Frustrated trying to take off
 

[:o]Ok guys here is the deal. I am a newbie with a aerobird 3. I am having a problem when I have a full battery and throttle all the way to take off the engine kills itsself. Its like it stalls out before I get enought power to take off. Any suggestions would be helpfull please help.

RE: Frustrated trying to take off
 

Man I have got no idea what that could be on an electric... if it was a glow plane I could tell ya... I've heard pretty good things about these planes.. maybe you should send it back to horizon hobby ( i think thats who makes them?) call them or email them and Im sure they will replace it for free with a new one.. u may have just gotten a bad airplane, if you just hold the airplane and throttle all the way up does it die then too.. even with out rollling or attempting take off? it may be a Transmitter/Receiver problem as when it just gets far enough away from you it dies out... so try to just throttle up while your holding the airplane and see what happens

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and by the way... once you get it in the air, YOU WILL BE HOOKED on this hobby!! :) Good luck let us know what happens

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Hi chrisjmacleod1983
What you described may be a starting safety feature of that model. Have you carefully read and followed the starting/flying instructions?

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Battery not properly charged?

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he said the battery was fully charged.... but idk, I couldn't see a safety feature being like that either? the only safety feature on these parkflyers are usually you can't throttle up at all until the the throttle is all the way at "idle" so i couldn't see it cutting it off when it gets to full throttle.

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Does everything else work (servos)?
Put throttle to halfway point and leave it there for a minute. Does motor cut out?
If not then the battery need to be fully discharged and re-charged.

Hope this helps.

Goodluck

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As you can tell we're not too savvy on electrics in this particular forum. I suggest you try the Electric Beginner forum: http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/forumid_102/tt.htm and I'm sure there will be someone there that can help.

RE: Frustrated trying to take off
 

I had a really similar problem with my SuperStar EP when I First got it, I swapped out the joke of the battery they included with another pack I had and it went away :/

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I thought my battery was fully charged too... and it did the same thing on my Sky Fly. I had charged it the day before, and I was told that NiMH batteries lose their charge quite fast.

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YEA>>> Im a Newbie, and this is the exact reason I didnt want to start with an electric plane. I hate dealing with batteries [:'(]

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What kind of battery and when was it charged?
If a battery is not up to the task, its voltage drops and the ESC (controller) cuts power to save the "remaining" juice for the radio system, and to prevent damaging the "depleted" battery. With a new battery, discharging and charging it a couple of times might "run it in".

When I started, I went for electrics because I thought I would hate dealing with fuel, filters, bubbles in the lines, fuselages flooded with fuel, wife screaming to get that smelly thing out of the house ...

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Yeah, on a different note you definitely want to cycle a new battery a couple times before relying on it to fly. The run time and burst current maxes out after a few cycles.