E-Sky Lama 4 - 4in1 controller

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Sam - 12 Apr 2008 16:00 GMT

Can anyone please explain to me the effect of increasing or decreasing the
gain & the proportion, on the 4 in i1 controller please? The instruction
manual whilst referring to them both doesn't actually convey any meaning to
me at all :-)

When I land the helicopter & turn the transmitter down to nil the blades
still flick round a couple of times hence I wonder whether altering the gain
or the proportion controls can correct this.

Sam

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Chuck - 12 Apr 2008 20:31 GMT

USUALLY this is an indication that the throttle(pitch) trim on the
transmitter needs to be changed to a lower setting.

The gain and proportion controlls o the 4&1 usually work as follows.
The gain controls the internal gyro, and is set to prevent shaking of the
tail
The proportion adjustment is used to stop/prevent/slowdown rotation of the
tail as the throttle setting is changed.
Use of an external gyro gets into another bag of worms.

> Can anyone please explain to me the effect of increasing or decreasing the
> gain & the proportion, on the 4 in i1 controller please? The instruction
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> Sam

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Sam - 21 Apr 2008 22:45 GMT

Thanks for that info Chuck, that's very helpful

The Throttle trim is at minimum and whilst the blades do flick round a
couple of times they do this, now, so infrequently that I can live with it.
I have however now stopped the tail wobble using the gain control & have
adjusted the proportion so that the helicopter doesn't turn as much without
my wanting it to.

I apologise for not replying before but for some reason the above message I
originally tried to send sat in my out box & had not gone & I hadn't
noticed although I did wonder why in hadn't appeared in the bb.

Sam>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck" <Chuckk2nospam@cox.net>
Newsgroups: rec.models.rc.helicopter
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: E-Sky Lama 4 - 4in1 controller

> USUALLY this is an indication that the throttle(pitch) trim on the
> transmitter needs to be changed to a lower setting.
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> tail as the throttle setting is changed.
> Use of an external gyro gets into another bag of worms.

> USUALLY this is an indication that the throttle(pitch) trim on the
> transmitter needs to be changed to a lower setting.
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>>
>> Sam

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