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Kratos

Kratos

Member
I am looking for quality props. I found KDE, but they are way too much expensive for my firs built. Need 15x5.5 props, but I am not sure what to take carbon fiber or plastic. Also what brands are quality? Please provide link if it is possible :)
 

violetwolf

violetwolf

Member
What I do with new builds is run some cheap carbon fiber props from RcTimer for the first little while in order to prove the machine. No sense crashing with expensive props! Then once she's proven I'll switch to Foxtech Supremes or Supreme Lites ... But they may have discontinued the Lites version.

But yeah, always carbon fiber.
 

Kratos

Kratos

Member
(jaw drops) 64$ !!! OMG are they really 5 times better than cheap one? because price is 5 time more? I like finish glossy touch but 64$ :D :D :D
I order this one HOBBYKNOBBY
 


F

fengshuidrone

Guest
Just try to avoid those really cheap CF ones on ebay from china. They are BAAAAAAD. Seriously really bad.
 

Vavooon

Vavooon

Member
I used cheap props too until tried T-Motor. Tiger props are much better.
You can use Graupner or APC, they are not very expencive.
 

Old Man

Old Man

Active Member
The super cheap Foxtech props turned out to be pretty bad. Every one had deep gouges on the back from a lame factory attempt at balancing. Really flexible as well. There was an amazing performance improvement after up grading to T-Motor props having the same basic blade design. S spending $35.00 for three sets of cheap props was not a good deal at all considering I had to buy another set of props to obtain the performance I could have had the first time. Every education has a price it seems.
 



violetwolf

violetwolf

Member
Old Man said:
The super cheap Foxtech props turned out to be pretty bad. Every one had deep gouges on the back from a lame factory attempt at balancing. Really flexible as well. There was an amazing performance improvement after up grading to T-Motor props having the same basic blade design. S spending $35.00 for three sets of cheap props was not a good deal at all considering I had to buy another set of props to obtain the performance I could have had the first time. Every education has a price it seems.
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An engineering mentor of mine used to say "you only pay for quality once". So true.

That said, I usually keep a couple of sets of cheap ones around for emergency. And run the good ones on the machine. It's a lot cheaper than stocking the expensive ones that aren't getting use.
 


Old Man

Old Man

Active Member
Something to consider, shop for previously sold props. There's a lot of people that bought equipment they've never used after finding out what it costs to build a good machine. There's also a lot of people that became discouraged after their first crash that are selling off the equipment that wasn't damaged. Then you have the group selling off their stuff because they are afraid of rules and registration. I've managed to come up with a lot of T-Motor props NIB on the cheap this way.
 

Ti@goo

Ti@goo

Member
Well because you can´t say just the bad things.

I bought this props on a dealer in Europe.

Decided to send this video to XOAR, and they promptly told me they would send me another pair with no costs.

And so they did, it arrived now and they are so much better than the one on the video, or any of the others.

Thank you XOAR! :)
 

Bartman

Bartman

Welcome to MultiRotorForums.com!!
I've been running XOAR for years, I prefer the nitro beechwood props over the electric or "multi-rotor" matched pairs although the larger diameter nitro props get pretty beefy so that's where I switch over to the electric props.
 


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