Honey Bee King 2 - Smoking Speed Controller

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NA news - 15 Oct 2007 23:33 GMT

Just got the thing to hover nicely when smoke started pouring from the speed
controller, melting it and the battery and 'welding' the connector together,
so's I couldn't get even to power it off without cutting the leads at the
battery end....need a new Spedd controller and a new battery, of course....

Is this a known problem with this model ?

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Clive Sinclair - 16 Oct 2007 14:36 GMT

> Just got the thing to hover nicely when smoke started pouring from the speed
> controller, melting it and the battery and 'welding' the connector together,
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>
>

I've had the Honey Bee FP, the Honey Bee King ONE and now the Belt-CP.
Never had any problems with any of them.

What I always recommend if bought as a RTF kit is to carefully check all
connections, screws, etc. ESKY helis are OK, but the low cost has to be
made up somewhere - usually in quality or the build. My Belt-CP had a
couple of loose connections - put it down to happening in transit from
Hong Kong.

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Kevin - 16 Oct 2007 14:53 GMT

>> Just got the thing to hover nicely when smoke started pouring from the
>> speed controller, melting it and the battery and 'welding' the
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> couple of loose connections - put it down to happening in transit from
> Hong Kong.

I had a honey bee 2 CP and it burned out a transistor causing it to
apply full power, so I had to land on full power and grab the helicopter
and pull the battery whilst at going at full tilt which was a bit scary
indoors in the kitchen, and SWMBO went mad and banned to flying out side

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Robert Roland - 16 Oct 2007 18:43 GMT

>smoke started pouring from the speed
>controller

I can't help you with your problem, but I can at least show you that
you are not the only one:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UhXYY6wuPDQ

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marco - 18 Oct 2007 12:28 GMT

> Just got the thing to hover nicely when smoke started pouring from the speed
> controller, melting it and the battery and 'welding' the connector together,
> so's I couldn't get even to power it off without cutting the leads at the
> battery end....need a new Spedd controller and a new battery, of course....
>
> Is this a known problem with this model ?

My ESC is a Futaba s3004 servo: $13 US
Motor is an OS32SX-H Engine: $114 US

Both are about to have their 5'th birthday. At around ~90 flights at
~15 minutes each. 22 hours total flight time, and they run perfectly.

.. If I'm starting to piss people off, let me know. I can gradually
learn to respect new religions. :)

marco

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The OTHER Kevin in San Diego - 18 Oct 2007 17:47 GMT

>My ESC is a Futaba s3004 servo: $13 US
>Motor is an OS32SX-H Engine: $114 US
>
>Both are about to have their 5'th birthday. At around ~90 flights at
>~15 minutes each. 22 hours total flight time, and they run perfectly.

I think you might have some difficulty fitting them to a HoneyBee.

>.. If I'm starting to piss people off, let me know. I can gradually
>learn to respect new religions. :)

Naw, we all just consider the source... :)

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Honey Bee King 2 - Smoking Speed Controller