gyro without R/C

Interesting idea, made me think...

Should be able to get it to work, you need the following
1: Gyro/Gyro's (depending on what, how many stabilizing functions you want).
2: Servo tester/s, (to give the gyro/gyro's the signal to initialize)
3: Servo/servoes (to operate the rudder-surfaces).
4: Battey pack (for the power to the Servo tester, Gyro and the servo/servos)

Your not mad, or we just think alike
what are you thinking of, what model (indoor/outdoor, glider ?)

-Troels, with one foot over the ledge to madness

Hi Blind Vision
lets see if I'm on the right track, Ineed a gyro, servo tester,servo and Battrey.I'm thinking of building a 65" HP42 4 motor biplane using
4x HexTronik 16gm 1700kv outrunners, 4x Turnigy Plush 10amp 9gm speed controls and Turnigy 500ma 2s 20c Lipo pack.My question is what gyro and servo tester would you recomond bearing in mind weight is important eg. the lighter the better?
looking foward to your ideas

Hiya Scale FF !
Yep I agree with Troels on this one , you can get a receiver weighing just a few grams these days AND it would have the benefit of being able to vary throttle speed remotely ( and cut it as a fail safe ) as well as provide the stable initialisation signal for the gyro .
There is no rule that says you have to fit remotely controlled surfaces , so technically it would still be free flight ;)
Are you looking for the gyro to provide stabilisation on the roll axis? Rudder axis? elevator?
Not that it makes a difference , but would be good to know what you want to acheive by adding the components .

Great idea sooty, Perhaps a new competition for distance travelled .

on turning the TX of in flight, causing jitter, servos turning to one side, that a thing of the past as most TX/RX has fail-safe build in now.

a Fail Safe usually can be programed to do something you want it to. like setting 3/4 throttle, centering all servos or what you like it too. hence when it loses the signal it goes into Fail Safe (programmed).

But i guess it some free flight competition rules you have to follow.

So have i understood this right; you are building a powered (4 motors) free flight model, that will circle big circles (so you dont have to walk so far)

Just out of curiosity what will happen if it hits a thermal, do you have a "break" on it too ?

for a cheap Gyro/servo/servo-tester:
my first thought are:
HobbyKing GA-250 MINI-MEMS Gyro
HXT500 5g (I love thise)
Simple Servo Tester X2

BUT i have to look into the Gyro (dont buy yet), if it's good enough. -but all in all this setup if far cheaper, You dont need a 19g servo for that aileron correction.

If i held my breath for every interesting project i follow I would bring the CO2 tax down -still there is nothing like following and interesting project, the only thing that better is doing your self.


Cheers
-Troels