Tony
Staff member
I am to the point now where I have all but given up on this helicopter. I have tossed every align part at it that I cna possibly toss, and still there are issues.
I took it out day before yesterday to get a little stick time, and found out that not only was I not getting 10º of pitch, but my 0º was WAY OFF! Yesterday it rained all day so today I had to do some errands and when I got back, I sat it on the table and did the complete setup again.
Now remember, this is an Align head (flybar). It was donated to the site by lilyryan for which I'm very grateful, but it will only hit 9.5º of positive collective before the head bottoms out. Not near enough. Oh well, it will fly like that. So I set the gyro up (Align GP780, again, thank you Ryan) and take it outside.
I get out there and spool it up. This thing has a horrible wag (slow because of the crap servo) but it's in teh air. I do a punch-out and it's very lazy. No punch at all. So just to see what happens, I click it into IU1. Well, I forgot to set up IU1 lmao. So no change. Well, not yet...
I all of a sudden noticed the helicopter descending to the ground like the LVC kicked in (and I thought it could have, I never charged this battery lol) but I heard another new noise.
Thanks once again to Ryan, this helicopter has a Scorpion motor. I'm also running Align helical gears on it. But somehow the pinion slid DOWN the shaft! Stripping the hell out of my new main gear of which I do not have another.
I didn't realize this until it landed it's self in teh grass where the tail blades dug in (did I forget to mention this helicopter doesn't have a vertical stabilizer? lmao) and that is when I heard that fantastic noise of the gears being stripped. It's a belt tail, so it was the main gear lol.
I want to keep a flybar helicopter so that I can do some testing on it, but this thing is pissing me off more than my 250 did (the Original NIGHTMARE!!!). If I can't find a way to get 12º of pitch, then there is no reason to even fly it because this is the one that I like to just toss around the sky. Way more than my 450 Pro V2 which has more than enough power and pitch lol.
So if this were your helicopter, what would you do? The only thing left HK is the bearing blocks for the main shaft, the frame and the tail blade grips and the tail box in the rear. It has a full align head, Align gears, align tail block front (v3), align tail boom and align tail shaft. Pretty much all fo the align parts but the frame and tail grip/block in the rear.
So what would you do?
I took it out day before yesterday to get a little stick time, and found out that not only was I not getting 10º of pitch, but my 0º was WAY OFF! Yesterday it rained all day so today I had to do some errands and when I got back, I sat it on the table and did the complete setup again.
Now remember, this is an Align head (flybar). It was donated to the site by lilyryan for which I'm very grateful, but it will only hit 9.5º of positive collective before the head bottoms out. Not near enough. Oh well, it will fly like that. So I set the gyro up (Align GP780, again, thank you Ryan) and take it outside.
I get out there and spool it up. This thing has a horrible wag (slow because of the crap servo) but it's in teh air. I do a punch-out and it's very lazy. No punch at all. So just to see what happens, I click it into IU1. Well, I forgot to set up IU1 lmao. So no change. Well, not yet...
I all of a sudden noticed the helicopter descending to the ground like the LVC kicked in (and I thought it could have, I never charged this battery lol) but I heard another new noise.
Thanks once again to Ryan, this helicopter has a Scorpion motor. I'm also running Align helical gears on it. But somehow the pinion slid DOWN the shaft! Stripping the hell out of my new main gear of which I do not have another.
I didn't realize this until it landed it's self in teh grass where the tail blades dug in (did I forget to mention this helicopter doesn't have a vertical stabilizer? lmao) and that is when I heard that fantastic noise of the gears being stripped. It's a belt tail, so it was the main gear lol.
I want to keep a flybar helicopter so that I can do some testing on it, but this thing is pissing me off more than my 250 did (the Original NIGHTMARE!!!). If I can't find a way to get 12º of pitch, then there is no reason to even fly it because this is the one that I like to just toss around the sky. Way more than my 450 Pro V2 which has more than enough power and pitch lol.
So if this were your helicopter, what would you do? The only thing left HK is the bearing blocks for the main shaft, the frame and the tail blade grips and the tail box in the rear. It has a full align head, Align gears, align tail block front (v3), align tail boom and align tail shaft. Pretty much all fo the align parts but the frame and tail grip/block in the rear.
So what would you do?