General Here is something else to look for during setup

[murankar]

Ok GUYS and GALS

I listen to RC HELI NATION (thanks Lee) on my phone through podcast. These guys give lots of good advise and I caught this one in my podcast feed.
This is about swash phasing. Basically if you give back elevator and the tail drifts without input then you may have a phasing issue. Give the article a read and post your discussion on this.

Phasing - The the free performance upgrade » RC Heli Nation

 

[pvolcko]

Found these guys a week or two back, too. Been listening to episodes since. Pretty cool show and decent production values.

Glad I found it. Was jonesing for something heli related to listen to while working since I ripped through most of the smacktalk stuff already. Hoping Bert and Bobby start making smacktalk episodes again.

 

[coolgabsi]

Its funny that I just posted something related to that today about my Vibe and tracx head

good article.

AND hey they used the Whiplash for it hehee

 

[Lee]

The two guys Justin and Nick on the show are responsible the the V2 Whiplash.

 

[coolgabsi]

Thanks again for posting this


I read through again, and ofcourse like I said it was a whippy , so I had to check my bird too.. And low and behold, I was out or phase just like the pics


BUT

IKON MADE IT EASY as 1-2-3... It was so easy and that difference in the pics ended up being about 3 degrees of phasing correction. Even out a digital gauge on the blade and pushes elevator just like they said, and at 3 degrees, the thing was at point.... No movement !

Thank you thank you thank you for posting this. All my birds will be inspected

Learn something new every day!! Haha!!

 

[murankar]

Glad I was able to post some useful information. Lets here your report on how much different your helis handle. I am sure mine is out also but since I fly with a normal tail gyro I wont be able to correct it with out fancy mixing.

 

[pvolcko]

I'm left wondering: why are manufacturers putting out helis with out-of-the-box phasing issues? Even on Whiplash's and, presumably, other relatively high end brands?

 

[coolgabsi]

I'm left wondering: why are manufacturers putting out helis with out-of-the-box phasing issues? Even on Whiplash's and, presumably, other relatively high end brands?

My jr has some too

 

[murankar]

I don't think its avoidable. Just knowing that its there you can correct for it.

 

[pvolcko]

Put a longer or shorter blade grip arm on it so it is perfectly aligned with the swash link ball, and make sure the servo link points and connecting links are equidistant to mainshaft center line.

I suppose, ultimately, the servo arm geometry and servo setup plays into it too, which the manufacturers can't control. Not perfectly 90'd then you will get slight phasing issues as one arm moves more or less than the other at a given angular position change in the servo.

Guess I have to look into this on the helis now, too. Tinker tinker.

 

[coolgabsi]

thats the fun part.. tinker tinker

 

[coolgabsi]

Warp was off by -5 by the way


Lee and Superbad check yours!!

 

[murankar]

Getting some good feed back keep it coming. Lets see what Lee and Jesse have to say on their's

 

[Island Breeze]

Checking all my birds now..good post.

 

[danhampson]

My protos was -9 out seems a lot more locked in.