. This is because the servos are set to maximum throws (plus) and you will put severe strain on them if you don’t do this. My trial and error settings I used are included below, but it you use those in the manual initially you wont got too far wrong and then tune these to suite your own ability/flying style as I did.Before you fly you need to check the rear elevator servo arm and ensure that it is not binding on the right hand servo body (when viewed from above). Mine was (poor quality control/design by Eachine) and I had to carefully remove the servo from the mount and re-profile the servo arm elbow to give adequate clearance from the right hand servo main body. Here are my Spectrum radio settings: Swasplate Type : NORMAL 1 Servo. Servo Setup : Travel - all 100%, Sub Trim - all 0, Normal/Reverse - All Normal D/R and Expo - 100% and 0% (set other curves to suit as required). Throttle Curve: N: 0,85,85,85,85%. 1: 85,85,85,85,85%. 2: 90,90,90,90,90%. H 0%. Pitch Curve: 1: 35,43,50,58,65%. 2. Same as 1 (for gentle aerobatics with a 85% throttle curve). 3: 32,40,50,60,68% (for 3D with 90% throttle). Hold : Same as 1. GYRO: +21.0%, -10%, -10% (The +ve setting should make the helicopter more stable (6G mode), the -ve setting should remove the 6G mode for aerobatic flight. Timer: 4 minutes. Overall a nice little helicopter.
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Paul@Pathfinder Hello, not a problem, sorry my reply is late but I don\'t check my account very often. Its a nice little helicopter that works well on my DX8

Paul 12/07/2020
A quick initial review of the E160 for Spectrum/JR users and a few thoughts based on my initial experience - and I am in no way a 3D pilot. The E160 is designed for Futaba S-FHSS users to bind and fly but Spectrum/JR users fear not and read on! I bound a Redcon DSMX satellite receiver to my DX8e radio using a full size DSMX receiver as a host. Plug the pre-bound satellite receiver into the DSM port on the flybarless control board on the helicopter fuselage. I attached the receiver to the top of the elevator servo using a 3M foam pad.You MUST set up the pitch and throttle curves on your TX BEFORE powering up the helicopter. This is because the servos are set to maximum throws (plus) and you will put severe strain on them if you don’t do this. My trial and error settings I used are included below, but it you use those in the manual initially you wont got too far wrong and then tune these to suite your own ability/flying style as I did.Before you fly you need to check the rear elevator servo arm and ensure that it is not binding on the right hand servo body (when viewed from above). Mine was (poor quality control/design by Eachine) and I had to carefully remove the servo from the mount and re-profile the servo arm elbow to give adequate clearance from the right hand servo main body. Here are my Spectrum radio settings: Swasplate Type : NORMAL 1 Servo. Servo Setup : Travel - all 100%, Sub Trim - all 0, Normal/Reverse - All Normal D/R and Expo - 100% and 0% (set other curves to suit as required). Throttle Curve: N: 0,85,85,85,85%. 1: 85,85,85,85,85%. 2: 90,90,90,90,90%. H 0%. Pitch Curve: 1: 35,43,50,58,65%. 2. Same as 1 (for gentle aerobatics with a 85% throttle curve). 3: 32,40,50,60,68% (for 3D with 90% throttle). Hold : Same as 1. GYRO: +21.0%, -10%, -10% (The +ve setting should make the helicopter more stable (6G mode), the -ve setting should remove the 6G mode for aerobatic flight. Timer: 4 minutes. Overall a nice little helicopter.
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