Hey colrod12,

Thanks for the tip. Will try that as well. I also heared that putting a circle of metal wire around the ends of the sticks of the training-gear gives more stability. I've since tried several other solutions for the training-gear, but it hardly gets off the ground, even with light wooden sticks. Also, the motor runs really hot after a few minutes and even starts to smell a bit. Going through the programming of the transmitter, I noticed it came programmed with the middle of the throttle-curve set for 30% and the top set for 55% in normal flight-mode. I actually found this out earlier, when trying to program the ESC (which requires 100% throttle on powerup to go into programming-mode). This might explain a thing or two. From what I understand, brushless motors like to run near their full speed and actually pull much more amps at around half of that. I'll probably set up one of the pitch and throttle-curves to give me 0-100% throttle without any pitch, so I can safely monitor temperatures on the ground. If that helps and doesn't actually make things run even hotter (which would probably fry the motor / ESC), I'll attempt another hover, with some more head-speed. It'll probably be at least a week before the cooling-element arrives and I'm really beeing careful not to blow anything up before that time. :-)


Grtz,

Traveller