RE: CB100 first impression
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" /><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId" /><meta content="Microsoft Word 10" name="Generator" /><meta content="Microsoft Word 10" name="Originator" /><link href="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\JOHNF~1.HEN\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\ clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" /><![if gte mso 9]><xml><w:WordDocument><w:View>Normal</w:View><w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom><w:Compatibility><w:BreakWrappedTables /><w:SnapToGridInCell /><w:WrapTextWithPunct /><w:UseAsianBreakRules /></w:Compatibility><w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetE xplorer4</w:BrowserLevel></w:WordDocument></xml><![endif]><style type="text/css"><! Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}@page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;}div.Section1 {page:Section1;}></style><![if gte mso 10]><style> Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";}</style><![endif]><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hi Jim,
Yes its for FP CB 100 now but that's a good point to pay attention to as that will change. The spring load needs to be so lowwww at the bottom you hardly notice it, just enough to hold the stick down and keep the elec motor off and the click point absolutely needs is own trim like you said. This unfortunately is a job for the manufacture. I was surprised the Walkera 2801 feels so good and can only imagine how nice the new high-end 2k DB gimbal Futabas have gotten and feel in response.
Imagine a flight button on the TXthat when pushed and let go placed the hold point at the current stick position in a single axis. You could effertlessly change trim as the battery drains or you change your flight mode where the friction of the hold is adjustable to zero as well. Just put it exactly where you want it. I'd use it on both sticks in wind now that I think of it without a spring attached to elevator. <span style="">
I am reading some say lightening the fly bar weights makes the CB100 "less stable." Agree, but dosn't it also reduce blade pitch responce as well? Seems you want the weight so when you give fast control pitch changes under high load the blades pitch changes, not the fly bar axis the blade pitch is relative to. Never had a 45 degree flybar before but seems it would need more weight or pivot moment in favor of the fly bar than 45 degree bar which it seems to have with a lot of damping. Like to read up on design.
E.W. Higgs^^
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