Hi Could you show me how to fix the lights on the heli. with the details of all the parts so that I just need to look for similar, buy them and fix them as per your instructions
i am sorry, these are standard 3mm LEDs, the flashing ones are special types with built in IC for the flashing feature... i bought these some years ago, sorry i do not have any specs.
all LEDs are soldered with appropriate resistors in parallel, wiring made with thin piano-wire. they are simply glued in holes which i drilled in the canopy.
this is not plug and play - you have to calculate correct resistor values and have to solder. do not shorten your lipo...may cause fire!
Hi there. I have the same CB180Q Walkera Airwolf "Orange" and swapped it with the proper black/white Airwolf fuselage. The black/white fuselage is sold as a re-badged model called MadHawlk.
I planned on doing navigation lights on mine as well, but I got a set from TinyBright Lights and they didn't have the proper look to them so I never did the mods on mine. I'd like to know what light's you used. home made? Or kit?
Thanks Vintageford! Still waiting for my 180D to arrive while my mates fly their 100 and honey bees around. Now, I've gotta have lights like yours, it looks fantastic! So I'm gonna find out how easy you say easy is.
Thats sleek men...awesome! How do installed the mechanics because I knew the fuselage was glued together when purchased new? Care to share to me? Thanks
the fuselage canbe taken off after you remove the main rotor shaft. either remove the big gear(pin) and pull shaft up or remove alu rotor head (pin) and pull shaft down. you do not have to split the body but it is very tight. the more times you do it the faster you will get :-)
Great job on the painting as well. The original orange is easy to see, but this is more "airwolf" traditional Bell 222 style. Now some retracts on the gear?
hi, thanks for the nice words, but the body was painted in the airwolf-colors. it is a body for the walkera 5G#4Q3, which is a coaxial, with almost the same body as the CB1890Q. There is some work to be done to adapt it: the top hole needs to be cut out for the swashplate pushrods, and the tail has to be modified to fit for the CB180 tail rotor drive.
The body -orange or airwolf- is of great detail and paintjob quality, almost like a scale model. walkera has improved a lot the last 2 years!
Retracts: almost impossible, the front wheel sits under the battery, not enough room to slide the wheel inside the body... apart from that, the additional weight will cause lifting problems with the stock motor. :-)
Hi..awesome airwolf you got there.You mean you did not use the original orange body and bought the black edition 5G#4Q3 instead? or you just sprayed over the orange?
i was not able to get the orange body here in germany at that time... so i bought the airwolf coaxial body, which is somewhat similar, except the tail section and the top hole. it was some more work as i expected to adapt, but it was worth it.
Hi Could you show me how to fix the lights on the heli. with the details of all the parts so that I just need to look for similar, buy them and fix them as per your instructions
btitus73 1 year ago
@btitus73
hi,
i am sorry, these are standard 3mm LEDs, the flashing ones are special types with built in IC for the flashing feature... i bought these some years ago, sorry i do not have any specs.
all LEDs are soldered with appropriate resistors in parallel, wiring made with thin piano-wire. they are simply glued in holes which i drilled in the canopy.
this is not plug and play - you have to calculate correct resistor values and have to solder. do not shorten your lipo...may cause fire!
vintageford64 1 year ago
Where did you buy the light kit and which one do you get?
rm50310 1 year ago
Hi there. I have the same CB180Q Walkera Airwolf "Orange" and swapped it with the proper black/white Airwolf fuselage. The black/white fuselage is sold as a re-badged model called MadHawlk.
I planned on doing navigation lights on mine as well, but I got a set from TinyBright Lights and they didn't have the proper look to them so I never did the mods on mine. I'd like to know what light's you used. home made? Or kit?
marq74 1 year ago
Thanks Vintageford! Still waiting for my 180D to arrive while my mates fly their 100 and honey bees around. Now, I've gotta have lights like yours, it looks fantastic! So I'm gonna find out how easy you say easy is.
r1thou 2 years ago
Hi vintageford,
Thats sleek men...awesome! How do installed the mechanics because I knew the fuselage was glued together when purchased new? Care to share to me? Thanks
hoverpitch 2 years ago
@hoverpitch :
the fuselage canbe taken off after you remove the main rotor shaft. either remove the big gear(pin) and pull shaft up or remove alu rotor head (pin) and pull shaft down. you do not have to split the body but it is very tight. the more times you do it the faster you will get :-)
vintageford64 2 years ago
where can you buy that fuselage ? and does it fit on the stock 180Q ?
LIQUIDXFX 2 years ago
@LIQUIDXFX
pls. read below, answer already given.
have fun!
vintageford64 2 years ago
Man nice job! love the lights! It looks cool, but i wouldn't trust myself to mess with my helicopter lol.
636roadrunner 2 years ago
That looks cool how did you put them in.
BiggRob121 2 years ago
I connected the LEDs with resistors, wired everything with thin "magnet wire", and made a plug that fits to the balancer plug of the lipo...
simply drilled holes in the fuselage and glued the LEDs from inside.
easy, but takes some time to make a clean job, especially clean wire harness...
vintageford64 2 years ago
Great job on the painting as well. The original orange is easy to see, but this is more "airwolf" traditional Bell 222 style. Now some retracts on the gear?
jgoudeau207 2 years ago
hi, thanks for the nice words, but the body was painted in the airwolf-colors. it is a body for the walkera 5G#4Q3, which is a coaxial, with almost the same body as the CB1890Q. There is some work to be done to adapt it: the top hole needs to be cut out for the swashplate pushrods, and the tail has to be modified to fit for the CB180 tail rotor drive.
The body -orange or airwolf- is of great detail and paintjob quality, almost like a scale model. walkera has improved a lot the last 2 years!
vintageford64 2 years ago
Retracts: almost impossible, the front wheel sits under the battery, not enough room to slide the wheel inside the body... apart from that, the additional weight will cause lifting problems with the stock motor. :-)
vintageford64 2 years ago
Hi..awesome airwolf you got there.You mean you did not use the original orange body and bought the black edition 5G#4Q3 instead? or you just sprayed over the orange?
Droop180sx 2 years ago
hi droop,
i was not able to get the orange body here in germany at that time... so i bought the airwolf coaxial body, which is somewhat similar, except the tail section and the top hole. it was some more work as i expected to adapt, but it was worth it.
vintageford64 2 years ago
very nice, now you need some high powered green lasers with remote movement and then fly around popping balloons with the lasers.
C4eternity 2 years ago