BLADE 400 ESC & BATTERY GETTING HOT AFTER BLADE STRIKE

[dishund]

need help:after mild blade strike, flight time went down from 10min to 4.5min.esc and battery getting very hot, after a 4.5min flight esc temp was 145 degrees and battery temp was 120 degrees.replaced main shaft and all 3 bearings,replaced spindle shaft,both o-rings,new blades and balanced them,reset pitch,everything turns smoothly no binding at all,or vibration. did Test with motor unplugged and just moving servos around and the esc got hot again,140 degrees any ideas??????? remember the motor was not connected!!!!!!!! only moving the servos around and still 140 degrees on the ESC. thanks for any help

[sokal]

it seems that the Eflite ESC is not all made on the better days of the week
if u know what i mean unfortunatly thier not much u can do with that
call horizon and tell them whats wrong they will send u a new one
just forget to mention your blade strike:thumbup:

[The_Russian]

What size battery are you running? If you are using the stock 1800 20C, your flight time should not be over 7 minutes. In a normal hover with stock parts, you will burn up 170-200 mah per minute. If you are flying 10 minutes a flight, even at normal manuevers, you are doing damage to the battery by running it below 20% remaining.

Buy a BC-6 Charger from Bantam and you will be able to track these numbers.

[dishund]

What size battery are you running? If you are using the stock 1800 20C, your flight time should not be over 7 minutes. In a normal hover with stock parts, you will burn up 170-200 mah per minute. If you are flying 10 minutes a flight, even at normal manuevers, you are doing damage to the battery by running it below 20% remaining.

Buy a BC-6 Charger from Bantam and you will be able to track these numbers.

9-10min just hovering then lvc would kick in ,voltage was 10.4 at that point.remember only started having problems after crash!!! problems aren't with charging the batteries, i also have an ice charger that's very good...

[sokal]

well iv been running 9-10 min on mine with no probles also not draining to much as to hurt them the ESC 50% cut when voltage reaches right before that point just have to listen or use the timer set to 8-9 min
all should be just fine

in other terms a friend of mine also said his goes to cut down at 5 min and he noticed i flew much loger than him so it may be the esc is progframed diffrent or stock charger
not sure whay the diffrence

[sokal]

well today found out when in stunt time down to 6:30 min
wow big drop

[LockMD]

on the stock battery I get 7 min max and it shuts down so I set the timer to 6 mins. On the loong-max 2250's I'm getting 9 mins so far and still have more left before hitting 80%

[widower]

Same here. My timer is 6min for 1800 and 9min for 2200.