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    Just thought id share that i had fun last night with my velo 50 after flashing to the v3 firmware and getting the tail setup better than its ever been. Confirmation again that this system really does just get better and better. The diffrence in the tail is now night and day but dont just expect it to work as you do have to get the setup right and be in the ball park with regards to ball link placement etc etc. Anyways... I thought it may be a good idea to share some settings and that i could make this a sticky for all to see. Theres not that much info available on peoples actual setups from what i can see. Please feel free to share your settings whatever equipment your using or model. This should give some of the newbies some insight. Ill start us off with a few settings but it would be good if we could all use a template type layout for easy viewing. Feel free to add anything or suggestions in addition, whether its for cyclics/tail setup or whatever.

    Model: Outrage Velocity 50
    Cyclic Servos: Futaba 9252
    Tail Servo: Align DS650
    Tail Servo ball link position: 2nd hole out on 5 arm servo wheel
    Transmitter & Gain: Spektrum DX7SE - 65% in the Travel adjust menu.
    Additional information: Tail setup - Setup the tail sensor direction (Setup Menu F) first. Next setup the tail in rate mode so that the heli hovers without any rudder input (usual tail setup, 90 degrees on the servo arm etc. I found the second hole out on my arm was optimal). Then do the tail servo rotor endpoints (Setup menu E) so you have no binding either way. Adjust rudder channel travel adjust in the TX to get my your piro rate and add any expo you may wish to use. Fly the model and up the TX gain until the tail wags then back off 2%. Next use the tail heading lock gain (Parameter Menu D) and do the same thing as you did with finding your gyro gain in the TX. It will wag like crazy when you go too far. (I found thats all i had to do to get a perfect tail, pretty standard tail setup really. One note to add would be that my model didnt seem to like the tail torque pre-compensation setting. It was happy with it switched off. Tail is rock solid in tic toks etc

    I personally used MSlaters table to find out my servo frequencies etc (thanks Mark )
    Grab that here, its in MS Excel format -
    servo.xls
    Heres the settings i ended up with anyways:-

    Setup Menu
    B/Swash servo frequency - Blue led (200hz)
    C/Tail servo centre position pulse length - blue led (1520µs)
    D/Tail servo frequency - Blue flashing led (333hz)
    H/Swashplate mixer - Red led (120 degrees)
    J/Swashplate cyclic geometry - set to 6 degrees of pitch
    K/Collective pitch range - +/- 11 degrees
    L/Swashplate cyclic limit - set as far as i could get it without any binding at full positive and negative pitch with full elevator/aileron command in all directions.

    Parameter Menu

    A/Swashplate cyclic adjustment - i set this with a swashplate tool so that it was level at centre stick.
    B/Control behaviour - blue led - Transmitter. I use the travel adjust/expo in my Transmitter to adjust the feel/flip/roll rate of the model.
    C/Swashplate pitching up behaviour - red led - medium - i didnt see any pitching up in fast forward flight on my model. Move this up if you see those affects.
    D/Tail heading lock gain - red led - medium - upping this i developed a wag in fast manouvres so i decided to keep this set at the default which the model was more than happy with. I cant get the tail to blow out in any move that i can do thats for sure!
    E/Stick deadband - red flashing led - 2 - left to default.
    F/Tail pre-compensation (Revo) - purple led - off - my model seemed fine with no pre-comp so ive left this at the default. Tail is rock solid.
    G/Cyclic response - blue flashing led - high - personal preference as i like my models very responsive.
    H/Pitch boost - blue flashing - high - after testing various option here i decided high was for me. Very high seemed too give too much added pitch and almost felt delayed. Option below didnt seem enough, in fact i could hardly tell.

    Look forward to seeing other results...
    Last edited by Made2Fade; 04-10-2011, 12:30 PM.
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    Cheers Lee. With all the questions being bantered around, iv'e always thought of starting a sticky for Beastx settings just like the other FBL units. I aint flown any of mine since its been upgraded to V3 but will post them as soon as I have!
    Eddie
    Velocity 90 FBL BeastX V3
    Trex 600 LE FBL BeastX V3
    Trex 500 EFL Pro BeastX V3
    Fusion 50 FBL
    VBar
    All powered by a DX8

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    • #3
      Look forward to seeing others setups, ill update this evening with the full overview of my parameters and setup menu.
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      • #4
        M2F, What have you got "cyclic response" (G) and "Swashplate pitching up behaviour" (C) set at?
        Guy

        Logo 600 SX VBar - Velocity N2 FBL BeastX - TRex 600 FBL BeastX - TRex 450 Pro - Gaui 200 - Blade 130X

        And an E.G.S!


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        • #5
          I think the Beast X is quite forgiving on setup. I installed a Beast X on my 500 which had previously been on a TRex 700N and yesterday when I got to the field I realised I had completely forgotten to run through the setup procedure. Would have been a bit tricky to do it properly in a grass field using a digital pitch gauge etc. so I simply checked the sensor directions, eyeballed the swash level and did a quick check that there was no binding at full throws and flew it as it was. Maybe I was lucky but it flew brilliantly!

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Gate88 View Post
            M2F, What have you got "cyclic response" (G) and "Swashplate pitching up behaviour" (C) set at?
            Off memory cyclic response was set to high (blue flashing) and swashplate pitching was set to the default which is medium (i didnt see any swashplate pitching basically). Ill post fully later though and you will see everything
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            • #7
              Originally posted by J-S-Q View Post
              I think the Beast X is quite forgiving on setup.
              Id beg to differ im affraid. Maybe you got lucky? Or maybe its just not dialled in as good as it can be ?
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              • #8
                more info added...
                Lee
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                • #9
                  cool thread, has anyone got the same for trex 700?
                  T-Rex 600LE - canomod - OS 50 - Spartan DS760 - 610's, 650 tail, NHP's-Spektrum Telemetery-Rapicon20%
                  Raptor 60 - Hatori - 401 - BBT 710's NHP 105's MD500 scale fuselage
                  Align 450pro stock
                  Trex 700LE - FBL- RJX Head - OS91sz - 610s, BEASTX V3 - 650 tail - 30% Optifuel
                  Trex 250 new edition to the family

                  Pheonix 3.0s
                  Spektrum Dx8 v2.0 DSMX
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                  • #10
                    Hi my settings on my trex 700n os91hz are very similar to Made2Fade,s but ime still fiddling

                    one point ive noticed is my autos are really shit
                    i could hit a 10p peice flybared and now its apx 20 feet away

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                    • #11
                      Manuals:
                      V1 http://www.beastx.com/manuals/MICROBEAST_PV_ENG.pdf
                      V2 http://www.beastx.com/manuals/MICROBEAST_2.0.1_ENG.pdf
                      V3 http://www.beastx.com/manuals/MICROBEAST_3.0.1_ENG.pdf

                      Quick Reference:
                      V1 http://www.beastx.com/manuals/MICROB..._1.0.0_ENG.pdf
                      V2 http://www.beastx.com/manuals/MICROB..._2.0.0_ENG.pdf
                      V3 http://www.beastx.com/manuals/MICROB..._3.0.0_ENG.pdf

                      Servo List:
                      -= BEASTX - BE ABSOLUTE STABLE =-
                      Harry

                      Mikado Logo 700 | VBar Neo | JR HV Servos | Pyro 750-50L | Kontronik Kosmik 160HV + buffer pack|
                      Thunder Tiger G4 E720 | CGY760 FBL | BLS272SV + BLS276SV | Align 800MX Dom 440kv | Kontronik PowerJive 120HV + Opti UltraGuard |
                      SAB Kraken 580 6S | Spirit FBL | BLS173SV + BLS276SV | HK4025 1100kV | Kontronik Kolibri 140LV + Opti UltraGuard |


                      And a pillow for the doghouse...

                      Powered by Futaba 18SZ

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by agh321 View Post
                        Hi my settings on my trex 700n os91hz are very similar to Made2Fade,s but ime still fiddling

                        one point ive noticed is my autos are really shit
                        i could hit a 10p peice flybared and now its apx 20 feet away
                        Not as much momentum with the lack of the flybar's weight so FBL will bleed head speed quicker. You could blame that!
                        Harry

                        Mikado Logo 700 | VBar Neo | JR HV Servos | Pyro 750-50L | Kontronik Kosmik 160HV + buffer pack|
                        Thunder Tiger G4 E720 | CGY760 FBL | BLS272SV + BLS276SV | Align 800MX Dom 440kv | Kontronik PowerJive 120HV + Opti UltraGuard |
                        SAB Kraken 580 6S | Spirit FBL | BLS173SV + BLS276SV | HK4025 1100kV | Kontronik Kolibri 140LV + Opti UltraGuard |


                        And a pillow for the doghouse...

                        Powered by Futaba 18SZ

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                        • #13
                          Handy References for this thread Harry, thanks
                          Lee
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Made2Fade View Post
                            Look forward to seeing others setups, ill update this evening with the full overview of my parameters and setup menu.
                            Posted my set up for V3 beast X couple of weeks ago now i have set v3 on 500,600,700 and on fusion imo for the money MbX v3 is the dog's boll#cks!
                            GAUI X7 Beast X V3 (a nice bit of fish!)
                            Trex600n Fbl ys56sr BeastX V3
                            Trex500Fbl AR7200BX
                            Trex500 Apache x4bld BeastX. Trex 600E HIND mil x5bld BeastX
                            DX7se

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                            • #15
                              Turned pot 1 and 2 up a lot yesterday, and coming out a large loop, the cyclics spazed out, and the whole disc was quivering, was ok in slow flight so nothing bad happened, so be careful how you go.............
                              Heli central...Basildon RC helis...strictly helis only...




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