ORIGINAL: Phishnvdub
ORIGINAL: harebearva
I've been having an interesting intermitent problem. I recently disconnected the red lead from my motor when I did the heatsink mod, of course this is before I found out I didn't really need to. But anyway, I pushed the connection back together and everything seemed fine. Now about every 3rd flight i'm having a complete motor failure. Since I'm still learning to hover this means that it drops from about 5 feet. After that, I push on the two connections to be sure they are seated properly and they always seem to be, and then it works again. This has happened with both lipo and stock batteries and isn't due to low power in the bat. Any ideas? Bad connector? The connectors are perfeclty clean and seem to be in good shape. What up?
I had a bad connection in the bullet connectors from the motor to ESC when I first got mine, I had to resolder it. I'd check there. Mine if I rember right was the positive motor bullet connector from the ESC. Hope this helps, Shaun
OK I'm really mad now!
The first cp I had had bad electronics right out of the box.
My LHS took it back and sent off to helimax and gave me a new one. (COOL of the LHS)
My second one flew great till today. The damn ESC was was having short problem I thought.
So I re-soldered the batt connection to the esc (which was a *****) then at the exact moment I got done
the damn mini deans plug on the end of the lead from the esc just came apart right there in my hand.
FOUND THE FREAKIN PROBLEM! So I fixed that and plug the batt in to check how it worked and the ESC just smoked!
I saw the flash! I guess the wires that I soldered touched or something?
Dead, DOA, nothing!!!
So The hole problem was an easy fix of replacing the deans plug which was faulty from the start and now I have to
buy a damn board and there $75. This sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well I got to go and e-mail helimax and vent.
They better replace it or I'm done with them!
I'm also interested if anyone has any info on going brushless.
I have a motor, but how does the tail get power without the stock board? Do I still need it?