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Building the
Interceptor
400 Collective Pitch helicopter complete with the Alien Command Auto
Pilot
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link to find out just how little it costs for me provide you with
a
ready built and flight tested Interceptor 400, with our
without Alien Command fitted.
The Interceptor 400C AC Combo kit with
Alien Command that I am building here has been very kindly donated
to me by Helivol, the main UK distributors, and my sincere thanks go to them for
giving me this opportunity to build the machine and to be able to
fully document it here on the ChopperAddict Web site.
The Interceptor 400 is a new RC
collective pitch helicopter that is available today for new potential
pilots who want to learn to fly an RC helicopter. It has been
introduced to the market specifically as a reasonably low cost, well
specified machine that does not try to force you to buy a complete
combo with radio etc as is the case with the Esky Belt CP or Eflite
Blade 400, but instead it leaves it to you to select the radio,
servos, and other electronics to your choice and wallet. To my mind,
this is a far better way of doing things, although I accept that it
is perhaps a little harder for the total novice. Because of
this, the Interceptor 400 is not only available as a basic kit, but
also as a combo kit that includes ACER LABS servos, motor, ESC, so
all you have to choose separately is the radio system you prefer to
purchase.
In fact, the Interceptor 400 is basically an X400 or EXI
400 as it was often called, with some subtle changes to it.
You can buy the Interceptor 400 combo kit (in ARTF form,
which means almost Ready
To Fly) without any radio equipment for around £155, and this
includes almost everything you need to be able to fly it except the
gyro and Lipo battery, and of course your choice of radio
equipment, or for around £275 you can have it plus what is the very good Spektrum
DX6i radio included.
Therefore, you can see that at the price, it is a fairly
low cost helicopter, comparing well with the Belt CP which comes in
with a (not very good) radio at £140, so the Interceptor 400 is
still a good choice for both potential and indeed for reasonably
experienced helicopter pilots.
The Interceptor 400C AC combo kit, which is what I am going
to be building here, comes with 1 x ACER-LAB 3100KV electric MOTOR,
4 x ACER-LAB A8-SG Servos, and an ACER LABS 40 Amps ESC.
Helivol have also provide me with the Acer G1000 gyro
Other than the radio system, the only other items you still
need to buy are a LIPO battery and a charger for the LIPO.
Shown above is
the first thing we are going to build, the main frame, which is made
from a lightweight but very strong aluminium
anodised in black. As you can see, the frame has been well designed
so that it is nice and open, making it very easy to access other
parts that will be inside the frame later on for maintenance etc.
The mainshaft
support design is very similar indeed to the Align Trex 450 and
CopterX 450, using only TWO main bearings, rather than the three
main bearing used by the Esky Belt CP.
THE
BUILD
Shown above is
the box that arrive via UPS, and the first thing that struck me was
how small the box is, as you can see from my wristwatch in front of
it. It was under 0.5Kilo to ship as well.
And here is everything that was in that
little box... Again my wristwatch is there on the
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as suggested by the documentation provided by assembling the
rotor head.
However, it is worth noting that although
I received the full kit, NOT an ARTF system, the
documentation in the box was only for the ARTF system,
although it does contain exploded diagrams of all the parts
at the back, those drawings are not really sufficient for
anyone unfamiliar with building helicopters.
The good news however is that a quick
visit to this web site, or indeed to the Helivol web site
will let you download a PDF that is specifically designed
for the basic kit, so you will need to get that. I
will be "borrowing" images from that documentation in
this build report where I feel I want to clarify certain
important points.
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