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birdsofpray
Heliman
Location: lake villa il lake

I have a Spektrum DX7 transmitter, also I am a complete newbie when it comes to understanding some of the programming terminology.
I have a 401 gyro and just installed a governor.
If your familiar with this particular radio you know that there is a input select when you hold down, the down and select key while turning on the transmitter.
In input select area is where I kind of get lost, you can change what the aux 2 and gear channel control I guess.
I had the aux controlling gyro and gear controlling gear but in installing the governor I needed to set up aux to control aux so I could control the on off capabilities of the governor.
Since I changed that I lost the screen what allows me to control the sensitivity on the gyro, so I changed the gear to control gyro and got the screen back but in doing that the gear switch no longer allowed me to turn the gyro in and out of heading hold the light would just stay on indicating it was in heading hold.
I thought no big deal because I figured I needed to always be in heading hold anyway. When I lifted off, the gyro was not in heading hold as the light indicated and was blowing out bad on me .
I switched the gear back to control gear and aux still is controlling aux, so the gyro works and has heading hold now and I can turn on and off both gyro and governor via switches but the screen for the gyro sensitivity is gone w/o having one of the inputs set to gyro.
My question in all this rambling is how do I go a bought setting the sensitivity for the gyro now that I don’t have that screen?
The mix screen I am just learning to use for the adjusting of the rpm.
Do I now also use a mix screen to set sensitivity for the gyro?Thanks for at least taking the time to read this, it was confusing to even explain.

I do have the gyro pluged into the gear switch and the governor pluged into the aux2 on the Receiver, hope that helps to understand my setup. Thanks everyone

What goes up must come down, It's how hard and painfully it comes down is what really matters.
07-25-2008 01:40 AM
 
 
metzlda2
Heliman
Location: Lakewood Ca USA

By using the gear channel to control the Gyro, the sensitivity is set with "travel adjust" for channel five. (the gear switch) With the 401 gyro, I find that +38 for HH and -38 for Rate/normal are pretty good starting points. Hope this helps and Good luck
07-25-2008 10:09 AM
 
 
birdsofpray
Heliman
Location: lake villa il lake

Thanks, I never would have known to even adjust that there
going to try it Tomorrow.

What goes up must come down, It's how hard and painfully it comes down is what really matters.
07-25-2008 11:08 PM
 
 
rotormonkey
Senior Heliman
Location: Ottawa, ON - Canada

Actually, you don't necessarily have to do it that way. Using the travel adjust is one option, but you can still use the gyro menu.

On the input select screen set the gear channel to control the gyro. Then on the gyro menu the first option is AUTO or RUDD/DR or whatever depending on your setup. If you use AUTO you can set it up to use different gains in different flight modes. ie: Normal mode is rate, idle 1 is rate, idle 2 is HH. OR you can set it to rudd/dr or whatever other switch you want selecting that switch. Then you have two options for gain. One for position one, one for position two on the switch.

Personally I like to have the rudd/dr switch for switching between HH and rate, the aileron/dr switch is throttle hold.

All this to say, you can set up your switches to do pretty well whatever the hell you want.
07-26-2008 12:22 AM
 
 
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