Ladybird Repairs

 Here's the before picture.  The mainframe was cracked, and more importantly the motherboard wouldn't bind.

 Here's the unit with the motherboard removed.  The four screws come out pretty nicely.

 Here's the repaired frame.  It took a bit of jiggling to get the arms to seat properly.

 And all put back together!  It flies as nicely as it did before on my desktop testing.  I replaced my V1 board (which has an accelerometer) with a V2 board (which doesn't).  I'll see how well it flied in real life and see if I want to get a V1 replacement board.  They're more expensive because of the accelerometer.

Here's the wiring diagram for future use.

Ladybird Dual Rates and Expo

When I replaced my non-binding Ladybird, I took the opportunity to upgrade to the Devo 7 radio.  It's a nice radio but God Almighty it's got a terrible menu system!  It made me dream of the graceful elegance of my Turnigy 9x!

Here's the settings that worked for me.  I couldn't figure out how to use any of the Dual Rate switches, but I was able to finally fiddle with the thing to set these parameters.  Wow Hobbies set the Devo 7 so that one of the switches would toggle between stabilized and acro mode, so I made a copy of the model setting.  For now, I'll just change between models to turn expo on and off.

Pos 0: ELEV D/R - 80% EXP +30%
Pos 0: AILE D/R - 80%, EXP +30%
Pos 0: RUDD D/R - 100% EXP LIN


If I can figure out exactly how I did this, or how to set things so it's switchable I'll update this post.

Ladybird Prop Bumper

RCG user phoxache made a nice prop bumper.  Cut from 6mm Depron, very nicely done!