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Oh dear. I checked the weather lastnight and thought this morning would look like the perfect weather for testing out the Blade400 3D as the reports were for very low winds. So I got up nice and early and headed down to one of the local parks. Setup the training gear, placed the battery into the helicopter not connected. Switched on the TX and selected the right model for the heli. Made sure the throttle hold was on. Plugged in the heli lipo and checked some cyclic movement to see if some of the controls were working. Nope nothing. So I thought ok I'll rebind the helicopter. Which I did successfully. Started to move the controls around and had collective and cyclic movement. Took off the throttle hold and gave it a quick spool up to centre throttle/collective. At this stage I noticed the wind wasn't coming from behind me. So I repositioned and decided to check the anti-torque / tail pitch (dunno why I didn't check before). Couldn't notice any movement so I was like WTF is going on.
Now this is the lesson learnt bit
For some silly reason I decided to change over from my modified Blade400 model settings to the Blade 400 original settings while still having the ESC/Motor connected. Next minute I know the heli is spooling up to max throttle. I checked the throttle hold and that is ON. Checked Flight Mode and that was in Normal not Stunt. Checked throttle/collective and that was at low/negative position. At this stage I'm starting to panic as I could imagine the heli going into orbit. So I do the only thing at that point in time I thought was the best option. Stand on the training gear. Well my leg started to get a battering from the main rotor and I put my hand. Dunno what I was expecting to achieve as there is no ON/OFF switch. Anyway I think I managed to struggle with the ESC/Motor bullet connectors with the blades running I have sore thumb that much I do know. Afterwards I thought to myself it would of been better just to have switched back to the modified Blade400 model atleast that had control over the heli (except rudder).
Anyway after looking at the helicopter once I had it disconnected something I noticed that was a major blunder on my part. I left the bind plug in after binding
Looking at the helicopter once panic subsided the damage to it was some bent flybar rod and the main rotor blades took a bit of a knock and removed part of the heat shrink plastic film. I managed to bend back the flybar rod to near new state. Will have to replace it at a later date along with the blades. My main concern is that I locked the rotor and being an electrician I know locked motors ain't a good thing unless you have thermisters and thermal overload protection. So the question is would I have done any serious damage to the motor or ESC? Or would the main damage have been to the gears/cogs?
The other thing is that once I straigtened out the flybar I was going to go for another test run but I couldn't get my anti-torque / tail pitch working. Left/Right movement on the left stick isn't controlling the tail servo whatsoever.
How would you guys go about investigating what is causing the problem.
Cheers
Darryl
ps. Dog owners at parks are annoying! I had one little wet mutt that had just come out of a creek jumping all over me as I was trying to set up.
Now this is the lesson learnt bit
For some silly reason I decided to change over from my modified Blade400 model settings to the Blade 400 original settings while still having the ESC/Motor connected. Next minute I know the heli is spooling up to max throttle. I checked the throttle hold and that is ON. Checked Flight Mode and that was in Normal not Stunt. Checked throttle/collective and that was at low/negative position. At this stage I'm starting to panic as I could imagine the heli going into orbit. So I do the only thing at that point in time I thought was the best option. Stand on the training gear. Well my leg started to get a battering from the main rotor and I put my hand. Dunno what I was expecting to achieve as there is no ON/OFF switch. Anyway I think I managed to struggle with the ESC/Motor bullet connectors with the blades running
I have sore thumb that much I do know. Afterwards I thought to myself it would of been better just to have switched back to the modified Blade400 model atleast that had control over the heli (except rudder).Anyway after looking at the helicopter once I had it disconnected something I noticed that was a major blunder on my part. I left the bind plug in after binding
Looking at the helicopter once panic subsided the damage to it was some bent flybar rod and the main rotor blades took a bit of a knock and removed part of the heat shrink plastic film. I managed to bend back the flybar rod to near new state. Will have to replace it at a later date along with the blades. My main concern is that I locked the rotor and being an electrician I know locked motors ain't a good thing unless you have thermisters and thermal overload protection. So the question is would I have done any serious damage to the motor or ESC? Or would the main damage have been to the gears/cogs?
The other thing is that once I straigtened out the flybar I was going to go for another test run but I couldn't get my anti-torque / tail pitch working. Left/Right movement on the left stick isn't controlling the tail servo whatsoever.
How would you guys go about investigating what is causing the problem.
Cheers
Darryl
ps. Dog owners at parks are annoying! I had one little wet mutt that had just come out of a creek jumping all over me as I was trying to set up.
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