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Will keep this as short as possible but thus far:
Not able to fly this morning as I'd left my "Y" Connector at work so couldn't link my lipo's, attended the Thames Valley show this morning and bought some bullet connectors to make a new one!
Within an hour of getting to the show I got a migraine so headed home early, laid in dark room for several hours before making a new "Y" connector so I could get out flying.
For the past three weeks or so I've had varying degrees of tail shake that's been driving me round the bleeping bend, changed and checked everything multiple times and still it shakes!
So having made further adjustments I took my 700E up again to see the usual tail shakes taunting me, it appeared worse when applying power?
Was checking this fact when the heli made a sharp "Screeching Noise" about forty feet up which I assumed was the main gear stripping, alas the incident was so severe one of the rotor control rods came off allowing the blade to flap around uselessly in the air!
The heli glided to earth with the grace of a dozen house bricks managing a break a radix blade on impact
I picked up the sad mess and immediately smelt something very odd, Yep my Kontroniks Pyro 30-12 was dead, seized solid and hot too!
So I think I now know what was causing my vibe problems "Yippee"!
Took the motor out and can clearly see the shaft is no longer vertical, reckon the insides of the motor have disintegrated
What a bloody great day this was
John
Not able to fly this morning as I'd left my "Y" Connector at work so couldn't link my lipo's, attended the Thames Valley show this morning and bought some bullet connectors to make a new one!
Within an hour of getting to the show I got a migraine so headed home early, laid in dark room for several hours before making a new "Y" connector so I could get out flying.
For the past three weeks or so I've had varying degrees of tail shake that's been driving me round the bleeping bend, changed and checked everything multiple times and still it shakes!
So having made further adjustments I took my 700E up again to see the usual tail shakes taunting me, it appeared worse when applying power?
Was checking this fact when the heli made a sharp "Screeching Noise" about forty feet up which I assumed was the main gear stripping, alas the incident was so severe one of the rotor control rods came off allowing the blade to flap around uselessly in the air!
The heli glided to earth with the grace of a dozen house bricks managing a break a radix blade on impact
I picked up the sad mess and immediately smelt something very odd, Yep my Kontroniks Pyro 30-12 was dead, seized solid and hot too!
So I think I now know what was causing my vibe problems "Yippee"!
Took the motor out and can clearly see the shaft is no longer vertical, reckon the insides of the motor have disintegrated
What a bloody great day this was
John
for me
On the bright side it was probably the motor that was causing the bad vibes so perhaps once replaced/repaired that horrid wag will be gone. Just the bit in the middle where you need to spend your hard earned that is annoying now. Hope you get her sorted and working as you want soon.
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