Tarot 500 with Tarot DFC Head

[Brandon123s]

Howdy,

I picked up a 500 tarot kit with a bunch of different parts a couple months back on the forums here. I'm finally getting around to putting it together but i'm not sure what parts are compatible exactly.

Right now I have the Tarot FBL Head, a tarot FB swashplate that looks like this and a few mini hyperion servos.

I don't have any of the metal balls for the servo horns and i'm not sure if the linkage rods or ball links I have from the tarot 500 kit will work. I think It's the same thing as what comes in an ESP kit... but I don't have them in front of me.

So my questions I guess are...

First is it worth it to get an align DFC swashplate to go with the Tarot DFC head or will the stock one work perfectly fine?

Secondly will the linkage rods and links from the ESP kit work as-is? I'm looking at the different 500 links/rods and the balls seem to vary between M2.5 and M2. I almost got this M2 ball pack but the DFC head says the balls on it are M2.5.

I have to pick up some parts at helidirect today so i'm hoping I can just grab what I need (if anything) from them. Thanks for any help! - i'm not used to dealing with a mishmash of parts or missing parts in a kit... but it's what i've got.

[ronm3313]

I can answer the swash question. I used a 'normal' swash for years on my Tarot 500 ESP to Align DFC conversion. It worked fine. I damamged the swash in a crash and bought the DFC swash. The linkage arms are a bear to get off. I don't notice any dofference in flight. If I ever buy another swash it will be the normal type.

[Brandon123s]

Thanks Ronm. I never understood the align angled ball dfc swash design.

I picked up some efl rods and I think the ball links are basically the same aside from thread size. The FB rods are way too long.

[Gladius]

The angled DFC swash is designed that way so centrifugal forces can't pull the links off the swash. That could be a problem if you are running really high headspeeds, or if your links are too loose.

[reALIGNed]

Originally Posted by Gladius

The angled DFC swash is designed that way so centrifugal forces can't pull the links off the swash. That could be a problem if you are running really high headspeeds, or if your links are too loose.

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