really bad day

[akphill]

Well don't have a pic

took the copterx 450 out for an early morning hover as there is no wind today. spin her up and she try's to fall over well i did get it into the air but
it wasn't spinning up as fast as it should be and hard to control so I set it down and was looking at the brand new hs65mg servos I'm using for cyclic
one is not working

Well so take the bird into the motor home and start diagnostic's on it when the align 35 amp esc Go's up in flames

OK now I have to order new part's dang it

OK so now I bring out the hk500 I figure that I can hover it around and still have a halfway productive day ;D

Wrong
Just get it into the air and had a dumb thumb attack
probably just thinking about 15crewdog

well now main blades, main gear set, main shaft, feathering shaft, blade grip's,fly bar, tail boom, tail drive assembly

So right now am thinking that I shouldn't have gotten out of bed today and try and fly my heli's

[19000rpm]

Man, that's terrible phil. I've had similar days. You just can't imagine things are going to get worse. Then they do, sometimes, for no apparent reason. That's why I started my "One accident a day" policy. One mishap and I know it's just not going to be my day.

Unfortunately, I've violated my own policy recently and ended up with more than one wreck. Now I'm back on the one a day program. I wonder how long it'll be before I fall off the wagon again?

[akent]

ME TOO!!!!

I've been there more than once, too, and like 19k, kept on flying and had another mishap!!!

A little while back, I flew my Exi 500, crashed it only it crashed into my whole fleet!!! EVERY plane was damaged, all in one crash.

It happens! Oh, and then you will have those awesome days where everything just flies perfectly!!

Here's a toast to many many of those perfect days in the future!!!
Kent

[akent]

Oh, and I've had two Align ESC's and they both were crap. One fried and one died. So I have zero Align ESC's any more, nor will I ever have one, unless they come with the kit.

I have had zero failures from Hobbywing and Turnigy ESC's. I fly quite a few of these now.

[19000rpm]

I've heard a lot of guys say they've had problems with align ESC's. I wonder why that is. I've had all kinds of ESC's, cheap ones and expensive ones, and only had one failure. How can Align justify crappy ESC's in the price range they are in?

[akphill]

Well the bad day added up by the time all parts were ordered and the bill came in was over 3 hundred bucks to fix both heli's who would of thought it would be that much

Then they didn't send all the connectors to install the new scorpion esc so had to order those

I think that killed my heli budget for the summer so there is no more crashes allowed .

Dang and still have 3 more heli's to build

[19000rpm]

Yikes, that sounds like quite a lot of $ for the damage you described.

I'm constantly stretching my budgets. Know help here. ;D

[akphill]

yes it is a lot it's what happens when you call the lhs and dont ask how much.
Was just trying to share some support for the lhs live and learn