medtech
08-25-2006, 03:08 PM
So yesterday I got my new elite 4300 NiMH 8cell pack. I charged it all night at .4A, it took in 4000NiMH, not too bad for a brand new pack. It's been raining all day but I was dying to try it out. It finally let up raining so I ran outside before it started again. It was still windy, about 10mph with gusts.
Well, it held off raining long enough, and when I say long enough I mean long. The pack lasted 16 minutes. :shock: I was getting tired of fighting the wind and wanted the thing to die but it wouldn't.
Now my question. Does the wind screw up the HH gyro? If I left heli alone it would continuously rotate in a clockwise circle, all the way around and wouldn't stop unless I kept the tail in with rudder stick. I never noticed the heli doing this before but then again I did just install my delrin TH. Do you think the tail blades are out of alignment or was it the wind. If it's the tail blades would I want to move the fin hub in or out to correct the clockwise rotation. Or should I do it with the servo controls?
P.S. I'm real proud of myself. The wind was pretty brutal and I managed to keep the heli in control the whole time and land, no crashes at all, for the whole pack. One of these days there will be no wind and I'll be real good. Still a bit rough on side-in but I keep trying and just spin to tail-in when I screw up.
Well, it held off raining long enough, and when I say long enough I mean long. The pack lasted 16 minutes. :shock: I was getting tired of fighting the wind and wanted the thing to die but it wouldn't.
Now my question. Does the wind screw up the HH gyro? If I left heli alone it would continuously rotate in a clockwise circle, all the way around and wouldn't stop unless I kept the tail in with rudder stick. I never noticed the heli doing this before but then again I did just install my delrin TH. Do you think the tail blades are out of alignment or was it the wind. If it's the tail blades would I want to move the fin hub in or out to correct the clockwise rotation. Or should I do it with the servo controls?
P.S. I'm real proud of myself. The wind was pretty brutal and I managed to keep the heli in control the whole time and land, no crashes at all, for the whole pack. One of these days there will be no wind and I'll be real good. Still a bit rough on side-in but I keep trying and just spin to tail-in when I screw up.