tracking adjustment question

[dhoff002]

Which link do you use to adjust the tracking? Also to bring one blade down do you make the link shorter or longer?

It doesn't say in the manual, I think its the link going to the rocker arm, but not sure.

My gaui is flying great so I don't want to screw it up, so any advice would be helpful, or should I just not adjust the tracking and fly it.

Dan

[Jetleaf]

Definitely get the blades tracking perfectly. Little details like tracking and blade balancing you might get away with ignoring on larger helis but the 200 is a finicky little beeotch and she likes to be setup perfectly. She does reward you for your efforts though. The long link from the swash to the seesaw mixing arm is the one you want to adjust. And yes shorten the link to bring a high blade down.

[dhoff002]

Thanks Jetleaf. Its weird my woodies were tracking perfect, but I am having trouble with tracking my plastic blades, maybe one is bent slightly.

Dan

[stoatnchips]

Dan, i think its a combination of things on the Plastic blades, that make them harder to track... I have noticed that perfect tracking comes and goes with changes in Head speed. I used to hold the 200 in one hand and spool up to 40% for a couple of seconds and adjust tracking that way, untill i found that the blades were not perfect when the Heli was hovering infront of me. The Woodies that are much stiffer track good throughout the range.

I'll stick my neck out and say that its probably down to the high density foam that the blades are made from and that some of them are slightly deformed out of the pack. If the tiny bubbles are on average, slightly bigger in one blade than the other, then the mechanical "Stiffness" ( stiffness=applied force/deflection) will be slightly different and so the blades will bend or funnel up at different rates, depending on the Head speed. The Woodies or FRP have a stiffness, orders of magnitude larger than the foamies and so any differences in deflection are virtually unseen and so tracking remains good throughout the range.

Its a pain to try and set tracking on the foamies in a hover because the heli is just so twitchy... and neigh on imposibly form newbies to CP helis!!!

******PLEASE NOTE... I am not recomending that Anybody holds onto their Helis when spooloing up... this can be very dangerous.... I just did it cause I'm confident in my own judgement of what I feel happy with!******

[bpd964]

******PLEASE NOTE... I am not recomending that Anybody holds onto their Helis when spooloing up... this can be very dangerous.... I just did it cause I'm confident in my own judgement of what I feel happy with!******

huh?:Owned

[CHOPPERTECH]

And remember - wear safty glasses.

[bpd964]

:YeaBaby:

[stoatnchips]

:rolling

I know i wish it were not needed, but i would hate for some muppet to get hurt cause they tried to do what i did.... Nanny State and the Blame Culture gets on my tits!! My personal feelings are if you you're too fu**ing stupid to figure out that you need to wear safety glasses while dremeling and you lose an eye.. its your own fault... plus its a great learning experience... if for some sorry reason you end up doing again, you can relax, safe in knowledge it will never happen a third time;)

[Buzzkill]

Hey don't forget the 'ol brown eye. It could happen. There other two will be close because they would already have their head up their a$$ :thumbup:

[Gr4yb3ard]

I'm pretty much with you guys. I have a set of safety glass though, good call on Choppers part. The check-it-in-hover deal just don't work with a heli this small.

I'm careful though, this is how my first heli bit me. I get someone else to handle the tx, with instructions to shut down at any noise from me or the heli. I also don't trust the landing gear, I hold it by the frame.

While I'm at it. I need a call on something. I want to refer to one set of blades as the "standard blade". We all seem to like the plastics, and they were included with most kits. The woodies are more like what would be with most other heli's for comparison.

...ah dilemas!...

Lacking any counter argument, I'm going to go with the woodies as the baseline for testing.

***yb3ard
...Wilbur: It's too wet to fly.... ....Orville: Too bad we can't put the propellers on top and just go straight up.... ....Orville & Wilbur: Hmmm..... ....Wilbur: Naw, it'd never work....

[Jetleaf]

I'm a bit confused ***y. What testing are you doing? You state that you want to refer to one set of blades as standard, but you don't state which blades you will refer to as standard unless you mean the baseline choice is standard:confused:. I'm in the dark as to the "testing" you are doing so that is probably the reason for the confusion.