USAF_Ret
Member
Hi all,
My Blade 180 has recently developed a stabilization issue that has me perplexed.
Essentially, over some time it developed a bad tail wag after making some high-speed runs with some aggressive figure 8 moves. After entering the turn, the tail would begin to wag violently. Now the bird is highly unstable in hover. It doesn't seem to make any difference what FM I am in.
Prior to this development all of this, it was very stable and I could hover almost hands off the sticks. Now it drifts left and right and I have to input lots of stick control to keep from crashing.
I haven't had any crashes but knowing that things wear, I have gone through the complete mechanical setup and replaced both the main shaft and spindle in thinking that perhaps they were bent.
After powering on the transmitter, and the heli the gyro appears to be working correctly as I tilt the bird and the swash plate and tail blades respond correctly.
I am running the stock AR6335 and did check all of the PID settings are all at 100% per the default values.
My current assumption is that the AR6335 gyro is / has gone bad.
Has anyone else had any similar experiences with the Blade 180 / AR6335?
I don't have the cable that allows you to make adjustments to the AR6335 and am trying to avoid just buying and replacing parts in hopes that something fixes it.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Paul
My Blade 180 has recently developed a stabilization issue that has me perplexed.
Essentially, over some time it developed a bad tail wag after making some high-speed runs with some aggressive figure 8 moves. After entering the turn, the tail would begin to wag violently. Now the bird is highly unstable in hover. It doesn't seem to make any difference what FM I am in.
Prior to this development all of this, it was very stable and I could hover almost hands off the sticks. Now it drifts left and right and I have to input lots of stick control to keep from crashing.
I haven't had any crashes but knowing that things wear, I have gone through the complete mechanical setup and replaced both the main shaft and spindle in thinking that perhaps they were bent.
After powering on the transmitter, and the heli the gyro appears to be working correctly as I tilt the bird and the swash plate and tail blades respond correctly.
I am running the stock AR6335 and did check all of the PID settings are all at 100% per the default values.
My current assumption is that the AR6335 gyro is / has gone bad.
Has anyone else had any similar experiences with the Blade 180 / AR6335?
I don't have the cable that allows you to make adjustments to the AR6335 and am trying to avoid just buying and replacing parts in hopes that something fixes it.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Paul