NOW SOLVED, SEE POST BELOW.

I'll give a little background to my situation. I have a Twister CP Gold, I was bought this helicopter for Christmas 3 years ago, It has only been flown a few times and the speed controller melted/smoked on the second flight, I had that replaced under the warranty and due to moving house around that time the heli has been boxed for around 20 months.

I got the battery's charged and the heli needed a little rudder servo adjustment and seemed to be flying fine just hovering around for a few mins then lost all power, to the point that the blades won't spin at all and then throttle movement actually gives aileron movement.

I thought the battery's could be scrap as they've sat for so long unused, Got new battery's yesterday and the same problem exists.

So to sum up:

- First flight after the storage seemed ok for two minutes until I lost power.
- After loosing power, Throttle movement now moves the aileron.
- If I spin the blades by hand it will eventually get the throttle working correctly but it doesn't even have enough power to lift at all at full throttle.

I have ordered a new speed controller and it arrived this morning but didn't fix the problem.

Out of interest I plugged my TX into my PC on clearview simulator and it does work although there is a slight jitter in all channels, not sure if that is a compatibility issue between my TX and the simulator as I've never used this TX on a simulator.

I'm now thinking my receiver is the problem.

Any second opinions on this guys?Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
Jamie

what motor esc and pinion please and check your mesh between motor pinion and main gear will look up your bird online

gosh 20 amp esc ? personally it sounds as if the bird is way underpowered it could be the esc is fried yet again i would power it up try to fly it then feel motor esc and batts for temp or get actual temp readings the only time i ever expierienced this was with my blade 400 the stock battery died after a few charges actually 1 of the 3 cells was bad and this same sort of thing happened to me i would find around a 30a esc and toss in about a 3500kv heli motor with a 11 tooth pinion  imho.

My motor was dead, the aileron movement I described was simply the thrust. New motor was cheap and heli is now ready to go. If only the weather wasn't so miserable. Thanks for the replys guys.

Could the dodgy motor have been the cause of the ESC melting on it's first flight?

cheap chinese electronics pinion size a few things could effect  motors burning up i would def look into a bit bigger motor esc doesnt seem like you would have much head speed on that setup