OPTICAL SENSOR

[pepper]

so what is the advantages and disadvantages to either the optical sensor or the magnet??

pepper

[WillJames]

I personally found that the optical was a lot less reliable and predictable, especially on the GV-1.

The upside of teh optical is you don't have to drill and rebalance the fan???

The standard sensors work excellent.

[kthane]

Another upside is the optical does not have to be so close to the fan.

[pepper]

how many people have had problems with the optical not performing right.. due to the sun, etc

pepper

[WillJames]

With Shannon as my witness I have had two R60's with optical sensors and GV-1's that were just a little unpredictable.

[HeliDriver]

I've been selling the optical sensors for the GV1 and the TJ for over two years. I have never had a problem with the optical unit swamping due to sunlight.

I have flown my Fury Extreme inverted in the middle of the hot Tx. summer and NEVER had an issue with it on the GV-1 and now I have replaced my GV-1 with a TJ Pro, no problems there either.

I cannot agree that there is something inherently wrong with optical sensors. They can't skip if setup properly...

[WillJames]

Yea I'm definitely no expert. If they were not any good I doubt people would be selling so many, and you would see them installed on a TON of machines. I don't know what my problem was.. and I did not do muxh experimenting to try to figure it out.

[pepper]

does any one have any pics of how they set up the optical sensor?

pepper

[HeliDriver]

Pepper,

I have all the info on Helidriver.com

If you're at LARKS I'll bring you a kit on the house!

[pepper]

with the amount of experiance their, i will be takeing all my heli's!! LOL

pepper

[pepper]

ok, if you use a non silver fan then the sensor schould be just fine, right.??

pepper

[WillJames]

I used the blue TT fan and sprayed it flat black before installing the reflective tape. I think one of my problems is that fuel ate away at the cheap ass black paint I used and it started getting TT shiny blue again.

Use good paint if you have a shiny fan.

[Shannon Davis]

One word of caution-- with the mag type sensors everyone sees it as obvious that you need to rebalance th fan. People often do not realize how "heavey a small piece of tape or a small section that is not painted- really is. I did not balance my fans until recently- now I do and you can usually feel the diff. I balance a lot of friends fans now too. :)

Check out the vid in my signature.

[Dino Spadaccini]

I have use the standard and now the pro with a 810g this combo or a 9253 is the way to go in super servo mode, the smoothness is awesome and you will never out race the TJ, and never see any lag in a slow decent its on top of your game. I did have a problem where the optic was losing the tape for a moment and the engine would race up and come Wright back the fix was to make sure the optic was 90* to the fan. If this is still happening you can put a peace of shrink tube up over the optic to shade the senor it gets a better read and will not be wash out from sun light. The optic should be at lease 1/4 inch away for the fan, the optic reads better farther away to close and the signal will bounce off and not get a clean read

[alexander]

http://www.scotiabladerunners.ca/GV1sensor.htm

http://www.scotiabladerunners.ca/techmanparts.html

[X-jason adamo]

I love my optical sensor it works great! I use hotwings's sensor.