Spirit FBL

[Inverse]

Originally Posted by Van Scott

I keep saying this , but it surprises me of the lack of awareness to the fact that reliable Rescue has been available for several years.

BD was reliable but expensive, Brain was cheaper with an inconsistent rescue.
TheSpirit appears to be reliable and affordable.

[Mr. Rmz]

Need some help, since the bailout gain has to be -# of your gain setting how do i set this up for diff gyro gains in different flight modes.

I'm using a dx6.

[davehour]

Originally Posted by Mr. Rmz

Need some help, since the bailout gain has to be -# of your gain setting how do i set this up for diff gyro gains in different flight modes.

I'm using a dx6.

Select the lowest one. It doesn't have to be the same; a gain that works just fine is all what's needed.

[Mr. Rmz]

Originally Posted by davehour

Select the lowest one. It doesn't have to be the same; a gain that works just fine is all what's needed.

Thanks, That's what i was thinking.

[Mr. Rmz]

Ok time to go fly it.... finally.....

[Mr. Rmz]

I flew it, was a pita so far compared to my beastx to tune but it works well... the bailout on 100% gave me a main blade strike on the tail blades... sounded like baseball bat hitting a home run. No issues just a small chip on the tip. Backed it down to 70 and it works well. :thumb up:


what's a symptom of to high of cyclic gain ?

[Jmann841]

Originally Posted by Mr. Rmz

I flew it, was a pita so far compared to my beastx to tune but it works well... the bailout on 100% gave me a main blade strike on the tail blades... sounded like baseball bat hitting a home run. No issues just a small chip on the tip. Backed it down to 70 and it works well. :thumb up:


what's a symptom of to high of cyclic gain ?

Cyclic wobble on hard maneuvers.

[ritchieicu]

Originally Posted by Mr. Rmz

I flew it, was a pita so far compared to my beastx to tune but it works well... the bailout on 100% gave me a main blade strike on the tail blades... sounded like baseball bat hitting a home run. No issues just a small chip on the tip. Backed it down to 70 and it works well. :thumb up:


what's a symptom of to high of cyclic gain ?

100% is a lot I have 60 and it shoots up fast but I do fly high as im a beginner, only time I'm near the ground is landing or crashing.

Im surprised your main blades can reach your tail blades? What model is it?

Apart from the setup how do you find it, any difference to the beastx?

[Mr. Rmz]

Originally Posted by ritchieicu

100% is a lot I have 60 and it shoots up fast but I do fly high as im a beginner, only time I'm near the ground is landing or crashing.

Im surprised your main blades can reach your tail blades? What model is it?

Apart from the setup how do you find it, any difference to the beastx?

I dunno yet, still gotta tweak it... I saw a video on youtube and i now know i need to adjust the cyclic gain.

I like the bail out and seems like it will get the job done. I also like the mac software.

trex 450l dominator.

[cyclenut]

Really starting to like my spirit. After moving it to be inline with the main shaft and several tweaking flights today. I am starting to really like it. Was still just doing circuits and flips today as it was fairly gusty, but hope to get a little more adventurous next weekend. Did not experience the reversed bailout that I saw last weekend, and all the logs were clean. Have noticed that the spirit app on my android phone when trying to connect after a flight will have a connection failure half of the time. If I close the app, the bluetooth module on the heli will still have a solid light, and I can't connect again till I cycle the flight pack. Still need to see if forcing a stop on the phone will clear the connection issue without the power cycle on the heli.

[Jmann841]

This was filmed with my phone camera the wrong way so its skinny but this was the X3 with the spirit in it at the field today. A friend of mine tried it out and liked it a lot.

[Jmann841]

One more of the Spirit in action on the X3

[ritchieicu]

Originally Posted by cyclenut

Have noticed that the spirit app on my android phone when trying to connect after a flight will have a connection failure half of the time. If I close the app, the bluetooth module on the heli will still have a solid light, and I can't connect again till I cycle the flight pack. Still need to see if forcing a stop on the phone will clear the connection issue without the power cycle on the heli.

Does the same for me with the Vbar

[akabud]

Sure wish I could get one. I'm pretty sure it would have saved me about $85 yesterday.

[davehour]

Originally Posted by Jmann841

This was filmed with my phone camera the wrong way so its skinny but this was the X3 with the spirit in it at the field today. A friend of mine tried it out and liked it a lot.

Originally Posted by Jmann841

One more of the Spirit in action on the X3

Nice flying; smooth and vivid. The Spirit does look locked in!

[ritchieicu]

Wont play on my phone, shows as a broken icon

[Jmann841]

Yea, it is amazing, flies so well, especially considering that is a 450!

This was some friends flying it and really liking it as well! The was a cyclic jump on hard maneuvers, but, I went into the software and saw my elevator filter was a 0. It's recommended to be at 1 and is used to stop a cyclic jump on hard stops. Of anyone else gets it that's the parameter you need to adjust.

[ZeXx86]

Jmann841: Nice videos!

cyclenut: You can turn off BT in your phone to disconnect from the module or just plug off the power from the BT module.
It seems as there is some problem in Android, but I hope we can fix it somehow.

Mr. Rmz: too high cyclic gain can cause mostly fast aileron oscillations. Elevator bounce can be compensated with elevator filter, default value is 1 but more agressive blades or too soft head dampeners can require higher values.

[cyclenut]

Thanks ZeXx86, I will give that a shot. Btw I am using a fairly old phone- samsung repp running android 2.3

[Mr. Rmz]

Originally Posted by Jmann841

Yea, it is amazing, flies so well, especially considering that is a 450!

This was some friends flying it and really liking it as well! The was a cyclic jump on hard maneuvers, but, I went into the software and saw my elevator filter was a 0. It's recommended to be at 1 and is used to stop a cyclic jump on hard stops. Of anyone else gets it that's the parameter you need to adjust.

May be one of my tuning issues, Mine gave me a default of 0 on elevator filter.