Couple of BeastX questions

[Spanner]

Ok, not flown it yet since I set it up, but have a couple of Q's before I do fly it.

1. Servo ball links, do I need to move them out a notch? I set it up and got 6' etc fine, Mark at the field today reckoned I should have moved the balls out a hole?

2. Before BeastX, on the deck I got full range of collective. Now with BX on, I don't get anywhere near as much as I used to. Like i said before, it all set up fine and was able to set up +/- 13' no problems, and the cyclics are slooowwww!!

3. Do I need to fly it any different to a flybarred N5?


That is all!!

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[adieuk]

Hi Ian the cyclic's are slow mate i have mine set up on the outer hole and is fine, have you set up full travel ok on the swash?
when you take off just get it in the air its not like a fb heli so no stick input on take off.

[Spanner]

Yeah, at least I thought I did! I'll go over it again tomorrow!

[ROSSCO]

Where do you have the ball links set currently? I've not run a BeastX yet but a good starting point on the N5 would be around 10.5mm out from the centre spline.

Ive only had a play with a BeastX but from what I can remember during the calibration phase you teach the unit the pitch and cyclic limits and then you can choose the response of them via the settings in the unit where you can set it to extreme and then you can adjust it from the ATV on the TX.

[3DBish]

The cyclic is slow on normal mode but put it in extreme and it's a million times better. The cyclic servo's will move slowly on the bench because the beast isn't sensing any tilt of the model as it would do in the air, just fly it, it will be fine. +1 for the take off, no cyclic on the floor and just punch it into the air. The beast is a great unit

[waveydavey]

Rather than extreme set it to Tx and use your endpoints to adjust the cyclics to your liking. Not getting enough collectives sounds odd. You should be able to get more than flybarred

[heli]

2. Before BeastX, on the deck I got full range of collective. Now with BX on, I don't get anywhere near as much as I used to. Like i said before, it all set up fine and was able to set up +/- 13' no problems, and the cyclics are slooowwww!!

I had a similar thing when I converted my Logo. Check menu point K in the setup, any changes to G, J K will affect K. I re-did K and then I was back to normal. The slow cyclics are as per what other have said and changed in Parameter menu B.

[Spanner]

Thanks chaps, I'll redo the setup, not quite as daunting as some people make out!

Not getting enough collectives sounds odd. You should be able to get more than flybarred

I got as much collective as I want during set up, its was post setup and sat in the table. I was getting at most +/- 6 degrees or so.
Like others have suggested though, I may need to revisit certain menu steps and take it from there.