Looking good, something to keep in mind with a hydroplane is that they are designed to do right-hand turns, fastest and hardest right turn possible. SAW, or oval boat, figure eight not so much. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work. BG4L
Yea I’ve actually taken off the turn fin for the time being just test how a hydro handles w/o a fin. Surprisingly well, kinda drifts in the turns but still has a surprisingly tight turn radius which I wasn’t expecting. Will get a vid next time I take it out and try some hard rights with the fin back on!
I meant dual rate in the vid but dual rate is how far the servo/rudder will travel at full input. At 50% dual rate, the rudder will only travel half the distance of full turn input. In this case, it prevents the rudder from turning to far and hitting the prop. Will have less steering authority though. Expo is “mushing” the sensitivity of the radio inputs. If you think about a linear line where the servo will travel x distance for x input on the radio. Adding expo will make the line curve and will turn the servo less with the same radio input. At full radio input, it will operate all the way but in the low to mid input range, the servo will travel less. Tough to explain but there’s a few videos on it I’m sure. Used to make the model less sensitive to small inputs, mostly used on rc planes and helis.
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Looking good, something to keep in mind with a hydroplane is that they are designed to do right-hand turns, fastest and hardest right turn possible. SAW, or oval boat, figure eight not so much. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work. BG4L
Good to know, didn’t really think about that but would make sense on some sketchy lefts it was doing lol
@@VetteWay2Fastyou could drop the turn fin as much as you can to insure she hooks at wot in a right turn
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Yea I’ve actually taken off the turn fin for the time being just test how a hydro handles w/o a fin. Surprisingly well, kinda drifts in the turns but still has a surprisingly tight turn radius which I wasn’t expecting. Will get a vid next time I take it out and try some hard rights with the fin back on!
Btw, love that little hydro you’re making! Will def be hitting you up soon
There she is!!!
Hey what does expo do? I never really heard a good explanation
I meant dual rate in the vid but dual rate is how far the servo/rudder will travel at full input. At 50% dual rate, the rudder will only travel half the distance of full turn input. In this case, it prevents the rudder from turning to far and hitting the prop. Will have less steering authority though.
Expo is “mushing” the sensitivity of the radio inputs. If you think about a linear line where the servo will travel x distance for x input on the radio. Adding expo will make the line curve and will turn the servo less with the same radio input. At full radio input, it will operate all the way but in the low to mid input range, the servo will travel less. Tough to explain but there’s a few videos on it I’m sure. Used to make the model less sensitive to small inputs, mostly used on rc planes and helis.
@VetteWay2Fast wow that was the perfect answer thank you!
No prob man!