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Joined: 11/11/2004 From: Durham,
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Yeah, I have trouble with 'slow'; I want to do it all right away!
I'm definitely having trouble modulating the throttle appropriately, and I've bounced off the floor pretty hard a couple of times. Overcompensated once and almost ate the ceiling fan. But I was having fun the whole time!
I'm basically just working on hovering tail in, simple side to side movements, and the occasional rotation. If the copter gets too far out of my comfort zone, I just put it down, go pick it up, and put it back to tail in in front of me. That's where the 'soft landing' thing gets hard; if the copter is drifting towards (say) my kitchen island, I want to set it down *right away*, which results in a good solid bounce off the floor. Oh well. And to think that I had the deluded notion that playing R/C Stunt Copter for the PlayStation for several years would mean that I could immediately go zipping around my house.
Tomorrow I think I might clear out some space in my garage, but it can get *cold* up here in Maine, so I doubt that's a viable solution until the summertime. I'm having a blast, regardless. Thanks for the tips!
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Joined: 10/7/2005 From: Gorham,
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Yes. By adjusting the trim pot in the Rx, I was able to get it so I use full left trim when the Lama is cold and slowly adjust it to full right trim as it gets hot.
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Well, I found a home for myslef in the pantheon of bad ideas. I figured that my deck outside the house might be the perfect place to be; it's not too cold today, and there was no wind whatsoever.
So, I took it outside and hovered up to mid-chest level. The heli drifted left towards the house, so I set it back down and adjusted the transmitter accordingly. Hovered up to head height again, and things seemed OK. So, I just worked on hovering in one spot. Lost some air, overcompensated and the bird shot up over my head; probably about 15 feet or so. And then... drifted out towards the woods behind my house. Which are no more than six feet from my deck. I tried to steer the heli back towards the deck, but had to give it more gas to clear the first oncoming tree... managed to dodge that and steer a little towards myself, but then realized that there WAS a very slight breeze that the house had been blocking, and now I was up in it. So I cut throttle, but too much at once.
And skewered the heli on the top of a small sapling.
Parts went flying in all directions, I killed the throttle, and the heli dropped to the ground with a clatter (about 15 feet, since my deck is elevated.)
Looking down on it, upside down, with the antenna wire clearly wrapped around the rotors, I thought that I had completely destroyed it. I looked for a while for the flybar, but I was out in the edge of the woods, looking for something that would look remarkably like a twig. In the snow. So I gave up, came in, and snapped a photo before going any further.
Now, I have to say that I'm impressed; I tore the canopy a little bit, and both sets of blades are shot, and the tail is... well... non-repairable. But, the lower rotor still spins up. The upper rotor, unfortunately, doesn't. It still seems to be connected to the motor solidly, since when I rotate it by hand, the gear turns at the bottom of the heli. I'm thinking that maybe I burnt out the motor on the impact? Anybody have any other ideas?
I guess this is where I'm glad I only spent $137 instead of the $257 I was going to spend on the Hirobo; at least now I can afford parts.
So, now I get to see what parts are in stock at heli-fever and balsapr. Anybody have other parts store recommendations?
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Joined: 1/11/2006 From: Orlando, FL, USA Status: offline
I just got my first shipment of spare parts in, just in case. Thank goodness i didn't need to use anything, yet...
I bought some sets of A and B blades, the 2 motors, a new tail, the toolspack (waist of money LOL) Stabilizer set, rotor hub B and the landing skid and battery holder (and all that for a little over 60 bucks including shipping .
I'm just flying for a little over a week now, still waiting on my second battery, coz 15 minutes flying in 1.30 hours is not good enough for me.. (I take 10 minutes to cool te battery down, 70 minutes until blinking charger light, and 10 minutes to let it blink and make sure the battery is full) .
I try to fly for the most part under the carport. The wind seems a whole lot less and at least I have more room to practice there than in my house. I seem to have the helicopter pretty good under control now. How does every1 use the throttle trim? I use to have one setting, but next time I flew it seems like the helicopter was flying different. I use it all the way down now and that seems alot more stable.
I also added a few goodies to my Lama 2; A strobe light and a cockpit. A few adjustments on my swash plate and the helicopter was in balance again.. Look at my little video here
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Joined: 12/17/2005 From: lafayette,
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I'm new to helis, and I've been flying my lams for a month now. I can do tail-in hover, nose-in hover, side hover, and basic forward, and backward movements. so I decided to video my lama. It's a really short video of my lama. takes of from carpet and lands on the table. i'll try to video another one. longer one! kkk
now i need several parts for my lama, but none of the sites have in stock what i need. i need tail frame, landing skid, canopy, and blades. flying in the house
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I think the large manual explains it. There is a hole in the Rx and a trim pot under it. You can turn the pot with a screwdriver and that will control the bias of the voltage to the motors. Changes take effect the next time you turn on the Rx.
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Well, after disassembly, I've discovered that both motors are still fully functional. Closer examination of the 4 in 1 reveals that there is a fried component in the lower left hand corner. *sigh*
I believe either the inner or outer shaft is also bent, as there is a bit of wobble when the upper rotor is spun up to speed.
So, I can either spend $60 plus shipping for the new shafts and 4 in 1, or just spend $98 plus shipping for a whole 'nother copter and then have some spare motors and such as well. Hmmm.
If anyone has any other ideas of where I could buy parts without shipping from China, please let me know...
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