ORIGINAL: JPEE
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
JPEE.....I've had those wires break off too. The solder they use has a higher tin content it's harder to melt than 60/40. Another thing is they use steel strand wire which in just pulling the plug and putting the plug into the charger work hardens the wire, and it'll break when it gets brittle....just something you gotta watch. When mine breaks, the charger tells me something is wrong, it's the first thing I check, then fix it exactly as you discribed.
Getting behind you with a heli....that ain't gonna happen again (LMAO), especially only being 3ft off the deck. Down for a bent main shaft....that's all, I had everything else.