chriss
Senior Heliman
Location: Sunny Florida
| Hi Bill
Sorry I didn't get to this sooner, some days I just can't break away long enough to turn on the computer.
Intuitively, if ambient temps come up, so should your motor temps.
Check through the heli and make sure nothing has changed. Make sure everything turns freely. Have you noticed an increase in headspeed? Decrease? Have you recently changed any of the speed control programming?
One thing that I like to do is to shoot an auto every few minutes as the flight goes on. I feel the upwash of air through the frames during an auto helps to strip heat from everything, especially if your rockin' and rollin'. You might also allow a minute or two in the middle of your flights, kind of a breather to allow the motor to get off it's knees.
The curves you are using and blades should be fine. You might bring down the center points in idle up, I think mine are around 80 and 90%.
This is just to keep things from getting too fast when i unload the disk.
All in all though, as temps go up, you will have to shorten flight sessions (not overall time in a discharge cycle) somewhat to keep the motor temp in the safe area.
Chris |
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