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Alright guys,
I know most of you are thinking what is a gyro lol seen as though most of you are flybarless now. But I'm having major issues with my gyro. It's an on going thing now that I have just lost patience with. Its an Align GP780 and yes I know they are hit and miss gyros and yes I know many people have had problems with them in the past and yes I know they aint the best ones out there.
The problem is, I bought a Trex 450 combo kit from FastLads that came with all the electronics, gyro etc... I built the heli some time ago now and I test flew it and the gyro was just horrible. After spending so much time trying to fix the tail problems that I was having, but to no evail I contacted FastLads who asked me to send the gyro back to them and in turn they sent it away to Robbe. The gyro was away for nearly two months which I thought was taking the p*** to be honest. So after numerous calls to Fastlads and Robbe, I eventually got the gyro back with a note stating that 'There was nothing wrong with it' Professionally written out on a scrappy 'post it note'
Now the gyro sat for some time at my home untouched as I was so busy with working away and studying, that I had no time for the hobby. So now that I have found myself with a bit of free time I thought that I'd have a go at trying to get this thing working
So here we go again,nothing but problems with this gyro. But oh wait a minute....I was told that it had been tested at Robbe and that it was fine lol! What a load of old crap! I energised my tx and then the heli and I just sat it on the bench now and I didn't touch it for a good five minutes, The next thing the tail servo just moved fully to one extent with no input from myslef. Also sometimes when I energise the heli the tail servo just wont work when the gyro is in HH. But when I flick it into rate mode it then moves fine. But then when I disconnect the battery and power down, I do this a couple of times and then the tail servo will move in HH mode when I operate the rudder stick but as soon as I let go of the rudder stick it whips straight to one extent of the servo.
Now I feel like I have just been totally fobbed off with this gyro. Firstly I flew my heli once with it on and I had to send it away, FastLads had it and then sent it onto Robbe without notifying myself. So numerous calls later and nobody knew who had my gyro......Strange that. One place was telling me that the other place had it and vice versa. I was just getting passed pillar to post and messed about. So I eventually got it back after as I said previously 2 months it had taken! And with a sh*tty little note saying that it was fine. But the thing is, it isn't fine.
So this leads me now to wondering if anyone is selling a decent gyro as I know you are mostly all fbl now so someone must have one kicking about thats in good order for a good price?
I am just going to have to accept that I have come to a loss with this stupid gyro and £80 down through no fault of my own and down to bad customer service.
Cheers,
Grant.
I know most of you are thinking what is a gyro lol seen as though most of you are flybarless now. But I'm having major issues with my gyro. It's an on going thing now that I have just lost patience with. Its an Align GP780 and yes I know they are hit and miss gyros and yes I know many people have had problems with them in the past and yes I know they aint the best ones out there.
The problem is, I bought a Trex 450 combo kit from FastLads that came with all the electronics, gyro etc... I built the heli some time ago now and I test flew it and the gyro was just horrible. After spending so much time trying to fix the tail problems that I was having, but to no evail I contacted FastLads who asked me to send the gyro back to them and in turn they sent it away to Robbe. The gyro was away for nearly two months which I thought was taking the p*** to be honest. So after numerous calls to Fastlads and Robbe, I eventually got the gyro back with a note stating that 'There was nothing wrong with it' Professionally written out on a scrappy 'post it note'
Now the gyro sat for some time at my home untouched as I was so busy with working away and studying, that I had no time for the hobby. So now that I have found myself with a bit of free time I thought that I'd have a go at trying to get this thing working
So here we go again,nothing but problems with this gyro. But oh wait a minute....I was told that it had been tested at Robbe and that it was fine lol! What a load of old crap! I energised my tx and then the heli and I just sat it on the bench now and I didn't touch it for a good five minutes, The next thing the tail servo just moved fully to one extent with no input from myslef. Also sometimes when I energise the heli the tail servo just wont work when the gyro is in HH. But when I flick it into rate mode it then moves fine. But then when I disconnect the battery and power down, I do this a couple of times and then the tail servo will move in HH mode when I operate the rudder stick but as soon as I let go of the rudder stick it whips straight to one extent of the servo.
Now I feel like I have just been totally fobbed off with this gyro. Firstly I flew my heli once with it on and I had to send it away, FastLads had it and then sent it onto Robbe without notifying myself. So numerous calls later and nobody knew who had my gyro......Strange that. One place was telling me that the other place had it and vice versa. I was just getting passed pillar to post and messed about. So I eventually got it back after as I said previously 2 months it had taken! And with a sh*tty little note saying that it was fine. But the thing is, it isn't fine.
So this leads me now to wondering if anyone is selling a decent gyro as I know you are mostly all fbl now so someone must have one kicking about thats in good order for a good price?
I am just going to have to accept that I have come to a loss with this stupid gyro and £80 down through no fault of my own and down to bad customer service. Cheers,
Grant.
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