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Esky
Electronic products
Esky
are of course a major player in the low end RC helicopter market, and
although many criticise the helicopters produced by Esky, the majority
of people find the quality -v- price to be quite acceptable for the
helicopters themselves.
Sadly,
the problems come with ALL of the electronics that they supply with
these helicopters.
Listing
them in no particular order, the problems reported are :-
TX
- Transmitter
The
major issue with these is the clearly very cheap and therefore rather
nasty potentiometers used for the stick controls, which tend to either
go very "gritty", or to fail to function at all.
ESC
- Electronic Speed Controller
The
ESC provided by Esky with most of their helicopters is of especially
poor quality, and its reliability record is well documented to be
appalling in a great many cases. The most common that happens with
these is that they simply "blow up" quite spectacularly,
emitting a lot of what is known commonly as the "magic smoke"
Battery
Charger
This
is another crucial part of any electric helicopter system, and one that
has a lot of responsibility because it is handling LIPO batteries.
Quite
naturally, as it is a cheap charger, it does take a long time to charge
most common Lipos, and that is acceptable, but the problem comes when it
consistently fails to recharge cells that other chargers manage to
recharge safely and successfully. As with other products in the
Esky electronics range, these also tend to fail in far too short a
period.
The
worry is that with such poor electronics, the possibility of a lipo
being overcharged is far more likely, and as we all know, such an occurrence
can be a total catastrophe, resulting in severe fire damage to a house
or other location.
Servos
The
Esky servos provided with the Belt CP are far too fragile in
construction, with a very thin and weak mounting flange, and poor
electronics that fail in far too short a period of time.
RX
- Receiver
This
is one of the few items of electronics that does not receive too much
bad press. They are certainly reported to have failed after
sometimes quite short periods of use, but not excessively.
Belt
CP main gear
This is possibly one of the worst parts I have ever come across, and is
totally useless for the purpose for which it was supposedly
designed. The plastic it is made of is so soft that the teeth can
be stripped from the gear simply by applying the throttle a bit too
quickly. If you happen to hit the idle up switch when the throttle
is down, that gear will be history.
There
are several replacement gears that are far stronger, so there really is
no excuse for Esky to ship this soft plastic gear with their Belt CP
helicopters. I would even go so far as to say that the early failure of
this part alone is responsible for a great many potential helicopter
fliers giving it all up before they even got started, and that is really
sad. 
Co
Comanche front undercarriage legs
Terribly
weak, break far too easily, even on grass, unacceptable for what is
after all a Co-Ax training helicopter.
ALL
such failures other than the Charger & Co Comanche legs are liable to cause the helicopter
to crash, and quite possibly result in serious damage to the helicopter.
The
other effect is of course the risk of the helicopter colliding with
yourself, other people, animals, or even traffic driving down a road.
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