TheBigE
Senior Heliman
Location: Indiana
| Vigor CS SetupScott,
I found that some of the links in the manual were off, also I believe that two links in the head were mislabled in the manual. However, if you have the head together with 6 degrees of pitch you are in pretty good shape to start with (i.e you probably already found the mistake). Make sure all you PIT Trims are zero and you Pitch Curve is a straight line. With the servos at 90 degrees work forward from the servo to the t lever, then up to the head. I adjust the swashplate so that it is in the center of its travel with the stick at exactly half stick (done by adjusting the links from the T-Levers and the A-Arm to the swashplate). Then I simply adjust the links in the head to get the mixing arms and washout arms to be level. I then adjust the two smaller links from the mixing arms up to the head to get zero pitch at mid stick. Not sure what radio you are using, but all of them have a swash mix that controls the overall movement of the collective travel. Generally with the default setups in the manual and what I have mentioned above you will have pretty close to -10 to + 10 with zero at midstick, if you adjust the swash travel you can squeak another couple degrees out of the head, but you need to start watching for binding.
Generally I check for binding at one of the extremes (either forward/aft cyclic OR left/right cyclic AND Full Postive/Negative) If you check for binding in the corners of the right stick (i.e. full forward and right) you will get binding, however, IMO you will never be nor should you be at these extremes. Play with you cyclic travels to limit/remove the binding. Usually I see binding at full pitch with the flybar to washout link hitting on the swashplate. That seems to be the most limiting case and the one that I pay the most attention to, because I don't want that link popping off in flight.
Hope this helps and good luck
Erik |
