Vic,

Three of us were talking about that very thing, having the heli come past you over your head......well when that happens generally your toast. Thats how I crashed a few weeks ago. A guy this morning got to high for his skill and tacoed his SHARK heli from 30-40 feet easy. We all gather said a word over her grave and picked up the pieces and took everything back to his truck. You would think it was totalled but the main frame was 100%. At first blush he lost, canopy, main shaft, CF boom, both boom struts, horizontal boom wing, flybar and blades of course.

He guys,

While charging all of my batteries today I found an issue! When I put two packs on the Thunder Power within one minute it beeped caution and said; wrong cell count, can explode! Holy cow that got my attention right now. To some up what happened , one of the red balance wires on a pack had become un-soldered thus making that cell invisable. So I opened the top of the battery a bit to get the soldering iron in there and resoldered it, done. But I have to wonder? was that one of the packs in the 500? Did I hit LVC or did that wire come unsolderd in flight? Or was it flown in someting else and just came loose when I grabbed it to for charging. THE LESSON; Ever since I had my first crash with the 500 months ago due to my stupidness of putting one charged and one discharged battery I now always put the tester on the pack. It could be that wire was off or not but because I ONLY check the first cell for 4.1 or more "it is possible" it was off when I installed, I dont know. Nick would know wether it would fly on 5 cells more than me. Anyways.......the moral.......................I will now check both packs, or a pack if in someting else and each cell will be verfied.

Just thought I would share with you guys.

JPEE