Re: +/- 9.5 degrees.. enough?

"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" <skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net> wrote in 
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> 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.

Other than give you a nice crack around the head. Electric motors produce 
maximum torque at minimum rev's, so there's power enough for that crack to

REALLY ****ing hurt.


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Beav

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