8fgs or castle creatoion flame out ?

[kayakboy69]

I did a test hop today ran a pack through the bird recharged the battery and this is what happend to me

when i move my throttle hold to HOLD then back to NORMAL my esc spools up if i move the stick up it speed up but when im at ZERO it still is aprox 40 percent

I re calabrated the esc Per castle it works fine untill i switch the Throttle hold. when i go from hold to NORMAL my motor spins up

i have moved all of the throttle points to ZERO on Normal and IDLE UP and it still does it

Any ideas ?

is it my radio or esc ?

thanks Bob

O yea this is a 450p ice 50 light on 3s 45 c 2200 hyperion battey

[kcordell]

Did you do the throttle hold autorotation calibration?

[kayakboy69]

no i did not it was working before . all i did was fix my pitch issue and moved the throttle hold switch .

the radio show it working corectly in the SERVO menue it work the first hop i did re charged the batteries and all haties broke loose

[Trailryder42]

I think I would do the fixed end points calibration for the ESC and motor again per the Castle how-to or Youtube videos.

[jombo]

i think its in throttle hold . in the menu , i forget which one , is the line set to 0 or at 17% .

[Jafa]

The 8FG hold function only works at low throttle stick
To cut the throttle from any stick position you need to use the throttle cut function

Re-calibrate the ESC in normal mode with linear throttle curve
(Also - disable the throttle trim for electric)

[ziper_it]

My understanding is that
- throttle cut works only below a th threshold.
- throttle hold works always.

[Jafa]

Wrong way around
-Hold works below stick position
-Cut will cut from any position

[theColonel]

Directly from the 8FG pdf manual I have:

"Throttle cut provides an easy way to stop the engine. Generally speaking, modelers will do so by flipping a switch with the throttle stick at idle. The action is not functional at high throttle to avoid accidental dead stick landings. The switch's location and direction must be chosen, as it defaults to NULL."

As per the manual, it makes no sense to allow you to cut your engine accidentally. Hitting throttle hold accidentally isn't a good idea, but you could recover, as your engine is still running.

[Jafa]

Watch the servo/channel monitor page while using cut/hold,
you will find that hold does not work at high throttle

It makes perfect sense to be able to deliberately cut the engine from any stick/throttle position
We need this when crashing to shut the engine down
If you shut down the engine before hitting the ground it can result in less damage
More importantly it can avoid a funkey chicken incident which really wrecks the heli

[ziper_it]

Please read the manual extract posted by the Colonel.