honey bee cp2 problem

[Iecabus]

Hi everyone, tahe a look at the following link. It is to a you tube vid of mine showing the issue im having.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBBDK5x-ypA[/ame]

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

[Ade_Law]

what exactly is the problem?

Ade

[Iecabus]

Hi Ade, from power up i have to put a lot of throttle on to nearly max the it takes off, then after hovering a few seconds the heli lurches upwards really fast, i drop the throttle and all is well until i land and power up again. The blades seem to be moving to an extreme pitch when you look at the from the side
Its driving me mad. I have tracked the blades perfectly, i dont understand it.
Thanks.

[richieclarkie]

Looks like turbulence.

When you hover in a small room then there's lots of air being pushed around and will affect the lift of the heli. Basically ground effect.

Whats it like outside with no wind?

[richieclarkie]

Ahh one other thing is a "sticky clollective".

This may help

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=452072

[163phil]

Mine did that too!

I thought it was just cheap electronics! Mine did that out of the box and I just got used to it!

Now bought a Belt CP which is in a totally different league, and I reckon a much better bet for the novice (it does what you tell it to!)

Persevere and good luck!!

Phil

[russell@home]

Hi Iecabus,

Did you resolve this?

Mine does the same thing :-(

[unwind-protect]

I wouldn't hold out too much hope. I had the same sticky collective type symptoms; the above fix changed nothing, and I ended up scrapping it.

As mentioned, the Belt CP (and King fwiw) are much better and actually flyable.

[xygax]

Just a thaught ... Could it be a tooth off a gear in the pitch servo.... I set one up the other day and it had a terible sloppy movment in the head mainly because of z bends in servo arms but it did fly til the esky gyro expired....

Steve

[163phil]

Motor life on CP2...?

Hi guys

I am getting a whining noise with my cp2 and fear the motor could be on its way out.
Only thing is it's only done a few batteries, as I replaced it just the other day.
It is also getting very hot. (I have also replaced the tail motor as I couldn't set it up - now fixed)

Has anyone else got through the motors so quickly, and is there a better quality motor I can upgrade it with? , as it's getting uneconomical to keep going, but I just can't bring myself to call it a day with this heli!

cheers

Phil