Piccolo Pro, NO POWER!!!! *pics*

[Daz(DJLFlapper)]

This is fact,
Your thread started as a call for help to ask advice on a few issues.
1: Your heli even though the head was rotating fine would not give you lift enough to allow you to fly.
2:You mention inyour first post that you have been playing with your collective and you THINK it is fine.
3: You then ask what other people are useing for gear ratios.
4: You ask what the deal is with those ikarus motors
5: You ask which size motor out of the 2 mentioned you should be useing.
6: you ask if the battery is too heavy.
7: You ask why would ikarus sell a battery that adds too much weight to the copter to fly.

This is not my forum. I only call in every day to offer advice to the questions posted. I love this hobby allso and have been involved with it for 29years now. I have had a piccolo FP heli as well as many others. I have many freinds that call round for me to assist them with there problems this even goes down to RC cars.

I gave you some advice about the type of radio you are useing because I know this to be a massive problem to your enjoyment of the heli you have. I can not understand why you would go out of your way to buy so many upgrades for the Piccolo pro and have a radio that is not up to the job. ( I KNOW it would sort a lot of issues out and give you the best from your heli ) But you can only lead a horse to water you can't make it drink.

You asked many things and I answered honestly. I would not change anything said because I know it to be sound advice. What you do with the information given to you is up to you. I will no longer be interested.
My only mistake here was to assume that as you had a heli that was very modified. You would have had the sence to have a good radio.

You can not even confirm the pitch settings. I am still unsure about your ability to set the heli up properly. However I do wish you all the best with your heli. I hope that you get it sorted out and enjoy it as much as it was intended.

I will leave it at that.
Good luck,

Darren.

[colin]

OK I HAVE TO STEP IN AS OWNER OF THIS SITE.

I think all of us have said our fair share of arguments, and I believe they are all valid in our own eyes.

Daz - There may be other ways of doing things that we experienced pilots don't know about. This is something called inventions. So if he managed to get 3 gyros in X-Y-Z axis hovering the heli for him in a hands-off configuration.. that's hats off to him.

Nick - We're all still learning the sport here. No matter how many years we have on our belt. What we try to do is to pass on that experience to others so that they don't have to experiment with things that don't work, and setup their heli the way it is intended to be setup. All of us who saw your heli setup would have told you to change to Li Po batteries and get a heli radio to mix your pitch/throttle curves. I started off like you, using a Y-Connector, but that doesn't give you anything near constant RPM. I found out later with a heli radio that setting up the entire heli was so much easier.

Cheers.

[nsheryka]

Hey guys,


Thanks for the advice again, and sorry we got started off on the wrong foot. It?s quite apparent that we all may share the alpha male characteristic, and therefore can let silly differences of opinion escalate into heated arguments.

Sorry if i offended any of you, but you are defiantly correct. I should have a heli radio. I was merely trying to prove a point that it could work with a 4 channel and perhaps you mistook it for me being arrogant and not trusting your experience.

One final note, believe it or not that huge battery are actually Li Poly, it is just a very big one. (or maybe it just looks huge on that small heli!)

You guys do a good service to the community sharing your knowledge, even if it is outdated (just a joke! ).


Keep it up, keep it in the air.