Battery Problem on Blade 400

[Ozz58]

All,

New to the electric helis, nice not cleaning up after flights.

I'm having a problem with my 400. When I got it two weeks ago I also got a extra battery (2100). My first flight on each of the batteries lasted a little over eight min. before the ESC went to a "soft" low voltage warning. I set my Tx timer for 5 min and have flown at this setting for more than 10 flight on each battery pack. So yesterday I went out with fully charged batteries and got the "soft" warning ON BOTH at around 2 mins. thinking maybe they weren't charged all the way, I charged them both again last night. But today they both did the same thing.

Any ideas? I have the stock charger, so it only has lights...no meter. http://www.runryder.com/img/smilies/frown.gif

Anyway any help will be welcome.

P.S. Should I look into a different charger? If so what's working for you?

Craig

[widower]

I've been using the stock charger for my 2200mah lipos with no problems. Measure the voltage of each cell through the charging connector. From pin 1 to 2, 2 to 3, and 3 to 4. All three voltages should be the same. I'd have to google for the proper voltage of a fully charged cell.

[Trevor January]

odd could be you battery and i believe the voltage should be about 4.1 or ,4.3 and should not go below 3.1

how dose that heli fly any ways

[johnbs8]

4.2 volts should be the end voltage for each cell. no less then 4.19

[Ozz58]

how dose that heli fly any ways

Trevor, Being a nitro 600 size heli guy, it not as smooth as the 600, but I can fly it in my back yard plus no clean-up after. I really like it, I was planning on seeing how much I would enjoy this little heli (somewhat cheap to get into) and if I liked my plans were to go with the Trex 450. At this point I don't think I'll go that way, this thing with a few upgrades (servos and gyro) would be perfict for me. If anything my next one will be the Trex 500. I would recommend the Blade 400 to anyone that can fly or has a lot of time on a sim.