Re: +/- 9.5 degrees.. enough?

Steve R. wrote:
> 
> "Carl Farrington" <carl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in 
> message news:6403ekF28q5alU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Steve R. wrote:
>>> To get more collective throw, going to longer servo arms will 
>>> certainly do
>>> it.  You can also look at our swash mixing numbers.  They default at 
>>> 50% for
>>> ail, eel, and pitch.  You can try running the pitch number up to 60 
>>> or 65%
>>> and see what that does for you.  Depending on how you're setup 
>>> mechanically,
>>> it may not take much but if 65% doesn't give you what you need, I'd 
>>> go out a
>>> hole on the servo arms.
>>>
>>> Good luck and let us know how it goes!
>>> Fly Safe,
>>> Steve R.
>>
>> I like the idea of that.. i.e I understand it and it seems to make 
>> sense to me. Am I correct in that I should be looking for this sort of 
>> mechanical pitch (+/- 12 or whatever), and then using my pitch curves 
>> to actually set usable pitch ranges in the various flight modes?
>>
> 
> Absolutely!  Probably the motor won't comfortably pull 12 degrees of 
> pitch but I bet it'll come close.  I'm running around 11 degrees on my 
> HDX450 which is essentially a T-Rex clone  You'll have to experiment 
> around to figure that out.  All you wind up doing is running 90% (or 
> whatever) on the pitch curves to tone it down a bit but it's nice to 
> have the mechanical 12 degree for autorotation time.
> 

Well, I now have +/-11 degrees mechanically, and that leaves just enough 
room on the washout nut or whatever its called, for me to accidentally 
knock the hover-pitch lever on the side of the tx. If I push the 
hover-pitch lever all the way up along with full collective, there's 
literally a hairs width of room left, so I can't go any further without 
messing with blade grip linkrods, which I don't want to do anyway 
because it'll affect the pitch non-uniformly.

So I think I'm good to go with working out my pitch curves now.
Enabling throttle hold on the TX turned out to be useful.. much easier 
than swapping to an rx battery pack everytime.

Thanks for your help, and you Beav ;)