ESC Damage to Heli ??????

[scottwells]

Hi everyone,

In the quest for more knowledge on the CP helicopter I did some reading on ESC and programming. Afterwards I checked my helicopter and noticed that I have been running the heli with the ESC not programmed. I never thought of checking the program setup for the ESC when I got the helicopter (already built and slightly used) I have maintained a great friendship with the guy that I got the heli from and I believe that he had the ESC programmed so maybe there is something that i did to un-program it???

When I say not programmed what I am referring to is when the ESC would initialize it would beep once all the way down..

I have now programmed the ESC as per the Align 250 pro DFC manual says and I notice a huge difference.

My question is, could I of hurt my motor or shortened the life span of the motor by this??

Everything seems fine with the heli right now but I am curious if I have caused any unforeseen damage?

As always thank you for your comments..

 

[Tony]

You should be just fine. Really the only thing that can hurt the motor is if you were running too high of a timing, but then, it would shut the system down before any damage occurred. Other than that, you just have brake on/off, start up speed and lipo cut off voltage. Nothing that will hurt the motor. Again, you should be fine.

 

[scottwells]

Thanks Tony,

I really didnt think so but wanted to check anyway

 

[lennyapplegreen]

I generally leave the Esc in the default mode and have had no trouble as yet, I am of the firm opinion that if it works , leave it alone, I set up some HK ones in the `soft start` mode and it didn`t make much difference so don`t bother anymore, obviously ppl with more sophisticated gear might not agree but so far I`ve not had any problems