Is using less pitch on a prop reduces torque?
yes this indeed a mind bender...
and I'm tending to know be drifting the other way... with the heli guys.
Surely the amount of torque generated by the engine can never be greater than it's natural point of max torque... regardless of which prop is used. If max torque is occuring at say 6.500rpm and propeller that places the rpm in that region will be contributing to max torque.
But we are hovering... at a reduced throttle setting...thus the RPM will be lower, say for example 3.000rpm... way below the point of max engine torque.
By reducing the pitch and leaving the diamiter constant the resulting effect will be a higher rpm say 3.500 thus placing use closer towards the point of max engine torque.
...but the trust will increase thus requiering a lower thottle setting?????aahhhhhhhhgggggg!
yep... I give up.