On Feb 4, 4:07 pm, coustanis <cousta...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Feb 4, 3:28 pm, Kevin <dontemai...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > coustanis wrote:
> > > On Feb 4, 2:56 pm, RW Salnick <saln...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > >> coustanis brought forth on stone tablets:
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> > >>> I have an Heli-Max AXE CP all electric helicopter.
> > >>> Recently the tail rotor has become twitchy. It changes it's RPM
often
> > >>> and instantly.
> > >>> Twitchy is the best way I can describe it.
> > >>> This makes it pretty hard to control the heli.
> > >>> Thee heli has had a few tail strikes on the ground ( enough to
break
> > >>> the rotor and gear teeth)
> > >>> and a few low altitude (3 or 4 foot) crashes but nothing I would
have
> > >>> considered very bad.
> > >>> Any idea what might cause this. I hate to just start replacing
things
> > >>> that aren't bad.
> > >>> Low transmitter batteries?
> > >>> Bad ESC.
> > >>> Bad tail rotor motor?
> > >> bad gyro?
>
> > > I'm not sure it has one. I seem to remember reading that it did but
I
> > > sure don't see it.
>
> > its all in the receiver brick 4 in 1, receiver gyro and speed
controllers
>
> I looked it up. It does indeed have one. One board is the receiver
> and the other is the E board with the gyro / mixer etc.
> That is one tiny gyro. Hard to think it would have much effect.
> Anyway, there are some tuning pots on that board for tweaking gyro
> gain and tail rotor trim.
> Wonder if it got banged around too much. Is that common?
> Would a twitchy tail rotor be a symptom of a bad gyro?
Sorry for the triple posts. The network here kept stalling and I
didn't know the post was submitted.
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