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As for the wifi, the wifi adapter makes the Spirit work similar to your home wifi network. It's just a way for the Spirit to communicate with other wifi enabled devices. It doesn't need mobile phone network or internet connectivity. In principal it's similar to Bluetooth but wifi has a longer range.

Phil, all I'm saying on the negative gain thing is that it can be used to activate any one of the following features: Rate mode Stability Rescue But it only activates one feature, so for instance if you have the Spirit set for stabilisation then negative gain gives you only stabilisation, it...

Actually for a high end charger 1C not even getting out of first gear. To charge those two packs at 1C would need 453W.. Geena's charger is capable of 2000W on 6S packs, so they can be charged at 4C, hence the 15 minute charge time I guess. Most weekends I'm simultaneously charging 10 x 6S...

Yes, if you have a switch that makes the gain go to a negative value then that switch will work as a stabilisation on/ off switch. I'm wondering how you actually made the gain go negative with a switch? It can be done using mixes but it took me ages to figure out how. The tricky part is exactly...

Harford, Expo is really a misnomer in this context. All pitch curve 'Expo' does is draw a smooth curved line joining up the points you set in the pitch curve. If you disable 'expo' you get a series of straight lines joining the points. This is why you cant set a value, it's either 'on' or 'off'...

This is interesting, I don't really experiment anymore because I've settled on a setting that generally works for me which is expo in the range 20-30% on cyclic. Rudder expo varies over a wider range in order to get similar 'feel' on all my helis. Rates always at 100%. I've never even tried the...

Hartford, no if you enable stability the gyro defaults to heading hold mode, even though gyro is a negative value. If for some reason you wanted stability and rate gyro mode you would need to get creative with the programming but not many would need that option. Phil, connecting to a your own...

It worked very easily. I'd actually never used it during initial set up, when I had problems in the field was the first time I'd attempted to use it. It's rather like setting up a wireless router at home. It shows up in your phone's list of available wireless networks, so you connect top it...

The 'gizmo' is actually WiFi (not Bluetooth), so you just connect to it like any WiFi network. You then log into the Spirit your phones web browser (or a PC or tablet etc).. You dont need to download any App so it's dead easy to use and open to any platform that has a web browser, you could even...

I'm sure 'gizmo' is the correct terminology:biggrin1:

Another tip with the Spirit, if you don't have a Tx that supports integration get the wireless dongle gizmo. Using wireless you can set the Spirit up from any smart phone. This saved me a lot of frustration today as I was maidening a new heli with a Spirit Pro. The ESC wouldn't initialise and...

Hartford, the simple way to have stabilisation active is to set it up under the stabi tab then set your gain to negative value in the Tx. That will give you 'on all the time' stabilisation. If you want the options of turning stability on or off and/or having rescue then you need more complicated...

Sorry my previous photos have vanished, this is due to a money grab by Photobucket, it's been free for years but sudenly they want $400 for a single year subscription (yeas $400, it's not a typo!) Anyway, at long last that's my XLPower 520 finished, setup and ready for it's maiden: Sorry...

^^^+1 ... 3000RPM should be fine for hovering around and will give you decent flight time. Ideally use a governor, it's simpler to set up that way and much better in flight because RPM always stays constant. If using throttle curves then they have to be matched to your pitch curve, which gets...

Yeah, I was told something similar. If you are running dual 'in series' server power supplies and one trips apparently it can damage an iCharger. Having said that, that very thing has happened to me with my iCharger and no damage was done, so if it's true at all it's a 'risk' not a certainty...

In my limited experience of multirotors I've found the 'wobble' while descending very common if not universal. It's caused by the rotors descending into their own prop wash. In helis it's called 'Vortex Ring State', in real helis is very dangerous and has caused many fatal crashes, in RC helis...

Looked under decent control Jared. The tail shake think appeared to me to only be when the heli was on the ground, it looked the tail locked in nicely once she lifted. The heli being a little nervous and 'fidgety' when it's on the ground and getting light on it's skids is not unusual. The best...

It's an iCharger 106b clone. As a rule they are good chargers. Hobbyking do their own version called the Reaktor.

It's always interesting to hear how people got into the hobby, I got the model flying bug off my father and have been flying models one one type or another pretty much since I could walk. Helis came much later. It's a bit off topic in this thread but probably warrants a thread of it's own. As...

Even if you dont use it in normal flight having stabilisation would potentially be useful for practising stuff like nose in hovers, so it's worth experimenting with.