Ok.. been flying this little heli for a while now stock.. and for a micro is goes well.. plenty of power.. I cant both elevator and aileron tick toc.. as well as even piro flip it... Tail holds reasonable in a funnel.. but the tail is a bit inconsistent during some of the piroing moves... The stock AS3X is stick programable, or via telemetry if you have a DX9.

Anyway then came along the msh with the micro brain, which of course meant there was a micro ikon. Thanks to @BladeBandit at ArkRc I picked one of these bad boys up as well as some Zeal blades and lynx tail blades. I will test it without the improved blades just to see how it goes..

Just a quick look in the box.. get the micro ikon of course.. some adapters for sats and futaba rx's... as well as a little usb port extender that plugs into the sysio port on the board...



Before installing.. I powered up the 180.. folded the blades back, and went full collective.. measured the distance between the blades so I could use that as a very ball park pitch guage.

To remove the AS3X, just unscrew the 6 screws into the base plate and pull it off.. 4 screws go into the base, the other 2 go into the boom supports.. unplug everything, remove the board and put on the ikon



Due to the way the esc cable reaches.. mount it in the above orientation.. also with the way the ports are laid out.. you will need to run the esc, and the front servo's wires to the other side of the frame.

before you mount it into the frame, I would connect you sat and connect it to the PC. Here you will be prompted to update the software, which I recommend... and bind your sat. in the receiver tab there is a bind box you can tick to help bind. I would also go into the servo selection, and set both cyclic and tail frequencies now... both should run at 1520 and 333

ok.. now plug everything in, and mount up the ikon...





Just remember.. remove a wire from the motor.. and use a battery to power the unit, before connecting the USB cable. There is enough current to half initialize the servo's and they will go nuts... you dont want this.. so connect a pack, then the USB to the PC.

Next run through the standard setup for an ikon/brain. just remember when it comes to the servo direction... you need to keep reversing the servo's until when you hit the sub trim for each servo.. plus moves it up, and negative moves it down.. even if the servo's move the right way with stick movements.. you need to make sure its right especially if you want to use self level.

Seeing the link lengths are good for these servo's.. I just put on a swash leveler and sub trimmed to it was right.

Then mounted the head.. checked the distance, which was pretty spot on out of the box. And moved on...

Now there is a new screen for the "motor" this is where you set the endpoints.. have a straight throttle curve in you radio.. go full stick.. then move the slider till it beeps... then low stick.. and move the slider till it beeps... else you will not be able to arm the esc..

I have only test hovered in the garage.. seemed reasonable.. will let you know how it goes...