**SK450 SETUP**

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Dave Butcher

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Many thanks again for all your help. I'll have a look at them later. That HKTR6 look ideal while I'm getting going. Cheers. Dave.
 
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Dave Butcher said:
Many thanks again for all your help. I'll have a look at them later. That HKTR6 look ideal while I'm getting going. Cheers. Dave.
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It is really just a "patch" or "baindaid" until you get a real one, and it may save 30$ from buying a more expensive "bandaid" that you could use to get a real Tx. Yet at the same time it can last you a couple years, and will do further than you can see LOS.
 
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Dave Butcher

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That's great, cheers. I know its not going to be all singing and dancing. I will be doing LOS, so it sounds ideal for the moment to get my by.

Thanks again pal.
 
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My thoughts exactly for buying one. If you get it you will really want to do that battery mod as it is really annoying with AA batteries.
 
glowingturnip

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yeah< jackson asked me the other day on that FlySky FS i6 - here's my 'review':


hi mate,

I've certainly got no complaints with it, but then I upgraded from a years-old dinosaur tx (1 meter antenna, no digital settings at all) so I'm well happy !

Build quality seems decent, and no, not too small, it's light and comfortable to hold, so you can kind of forget you're holding it when you're flying. Yep, two antenna on the rx that you mount at 90 degrees to each other, so I've got one along each front leg. The shop I bought it from reckons it has a range of about 1km.

I assume all this stuff comes as standard nowadays, but it's got lots of configurable spare inputs, so I have one switch turning on/off the throttle curve, one for the stick scaling/exponential, one for self-level on/off and still have two spare potentiometers and a 3-way switch for configuring to the spare channel. Fail-safes, end-points, sub-trim etc etc, and plenty of slots for saving different set-ups.

Downside niggles:
- rx and tx were supposed to come bound, but weren't, and manual was a bit hard to follow, but got there eventually
- the manual is a poor translation and seems to cover several different models in one, so a bit hard to follow
- the manual says that due to the short wavelength used, the rx needs line-of-sight to the tx - not a problem for me, but I imagine would be a problem for fpv. I'm not sure if this is really essential since I'd assume most rx's work on these wavelengths nowadays, so maybe that's just them covering their @rs.
- annoying beep using menus that you can't turn off
- menu tree is a bit clunky

But based on my limited knowledge of alternatives, yes, I'd recommend.
 
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Dave Butcher

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Wow, that's an excellent update. Thanks for the fully review. Glad its working well for you. I'm still decideding what RX and tx to get so thanks a lot.
 
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Just make sure sure you get one with an LCD, otherwise you'll always need to be connected to a computer for most of the changes/adjustments.
 
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Dave Butcher

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That is excellent. Thats clarified it for me, so I need to order DJI style flats. Cheers.

I've got 1045s props at the moment, not flown it yet, but which would you recommend 1045 or 1047? Does the 1047 create more thrust? If so what's the down side? Do they use more battery?

Cheers everyone for your comments, i really appreciate it.
 
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Hi the 10x4.7 will give you loads of lift ,I had my 450 ,525 and 666mm quads on the 10x4.7 , as for battery power they will pull a tiny amount of amps more , but I think it will only give you a minute less flight time , but that will depend on how hard you fly and how many mAh the battery is.
 
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