Monday, June 14, 2010

AH64 Apache 3 Channel 3D Flight Helicopter with LI-PO Battery


I have a Air Hogs Havoc Heli, and I have this chopper as well. Now this is a great chopper, it is very responsive and it offers more functionality than the Air Hogs. It can hover in place and even go backwards, but there is one problem that would have been a deal breaker for me if I knew it. The flight time is very short. I timed mine right after a full charge. I clocked it at just over 3 minutes, this is 7-12 minutes less than the Air Hogs. Personally I feel that 3 minutes of flight time is not worth the 20 minutes of charge time. Now I found a fix for this, but it requires you knowing how to disassemble the chopper and how to use a soldering iron. You also need a havoc heli lying around. The havoc heli battery is bigger than the sayma chopper, if you take both of them apart and desolder the batteries, then swap them (note that the sayma battery wont fit in the havoc heli, but the havoc heli battery will fit in the sayma). I have increased the flight time from 3 minutes to 10 minutes. Well worth the fix. Now I am a electronics engineer so I know how to handle these things. Please be careful if you are considering this fix, LI-PO batteries are harmful and even toxic if cracked open, and can even be explosive if heated up enough. Adult supervision is highly recommended for this fix, do not under estimate the hazards of these batteries. If you have any doubts please just leave it alone, I dont need amazon comming at me because some kid got hurt trying to swap batteries because he read it in my review. Other than the low battery life this is a pretty fun chopper. I would not make this the first chopper for somebody because this can be alittle troublesome trying to learn if you do not have the fundamentals for chopper flying. I recommend the Havoc Heli as the first heli because it is more simple to fly and to learn off of, mainly because the trimming control is easier on the havoc heli, and the havoc heli only has throttle and left and right.Get more detail about AH64 Apache 3 Channel 3D Flight Helicopter with LI-PO Battery.

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