VBAR maiden & gov issue?!

[a2544321]

Completed my maiden today but only flew a tank and a half as I managed to get away from work early. For the most part it went without a hitch but i'm having an issue with the governor. Initially it felt like the gain was to high and therefore over-compensating when trying to keep a stable headspeed. I reduced the gain until a point where it was helping but any further and it felt as bad as before.

I was testing this by doing full pitch climbouts then full negative descents. If I levelled out after a climbout the headspeed stayed regular but if I tried the pitch change to negative without levelling out first then the motor sounded like it was going to cut. This applied to successive rainbows as well. I was being very aggressive with the climbouts and descents and was doing them in fairly quick succession which may have contributed to the high vibration levels in my log.

Other than this I was very impressed with the unit and look forward to more flying time with it and some further tweeking. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! I have attached my setup file and flight log.

My setup is as follows:

Trex 600 NSP
Align DS620 on the throttle
OS50 Hyper engine with Outrage HR50 muffler
20% nitro
10 degrees collective

[panzlflyer]

Only 10 degrees of pitch?

[Rotorholic]

Having same issue with same logs. Are you running 2 sats or rec/sat? Hopefully someone can help.

[beans07]

Try raising your minimum gov %.

Also post your log and vbar file.

[KC36330]

you're getting a lot of signal loss from the governor sensor and it's hitting the low limit quiet often (which should overspeed the head not under) i'd check the sensor and it's installation.

[Rotorholic]

Originally Posted by beans07

Try raising your minimum gov %.

Also post your log and vbar file.

Thanks beans, if im reading it right, i need to change from -50% to say -25% and see what happens? When I do long rainbow, right at direction change, throttle cuts way back just for maybe a split second, during the transition change. The YS56 does not bog at all, picks right back up with plenty of power. Thanks

[1BADAIR]

i just had this issue. slowly raised my %min gov from-50 to i think 5 now.

[KC36330]

raising minimum gov % isn't going to help. what it is for is when you unload the head for extended periods (long descents while the governor is active), the min is how low the throttle is allowed to go to prevent overspeed of the head, during those long descents you can overspeed the head to the point the gov will kill the engine trying to lower the throttle to lower the head speed. the min gov prevents the throttle from lowering far enough to put the flame out.

[Rotorholic]

Originally Posted by KC36330

raising minimum gov % isn't going to help. what it is for is when you unload the head for extended periods (long descents while the governor is active), the min is how low the throttle is allowed to go to prevent overspeed of the head, during those long descents you can overspeed the head to the point the gov will kill the engine trying to lower the throttle to lower the head speed. the min gov prevents the throttle from lowering far enough to put the flame out.

Am I reading this wrong then from Mikados website under Controls section. Confused now...


Governor experts:
In general the parameters were explained at the tooltips of the pc software.

The most important parameter here is the Minimum Gov. This is nearly as important as the gain on the main screen. Set as low as needed to get no overspeeding and as well as high as needed to have quick response when adding load. A proven maneuver to set this will be a rainbow. Doing a compromise, it might be better to accept some slight overspeeding during the unloaded part of the rainbow instead of too less power at the end.

The given preset buttons will set proven values as a good starting point. Take note that the e values are always lower than the nitros in case of the faster response on a electric drive.

[KC36330]

the OP stated:

If I levelled out after a climbout the headspeed stayed regular but if I tried the pitch change to negative without levelling out first then the motor sounded like it was going to cut

he is not having problems after an unloaded state but during load, he's not at the min gov during that time, by all means increase the min gov won't hurt a thing but i honestly don't see it being the fix for the OP problem. addressing all the sensor issues likely would.

the log shows sensor failures and vibrations at the same time.......as previously mentioned, taking a look at the sensor wouldn't be a bad idea.

[beans07]

What sensor have you got and what voltage is it running?

[Rotorholic]

Thanks for the help KC. Going to raise min gov and see what happens this weekend. Although not seeing any sensor issues in my logs, going to recheck it also.

[Rotorholic]

Originally Posted by beans07

What sensor have you got and what voltage is it running?

I dont want it to appear as if im taking this thread over from A2544321. Just seems like his issue is same as mine from what he is describing. I am using the Align sensor with the switched wires.

[a2544321]

Panzlflyer 10 degrees is enough collective for my needs. I'm no smack pilot and am more into pirouetting moves that don't require excessive amounts of pitch.

[a2544321]

Thanks for all the replies guys. For some reason I subscribed to this thread but did not receive any email notifications :-?

I resolved the problem by raising the minimum governor percentage as previously suggested and the engine is running great.

Thanks again everybody.