Heliman450
Well-Known Member
Hi all, this isn't really a new thread as I've raised stuff a while back concerning these transmitters. A farmer friend of mine has two Spektrum DX6 transmitters and I've returned to his Blade 450X (with AR7200BX gyro) to prepare it for him to use during his less hectic winter season.
Last time he used it the heli flipped over backwards as he tried to land from a low level hover narrowly missing him. I thought that he'd used the cyclic stick instead of the collective as that's exactly how it looked to me. Before I insisted on watching him use it he'd had a number of crashes and also had a big problem binding the helis with the transmitters. I got the binding problem fixed under warranty.
When I dusted the heli off to start the investigation, I was somewhat confused about why the swashplate was sitting at such an odd angle after the initialising completed. I went through the full setup process and carried out a quick test hover. All went well apart from a tendency to tip backwards during the hover.
I started the next phase of investigation by checking out the settings as recommended by Blade in the manual although they don't list the DX6, I worked on the assumption that the DX6i would be similar. My query......
There isn't a swash type "1-Servo 90 degrees" shown in the options of the DX6 or any other similar option to choose that would leave the gyro as the only source of defining the swash type. Could this be a source of conflict between the Tx. and the gyro resulting in the back-flip?
Last time he used it the heli flipped over backwards as he tried to land from a low level hover narrowly missing him. I thought that he'd used the cyclic stick instead of the collective as that's exactly how it looked to me. Before I insisted on watching him use it he'd had a number of crashes and also had a big problem binding the helis with the transmitters. I got the binding problem fixed under warranty.
When I dusted the heli off to start the investigation, I was somewhat confused about why the swashplate was sitting at such an odd angle after the initialising completed. I went through the full setup process and carried out a quick test hover. All went well apart from a tendency to tip backwards during the hover.
I started the next phase of investigation by checking out the settings as recommended by Blade in the manual although they don't list the DX6, I worked on the assumption that the DX6i would be similar. My query......
There isn't a swash type "1-Servo 90 degrees" shown in the options of the DX6 or any other similar option to choose that would leave the gyro as the only source of defining the swash type. Could this be a source of conflict between the Tx. and the gyro resulting in the back-flip?