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RE: Anyone Flying Esky V3 Lama? - 6/10/2006 4:09:59 PM   
J-Cube



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Status: offline 		Bad news. My mom said I can't get it because I can't fly inside. I don't think I can get it because it doesn't seem to fly well outside and I don't want to have to search for gyms and other places to fly it. What I want is a helicopter that can be flown outside with minimal learning/experience. Are other fixed pitch helicopters like that? I should probably start another forum and find out.

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RE: Anyone Flying Esky V3 Lama? - 6/10/2006 7:03:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		Tail can be fixed easily with a bit of epoxy, sometimes more than once! Rotor blades (as with all helis) easy to damage, but cheap and easy to change. Tell-tale signs of cracks are excessive vibration in the model. I'm getting better with mine - it's dead easy to fly but things DO happen particularly indoors, and likewise mine should be dead. She's a tough little blighter.

BTW mine is affectionately known as 'Little Nellie' (the heli, before anyone comments...)

Richster

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RE: Anyone Flying Esky V3 Lama? - 6/11/2006 12:13:56 AM   
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I fly the Lama 3 alot outside, requires dead calm, but will have this condition often in early AM and Early Evenings, currently it is brisk outside, managed flight(s) yesterday with breezes but kept close to the ground and area near house blocking breezes etc...Don't suggest ever flying the Lama 3 HIGH outside as a sudden gust can really do a number on it...Also a garage is a strong possibility but abit confined yet for me in height, and slightly small, when your more efficient flyer a garage could work rather well....

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RE: Anyone Flying Esky V3 Lama? - 6/12/2006 4:12:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		Finally managed to pop a blade on the Lama 3, took awhile to figure the removal, tnx again Choppersrule, is a hex screw, 88 cent hex set using smallest and came right off, fortunantely the Lama came with 4 extra Blades, two upper and two lower.

Was steering the Lama around rather well, couldn't resist trying to land it on top of the car, slight breeze prevented the landing, blades rat-a-tatted the side window but kept flying, decided to try it another day...

Watch the power on these, even the CX, when more throttle is needed, safer to land and re-charge, Lama took a drop but was under 4 foot so no damage...always something....WARREN .<>..

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RE: Anyone Flying Esky V3 Lama? - 6/13/2006 11:51:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		Goes inot Large Circle Pattern, Yaw is Ok..

Suddenly the Lama 3 is acting up, the Yaw is solid it stays pointed away from me, but it goes into an unstable large circle pattern, not sure if a pot adjustment would help or something else is going on...

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RE: Anyone Flying Esky V3 Lama? - 6/13/2006 11:58:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi There,

assuming you have not had a crash and damaged the electronics, you can try to adjust the pot, do it bit by bit but disconnect the battery before each adjustment.

There is a smaller pot, at the bottom but you'll need to make a little hole in the plastic casing to get at that one.

Hope this helps a bit

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RE: Anyone Flying Esky V3 Lama? - 6/16/2006 3:06:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Moonsnake,

Thanks for the info, still working on this, blades replaced and may need adjustments also... Warren..<>..

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RE: Anyone Flying Esky V3 Lama? - 7/3/2006 3:20:21 AM   
Bruser


 

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Status: offline 		Hi, Has anyone tried changing the TX from Mode 1 (throttle on the right) to mode 2 (throttle on the left)? Many thanks from NZ. Cheers

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RE: Anyone Flying Esky V3 Lama? - 7/4/2006 11:38:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		Been flying my Lama v3 for about 3 weeks now, its great fun. I came from electric planes, picked up the ESky Tx and flew straight off the bat.

I just unscrewed the two 'sticks' and swapped them over, was very easy. The hard part was unsoldering the plugs to swap the 'go sideways' with 'turn left/right', sorry I don't know the correct terms.

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RE: Anyone Flying Esky V3 Lama? - 7/5/2006 3:22:09 PM   
redge76


 

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Status: offline 		Hi,
I received my lama yesterday and:
- Everybody already said that but it is really EASY to fly. I have some experience with RC planes but I never touched an heli. I could fly it after 10 minutes.

- It is slowww. I flew it outside with a very "mild" and stable wind. My worst problem was to fly against the wind. It is too slow. Has my model an issue or is it normal. With the stick fully forward, I can't hardly go faster than 3 or 4 mph. so with a wind of 3 mph, it's hard to do something.

- It is almost too stable. I was flying quite high 30 or 40 feet and a gust put it into a dive that I could not recover. It was very stable in the dive :-( ... I managed to recover a bit but I hit the ground (concrete) quite fast. Nose first. It thought is would be completely broken but, it looks like the canopy absorbed the shock. It deformed ... and that’s all ... :-) The blades are not even damaged because I could cut the power some feet before crashing.... It's amazing.

So my questions are:
- Is it possible to increase the speed by changing the hole of the servo where the bell links are connected?
- Is it possible to make it more responsive by shortening or reducing the weight of the stabilizer bars? I already saw that some people did this. But I don't know what is the best and if it really changed something.

bye
redge

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RE: Anyone Flying Esky V3 Lama? - 7/5/2006 3:57:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don't see any reason why that shouldn't work. I fly mine on my Futaba RC plane trasnmitter - at first I thought the Lama was REALLY unresponsive, then realised that I was flying on about 50% rates, and as you rightly say at 100% it is fairly docile still. Give it a go...

Couldn't tell you much about the stabiliser bar, except the left/right cyclic is fairly eventless on mine and generally I just steer it around using the tail.

Richster

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RE: Anyone Flying Esky V3 Lama? - 7/16/2006 6:22:58 AM   
johnmcg


 

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Status: offline 		Help. I crashed my Lama 3 (I'm a newbie) and I forgot to turned the throttle controller down, while the blades were not able to move. After that the top rotor refuses to work. I thought I had burnt out the motor because it was trying to rotate but coudln't - however, by swapping the two motor connections on the 4in1 controller I find that the top rotor still operates, so it seems to be the 4in1 controller that seems to have a problem. Is this likely? Anyone have any ideas for further trouble shooting. At US$40+ for a new receiver it will be an expensive crash (after only two attempts from new!!). Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers...

John

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RE: Anyone Flying Esky V3 Lama? - 7/16/2006 1:42:05 PM   
Richster


 

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Status: offline 		Yep I would say a new controller is in order from what you've written. I suspect the current has caused something to decease on the board, which is why when you swap the connectors it works, i.e. the other motor channel is OK.

If a crash looks unavoidable, first step is to cut the throttle always, but you know that now. Can be hard when there's lots going on...

Given the cost you might even want to consider a 2nd model since that would give you a nearly full set of spares?

Cheers - Richster

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RE: Anyone Flying Esky V3 Lama? - 7/16/2006 2:23:49 PM   
moonsnake


 

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Status: offline 		Hi there,

I have not done it with an Esky but I have with a Walkera 4 it was very easy, but if you try it, take a few pics of it if you can before you start, that way you will have a reference point to work from should things go wrong.
Have fun

Joe

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RE: Anyone Flying Esky V3 Lama? - 7/20/2006 6:46:24 PM   
J-Cube