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Twelve more flights on the helis over the weekend. My video camera battery doesn't like the cold so I only got one flight on video, this was of the Goblin 770 and it included a little 'momemt' at the beginning of the video where I got a little closer to the ground when flipping inverted than I...

That was flying in my book! looks like maybe she's a little sensitive on the cyclics, you could maybe dial in some (more) exponential on aileron and elevator? FWIW I always start out with 20% expo.

I see Tony, yes i'm sure you are right. If the props are spinning the opposite way to what the controller expects then it will in effect reverse the yaw gyro compensation. So to the OP.. Yes, your layout 'could' work in theory, but to make it work you would need to have the controller...

yaw gyro response reversed?

That's great news about the maiden flight Phil, how did you find it to fly compared to the 550? I got four more flights on mine today too, nothing exciting but all flights passed without incident which makes it a good day. I installed a 'Jlog' unit on mine today. This passeds on data from the...

Good luck Phil, Just double and triple check that both control response and gyro correction are working in the correct direction... I'm sure that getting that wrong is #1 cause of maiden flight crashes (excluding dumb thumbs) And one more thing :voidh:

Furze is 'barking mad' it's a miracle he hasn't killed himself or at least lost a limb or two by now, his 'hover bike' was an amputation waiting to happen. You have to admire his ingenuity and craftsmanship though. I wonder what his neighbours think about having that thing towing over their homes?

The code for all the "G2" radios was released on Monday. An e-mail just went out telling about it, but it missed a few radios. The complete list of affected radios is: DX6e DX6G2 SPM6700 DX6G3 SPM6750 DX7G2 DX8G2 DX9 (chrome or black) DX10t DX18 DX18QQ DX18G2 DX18t DX20

Maybe your best option is to fix the motor you have. So what makes you think it's faulty.

Not easily, that's a motor designed for 12S batteries, RPM would be far too low on 6S so to use that motor you would have at the very least to convert to 12S, which would also need an new ESC. Even then you would still have to change the gearing. You may get away with the 1220Kv version of the...

Inrunners for helis are rare as hen's teeth these days. As a general rule outrunners have lower Kv so with spin slower. I think the original motor in your heli is most likely the Align 600XL 1650KV, you will struggle to find an outrunner motor of large enough size with such a high Kv value. You...

Good point, sgtray, if you want to start a new thread on your heli build I can move these posts over. Phil, So when is the maiden planned for the 700X, must be close now? By the way, good that it looks like there was no damage done during the short circuiting between Rx and FBL, that must be a...

Yeah, the LiFe pack will be ok providing that you aren't running older generation servos that have a hard 5V limit. If you are running Align DS610/650 or DS615/655 servos then many people have ran them off a 2S LiFe without issue.

No, the Castle BEC is intended to be powered off the main flight battery. Is your Trex the 6S or 12S powered version? If it's 12S the Castle BEC Pro might have been the better choice because it can accept 12S input voltage and it's got higher output rating, but the 10A version will work if you...

It's possible that different servos have slightly different output shaft positions. Mine has the standard 'Super Combo' servos.

The problem is that the thread is quite short. Mine were similar to yours maybe just slightly further out but when i checked how many turns of thread were actually engaged i found it was only three turns. I wasnt happy with that, hence why i first offset the arm then eventually pulled out the...

That's interesting Tony. I'd be interested if you have chance if you could stick a tape over the pushrod on yours and confirm if it's 766mm (end of ferrule to end of ferrule) like the manual says. I have two 700X airframes and both have 760mm length rods.

Phil, i've done some more digging into the short pushrod problem. The problem is that the pushrod should be 766mm long measured between the outer ends of the metal ferrules, this is stated on page 20 of the manual. The one supplied in the kit is only 760mm long. The one supplied appears to be...

No, you cant really do anything until the flybarless is connected. Just hook it up and follow the setup process.

Good to hear it's all progressing nicely Phil. I got another couple of flights in with mine today. I cant say that the new pushrod made any noticable difference in flight but it's good to have the ball links screwed all the way onto the threads rather than only being engaged by a few turns, I'd...