450 A New Sport

[sterlingh]

Thanks Lee,
No rant, but a very good explanation of ESC and BEC.. thanks I got it .

 

[sterlingh]

My manual is very bad on servo information. I thought I knew what was what but I guess I dont. I am going to try to get back on this today but need to know which is Elev, aileron, and pitch. lol TG I know what is rudder Please look at pic and tell me whats what..



Thanks

 

[heli-maniac]

That would be righ
i make the pitch on the shorter of the 2 rods

 

[sterlingh]

That's great Jesse thanks. Not sure why I would make the shorter of the two rods the pitch but will take your word for it.

Thanks again

 

[heli-maniac]

i dont think it matters much thats just the way i do it

 

[Lee]

Yep it doesn't matter. As long as you know which is which when you're tuning it.

 

[sterlingh]

Thanks Lee appreciated.

I am wondering something about installing the servo horns. After mounting the servo do I put the arm on, as instructions say trying to make it 90°. Is that the best starting place? Or do I need to set it up in the dx6i, then put on the servo horn in some direction. I fear this makes no sense so let me try this. Could I just stick the arm on the servo, in such a way that I create the 90° as described in the manual? Would that get me close to set up then in the DX6I?

Thanks

Maybe a little more clearer, what does it mean to have the servo arm in centering position?

 

[Lee]

Until you plug the servos in, you're not going to know where 90º is. So first thing is to set up the basic radio settings, then you can set up the head. All you have to do is set up a new model in the radio set to Heli and thats it. Once all your collective swash servos are plugged in, put your throttle stick to mid point and then you can put the servo arms on.

 

[sterlingh]

okay, that's what I'm looking for. In my DX6I I have bind it to my new ESC, made it a helicopter, named it, and that's it. So now you're saying hook all my servos up (electrically)put my throttle to midpoint, then I'll get the center position on my servo's?

Also should I leave the gyro out of this (electrical hook of my servo's) or do I need to figure out how to hooked it up, but use the button on the gyro to bypass it? I found some info on this somewhere. Will find again if I have to.

 

[murankar]

If i read correctly;

The tx should be on ID1 (idle up)

then put the stick at mid point. ( set the ID1 pitch curve to: 0, 50, 50, 50, 100: temporarily)

on my radio I can set the pitch for throttle hold. When I put the radio on throttle hold the pitch curve is the sane as ID1. When I go into the pitch curve I turn on throttle hold and the pitch settings are there. I set it for 0, 25, 50k 75, 100.


then put your stick to mid point
insert servo horns at 90 degrees to body/linkage

 

[sterlingh]

Humm ok only thing is ID1, not sure I remember seeing that on TX. However I will look for it and start on this...

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Matthias
I am seeing the PITC curv in the settings of my DXI, however not sure what the ID1 is.Probably stands for idle, but I don't know if that's what you mean or the position of the throttle stick. However it's got to be difficult trying to understand me and provide an answer. I understand. I will work with this.

Thanks

 

[murankar]

There should a switch that will put you in ID1 or normal. ID1 is used for 3d flight. Right at the moment I can not explain but what I do know is the in ID1 you will have the same head speed at position 0 (negative pitch) and position 4 (positive pitch). Mid stick will change slightly.

 

[Lee]

LOL funny watching your conversation guys. ID1 is called Stunt on Spektrum radios. You dont need to change anything Sterling, as the default is a linear curve, 0,25,50,75,100. But if you really want to make sure the stick is at 50%, you can set all the pitch curve points to 50% so no matter where your stick is it will give you the centre point.

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Just hook up the cyclic servos for now and forget the tail till later

 

[murankar]

there should be two types of settings on a 6 channel radio one for normal mode and one for ID1

normal mode:
Pitch Curve:
44
47.5
50
75
100
throttle curve:
0
25
50
75
100

ID1
pitch curve
100
100
85
100
100
throttle curve
o
25
50
75
100

once that it set you should be good to go.

after plugging in everything put stick at mid point while in ID1 mode. then set your servos.

 

[sterlingh]

lol ok well i found it anyway I think. Thanks Lee. I knew this would be the most challenging but also the most rewarding. Thanks for your help, check out my two pics.

I am getting dummer. Elev into elev. Aile into Aile, where does the pitch go? Gear? aux? I really dont see it in manual. Looks like maybe aux or gear.

 

[Lee]

Thats it. Just put the stick in the centre and your ready for action.

 

[sterlingh]

Just seeing your reply Matthias, thanks...I see what you are saying.... I am only now getting ready to power up. I have my three servo plug-in. Elevator servo is in the elevator, alieron is connected to alieron, however the pitch I am going to plug-in to channel 6 and hope that is correct. It looks like the rudder will be used with my Gyro on channel 5. Anyway hope that's correct thanks for the info very valuable to me.

 

[murankar]

That sounds right so far. 4 is used for the gyro and five is the signal wire (the solo wire) for the gyro. Your tail servo will plug into the gyro.

 

[sterlingh]

Ohhh yea baybee, okay so I think that went well. Without using the screws on my servo arms, I did put them on my servo's, just to see movement, which I did get. So then, am I to assume my servo's are now in centered position?

 

[murankar]

OK, to center you have two options.

1) tail (servo) plugged into channel 4 or

2) tail plugged into the gyro and gyro plugged into channel 4 and 5 with radio in non-head hold mode.

Channel 5 is the signal wire from the gyro. It s the single wire.

this is to center the tail servo.