For most decent quality/higher power chargers you are right. They charge through the main power plug and the balance plug is used only for monitoring cell voltage and for draining down any cell that's getting too high during the balancing phase.
Very basic and/or low power chargers sometimes...
Looks quite clever and maybe very good if you have lots of different small batteries to charge but if you have big batteries it's power is too weak,. 50W per channel wont cut it if you have big stuff to charge.
Hi Phil,
Yes negative gain is required to activate any of the 'stabi' features. Sorry if I didnt make that clear. As you say, the good thing is that you were flying without the training wheels all this time!
On the newer versions of the software you can assign a channel to switch between the...
Dual rates just make the heli less responsive to stick movement. Personally i dont use dual rate because it limits the ultimate control response you have. I prefer exponential because it 'softens' stick response around the centre position but still gives you full response when you move the...
Congratulations Uri. I've got internet problems at the moment so cant view the videos but i gather you cracked nose in?.. It's a great feeling when it 'clicks' and it opens up a lot of other manoeuvres that require being comfortable in nose-in attitude... Great stuff, keep the videos coming.
Randy has covered it all, but I'll run over the points again for clarity:..
In principal you can add as much mAh battery capacity as you like but the problem might be weight and space. Larger capacity batteries are physically bigger and heavier. In a plane or helicopter this is a big...
I'm really not an expert on fine tuning in the Spirit because my setup didnt need much tweaking, but for what it's worth:
On cyclic I typically use 20-30% expo. Note though that some FBL controllers have expo set up in the FBL so in that case you dont need it in the Tx.
On rudder I start off...
When using DSM2 /DSMX satellite receivers the throttle travel limits are adjustable in the Spirit software. The default travel limits arent enough to work with the Castle ESC so they need increasing.
In the 'general' tab there under the 'Throttle Governor' section press the big button marked...
Actually the 11ms / 22ms thing IS the frame rate. Setting 11ms does give you lower latency (which is the general idea) but the setting itself is 'frame rate'.
Frame rate is the rate at which the receiver sends 'frames' of data to the servos. So 11ms means one frame of data every 11ms and 22ms...
Yes, that's how you set the failsafe, no need for any further steps. It may be worth setting failsafe to activate auto level, that way if you do ever lose signal and the failsafe activates the heli will at least level out.
I'm just waiting on replacement servos from China. The seller sent the wrong ones first time around which was frustrating because I'm keen to get the heli finished off.
Once the servos arrive I'll do a quick run through of my setup process if it helps. It's been so long since I set up a Spirit...
That sounds like a pretty major rebuild Phil, new frames and all! Was this due to an accident or just upgrading?
Hopefully you will both be set for a maiden flight this weekend?.. or are you taking it a bit slower? One of the reasons i like the Vbar is that I'm so familiar with setting them up...
The 50% is just a starting point. Rudder gain should always be adjusted based on flight testing. Gradually increase until the tail just starts to oscillate (probably noticable in fast flight first).. then back down a few % from that point.
'Gyro gain' is a general term and on a FBL controller...
Let us know what you go for and how you like it.
FWIW my main charger is the iCharger 4010 Duo which I absolutely swear by. I've had it since shortly after the iCharger Duo chargers were introduced and it's never missed a beat and iI charge at it's full 80A /2000W output every time I use it...