Robird G31 rollup

[LawnDartHeli]

Gain will certainly effect it. On a small heli they will still drift, nature of the beast..small disk. If it will fly without cyclic wobble at 100% then leave it. The biggest player is servo's, some will take a lot of gain..others not so much. Ball distance on the servo arms will factor in as well.

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[achronox]

Originally Posted by achronox

I've just set up the Robird G31 on my HK 450 Pro and it flies pretty well, but the gains do not seem to do much.

The heli seems to fly the same whether I have the gains set to +100 or -100.

I use remote gains from the Tx and adjust Aileron and Elevator to the same value. I think the remote gains are working because I can see the 'gain' channels bars moving in the Setup Screen of the PC application SW.

I would expect the heli to wander around more at low gains, and be pretty 'tight' at high gains. It seems to feel about the same as my flybar version of the same heli. I was hoping it would 'wander' less with the Robird.

Is this normal or do I have a defective unit?

I have HK MD922 digital servos on Cyclic running at 333Hz. They are pretty fast (0.09sec for 60deg).

The rates & agility are set to the "sport' button values (rate = 24, Agility = 1500).

Did some more experimenting today... I set the rate/agility to "3D" (24/1700) and WOW what a difference!!! Felt way more solid and, of course, responsive!

I then cranked up the rate to max (27) and agility to 1900 and it was even better.

I'm quite happy with the performance now. I still don't see much difference when I change the gain from min to max, but max is better.

Andrew

[lunak]

HI all, I appreciate if somebody can help me here. I'm quite desperated with the Robird because I'm unable to get the cyclic compensation working (nothing happens when I turn the helicopter), as if aileron and elevator gains were 0. However I can move all servos with sticks, and tail compensation is working fine (using a Futaba 7c and PWM receiver). I've gone through all the setup tabs and all parameters seem to be right.

I know that gains shall be adjusted with pots for PWM receivers. However turning pots from end to end does not change anything, there is absolutely no cyclic response to attitude changes. Has anybody had such a problem?

Cheers and thanks in advance!

[lunak]

Sorry for the cross-posting, I moved this post to the Robird G31 forum but cannot delete this one.

[LawnDartHeli]

So your saying when you plug in your flight pack and it initializes...when you tilt the heli the swash doesn't move at all?
You do have the proper mounting orientation selected, correct?

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[lunak]

Yes, gyro initializes with typical servo movements, and blue led becomes steady. Then, tail gyro responds fine to yaw turns, but cyclic don't, it's dead. Since cyclic responds fine to stick inputs I guess that ail/elev gains are zero... Mounting is top wire-ahead, as configured.

[LawnDartHeli]

Turn both pots on top of the unit all the way up and see if it responds. Granted they wont move super fast or a lot..but they should move.

[Atomic Skull]

Make sure it's not somehow receiving channels 7 and 8 from the reciever. The values on those channels will override the pots. If you reverse ch7 and ch8 in the setup and suddenly it's acting like it has maximum elevator and aileron gain it means it's receiving those channels from the receiver and you'll need to figure a way to suppress them.

[lunak]

The receiver is a 7-channel Futaba R617FS (pwm) and ch7 is attached to the battery, so no signal should be received on ch7, ch8. In fact I think these channels can be only sent to the Robird by using S-BUS or satellites.

[jlk69]

Still having tail hold problems preventing any flights. I got a question about the RudGain channel in the 0 Receiver page in the Robird Setup Guide. Which direction should be used? Should the adjustable side be AVCS or Rate? No mention of this detail on the manual. I am thinking this could possibly the source of my problems. Had normal direction set and was getting the adjustable side on the Rate with negative numbers. Clicked the Rev tab and now positive numbers on the AVCS side.Is this the correct setup?

[LawnDartHeli]

Yessir, that should fix it.
With it reversed to rate side the higher you went with your tx gain, the worse it blew out I imagine.

That should fix your issue.

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[Psymovie]

Hello everyone,

1st of all, I have a tarot 450 pro FLB with a Robird. I'm a portuguese beginner with just 6 month of "experience".

[Chem Geek]

Well, I had my G31 on a Blade 450 3D, which I thoroughly smashed into little pieces. I was doing a rainbow from inverted to upright, and as I came upright I guess I brain farted and just held full negative collective. Talk about being re-kitted!

Move forward a bit and my wife gave me a Blade 500 3D as a present, well what better place to put the G31? Flying great so far, just needs a little more tweaking.

I've built a 450L Dominator, and the 3GX is such a pain in the ass. Still chasing a tail swing around that's driving me nuts. I keep looking at the $75 G31 (was $90 when I bought my first one, when does good stuff ever get cheaper?), and thinking man, I know I could have it flying great in like an hour max.

[rotceh_dnih]

I'd go for it Chem , i hear the 3gx on 4.0 is alot better but all the storys i heard about it made me not even power the one that come with my 700 kit and sell it on ebay and got a g31

[Jazzjohn]

but where do I download the setup software? I only see the manual pdf under downloads on the robirdusa site.

Thanks in advance.

[PhantomGT]

Originally Posted by Jazzjohn

but where do I download the setup software? I only see the manual pdf under downloads on the robirdusa site.

Thanks in advance.

http://www.robird.net/g31/

[thomasprevere]

I read some informations from you guys about how to bind the satellite,with robird you must bind the satellite on full size rx first right?
I only want to use one satellite ,but then the srx2 rudder port that is for tail servo will not work without input voltage,what do you guys do in this case you use a cable to bridge from srx1 to srx2?
like the video with two satellites, but you don't install the second satellite or something else?

[kpod]

Originally Posted by thomasprevere

I read some informations from you guys about how to bind the satellite,with robird you must bind the satellite on full size rx first right?
I only want to use one satellite ,but then the srx2 rudder port that is for tail servo will not work without input voltage,what do you guys do in this case you use a cable to bridge from srx1 to srx2?
like the video with two satellites, but you don't install the second satellite or something else?

You use the jumper to run power from srx1 to srx2. The other option that I prefer is the power bus mod laid out here.

https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=477043

This cleans up and eliminates wiring.

[blade_crasher]

Or use a separate ubec to power tail and ESC to feed heli cyclical so you can run different volts.

[thomasprevere]

Ok, thank you guys !!