GY401 help please

[163phil]

Hi Guys

Just taken delivery of a Trex 450SE v2 (Thanks Unsung Hero) with GY401 etc.

Just spent a really enjoyable few hours setting it up with my DX6i and am pretty well ready to test fly (I think!!)

Do I have to set up the gyro on the DX6i, and if so can anyone tell me how to do it (The gyro was working before, so I'm wondering if it will be ok to test fly it without any further inputs?)

Thanks for any help - may be a stupid question to you experts, but for us novices with absolutely no experience of the modern electronic tx's it's all abit of a minefield

(Quietly pleased to have got as far as I have on my own)

[Mojogoes]

Hi Phil try this m8 [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dk5ItbWkhY[/ame]
In "travel adjust" set all settings to a 100%.
http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/showthread.php?t=13879

[163phil]

Oh bloody hell Thanks mate, I'm getting abit knackered now and won't take it in tonight - I'll try again tomorrow

I don't have a manual with the gyro, and the only experience I have with HH gyros is with the cheapo Esky one

Quite a learning curve in this game

[Made2Fade]

Much better setting the gyro menu to INH and using the gear channel Travel Adjust for your gyro gain IMO. Plus i think the gear switch is a more suitable place for it. Each to their own though, do it which ever way you prefer Phil.

Cheers
Lee

[Mojogoes]

Hi Phil try this m8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dk5ItbWkhY
In "travel adjust" set all settings to a 100%.
http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/showthread.php?t=13879

No problem! which ever way you end up going / setting your gyro you can only take so much in at first any way......it slowly tricles in and then vualah you know most of what your tx / gyro is all about

[Made2Fade]

I know 1 thing... i hope the guy in that video isnt using a governor on his raptor 60 because it wont work very well with throttle end points like that lol. Even the pitch travel adjust isnt good enough for me haha
Cheers
Lee

[rapidgaz]

hi mate i have a 401 instruction manual if you want it pm me and i will pop it in the post

[choppertastic]

The manual for the GY401 can be downloaded from here

http://manuals.hobbico.com/fut/futm0807-manual.pdf

[163phil]

Great! Thanks guys

Just got in from work and will chill out for abit then have a go setting it all up.

Stand by for more stupid questions later

[Tim Procter]

Stand by for more stupid questions later

There are no stupid questions Phil.

Its the stupid answers that crease me..

[163phil]

There are no stupid questions Phil.

Its the stupid answers that crease me..

Right, I'll have to ask you personally then Tim

[Mojogoes]

There are no stupid questions Phil.

Its the stupid answers that crease me..

Can you please explain yourself busterboy as i see it that know one as offered stupid answers but just help which instead of members / new members having to wait to long for an answer........but in truth apart from SOME!! new technology this game (heli's) re-invents the wheel time and time again..........admittidly i've forgotten more than i currently know about the sport.

[Made2Fade]

i dont think he meant that personally bud lol.
Cheers
Lee

[Mojogoes]

i dont think he meant that personally bud lol.
Cheers
Lee

I don't either but to whome was it aimed at or is there party politics involved here as i don't see any one else in this thread offering "stupid answers" either!!......and made2fade know effence but he's a big boy

[163phil]

Am I right in thinking?

Back on topic....

I've managed to get the lights working in the correct sequence so I think it's going to work, but....

In rate mode there was far too much travel on the rudder (ie the control slider was hitting the end stop of the tail shaft at about half stick), so I went into travel adjust and set it so that the slider hit the end stop at full stick. The settings are now 56% left; 38% right.

Silly question no1.....is this the right thing to do?

and no2......Have I just adjusted the end points?

I've rebound the rx with these settings, but haven't yet dared try it

btw the centre point of the rudder servo arm wasn't perpendicular to the servo body at neutral trim, so...

silly question no3... do I centre it and guess the servo position by sliding it along the tail shaft, or as it was flying before I bought it should I try it as is and take it from there