Ion-X2 Documentation

[carey shurley]

If you're one of the folks waiting on the Ion-X2 assembly information, you can find it here:

http://www.miniatureaircraftusa.com/helicopterkits/1024_Ionx/1024_kit_documents.asp (http://www.miniatureaircraftusa.com/helicopterkits/1024_Ionx/1024_kit_documents.asp)

[Laddy]

These are VERY nice Carey, just like you always do.
Laddy

[TomC]

Carey,

Great job for sure. Looking at pages 53-58 of the reference guide there are a zillion ratio combos.

The problem is that when the first stage of a belt drive gets above ~1.5-2:1 it starts to get pretty ineffiicient. At 2.5:1 it get's worse and you really need to tighten the belts a lot causing a lot more belt wear, and harder on bearings as well.

It might make more sense to colour-code this large table based on 1st stage ratios to green for less than say 1.5:1, yellow for 1.5-2.5, and red for +2.5:1.

I think that this would help a lot of us to figure out what ratio combos we should initially go to.

Cheers,
Tom C

[DebianDog]

:noteworthy

[PDC]

Thats great stuff Carey...thanks a million.