Two flops on the ground, need some ideas.
Posted: Thu 02. Jul 2015 18:51:27
Hi
I have my Spirit on a Gaui x3 with DX8, Lemon satellite, Dominator motor and Hobby Wing ESC. I have a friend who has two Spirits on two different helis so we thought we had it organized.
Yesterday I spooled it up to just lift off but it flopped over on the right before any height. No spins. The pin in locking the tail shaft and pully was gone. I am not sure whether it went during or after the flop. Checked the vibration logs and nothing significant was there.
Today, outside I started a spool up and it went over again. Nothing was broken but the boom was rotated so I put that back straight. It was tight enough.
On the next try it lifted off very stable to about 3 feet than went left and crashed. Both blades broken. One servo arm broken. I noticed that the belt was loose. Tightened it up and ran the diagnostics and got 24 on the y axis. The others were very low.
I can't tell if the loose tail is the problem or something else. If it was the tail I would have thought the heli would start spinning but it did not.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
thanks, John
I have my Spirit on a Gaui x3 with DX8, Lemon satellite, Dominator motor and Hobby Wing ESC. I have a friend who has two Spirits on two different helis so we thought we had it organized.
Yesterday I spooled it up to just lift off but it flopped over on the right before any height. No spins. The pin in locking the tail shaft and pully was gone. I am not sure whether it went during or after the flop. Checked the vibration logs and nothing significant was there.
Today, outside I started a spool up and it went over again. Nothing was broken but the boom was rotated so I put that back straight. It was tight enough.
On the next try it lifted off very stable to about 3 feet than went left and crashed. Both blades broken. One servo arm broken. I noticed that the belt was loose. Tightened it up and ran the diagnostics and got 24 on the y axis. The others were very low.
I can't tell if the loose tail is the problem or something else. If it was the tail I would have thought the heli would start spinning but it did not.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
thanks, John