cudaboy_71
Key Veteran
Location: sacramento, ca, u.s.
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| I tried reversing the polarity, but that only made it spin faster.
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that's irrelevant. you probably have the gryo or the rudder channel reversed. but, the first thing you need to do is getting the tail motor spinning the right direction.
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When I mentioned counter-clockwise, I was refering to the main rotor.
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no. the mains needs to spin clockwise
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The tail rotor needs to force itself onto the motor gear correct? If so, then the tail should push to the right when the tail motor spins. But that means that the main blades would be spinning counter-clockwise creating the spin to the left.
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ya...its kinda confusing when you're new to all of this. and, its difficult troubleshooting without seeing pictures or being there, too  im sure its something simple (so dont give up) but, it might be a miscommunication here also.
try this: take the tail blade off completely and slowly begin to spool up the helicopter. the whole airframe should start to spin counterclockwise when the mains start to generate enough torque.
now, put the tail rotor back on and adjust the polarity of the tail motor so that the force of the tail will counteract the spin you observed when the tail rotor is off.
now at least you know the blades are spinning the right direction and we can move on to setting the gyro and rudder direction.
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| Maybe I should just put an FP tail boom on it.
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i dont think that will solve anything.
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| I don't understand the idle-up command yet, is that switched on and off with ch5? If so, I don't have any plugs to go into the ch5 port on my radio. Is that used when a separate ESC and gyro are used? I'll check and make sure that my gyro and REVO are swithed off. Should I be able to throttle the motor up without adding pitch, if so, how?
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idle up just allows you to have two separate throttle/pitch curves (throttle and pitch are both controlled simultaneously with the vertical axis of the left stick) so, you'll (typically) have one set of curves called 'normal' that will control both throttle speed and pitch in a linear fashion from 0-100%***, while idle up will be a linear setup for pitch, but throttle will be constant.
if you haven't done so, you should really read through the ehbg...it'll fill in a lot of the blanks for you on some of these concepts.
***not really linear...but, that's the concept. in reality there's a whole 'nother concept regarding pitch that needs to be addressed with a pitch gauge that i won't get into here.
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, I might try the counter-clockwise rotation for the heck of it to see if it helps.
