Rototerrier
01-21-2008, 08:08 AM
I just installed the v2 components for the 3D upgrade and got in several flights over the weekend. Totally different bird. The thing is amazing. Crisp flips and rolls.
My problem:
The 4pc kit came with shortened mixing arms. They bind up with the washout lever arms. I tried all 3 holes and found that the middle hole on the shaft is the best position, but still binds. I wound up going back to the original mixing arms (long) and fiddled for a couple hours trying to get the most +/- collective possible. I settled on 10+/8-. Also, when I do a really quick roll, I get binding on the aileron. It is minor on the bench, but in the air, you can really hear it load up on the motor.
Is there a drawing or image somewhere of the new v2 head so that I might compare what I have done? I am not completely sure I have it the way it was intended. But, it does fly a million times better than it did, I would just like to be able to get 10+/10- on the pitch. I notice that comming out of my roll, the inverted side, is much slower because of the 2 degree difference. Not a huge deal.
I spent hours saturday shortening and lengthening rods to find an acceptable mixture of pitch and cyclic. It is weird, it's a give and take. More collective seems to take away from cyclic and vice versa. Nothing binds at center (0 collective) but as you move up or down on the collective, you start to lose you maximums on cyclic...so I to keep it in my mind, when in the air, if I am really on the collective, be just a little lighter on the cyclic. But the heli is still rockin, I want to be perfectly clear that it isn't horrible.
The best way to describe this situation is that comming out of a maneuver is not a crisp as going into it because you are typically having to add collective which is then reducing your cyclic. So it starts a loop snappy and then just sorta lumbers out the other side.
Which, is a huge improvement over the V1 head where it lumbered into a flip and fell out the other side like a lead brick.
Anyone have any advice or suggestions? Thanks!!
Also, that new tail pully fixed my slow tail creep. The tail rocks!!!! If you haven't already upgraded that little jewel, do it now.
My problem:
The 4pc kit came with shortened mixing arms. They bind up with the washout lever arms. I tried all 3 holes and found that the middle hole on the shaft is the best position, but still binds. I wound up going back to the original mixing arms (long) and fiddled for a couple hours trying to get the most +/- collective possible. I settled on 10+/8-. Also, when I do a really quick roll, I get binding on the aileron. It is minor on the bench, but in the air, you can really hear it load up on the motor.
Is there a drawing or image somewhere of the new v2 head so that I might compare what I have done? I am not completely sure I have it the way it was intended. But, it does fly a million times better than it did, I would just like to be able to get 10+/10- on the pitch. I notice that comming out of my roll, the inverted side, is much slower because of the 2 degree difference. Not a huge deal.
I spent hours saturday shortening and lengthening rods to find an acceptable mixture of pitch and cyclic. It is weird, it's a give and take. More collective seems to take away from cyclic and vice versa. Nothing binds at center (0 collective) but as you move up or down on the collective, you start to lose you maximums on cyclic...so I to keep it in my mind, when in the air, if I am really on the collective, be just a little lighter on the cyclic. But the heli is still rockin, I want to be perfectly clear that it isn't horrible.
The best way to describe this situation is that comming out of a maneuver is not a crisp as going into it because you are typically having to add collective which is then reducing your cyclic. So it starts a loop snappy and then just sorta lumbers out the other side.
Which, is a huge improvement over the V1 head where it lumbered into a flip and fell out the other side like a lead brick.
Anyone have any advice or suggestions? Thanks!!
Also, that new tail pully fixed my slow tail creep. The tail rocks!!!! If you haven't already upgraded that little jewel, do it now.