Raptor 50 Excessive Headspeed and Tracking issues

[Rockohaulic]

Well, I made changes to my setup and I set the pitch from -9 to +9 based on a recomendation for the non-hyper engine. The headspeed was excessive (with a linear 0, 25, 50, 75, 100 Throttle curve and Pitch curve) at over 2000 rpm! :shock:

So I set the pitch from +11 to -11. This was much better, but was still over 1900 with the linear curve. I adjusted the Throttle curve to 0, 20, 45, 70, 100 and it improved to 1800 rpm. But this is still a bit high.

What have you guys been doing to get the headspeed closer to 1600 and 1700 rpm?

Tracking

I finally got the tracking dialed in. It took more turns of the link than I expected. But after dialing it in, I measured the pitch and found my slave blade (which is the one I adjusted) was actually 3 degrees different from the master blade. This seems excessive to me.

Does it sound like I have a bad pair of fiberglass blades??

Thanks guys.

[BarracudaHockey]

3 degrees is alot for woodies let alone glass blades.


You can lower your throttle curve and use cylic/throttle mixing to get the head speed you want but the hyper runs best in a raptor at 2000

[Rockohaulic]

But I'm running a non-hyper and the stock (all plastic) head. So I can't run 2000 rpm headspeed.

[BarracudaHockey]

You can lower your your throttle curve then. There's no law saying you have to run 100 at the top if something less will do the job.

[Rockohaulic]

Cool. It sounds like I'm at least headed down the right street. Thanks.