A beautiful day to work outside.

 

After the wind storm, a lot of leaves ended up on the decks.  I decided to clean them off today.

The first thing I did was take pictures and put the quad up to get some aerial shots.  Of course, I spent the rest of the flight blowing leaves off the house with the quad.

This is how the roof and decks looked after I got the leaf blower out.  I blew off the roof first, then I got all the decks cleaned up.  I had a good time getting the quad out between each step and making a flight to get more pictures.

This is the last flight on the quad today after I got the lawn mowed.  I had the camera taking a picture every 2 seconds, so I ended up with about a thousand pictures.

Vera came out just as I was finishing up and took my picture on the clean deck.

With all the work done, I got the Cobra out to see if it ran cooler with the fan on it.  I had taken some pitch out of the main rotor blades and it flew better.  I had put a 4 cell pack in it for this flight and right after Vera finished taking pictures the motor quit.  It was pretty hot, 222 degrees.  After it cooled and still would not run I pulled it out and it had burned up a winding.  I downloaded the logs from the speed control and discovered the motor was too high a KV (rpm per volt applied).  I did some research and I ordered a lower KV motor that is good for twice the power.