General Mid-Budget ESB built

[Cwmarcom]

awesome work my friend. very nice. good luck

 

[Notlewis]

awesome work my friend. very nice. good luck

Thank youvery much, mate!

 

[Notlewis]

Step by step I´m installing the servo into my helmet...


First I had to make the hole in the right ear a little bit bigger to fit the base of the servo horn AND the servo.


Now the servo horn base fits...


...also does the servo.


Next will be mounting the servo and the rest of "Salamanderking´s" electronics to the inside of the helmet.


I glued the first two screws, which will hold the servo in place, on the inside of my helmet using gel superglue.


To be continued...

 

[Notlewis]

Saturday-Update...

Did a test-run of "Salamanderking´s" rc rangefinder servo installed into my helmet. More to come soon...

Here´s a little video:
[video]https://www.facebook.com/1030679493692016/videos/1254210091338954/[/video]

 

[Artakha]

That's some thorough work. Keep up the great work!

 

[Notlewis]

I have to re-work the helmet interior to fit in the electronics... "Salamanderking´s" RC RF servo unit, two radial-fans.... AND my head.


I mounted the servo-electronics first. The cables, batteries and battery-holder are just mounted for the moment. Next will be to fit in the radial-fans plus batteries and switch.


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That's some thorough work. Keep up the great work!

Thank you very much!

 

[Notlewis]

Yesterday I installed the radial-fans.

Using hardfoamboard to construct a platform for the fans to fit the curved surface inside the helmet.


Glued the fans onto the platforms.


Fan number 1 blows cool air in the direction of the visor. So the visor doesn´t fog up and my face is cooled.


Number 2 blows cool air to the upper backside of the helmet to avoid heat accumulation.


Taking care of all the cables... shortened some of them and soldered them new. Both fans are operated by a single 12V battery. Also installed an ON-OFF-switch.


Now the complete electronics are installed and my head still fits in there...


Maybe I´ll add some interior to hide all the cables...but for the moment this is done.

 

[TK50175]

Cool! Is this tiny batterie running bith fans??? Where do you get the fans and the battery holder? Can you post a link?


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[Notlewis]

Cool! Is this tiny batterie running bith fans??? Where do you get the fans and the battery holder? Can you post a link?


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Hi! Yes this tiny A23 battery is running both fans. All these things you can find on Ebay. Keywords: A23 battery (Batterie) / A 23 battery holder (Batteriehalter) / radial-fan (Radiallüfter).

Hope this helps.

 

[Notlewis]

Now I finished my hollow Rangefinder made by Bobamaker by installing Salamanderking´s self-contained lights.

Here you can see the light set on the left, right top the BM hollow RF and right bottom one the BM deluxe RF (which I used till now).


First I constructed a closure system by using a laying around metal piece, which I glued to the cover and a N52 rare earth magnet which I glued into the main-body.


Now I sprayed the RF silver/chrome and after that I put on some Humbrol masking-fluid for the weathering using this helpful reference.


With masking tape I covered all the silver areas before using matt-black spray-paint.


After the matt-black paint has dryed, I sprayed on a semi-matt clearcoat.


Now I can install the electronics.


Here´s a short video of the function:
[video]https://www.facebook.com/1030679493692016/videos/1263787100381253/[/video]

 

[Notlewis]

Here´s a short vidoe of the radiocontrolled Rangefinder including the selfcontained RF lights made by Salamanderking. Fantastic! I´m so happy!!!
[video]https://www.facebook.com/1030679493692016/videos/1264221377004492[/video]

 

[Notlewis]

Did an inventory today.... Nearly 4 years of researching, collecting, building... Missing in the pic are the shin tools and the jetpack harness.

 

[Notlewis]

Using softfoam and faux-leather to hide the electronics and cables. Also made a little "tunnel" to channel the air from the lower fan to the upper backside.
Before:


Now:

 

[Drax]

What kind of material did you put over the intake on the fan?

 

[Notlewis]

What kind of material did you put over the intake on the fan?

Oh, didn´t mention it. It´s a fine-meshed metal similiar to flying lattice.

 

[Notlewis]

It´s "Karneval" in Germany at the moment. So I used this for a costume-test wearing it for about 4 hours. Didn´t wear the jetpack and the EE-3 (blaster only for the first moments of taking pictures in our garden). Some things I´ll have to repair and adjust, espacially loosing some weight (updates will follow).

 

[Notlewis]

A short video of the costume-test (later we recognized the microphone of my loudspeaker-system was hanging out of the helmet :
[video]https://www.facebook.com/1030679493692016/videos/1271269939632969/[/video]

 

[TK50175]

Very cool! But your jumpsuit ist still to clean. More dirt please!


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[Notlewis]

Very cool! But your jumpsuit ist still to clean. More dirt please!


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I know... fresh out of the washing machine (it was still too blue) and I had no time for a new weathering. But thanks for the input!

 

[Notlewis]

So first thing (and easiest) to change, was sewing the ankle ties to the flightsuit.