stevem
Senior Heliman
Location: Oklahoma
| Sure thing!
I would suggest a 10 tooth pinion - the stock HB pinion will work if you are careful to remove it. Use a tiny drop of thin CA to glue it to the shaft of the 010. Don't get any glue in the bearings or your motor is toast.
Works great with 2S lipoly cells.
Settings are as follows:
Step Setting
1 2 (5.0v)
2 3
3 5 (no brake)
4 2 (fixed throttle)
5 2 (standard advance)
6 2 (soft)
7* 3*
* = if you have the latest software this setting 7 is for soft start when using governor mode in a CP machine.
To wire the two controllers together, cut the battery plugs off of each controller. Leave yourself long enough wires. I tend to put both my ESCs together so I gut teh battery wires to the same length.
Strip each wire end about 1/8" and tin with solder. Do the same with one battery plug. Get some heatshrink tubing from Radio Shack and cut two pieces about 1/2" long. THe tubing should just be large enough to slip over two wires side-by-side.
Now the tough part - hold the two red ESC battery wires together and slip a piece of heatshrink over them. Then, somehwe keeping the two wires together, place the red battery plug wire against the two ESC wires and solder. You want the battery plug wire facing the opposite direction so the heat shrink will slip over the three wires. DO the same with the black wires, slide the shrink over and shrink with a heat gun or hairdryer set on high.
Now you need to remove the red servo wire from the tail ESC. This will keep the tail esc from feeding voltage back into the receiver as the astro esc already is doing this. Just pull back the plastic lock holding it in place and pull the pin out of the connector. Tape it back to insulate it.
If you are using a heading hold gyro (HH Gyro) then turn off all mixing on your radio. If using a standard gyro (century, GWS, etc) then you need to setup revo mix on a heli radio. It gets a bit more complicated than that, so let me know if you don't have a HH gyro.
When you plug the battery in, let teh heli sit still for a few seconds, then hold the rudder stick to the left and hold it there for aboiut 5 seconds to arm the tail ESC (if it needs to be armed). Then release it and it should start the tail when you input right rudder. If not, you may need to reverse your rudder on your radio.
I hope I have helped at least a little. Let me know if there are any other questions.
Steve |
