Ozz58
Heliman
Location: Ft. Worth, TX USA
| Hope this doesn't post twice.
Little background, been flying helis off and on for 15 years, all nitro. Not into 3-D just foward flight. I got a 400 last weekend and enjoyed flying it right out of the box. It was a little more jitty than my 550 size bird, but not bad and much cleaner, plus I can fly it in my backyard.
Question about the batteries, the book said to keep the them at half charge when storing them. Does this mean for a long period of time? I did this last night and thought when I got home from work today it would take half the time to charge them, wrong, it seemed to take the same amount of time as a complete charge. Can I keep them at full charge overnight? It would be nice to come home from work and fly without the hour wait to charge. If they are kept at half charge why does it take about the same amount of time as a full charge?
Question 2, I decided to try the stunt mode today, I'm sure I'll have her fixed tomorrow.  After reading the book I changed the throttle cureve to 100,85,70,85,100 for a little less aggressive mode. I was in a hover when I swithed to stunt mode, she shot off like a rocket. I was able to switch back but was unable to save it from a hard touchdown. Is this normal? I would of thought by changing the throttle curve it would of been a better transistion. Where did I go wrong, other than doing this in the limited space of my backyard?
Anyways, I am enjoying the electric side of heli flying and think I'm hooked, as now I can fly almost everyday without going to the field.
Thanks in advance for the help,
Craig |
