Swift II "Night flyer" build

Ms Composit Swift II, motor: TURNIGY 28-26 16A 1900Kv Brushless Outrunner, esc: TURNIGY Plush 18amp Speed Controller, battery: Rhino 1250mAh 31P 20C Lipoly, propeller: APC 6x4e, light: High Density R/C LED Flexible Strip-White (1mtr), + 3 led red board and 3 led green board. lightswitch: Turnigy Receiver Controlled Switch... All parts are from hobbyking except the plane and the red and green lights.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Swift 2
• Swift II
• night flyer
• nightflyer
• led
• led stripes
• hobbyking
• rc
• hobby

[Aircraftfreak155]

so you have to soder the led stripsinto the tunigy rx then he rx just plugs into the mainrx for the plane right?

[petleh82]

@Aircraftfreak155 Yes, its a "turnigy rc switch", that i plug into my main rc.. And to the switch i have power from the battery on one side and the leds on the other.... It would also be possible to use a small brushed speedcontroller instead of a rc switch, then it would be able to adjust the brightness of the led stripes from the radio !

[TABINEKOMILK]

It is wonderful. It became reference when the airframe was assembled.

すばらしい。機体を組み立てる時の参考になりました

[petleh82]

@TABINEKOMILK Thanks ! that is nice to hear !, I have just built a new swift 2, for fpv, and on that i have everything built inside the wings, no cuts at all to put down wires in. I will show it in a video soon :-)

[tbvdb]

what kind of control rod system do you use? I'm going to build a swift 2 soon ;-)

and I loooove the lighting, I also ordered some LED strips!! And one more question, how did you wire the lighting? Did you just make a Y harnass from the 3S lipo battery?

[petleh82]

@tbvdb The control rods is the ones that is included with the swift 2, the servos i use are HXT 900. My ledstripes are 12v and yes i just connect them directly to the 3s lipo, but through a "rc switch" so i can turn them on and off with my transmitter. It a very fun plane to fly, i have lots of flight hours on it now, you will be happy with a swift2 :-)

[kavic5150]

Excellent build video. Awful music. :) How did those turnigy servos work out for you?

[kavic5150]

@tbvdb In case no one answered that question you can connect the 3 wires any way without fear of damaging your motor/ESC. If your motor/propeller spins the wrong way, simply swap ANY 2 ESC wires to reverse the motor direction.

[420choky]

nice

[MrActionplus]

Now I can follow your build.

Thanks.

[tbvdb]

How do you know how to connect the three red esc wires to the three black motor wires in the right order?

[tbvdb]

@petleh82 Ok, amazing! I'm sooo exited to fly this plane in the dark :p It will be my first night flyer! :D