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Help with my Flyzone Beaver Float Plane
Just completed assembly of my new Flyzone Beaver Float plane. I purchased the one RTF with everything except the flight battery. I have 3 Flyzone 1800mAh 11.1V 15C 20WH 3 cell 11.1 Volt LIPO Battery s. all fully charged and reading 12.4 Vl. Everything looked good. Setup Throws and everything but when I got to the Lake Full Throttle was about enough power to go 5MPH. All three battery's did the same. The radio is a Tactic 600 and I don't know where to start? Is this the wrong Battery?
Thanks Robert Low |
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Last edited by robert low; Sep 28, 2015 at 09:48 PM.
Reason: Spelling mistake
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RTF should have come with a prop and a battery?
But, as Rhea suggests, look in the manual for ESC calibration process. This is a procedure that teaches the ESC the high and low points of your throttle stick. If you don't do that you probably are not getting full power. |
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If it sounds like the motor is spinning plenty fast but not going anywhere, the prop may be on backwards. The curved side should be toward the front, and flat or concave to the rear. With those batteries it should fly fine, 15C is slightly old tech but not enough to make a difference for this plane. Have you flown these packs in other models? If so, then the ESC seems like the likely culprit. I agree with the earlier comment that you might need to calibrate the ESC, although my experience is usually they go the other way, you get wide open throttle with the throttle stick at less than full. A watt meter would be really useful, so you could see if a) the batteries maintain good voltage under load and b) whether the motor is drawing a normal amount of current. That can help you narrow down the suspects. If the prop is right, batteries OK, and ESC properly calibrated, could be a motor problem or an ESC problem, might need to contact the company.
Good luck, she's a nice flyer if you can get the problem solved. - - Dave |
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To me sounds like the throttle is not calibrated. You should be able to tell by the sound of it at wide open throttle if the motor is spoiling up fully or not. Did you calibrate your throttle to the esc and follow all the instructions??
The 1800 mah packs are plenty to get this bird up in the air. This plane will take off in a foot or 2 on wheels. I've heard many say it has plenty of power, extra power. But have seen a couple say it seemed under powered taking off in a lake but they most likely had a weak pack or something. There is a huge 800 plus page thread on this plane in the scale arf/rtf section I'd check with those guys. |
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Last edited by Jaketheone46; Sep 30, 2015 at 09:59 AM.
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Have you figured this out yet?? I'm interested in what the deal was. I checked the flyzone beaver dhc-2 thread to see if you checked in there and their talking about how well this plane will hover so there should be a abundance of extra power to pull this thing right out of the lake in a hurry.
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Kind of curious about this myself. I have two Flyzone Beavers and both fly great. I leave one on floats and leave the other on wheels to fly from grass and in the winter it gets skis.
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