Tday
Key Veteran
Location: Needham, MA
| As I've tried to sort it out tail holding power depends upon two things...the amount of power your tail blades can generate at full pitch (left and right) and how clever your gyro is at sensing it needs to correct the tail and how fast it can make the pitch correction. This second item is the programming and sensor in the gyro and the speed of the tail servo. OK, if that the list of things the gyro can use to hold a tail it will be affected by.
1) undersized tail blades or tail blades without much "power." I usually put as big and aggressive a tail blade on as fits the heli. Depends on the model what the biggest/most aggressive one is.
2) not spinning the tail blades fast enough. Some models let you pick your tail gears, but even if not, when you bog the motor the tail slows down, so the max turning power a gyro has to use to hold the tail is reduced (a lot.)
3) gyro...there are a lot of opinions on this one but the 6100 is a fabulous gyro and the tail servo is very very fast. Hard to imagine you can change gyros and have it be better, honestly. Maybe so, but seems unlikely. Now a 401 is not nearly up to the job as the 6100, but the 6100 is really good.
Then the final thing is how much you're asking the tail to do. If you're going really fast but the tail isn't dead on straight, you're asking it to a lot more than when going slower and or if straight. So go fast, bog the motor, have the model off line, and add in tail blades...and there you have it.
Tom
2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2. |
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