RE: axe cp thread
Got a question for the braintrust on the board. My son has been flying his AXE for a couple of weeks now (when I say flying, I mean attempting to hover about one foot and chasing it aroung the yard a lot). It has has a couple small bruises (new blades of course and one blade grip) but nothing serious. It has suddenly aquired a peculuiar behavior. When the bird is cold, you can hook up a fresh battery, spin her up, and take off, everything seemingly working fine. I wll add here that there are no vibations or any abnormal operation at this stage. Everything is working like it always did at this point. After about two minutes, especially if you were to shut down to go reposition the axe back to the center of the "box", it wont power back up. No servo movement or motor movement at all. It happens with either battery pack and if you unplug the battery pack and plug it back in, the servo's will twitch for an instant like they always do but you can not get anything to move by using the transmitter. I replaced the trasmitter batteries just to make sure and no difference. I suspect that some thing is heating up on one of the boards causing it to fail when it gets hot. What I don't know is which board. It is only a couple of weeks old so I suspect the LHS I where I bought it would cover a non crashed board as a warranty item but I wanted to check with the group and see if anyone had experienced this and could narrow it down for me before I head off to the LHS. I am not sure if they are really all that familiar with the AXE down there and I would like to be able to steer them toward the problem when I ge there. Thanks in advance for any wisdom you are able to dish out.