mCX2 Problems -- and I feel REALLY fortunate!

[Clovis Man]

I've just spent the past two hours sweating the possibility that I had burned up the 5-in-1 PC board in my brand-new mCX2.

The main rotors wouldn't spin on throttle up. It had been working fine, but suddenly the only way to get them to move at all was with the antitorque control -- and even then, only the bottom one would spin, and half the time it would spin backwards.

Everything else worked fine. Lights, pitch control, roll control.

I finally took the body off and got out a flashlight -- and my trusty bifocals!

What I found really surprised me. The starboard motor had shifted up in its mount, so that both motors were trying to turn just the bottom rotor, and fighting each other to do so. I took my finger and pushed the offending motor back into place and everything is working as it should!

Whew!

[pjdog]

You were lucky the motors fighting one another didn't cause you a big problem.

Blade motors are just pushed in. They do move around on a hard landing or crash. I've had problems with the MSR and my Grandsons mcx.

Good luck

jack

[Scott]

Cool Beans. Wish it was that easy ALL the time