Update

kenstuppy · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:35 pm Post subject: Update

I got a 2.4 GHz CX2, and have spent last few days trimming it out, almost hovers without drift now. I am a newbie and todays 10 minutes of flight has turned into 3 hours of recovery. Landed it nicely in a tree about 80 ft up, rope toss came close, ladder and pole saw not quite enough, settled on slingshot and golf balls, one of these shots I will get lucky!, or afternoon rain will blow it down! Still responds to transmitter, but I assume battery pack is toast? Question, should I prime the southern cannon and use a potato to dislodge the beast?

pjdog · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:19 pm Post subject:

Call the fire department for a long latter.

jack

PS: saw a guy on another forum use a shot gun.

And another guy cut down a tree for a plane.

Shoot the branch.

Hit the tree with your pickup truck.

How high up the tree is it.

Picture please.
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pjdog · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:25 pm Post subject:

Go to your local tool rental and get a cherry picker.

Shake the tree with an apple picker.

Jack
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kenstuppy · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:21 am Post subject: success

By the third Cast, I was in the branch with the Heli, I could see a solution to my problem. Here on the Hudson River we fish for striped Bass in the spring during their spawning, so rod with 30 lb test, a birds nest or two until I remembered how to cast, and down the heli comes. Battery swollen, charger indicates error, so on to another power pack. I left Transmitter on, unsure if powering down would fry ESC, voltage at 5.6. Book showes transmitter voltage at 5.2 in most examples, what is the lowest you should operate at without replacing cells?
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Skyepuncher · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:38 am Post subject:

What transmitter, & what type cells?
Scott

kenstuppy · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:46 am Post subject: Transmitter power level

scott,
the transmitter is a spektrum LP5DSM 2.4 that came with the Blade CX2
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kenstuppy · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:46 am Post subject:

std alkaline batteries
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Skyepuncher · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:02 am Post subject: Re: Transmitter power level

tombo242 · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:14 am Post subject:

I'll second that Skypuncher,

In fact my DX6i is unhappy when the voltage drops below 4.7V.

Keep the Tx batteries charged and the flight Li-Pos at storage (if not flying) and you can't go wrong.

Tom
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Skyepuncher · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:35 am Post subject:

Well Hi Tom! Yeah, I based My last comment from DX-6i
figures. I think the manual says somewhere that 3.9 is
minimum, but neither of mine has ever been below 5,
w/nimh batts. They read sometimes as high as 5.9
after a full charge, & around 5.1 or so after several
flights/hovers.
Scott

pjdog · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:38 am Post subject:

I recharge my Nicads when the DX6I say's 5.0 volts. Slow charge.

jack

kenstuppy:

Glad you got your Heli back.
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platinum · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:01 am Post subject:

FYI :
LP5DSM 5-Channel Transmitter, 2.4GHz using 4 AA batteries.

The LCD screen at the top of the transmitter will indicate the power level of the batteries. If at any time the voltage indicated on the LCD screen falls to 4.5V or less, an alarm will sound, and it will be necessary to replace the batteries with new ones.

platinum
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tombo242 · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:45 pm Post subject:

pjdog · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:34 pm Post subject:

My carrying box for my helicopters has a place to carry spare batteries. All my TX's use 4 batteries. I have radio shack nicads in my DX6I radios. When the volt meter drops to 5 volts I replace the Batteries in the TX'r with spares and recharge the ones I take out. Slow charge with a Radio Shack charger that will charge 2 to 8 batteries at a time.

That's how I do it.

Never had a problem.

Jack
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