ImpulseRC Helix - The Complete Thoughts, Setup & PIDs

Essentially the Helix is an Insane frame that is well thought out, Custom Electronics that’s designed to work with the Helix with minimal fuss and effort. Basically one hell of a high performance mini quad.
Unlike many quads on the market this quad takes the fuss out of working out what will and won’t work with your quad. Basically everything works together perfectly . . what else would you expect from ImpulseRC.
Helix Brief History
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We have no real idea when ImpulseRC started work on the Helix but we can say we first found out early 2016 that something was in the works.
The first time we saw the Helix was in May 28th 2016 when Flits and Sean came over to hand deliver the Helix to Thomas and see what he could do with the prototype. Let me firstly say this quad looked nothing like a Prototype and both of us were blown away. Best of all they felt the quad had heaps of work and development that needed to be done.
A few months later we were told that Thomas would be permitted to use the Helix at the Australian Nationals. Keep in mind at this stage he had never raced it let alone even showed anyone the quad.
For a week and a half he basically started doing race training on his own flying the helix through race gates for the first time.
The quad had a practice session on the Friday of the Aussie Drone Nationals, followed by qualifying on the Saturday where it qualified 3 fastest quad. At this stage Thomas’ spare Helix was damaged and he couldn’t risk trying to qualify faster.
Having qualified 3rd fastest in the Top 32 Thomas was confident in the quad, but knew he needed to stay out of trouble where possible. All that needed to be done was to qualify 1st or 2nd in the next 3 heats and that would guarantee him a place in the final.
He managed to not only win every heat but also go through to win the Final, giving the ImpulseRC Helix its first ever outing the win at the 2016 Australian Drone Nationals.
The Helix went on to win every race Victoria for the rest of the year, with the exception of the Drone X Championships. The Helix qualified as the fastest quad but the Drone X race was for 18 and over and as such Thomas couldn’t compete in that event.
I’ll add more info and links here shortly.
The following at The UTT Runs - All of them have been submitted but we’re still waiting on MultiGP to process and confirm if they accept these runs. So far only UTT3 has been accepted.
UTT1 Track Record
UTT2 Track Record
UTT3 Track Record
UTT4 Track Record
Thingiverse Links
The Fairings including Kiss
GoPro Mounts
Product Information
Motors and ESCs
T-Motor Products Page
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Helix Current Configuration
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ImpulseRC Helix ZX5
ImpulseRC FC
T-Motor F-40 II 2400kv
HQ 5x4x3 Rotor Riot Edition
VTx ImpulseRC
TBS Triumph
F30A 30amp ESCs (DShot 600)
Turnigy Graphene 4S Packs
HS1177 Camera - 2.1mm Lens
45 Degree Camera Tilt
BetaFligt 3.0.1 (The one that supports DShot)
GoPro Session 5
PIDs Non GoPro
Roll 42,26,18 RCR1.26 SR0.72
Pitch 49,25,18 RCR1.26 SR0.72
Yaw 71,20 RCR1.03 SR0.72
PIDs GoPro
Roll 37,36,15 RCR1.26 SR0.72
Pitch 52,35,16 RCR1.26 SR0.72
Yaw 68,20 RCR1.03 SR0.72
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