How many have 2 in 1 battery problems

[laz51]

Does anyone have a problem with leaveing the battery plugged to the 2 in 1 I have had a problem with align bec running my lipo battery down and ruining it. I do not want this to happen with the 2 in 1 and I do not want to take my canope off every time I fly .

[invertmast]

no issues w/ the 2 in 1. but the battery itself sucks.. mine puffed after 100 flights roughly

[aussiemick]

You will probably only get about 5 flights from the align 1900 battery, so you will probably have to take the canopy off at sometime during the day. Unless of course 5 flights is enough.

Mick

[TRAMTRAN]

My Align 1900 align start puffing now after 6 gallon (+-60 flights, +-10 cycles of charge). I had 6 flights before, Now I had 4 flights, I think it's on the way to die. I had no problem with 2 in 1.

[CoronaL]

I have 6 of the Align 1900 receiver packs, and all seem good to me. I have about 15 flights on 2-3 of them, and the rest of them are almost new, maybe 2-4 flights on them.

[erniefritz]

The 2 in 1 is great , the battery that is included sucks. mine puffed in the first week i had it... get a TP 2200mAh 2cell 7.4 extreme , it fits under the radio tray perfectly.

[steffgiguere]

I did the same as erniefritz, and everything is great.

[edkoz]

I did the same as erniefritz, and everything is great.

Mine puffed after 2 charges at 1C.

[Harya]

mine puffed after 8 flights :( using FP 2100 now...works great

[dieter]

well I'm using the align 1900 LiPo and don't have any problems so far (about 10 charges @ 1.5 A).. I can certainly do 4 flights with it
I always take the battery out of my heli and store/charge it in a safe place. Just in case

[fluffhead]

How much more time are you getting with the FP packs? Im using the align and having to recharge every few flight seems excessive to me. my old nicad I had on my raptor lasted way longer than this.

[Street Flyer]

The stock align 1900mah absolutly sucks. Mine puffed when I was setting up the heli.
Right now I use a TP 3400. I can get at least 5 flights out it. That is flying the crap out of it with 8717s and V blades too.

[Tim Smith]

actualy its not a bad Idea to remove it every time you fly just to do a quick visual saftey check .I would say if you are in that much of a hurry to get back into the air # 1 Either get a bigger Tank or #2 Slow down an enjoy it more because you are bound to over look something somewhere along the way ( That is just Murhiy 's Law ) I have been doing to quick turn around to get back into the air and on my 10th gallon of nitro My head became lose from the engine block:wow2::happyd Bad news I had my first Non Powered auto from about 80 feet up .Scary Brooke my skids when it hit the deck .SO I pulled it down to repair clean and inspect . When I did I found that the Brand New Metal UP-Grade Bearing Blocks (with only say 1 hour flight time on them ) Were feeling Notchy and very very tight .They are sussposed to feel smooth as glass. So I ended up putting the original OEM Nylon ones back in.
:smokin:Moral of the story I could have avoided this Mechanical error resulting in a flight forced emergency landing/crash. And If I had not done an even further inspection I would never have discovered that my NEW main bearing were Crap:smokin:Needless to say that would have caused my head rotor to stop rotating at an even speed really messing things up...........This Heli I bought Pre Asyembled from a local shop .If you buy a pre asyembled model .Dis asymble it and re asyemble it just to be sure of EVERY thing Leave Nothing to chance Because it will find you :cheers
Heli Up:whip

[fluffhead]

actualy its not a bad Idea to remove it every time you fly just to do a quick visual saftey check .I would say if you are in that much of a hurry to get back into the air # 1 Either get a bigger Tank or #2 Slow down an enjoy it more because you are bound to over look something somewhere along the way ( That is just Murhiy 's Law ) I have been doing to quick turn around to get back into the air and on my 10th gallon of nitro My head became lose from the engine block:wow2::happyd Bad news I had my first Non Powered auto from about 80 feet up .Scary Brooke my skids when it hit the deck .SO I pulled it down to repair clean and inspect . When I did I found that the Brand New Metal UP-Grade Bearing Blocks (with only say 1 hour flight time on them ) Were feeling Notchy and very very tight .They are sussposed to feel smooth as glass. So I ended up putting the original OEM Nylon ones back in.
:smokin:Moral of the story I could have avoided this Mechanical error resulting in a flight forced emergency landing/crash. And If I had not done an even further inspection I would never have discovered that my NEW main bearing were Crap:smokin:Needless to say that would have caused my head rotor to stop rotating at an even speed really messing things up...........This Heli I bought Pre Asyembled from a local shop .If you buy a pre asyembled model .Dis asymble it and re asyemble it just to be sure of EVERY thing Leave Nothing to chance Because it will find you :cheers
Heli Up:whip


???? where is this coming from??? we were discussing the battery quality in the align 2 in 1 BEC. Why does it seem like every time someone brings an issue or asks a simple question, the thread gets hijacked by some long winded lecture about helicopter safety.
If you really feel the need to drone on please post here
http://www.helifreak.com/forumdisplay.php?f=71
there is an audience there for you.

[nwolsink]

I use a FP EVO Lite 1600mah pack which gives me 3 to 4 flights then I put like 800mah back into it, at this point I am at the orange LED.

[aussiemick]

I am thinking I will get some 2S Flight Power 2500 Evolites. At about 150 grams they will make my heli balance perfectly and maybe I can get a few extra flights out of the battery before having to charge. They are a little longer than what I am using now but it should slide back into the front of the frames no worries.

Mick

[Mercuriell]

???? where is this coming from??? we were discussing the battery quality in the align 2 in 1 BEC. Why does it seem like every time someone brings an issue or asks a simple question, the thread gets hijacked by some long winded lecture about helicopter safety.
If you really feel the need to drone on please post here
http://www.helifreak.com/forumdisplay.php?f=71
there is an audience there for you.

Looks like you're doing just what you're complaining about dude :arggg:

I've had mostly good experiences with ~ 6 of the Align packs 1100-1900 - I like their compactness and having a JST plug ready to go. Just had one puff after ~50 cycles (and that was one with the balance lead) so not too bad. I'm slowly converting to EvoLite 2100s