If its not one thing its another........

[lex7919]

Having just got my heli back in the air and in fine form my charger toight decided it wanted to warm it's self up and proceeded to explode........ : arggg::a rggg:

I'm slightly pi$$ed off now.. goodnight

[creteus]

That sucks

[testpilot58d]

lex...that sucks....sorry to hear it.

[CraigM]

I had a back ordered rx battery for my R50 and it finally came today. So when I went to charge up the battery with my brand new turnigy charger I find that the charger is defective and now I have to send it back to HK and wait who nows how long. The LHS doesn't have anything for me and now I'm ordering from a shop that is 4 hours away hoping I get the charger I need so I can finally fly. But hey, I've only been waiting on parts to arrive for 2 months so what's another month?

[MTboy]

That sucks man and I know how you feel. Have a drink it helps you think...lol

[Ian 777]

Got a pesky charger you can have Lex since dear Gerd sent me an Imax B6,
any good? I'll need it back if Gerd ever needs his Imax back though.

I know they're slow but at least it'll get you back in the air.

[Donnie D]

I know thw regular Esky chargers are slow, but I have two of them and another on order. I'll be able to charge three batts at once and that makes up them being slow. You can get them for less than 10 bucks each and so far the seem to charge the batts up perfectly. Every time I check the voltages the cells are allways within.01 v of each other. If one of the chargers ever fails I will still have the other two. Just one way of looking at it.

Donnie D

[lex7919]

Originally Posted by Ian 777

Got a pesky charger you can have Lex since dear Gerd sent me an Imax B6,
any good? I'll need it back if Gerd ever needs his Imax back though.

I know they're slow but at least it'll get you back in the air.

Thanks Ian, but by the time i read this i'd bit the bullet last night and ordered new one for £35 so i hope it will be here in the morning dare not tell my better half though!! And funny you mention Imax B6 as thats exactly what just blew up!!

[lex7919]

Thanks to all for the comments a problem shared and all that.....

Some of you are seriously more patient than me 2 months waitig for parts i would be spitting feathers by now make no mistake. Talk about poor service

[Ian 777]

as long as your sorted bro

[jmy2u]

Lex,
Make sure the main leads with deans connector are correct, when I got my Turnigy the leads were soldered on backwords , black was pos and red was neg.

[CraigM]

I'm sending back my turnigy. has anyone dealt with returning stuff to hobbycity?

[lex7919]

Originally Posted by Ian 777

as long as your sorted bro

Should be i hope mind you if she ever finds out "i wasted more money on that stupid thing" i might not be!....

[lex7919]

Originally Posted by jmy2u

Lex,
Make sure the main leads with deans connector are correct, when I got my Turnigy the leads were soldered on backwords , black was pos and red was neg.

Wooo, not good goes to show you have to be abservant about every thing, i nearly got caught a while back but about two months ago i got fed up with the deans so ive swapped all my gear to bullet connectors now, so if it goes pop i know who to blame lol

I often used to wonder if there was a "done way "
soldering deans but i'd just do what was on my charger do you go possitive- horizontal neg-verticle or was i just been backwards all that time (nothing new )

[MTboy]

Originally Posted by CraigM

I'm sending back my turnigy. has anyone dealt with returning stuff to hobbycity?

I'm sending mine back also but don't know what will happen on there end. I did contact them a few days after recieving it to tell them about it so I don't know what they will do. I thought it was the new motor so sent that back instead now I know it was my ESC so I'm still going to try and send back.

[nasukaren]

Often the shipping back to HK (which they make you pay for; regardless of fault) makes doing returns pretty worthless. It's the one downside of HobbyKing.. :-(

Karen