I got some great news after today's tuning flights. Before we get into the tuning I will say that the last days has been the challenge to fly. When your heli has to tilt 45 degrees into the wind to hover its to windy. Yes I flew in winds that I should have said no to. Left with one heli and came back with one heli. That goes to show the quality in electronics. If its the same tomorrow I will get a video of it. I will at some point post my settings so far later on.
This process applies to Pro features and not the basic Neo
Step 1 - Basic Gov settings:
- Gov Gain to 0
- Gov I to 0
- Spool up at zero collective
- dial in basic throttle unless HS matches
- go to a hover, dial in collective add unless HS will be kept under hover too
- do a medium climb, check hs, possibly add some collective add again
- set cyclic add to 1/3 of collective add
- turn back gov gain and Integral
So I had a bunch of numbers to adjust. First I had went into the Neo governor and adjusted the gov gain to zero. I was not sure where to find the I gain so I left it alone. After doing this step my gov gain ended up at around 25.
Governor Setting after this step:
Gov Gain: 28 28 28
Gov Expert
Collective Add 10
Cyclic Add 3
Collective dynamic 0
Basic Throttle 50
P lim - 20
Integral 20
P Lim + 20
Step 2 - Basic Tail together with Gov:
lower tail gain (e.g. to 40)
hover and do medium climbs
on a CW heli - if nose turns to left in the climbs - increase collective torque precomp in tail
if it stays approx. - the optimum has been found.
if it still turns although the precomp is e.g. at 60 - decrease (!) the collective add of the governor (tail is overloaded by too hard gov'ing)
set cyclic precomp to 1/3 of collective precomp
Tail Setting after this step:
Expo: 50 50 50
Rate 100 100 100
Tail Gain 46 46 46
Tail Optimizer
TC Coll 40
TC Cyc 13
Zero Col 0
Side A 11
Side B 90
Optimizer On
Expert
Accel 50 (piro speed)
P Gain 70 (stock 80)
I Gain 60
I Limit Off
Stop Gain A 25
Stop Gain B 25
D Gain 0
I Discharge Off
Step 3 - Tail gain:
just increase ad needed to hold the tail. The VBars have a internal gain calculation depending on the flight situation to avoid oscillations - e.g. in fast flight.
If the tail holds well - not more gain needed
Step 4 - Elevator Precomp:
lower main rotor gain to 30-40 (approx 1/2 of the usual recommended gain)
from a hover - start a climbout
watch the tail boom. If it hangs down first - increase the precomp
Rotor Head setup
Expo 20
style 90
Agility 100
Gain 70
Rotor Head Expert
Elev PreC 10
Paddle Sim 20
Heli Size 32
Integral 60
Pitch Pump 10
Cyclic Ring 85
Optimizer 46
Optimizer On
Now its time to go and fly. I still need to find out what some of these Neo specific things do; i.e Paddle Sim and Pitch Pump. Heli Size is also a Mikado thing, it defaulted to 32 but that is for a 450 class heli. I am going to read up on that also. I think I might make a Quick reference guide for this. I have to keep googling the stuff when I am at the field.
All of this info should apply to all Mikado units and any clones out there. So if your flying a Kbar, FuBar or any other derivatives of this unit then you will be able to use this info also. One thing note: I do not believe the clones have Pro features available. Its been 4 or so years since I flew my Kbar so I don't remember. Any feed back on this post it and I will add it to this.
xokia: Again thank you for your input. Its been useful
