tail vibration in flight

[darrena]

Hi, just hovered my 130x for the first time and unfortunately it has a heavy tail vibration on spool up. I will try and balance the blades and put some prongs in to solve this but wondered if this is the same cause of the mid flight tail wag / vibration?

[SaneAdam]

How is it once it is in the air? Does the tail continue to vibrate? Is it wagging?

[darrena]

It still vibrates a little and also wags

[tomatwalden]

If the vibration is really bad - sort that first. You've obviously seen the tricks with tail blade balancing! Hopefully that should help. You might not fully eradicate the spool up vibes, but it should be smooth in flight.

Once you've got it smooth in flight, if wag still persists, you'll need to turn the tail gain down a bit ... There's a hidden AS3X menu for doing this. I'll try to dig out the link ..

T

[tomatwalden]

http://www.bladehelis.com/ProdInfo/F..._Gyro_menu.pdf

T

[darrena]

Thanks, put some new tail blades on and the vib is better but the wag is still pretty bad so will have a look at the link,

[kylelnsn]

Thanks, put some new tail blades on and the vib is better but the wag is still pretty bad so will have a look at the link,

Time to play with the gains i think! Youll love it when you have it dialled in!

[Mike00top]

Time to play with the gains i think! Youll love it when you have it dialled in!

+1 on dropping the tail gain 3 or 4 flashes, i had to drop mine 4 and i may still have to go 1 or 2 more

[Skyfool]

http://www.bladehelis.com/ProdInfo/F..._Gyro_menu.pdf

T

To get mine into set up mode I had to set the throttle high end piont to 105% in my DX8, it wouldn't activate at 100%

[dogcow]

To get mine into set up mode I had to set the throttle high end piont to 105% in my DX8, it wouldn't activate at 100%

Really? That's interesting coz I didn't need to with my DX8, something strange going on there.

[Skyfool]

Really? That's interesting coz I didn't need to with my DX8, something strange going on there.

Any idea why this is anyone?

[tomatwalden]

Any idea why this is anyone?

dual rates maybe ?

[Mike00top]

Any idea why this is anyone?

i have heard that the sticks are able to be calibrated on the dx8, may be its drifted ? ?

please just dont take my word for that, i am sure a member or DX8 owner on here will confirm or deny


D/R , ATV or and possibly throttle curve not up to 100%

[dogcow]

Any idea why this is anyone?

Check your throttle curve, in default settings it's only at 80% in normal mode. You need to adjust this to 100% before you can go into gyro gain mode on the DX8 aswell as silencing the warnings. Your throttle curve may be set at 95%, hence the extra 5% required in your end points just to get to 100%. Just a thought, and don't forget to put it back when you're done.

[tourerjim]

To cure my vibes i used thick soft sided tape cut to tail fin shape & stick on.