ORIGINAL: SchoooBaka
ORIGINAL: strtykrincognito
Problem:
After handling the Axe CP for about a month now I've been hovering and floating along with some easy circles and the like. I got a little greedy after a time and started going a little harder into the constant heading turns. SPLUT! [:@] Blew out a blade grip. [
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Repaired the bird, and now the tail is all over the place when just trying to hover. Mind the fact that it was the bigest pain to get the pitch reset, and then tracking after that (and rebalancing the chipped blades), it seems like the tail gain is now WAY too high. (I think I may have warped the feathering spindle)....
I think you're ploblem is the main blades. Mine we're bad out of the box and I had this terrible tail ocsilation after a few seconds in hover. I put some new main blades on and the problem was gone.
I have two other sets of blades that have been previously clipped, balanced and reused, and I put a pair of those on last night. The operation was a little better, but still a wobble. I broke down and disassembled the head again, checked the feather spindle.. /tiny/ little warp, but noticable. Replaced it. Put back on the clipped blades, and gave 'er a run....
Much less wobble, but the tail runaway was still there.
Went about triming out the Gyro pots (potentiometers) on the E-Board for about 30 minutes or so, getting gloser here and there, but generally little to no success. I get the bird stable enough to take off and hold the bird and tail still for about 5-10 seconds or so and as soon as it drifts left/right, once you compensate it takes off and is next to imposssible to stabilize.
For the sake of arguement, I had centered all the trims on my radio, and on the pots, and worked out from there. As I previously noted it seemed like the middle pot (Gain) took a hit from something, and last night I think I even saw a small crack on the side of that pot.
Still assuming that the GY401 is a smart buy, now just waiting for the bugger to get here. [:'(]
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FYI .02$: If your wallets can afford it, buy at least one set/unit of every spare part needed to have on hand. So far I have used about 1/3 of the advance parts that I have bought, and replaced some stripped screws.. You may not use some of the bigger parts soon or ever, but having the little things around sure does make you feel better about those crashes.