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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 1/6/2006 10:17:24 PM   
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oops... I tried the mod for the controler, and used a nail file to remove the bumps I thought that little arm provided restance and therefore should be riding on the bar. ok, so now I miss the bumps, it just seems like they belong, and the controler's kinda broken without them.... gotta live with it now I guess.

YONG, yes. that's fine, if you look at the flybar you can see that it should have two links, but, it doesn't as they cheaped out there, so, it works fine on either side.

GTX, that's one nice spot for flying! that's almost more spacious than my garage! so, what procedures do you use to STOP THE HELI FROM SPINNING! it's really annoying to have to keep correcting, and, it makes it harder for others to fly it. I wonder what would happen if you switched the motor plugs (causing the top to spin slower) and then just flip the reverse switch for tail control.... (the motor plugs, or the blades would have to be switched so that the blades/ motor spins the correct way causing the blades to NOT blow down.



You could glue a thin piece of rubber where the bumps were. Maybe your mom has a rubber grip pad for opening jars in the kitchen somewhere. It would give it added resistance and a little grip. Then when you correct the rudder, you're less apt to move the throttle.

My heli needs some tail correction. I set the trim pot on the Rx so that I need full left trim when the heli is cold, and full right when it's hot. If that doesn't work for you, then the motors aren't matched good enough. Since the motors have different characteristics when you run them in reverse, you could put the front motor in back, and the back one in front. Then swap the + and - wires on them. Make sure you swap positions in the Rx, too. Since the timing of the motors will be different, they may match up better.

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 1/6/2006 11:05:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		ok, well, I'm going to go try it, oh, if I swap the top blades with the bottom, the motor spinning in reverse wouldn't be a problem, you see, when I start my heli up the top blades started at about 20rpm before the bottom ones began to move, which, creates a bit of a problem... and is why I'm going to try and fix it.

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 1/6/2006 11:45:10 PM   
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Status: online 		Have you tried to equalize the motor with the Rx trim pot?


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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 1/6/2006 11:57:42 PM   
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YONG, yes. that's fine, if you look at the flybar you can see that it should have two links, but, it doesn't as they cheaped out there, so, it works fine on either side.


but now i cant get the upper blade balanced. how do i adjust the balance?

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 1/7/2006 5:06:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		I am new to flying, and darn glad to have found this site. Broke my heli on Christmas Day. I did get it to fly nicely right out of the box. Makes you think you are good at flying, but it will teach you a lesson fast. Oh well, waiting for parts (inner shaft and stab. bar). Cant wait to fly again.

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 1/7/2006 8:43:01 AM   
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ORIGINAL: thecheatscalc

oops... I tried the mod for the controler, and used a nail file to remove the bumps I thought that little arm provided restance and therefore should be riding on the bar. ok, so now I miss the bumps, it just seems like they belong, and the controler's kinda broken without them.... gotta live with it now I guess.

Well if you really wanted to you can swop out the one on the other side. You can see that the 2 gimbals are identical and so there is another bumpy thing on the other side. You will need to disassemble everything and reassemble. Although if I were to do it I will proceed like this.

1 - Unsolder the 4 pots from the little oblong circuit board
2 - Unscrew the gimbal assembly from the front (4 screws on each side).
3 - With the gimbal out, swap the little arm with the spring assembly. That is unhook the spring, uncrew the adjustment screw completely and remove the centering lever. Put that over to the "filed" side, it will now self cnter like the other 3 axis, then attach the ratchet spring to the other side.
4 - Now reassemble the gimbals putting them to the other side.
5 - Resolder the pots and you are done

Good as new

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 1/7/2006 4:29:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		I haven't Flown my lama 2 for quite a while now and I was about to charge it's battery , i realise that i looks as if it was giong to explode. it looks and feel air inflated.. . iI can't remember if it was like that when i got it. Also I find it very hard to initialise, i have to play with the throttle trim so much and turn transmiter on off/ or disconnect reconnect the battery to the heli.. I don't know what I am doing anymore this is frustrating. I am able to fly after so much of struggling, or it would sometimes take off by itself with uncontrolable throtle.. If that can't be fixed i'm gonna trash that thing! I still love the T rex

the reason i haven't flown the lama2 ... look at the picture

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 1/7/2006 5:30:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Looking at that battery it wouldnt be wise to recharge it as these batteries have been know to catch fire.
Get yourself a replacement battery pack immediatly I think they are only about $14.E-sky part number:EK1-0181

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 1/7/2006 6:15:34 PM   
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....Also I find it very hard to initialise, i have to play with the throttle trim so much and turn transmiter on off/ or disconnect reconnect the battery to the heli..


There's 2 things that could be wrong here. You may already know them, but ...
1st, when you turn the Tx on, the throttle (and sometimes trim) has to be all the way down. Then when you plug in the lama battery, the Rx will recognize the Tx and initialize. If the Tx throttle isn't all the way down, put it to full and then back down and the Rx should initialize.
2nd, the problems you're having with erratic heli behavior can be caused by low voltage. If your battery isn't charged enough or the battery connections are even a little loose, these things can happen. You could also try unwrapping the Rx antenna an just let it dangle under the Lama.

I agree, your battery looks shot.

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 1/7/2006 6:19:40 PM   
M^ck^y


 

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Status: offline 		these are all good advices thank you. So no one has a battery pack that has air in it? lol i'll throw it away then. I can't try to intialise becuase no battery, silly.. But i'll unwrap the antenna. i'll let you know when i receive the battery.

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 1/7/2006 11:48:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		this is called "swelling" a common mishap of charging/discharging a battery way too fast/ charging too high of a voltage, it'll swell some more (the power's all gone anyways) then explode in a huge ball of flame, which, is fun to watch in CONTROLLED enviroments, but in a house.... Heli-fever sells these for 18.99 a piece.

ALSO please don't run the battery dry, if the red light comes one while the rotors are spinning (near end of flight) the battery is appoaching low voltage and it's time to recharge.

another thing, Li-polys have a memory, unlike ni-mh batts, if you leave one half charged or so for over a few days it charges to that point and stops... I've seen it do this on mine, but, usually a single discharge/ recharge fixes this, has anyone else noticed this?

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 1/8/2006 8:27:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		gtx nice vid you got there. I am working on my vid and uploading it now. i'll tell you later where to view the vid. it's 14 meg shot by myself while flying the heli in my living room. the video camera is velcro'ed to my cap. the camera doesn't have zoom feature and no sound. i shot this on my seventh flight using lama2. never flown heli before in my 25 years of rc involment.... all the while i flew planes, all sort of planes.

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 1/8/2006 1:33:32 PM   
korb



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Status: offline 		it flew...
it moved ...
it crashed ...
........

i was flying it down the stairs, at least i was trying to, but it turns out that they are actually not that wide when ure flying a heli down them. hehe
flybar thing popped off - include ball joint on the rotor shaft (now i know why there are 2 lol...)
broke the tail boom re-snapped a landong skid... thats about it actually