Offset in mixing program. What is it for?

[Heli8or]

Have dialed in some cyclic>throttle mixing values but don`t know what the offset function is all about. I set 20% in elev and aile and used sub trim to stop throttle binding at full stick and cyclic deflection. Is the offset to be used instead of sub trim?
Don`t want to cheat with governer, so don`t bother telling me to use one. I prefer to learn the how`s and why`s before i cheat!

[Ade_Law]

what transmitter is it? what does the manual say about it?

govs arent cheating. curves and mixes are set to try to maintain the head speed trouble is they are just a bodge! they could never maintain the speed as well as a forward looking gov.

Ade

[Heli8or]

Sorry Ade. Maybe should`t have used the word `cheat`. I use a DX7! The book says the offset is to redifine the neutral position of the slave channel. I assume that means the throttle. But when i dialed in some numbers, it did not seem to stop the throttle binding, so i used sub trim instead. But is the offset used to stop that binding? If so, maybe i should try again with higher value. I think i only went as far as 50!

[Ade_Law]

i dont personally use an offset value when setting up the mixes. its not really what your after.

one way of doing what your after is to set the throttle linkage up so that your using the full travel of the servo. so you use a short servo horn, this way the servo cannot physically move further than full open even with mixes.

if you had a gov even with it disabled it will never allow the throttle to go beyond the limits you set when you program the gov :-)

Ade