TT Mini Titan short flight times (advice needed please)

[flag8r77]

I've been flying my Mini Titan for a short time now and testing different battery times...all stock setup, using both a Thunder Power 2100 Mah and a Flight Power 2170 Lipo. I've been flying circuits and hovering for 5 minutes, results below:
-putting back about 1800 Mah each charge
-heli is using about 360 Mah per minute
Equations say that's about a 4.5 minute max flight.

What's wrong here? Do I need to lower my throttle curves? I've only been flying in Idle up so far, curve is 100, 97, 95, 97, 100)

[Funky]

Are you using the stock wood blades? They are pretty hard on batteries and draw much more power than a good set of carbons... they also fly very poorly compared to aftermarket blades :roll:

[mx400]

I get about 4-5 minutes of 3d using a Aon 3400 and TP 2070 packs 15t pinion and Rotortech carbons.

[vandelescrow]

I have a TRex 450, not a Mini Titan. But somethings i would look at is the lash between the pinion and the main gear, if it is to tight it will be robbing you of power/juice. If it is belt driven like the TRex, the belt should have alittle play in it. I was surprised to find that info because on my Raptor 50 I keep it tight. Your throttle curve I wouldn't worry to much about, these little electrics need really high head speeds. I found out on my TRex that a lower head speed caused the tail to pirouette uncontrollably. I'm using the Thunder Power 2100 and between 90 -100 throttle curve the entire time, doing the flying you described I'm getting apx 10 minutes. I think something is wrong in my set up thoe because the head boggs down easy.

[mx400]

I am running 3400 on the head, thats the reason for my short flight times.