Happy New Year!!!

[phatchantz]

For all of our friends in different time zones - an early one......................

[heli-cuzz]

Happy new year, phatchantz :) and the rest here @ the RCHELI forum.

[vapochilled]

still 24 hours to go, 12 for the guys down under, but yes, have a safe and hangover free new year :D

[blax1]

still 24 hours to go, 12 for the guys down under, but yes, have a safe and hangover free new year :D
Hang over free!!! Not Likely :rolleyes: Still working on Chrisy beer supply :) LOL
Happy New Year people when you get to it!! :D

[Helifino]

Damn...I picked the wrong time to quit drinking :D
Have a safe and HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!!

[heliry2]

have fun tonite everyone keep it safe


HAPPY NEW YEAR

[heli-cuzz]

less than a minute til 2007 :cool:

[heli-cuzz]

:D Happy New Year :D

WoooooHoooooo

First heli pic for 2007

I like this one, the last 2006 heli pic and the first 2007 :)

[tdswan]

58 minutes here, watching a Seinfeld marathon at home. like you guys must be.... ;)

[blax1]

Happy New Year
Everyone from us bod's down under :)

[heli-cuzz]

58 minutes here, watching a Seinfeld marathon at home. like you guys must be.... ;)

lol

I'm watching the marathon too. :cool:

[tdswan]

This one's a good one! I love when Kramer's stuck downtown at "1st & 1st"! "I must be at the nexus of the universe!" LOL :D

[blax1]

Is that the one when they are stuck in the car park?

[vapochilled]

happy new year all, I'm still trying to setup the head on the HDX,lol

[tdswan]

Is that the one when they are stuck in the car park?

No, it's where Jerry's sleeping with his maid and George wants a nickname T-Bone. Kramer's got a girlfriend who moves downtown and Elaine gets a new phone number with a "new" area code.

[blax1]

Ok thanks Td,
I haven't seen that one but I get the drift, bloody hilarious show, thoroughly enjoy it.
All the best for the new year!! :)

[blax1]

Happy New Year vapo,
The new HDX must be coming on nicely :)
Cheers

[vapochilled]

Happy New Year vapo,
The new HDX must be coming on nicely :)
Cheers

No :mad: I can't seem to get even + - pitch

[blax1]

Oh Ssssugar
Why not? mine set to 10+10- no hassle,
Thinkinggggggggggggg ;)
Hmm must be linkage length,
the HDX is a 120degree ccpm correct??

Hey
you will only get 3- in normal
and 10- in idle up

[CLM]

No :mad: I can't seem to get even + - pitch

Easiest way I found to start was setting up the head so there is 0 pitch with all the mixing levers at 90 degrees to the main shaft with the swash plate about halfway in it's range of travel. Then setting the servos to where you want 0 pitch and attaching the servo arms. this seemed to give me equil travel both ways...

In simpler terms, make sure your washout and upper mixing levers are 90 degrees to the main shaft at 0 pitch, you will then have room in the travel of the mixing arms in both a positive and negative pitch range.

When I set my xl cde up by the book my mixing levers did not turn out at a 90 degree angle at 0 degrees and I had issues also.

Chris

[CLM]

Hey
you will only get 3- in normal
and 10- in idle up


If that's what you set for normal and idle up, it's all settings in the transmitter :)

With an appropriatly settable transmitter you could set 10 -10 or more in all modes.

Chris

[vapochilled]

yep arms are at 90 to the main shaft with throttle at mid position.
Sub trims are set(slightly) to have the swash level. mix arms are flat with the flybar cage
Mains are at 0 pitch for mid throttle, throttle and pitch curves are linear(IE flat)
I'm wondering if, because I have the servo arms off center, I'm getting reduced throw on the neg pitch? should not be by so much as the arms are not long enough to have that effect?
Think I'll tear it down and start from scratch on the head, I'll open a new thread as it's hardly a new year greeting,lol

[CLM]

If the servo arms aren't at 90degrees or close to it then yes one direction will move the swash plate less.

[vapochilled]

If the servo arms aren't at 90degrees or close to it then yes one direction will move the swash plate less.

Then it's something I will need to live with, as the design won't allow the arms to be at 90o

[tdswan]

If that's the case, you need to use a shorter arm, or shorter hole in the arm and cut the excess off. What will happen is you won't get a nice linear movement through the pitch range and your geometry in your cyclic movemets will suffer as well. This is also a problem on the T-Rex as well with the horns hitting. Those horns need to be centered and cut to length. Your setup will suffer otherwise and you won't have a very nice flying heli.

You won't have the problem after you have the pitch curve set up. The servos don't travel the full 60 degrees once it's ready to fly.

[vapochilled]

I'll take some pictures later to show, but:
Can't use a shorter arm, as it will hit the frame metal work.
I need to have a think about this, it may be time to break out the dremmel :eek:

[blax1]

Crickeys :eek: There is something weird going on there, my cyclic horn on the "SE" could have binded with the main gear, as stated in the setup text so I just cut the excess off, however this situation was only a problem while flying the heli- in extreme 3D maneuvers which is not likely to happen for a long time LOL :)
Vapo- I think you have to go back to the drawing board and start again and double check everything, I realize you have done this, but there must be something out of alignment.
Good luck with it
Cheers Ralph

[heli-cuzz]

Is this the 2007 heli-problem thread? :p

I think its time for new bearings in my C-5

[vapochilled]

Is this the 2007 heli-problem thread? :p

I think its time for new bearings in my C-5

Yes, tell us about your childhood, share your pain heli-cuzz ;)