Re: +/- 9.5 degrees.. enough?

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:30:43 +0000, Carl Farrington
<carl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


>
>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.

Turn that hover pitch trim off...  It only adds one more thing to jack
with you...

I run +/-12 on two 450SEs with the 430L & 13T pinion and good 25C
packs.  I do get a bit of bog at the extremes, but since I RARELY get
there, it isn't an issue for the most part.

My V2 with the 430LX motor and the same setup is much stronger, but
eats the batteries quicker with a full minute less flight time
available.

>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.

Still a VERY good idea to disconnect one motor wire.  The motor make
half a turn should hold fail (or if you forget to turn it on) but not
with enough force to do anything.

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