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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 5/5/2007 5:02:54 PM   
inner_romeo


 

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Hi again, I discovered they sent me an Australian power supply, instead of North American. I'll just pick up a 12v adapter from Radio Shack. Kind of disappointing.

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 5/6/2007 3:30:12 AM   
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That is disappointing. I just got my HONEY BEE KING 2!!!!! and it came with a weird plug, Japanese I think. Luckily the Lama uses the exact charger.

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 5/7/2007 3:03:37 AM   
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wow, this HBK2 is a very nice heli for the price. It is only my second but after some adjustments it is flying very well, I am very pleased. I will have to get some mega-power batts. Three battery cycles and no damage! I'm surprising myself. I mean I haven't even clipped anything. I hovered two batts inside and one outside, a gust took me about 30 feet away, but I brought it back safe and sound.

Does anyone else have a HBK2? I haven't found a good forum for it yet, maybe I'll start one.

mayer

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 5/10/2007 3:17:51 AM   
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I just found out the hard way that the Esky Lama V3 and V4 have different frames. I bought the Xtreme landing skid and tail boom upgrade kits, assembled them and guess what? No fit. That's what I get for assuming........

I wanted to give anyone out there thinking of doing the same thing I did a head's up. I guess I'll have to wait until someone produces these parts for the V4.

Look for my ad in the classifieds - my loss, your gain.

Update: I found out that I could just get a V3 frame and swap all my parts to it, so I took the skid and tail boom off the market. Ordered V3 frame and some other stuff today. I'm gonna have one expen$ive cheap helicopter.

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 5/15/2007 2:58:24 PM   
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I literally just got my lama v3 today. I hooked it up to the charger and the charger said the battery was charged (or not hooked up) so i threw the battery on the heli flew it for a while, until there wasnt enough juice to get it off the ground. Then i hooked it up to the charger and the green (chaging) light didnt come on. Ive had it hooked up for a while now and no dice. Can anyone help?? The best thing ive found says go for a "direct" charge for a period of 5-10 mins and then hook it up to the approved charger. Any help PLEEEEEEEASE im in afghanistan and parts are not easy to come by.. i have another batter coming soon... but who knows. Cheers

Joe

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 5/15/2007 3:33:49 PM   
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Joskibob,

Hi,
Did you try recycleing your charger, once your battery is hooked up, then unplug and then plug the charger back up, you should then get a green charge light. Mine does the same thing, I think they just have to reset after a charge.

Happy Landings
PoppyDon

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 5/15/2007 6:22:26 PM   
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Well yeah i tried that. Sometimes when i plug it in and i Have the battery in the green light will FLICK on and off real quick. We took A voltameter to the charger and it was intermittent
.... or so it seemed. But the red light is constantly on. Any other suggestions? Man i got like 5 mins of flight out of it and then the batt died but it was a **** ton of fun to fly the little bit that i did get to do.

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 5/16/2007 3:37:17 AM   
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hi all

which online shop have best Lama aluminium and hop up parts in terms of pricing and shipping?

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 5/16/2007 4:14:28 AM   
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Tech-mp.com is pretty good. You can request $2.50 shipping, or at least you used to be able to. Bphobbies is better when they have overstock sales, but that isn't always the case and the shipping is more expensive (like $6).

I've posted some more vids on youtube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYcNBbHKaZo ). My battery life seems really short, but maybe its because I'm flying more aggressively. What do you guys usually get in terms of flight time?

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 5/16/2007 10:49:27 AM   
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Ok i finally got my battery all charged up (thanks to one of my crewchiefs) and now im trying to trim the bad boy up. I see that on the controller there are the trim buttons and there are obviously the "gain and proportional" is there anything that shows what the trim buttons on the remote do... or can anyone explain? Also it seems as if my bird has a strange "tick" sometimes when im flying it it will TICK tail left. It seems like some sort of gear is being skipped over or something... anyone ever have that problem?

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 5/16/2007 12:58:47 PM   
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Joskibob................The trim tab levers correspond to the stick they are by. The left stick has two, one that runs vertical (throttle) and one at the bottom of the joystick that runs horizontal (rudder) or yaw. On the right stick the trim lever that runs vertical is for pitch and the horizontal trim lever is for right and left drift. So lets say you lift off in a hover and you notice the nose of the heli turns to the right, land and adjust the trim lever to the left a little bit, then takeoff again to a hover and see if that stopped the nose from turning, if not repeat steps. ALWAYS land to adjust the trim levers, if you try to do it while flying I can almost guarantee a crash from pilot error. So start from hover and notice what the heli is doing, if drifiting to the right adjust the trim lever on the right stick to the left and see if it stops the drift. Do this for all 4 axis of the heli. Whatever you do with the long flight joysticks, do to the trim levers. As far as the tick sound from the heli, I have never heard anytinig like that, turn the heli on its back and look at the two large gears under the battery, see if any teeth are missing. If so you will need to replace the offending gear. Hope this helps...........btw what was the problem with the charger?

Happy Flying
PoppyDon

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 5/16/2007 1:21:12 PM   
PoppyDon


 

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Vega2614............I always stop my flights at 9min30sec's, that always gives me about a 1min30sec fuel reserve. I have crashed at least twice by stretching the flight time out so I just fly for 9min30sec's so in answer to your question I get around 11min's battery time.

PoppyDon

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 5/16/2007 3:04:07 PM   
vega2614


 

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Wow, those are long flight times. Is that with the stock battery?

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RE: E-SKY LAMA 2 THREAD - 5/16/2007 4:34:52 PM   
joskibob


 

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Between on piece of sodder and another piece of sodder there was some metal that was missing... so the circuit between the two was blown somehow. Anywho it was an easy fix. My crewchief (who is also quite handy with a soddering gun) took a piece of rubber enclosed wire and linked the two together... then it worked like a jem. This heli has been a blast. My buddy (who just happens to be a heli pilot) is having a hell of a hard time getting his falcon off the ground. very happy with my lama Thanks for the advice by the way.... im still having a couple