well a winding stooge wont help that, that just makes 1 person winding easier/ easy way to do it off helicopter so that if it does break it wont mash up the helicopter.chia wrote:We'll definitely be trying a winding stooge next year. I saw teams getting in 1100 winds (probably on 1/8) when we've barely been able to get 900.
Whoops, hadn't meant to double post.
So you're saying you are getting really low times? How many winds were left out of 1,000?illusionist wrote:Okay, so I tried a really low pitch (.8 vertical spacing and 3.5 tip to tip) and with 1,000 winds on 1/8, it rises about 14 feet, and falls back. So clearly lift is the issue. From what I know, if the pitch is higher, it should get more lift. But, in order for flight with 1/8, I needed to use a pretty low pitch. When I tried 1 inch with 2.75, it is too high for the rubber to provide the sufficient amount of lift. So is my reasoning right? I need to use a low enough pitch so that the rotors will actually spin with the power of 1/8, yet provide lift. Does it all come down to finding the right pitch, or is there anything else?
Btw, I'm using 1/8 FAI Tan Super Sport rubber. My helicopter is 4.05 grams.
Thanks in advance. I know I've asked similar questions a few times before.
2008 NY BLG Champ lol idk that but I think its because on the doorknob you stretched it out more?chia wrote:Well, when I wind off the copter, it feels safer to stretch it out farther. Also, I once wound a 2 gram loop from the same batch I've been working with all year around a doorknob or something, and it hadn't yet broken by 1100, when on the helicopter it breaks at 900 or less. Maybe I just suck at life or something
yeah, we didnt use a stooge (forgot at home). so the 2 ppl i had flying it used the winder at one end. and holding it w/o being about to turn on the other end was a paperclip to hold the o-ring with a pair of scissors through it to stop turningchia wrote:Well, that's my point exactly! Or maybe I should just suck it up and stretch it out more on the helicopter. I'd just rather it snap on the stooge than straight on the helicopter.
Yeah, with the .8 pitch, I got all of 17 secondssmartkid222 wrote:So you're saying you are getting really low times? How many winds were left out of 1,000?illusionist wrote:Okay, so I tried a really low pitch (.8 vertical spacing and 3.5 tip to tip) and with 1,000 winds on 1/8, it rises about 14 feet, and falls back. So clearly lift is the issue. From what I know, if the pitch is higher, it should get more lift. But, in order for flight with 1/8, I needed to use a pretty low pitch. When I tried 1 inch with 2.75, it is too high for the rubber to provide the sufficient amount of lift. So is my reasoning right? I need to use a low enough pitch so that the rotors will actually spin with the power of 1/8, yet provide lift. Does it all come down to finding the right pitch, or is there anything else?
Btw, I'm using 1/8 FAI Tan Super Sport rubber. My helicopter is 4.05 grams.
Thanks in advance. I know I've asked similar questions a few times before.
oreintation means which way the propeller is spinning.mrsteven wrote:jw because essentially this whole year I've been wondering this and someone recently brought this to my attention: by pitch angle, in which orientation do you mean? Idk if i've been measuring it the same way you have been. Like do you mean the angle of the spare; angle of 1 spare horizantal to the other lifted in the air?
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