Greetings,

I have a brick from an E-Flite Blade MCX that I have installed into a micro sailboat.

The original heli was destroyed in a bad crash and I picked up the electronics cheap.

After installing the brick I discovered one of the servos would stick at one end of travel and was trying to fing that limit (it was still under power at the end of it's travel).

The other servo was real glitchy. I started with the jamming servo. I removed the 4 tiny screws that secured it to the board. Upon examination I found two strips under the servo and a small set of contacts on the servo carrier.

Both strips on the board were black and under a magnifing glass appeared rough. I cleaned the two strips with alcohol. One cleaned up silver and the other remained black. I reinstalled the servo and tested it. It operated very well. It was smooth and solid and no longer jammed.

On the glitchy servo the silver strip was only half black. I cleaned and reinstalled it. The glitchy behavior is gone. The servos both operate smooth and clean.

A new brick will run about $40. A half hour may save you from having to replace it.

Now the question is... Will it be reliable? I guess I'll see. It won't get to much exercise in my micro sailboat so I think for my purpose it will be fine.

Hope this helps someone

Good Luck
Glen

Nice one! I might try that tomorrow as my servo on my msr is a little jittery . Cheers!

Common problem, good fix. Should be reliable again, but the DO eventually wear out the tracks on the board.

Will white spirit work? The stuff for cleaning paintbrushes

I am having this problem. With large movements it works but when I am doing micro movements it jams.

So let me get this right (new to heli's)

I need to take it off the board, clean the track and the put it back on again?

Originally Posted by captaintomo

Will white spirit work? The stuff for cleaning paintbrushes

One of the tracks is black. I don't know what it is made of or if mineral spirits will attack it. I know alcohol worked well.

Originally Posted by whakahere

I am having this problem. With large movements it works but when I am doing micro movements it jams.

So let me get this right (new to heli's)

I need to take it off the board, clean the track and the put it back on again?

I just cleaned the two tracks. One cleaned to silver, the other remained black.

I done it with spirit. On the servo contacts there was bits of black on the contacts. On the strips on the board it was almost black, So i cleaned that and it turned silver. Let it dry and screwed the servosa back on. It was a whole lot better but the other servo jitters on full back stick. never done that before

Originally Posted by captaintomo

I done it with spirit. On the servo contacts there was bits of black on the contacts. On the strips on the board it was almost black, So i cleaned that and it turned silver. Let it dry and screwed the servosa back on. It was a whole lot better but the other servo jitters on full back stick. never done that before

Did you clean them both or just the one?

Originally Posted by Grayco

Did you clean them both or just the one?

Both