Hi y'all! Well, I finally put the Legacy back on the workbench. The last time I flew it was back in September of 2017 when I apparently messed up my battery
. I had the flight time set to what I thought was about the 8th notch on the Hornet 40A ESC flight timer. According to the instruction sheet, that should have given about 5 minute 11 seconds
. However, it kept running, cycling between what seemed to be the shut down blip back to whatever was left in the full power mode. When it did stop and land, the battery was hot so I unplugged it and took it out of the plane and set it aside to cool
. The next day I went to charge it but noticed that it seemed really fat, tight and somewhat smushy
. Needless to say, I took it to the city recycling center and turned it in
. That was the last time I tried messing with it, until today. I installed a Spectrum receiver thus bypassing the flight timer, start button and RPM potentiometer. I did retain the Maxx Products Power Plug. I was very pleased to see that everything functioned as designed. It seems it will reach full power at around 3/4 throttle movement of the transmitter as I cannot detect any significant increase in RPM, by ear (I don't have a tach)
. I cycled the throttle a few times to get a feel for the positioning of high, low and what should be taxi and landing speed to the off position. I'm excited to see how it operates in-flight tomorrow (hopefully)
! I just need to figure out a positive way to hold my Spektrum transmitter and avoid bumping the throttle at the wrong time
!! Just curious, other than for scale contests, is the use of throttle control allowable for stunt contests
?