Avios/Hobby King 1600mm C-130 Hercules

[Juan De La Garza]

Has anyone upgraded the ESCs on their C-130. One of mine overheated and burned out. Thanks in advance. My project is a conversion from the Civilian Transport to fat Albert...

[Juan De La Garza]

ISO propeller hex screws for my build of the C-130. Anyone know the size?

[lusek_pl]

Finally it flew

https://youtu.be/w3NOH3Uhyt4

https://youtu.be/Q9y7hGtzaE8

[lusek_pl]

I'll try to post a video soon

[Arron yeate]

Hello everyone. I would like to share the issue of loose controls in the C 130. I purchased the model more than a year ago and it was my big surprise when there were loose elevator and rudder when folding. Reading the forum you can see that the problem is not unique ... I decided to fix it in a good way not to come back to it. I peeled off a piece of foam on the steering enhancement. There is a carbon tube on the elevator, right next to the hinges, you need to be careful. It turns out that friends from the Far East stuck the halves of the steering wheel together, but they did not glue into the hinges, so they are loose. I invite you to the movie, best regards

https://youtu.be/75bnf26Dz98

I saw your video on YouTube i think mate.

[fredmdbud]

Hi Guy's, I am using a Spektrum AR8360T receiver. When I to go into the system menu the engines and and lights kick in, when I back out they stop. Attempted to upload a video of it without success. Anyone else have this issue?

Sounds like your receiver is going into fail-safe mode, where preset channel setting kick in when there is a loss of transmitter signal.

[xviper]

Hi Guy's, I am using a Spektrum AR8360T receiver. When I to go into the system menu the engines and and lights kick in, when I back out they stop. Attempted to upload a video of it without success. Anyone else have this issue?

When you go into the system settings menu, your TX stops talking to the RX. That's why it asks you if you are sure you want to do that. The RX sees it as a sudden and total signal loss. Before going into the system, you should be disconnecting the battery from the plane.

[Thegecko]

Hi Guy's, I am using a Spektrum AR8360T receiver. When I to go into the system menu the engines and and lights kick in, when I back out they stop. Attempted to upload a video of it without success. Anyone else have this issue?

[xviper]

to close the inner flap due to servo travel I had to set sub trim at 225 the maximum and trim at 64 to close the flap right up. Downside very little movement on the flap when using it. On another point, what is the best spot to situate the receiver? They say to get it as close to the cg as possible for the gyro. There is not a lot of room close due to the main board on the roof and landing gear in the floor.

There really isn't much movement in those flaps, but it seems to be enough. The inner flaps move very little compared to the outer ones and even those don't move too much.
Don't stress too much over where the gyro goes. Putting it near the CG is "old school". Many planes that come with gyros these days have them mounted nowhere near the CG and they work just fine. My RX is far in front of the battery straps and my gyro is beside the RX mounted next to the side wall. The plane flies very solid even in some stiff winds.

[Thegecko]

to close the inner flap due to servo travel I had to set sub trim at 225 the maximum and trim at 64 to close the flap right up. Downside very little movement on the flap when using it. On another point, what is the best spot to situate the receiver? They say to get it as close to the cg as possible for the gyro. There is not a lot of room close due to the main board on the roof and landing gear in the floor.

[xviper]

Hi All, I recently purchased the V2 C130 only to find the inner flaps servos were so far forward they hardly moved. Without damaging the wing to remove them and re align the arms looks to be the only option. Any one else have this issue. Trimmed down the control rod and used all of my sub trim and the flap still does not fully retract due to control arm mounting.

Have you considered using flap sub-trim to change the starting point of the flaps travel? Then, if needed, you can adjust flap servo travel to get more travel at the other end. Then, once you are in the flap menu (assuming that you've chosen "1AIL, 1 flap" in the aircraft type), you can dial in 1/2 and full flaps as needed. You shouldn't have to remove anything or re-align the arm to do this.

[Thegecko]

Hi All, I recently purchased the V2 C130 only to find the inner flaps servos were so far forward they hardly moved. Without damaging the wing to remove them and re align the arms looks to be the only option. Any one else have this issue. Trimmed down the control rod and used all of my sub trim and the flap still does not fully retract due to control arm mounting.

[RRHandy]

Hello everyone. I would like to share the issue of loose controls in the C 130. I purchased the model more than a year ago and it was my big surprise when there were loose elevator and rudder when folding. Reading the forum you can see that the problem is not unique ... I decided to fix it in a good way not to come back to it. I peeled off a piece of foam on the steering enhancement. There is a carbon tube on the elevator, right next to the hinges, you need to be careful. It turns out that friends from the Far East stuck the halves of the steering wheel together, but they did not glue into the hinges, so they are loose. I invite you to the movie, best regards

https://youtu.be/75bnf26Dz98

Been a known issue with this plane from day one, we need to read thru the pages to find info.

[lusek_pl]

Hello everyone. I would like to share the issue of loose controls in the C 130. I purchased the model more than a year ago and it was my big surprise when there were loose elevator and rudder when folding. Reading the forum you can see that the problem is not unique ... I decided to fix it in a good way not to come back to it. I peeled off a piece of foam on the steering enhancement. There is a carbon tube on the elevator, right next to the hinges, you need to be careful. It turns out that friends from the Far East stuck the halves of the steering wheel together, but they did not glue into the hinges, so they are loose. I invite you to the movie, best regards

https://youtu.be/75bnf26Dz98

[xviper]

All sorted. It was the setup of the gyro, all sorted now. Infact i think its finished all surfaces working just need to go over all throws are as the manual 12mm up/down. If this is the best option. I ran the HE Gyro on to a 2 position switch and turned the 3d gain to zero, and the main pot to about 25/30%. Di you go off the manual for your throws? And did you select high rates med rates low rates? This i haven't done yet. I've just set everything as per manual at 12mm up /down but left the rudder at max throw.

Yes, I program 3 rates/expo for this plane but all but ELE can use high rates. For ELE, I fly with mid to low rates.

[barnaby]

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[Arron yeate]

I think that's what you need to do. Who knows what the out of the box settings are for any HE without going through the manual. For all you know, it could be set up for elevon or something else that the Herc is NOT. Maybe you've got the gyro mounted in a certain way and you didn't tell it.

All sorted. It was the setup of the gyro, all sorted now. Infact i think its finished all surfaces working just need to go over all throws are as the manual 12mm up/down. If this is the best option. I ran the HE Gyro on to a 2 position switch and turned the 3d gain to zero, and the main pot to about 25/30%. Di you go off the manual for your throws? And did you select high rates med rates low rates? This i haven't done yet. I've just set everything as per manual at 12mm up /down but left the rudder at max throw.

[xviper]

I've down loaded them. I hadn't got to any part of setting the gyro up at this stage just literally plugged it all up and powered the herc up. The elevators went down and the rudder turned and both stayed in this possition

I think that's what you need to do. Who knows what the out of the box settings are for any HE without going through the manual. For all you know, it could be set up for elevon or something else that the Herc is NOT. Maybe you've got the gyro mounted in a certain way and you didn't tell it.

[Arron yeate]

Hard to say without knowing exactly what you've done so far. There could be lots of things you've missed. Do you have the A3L instructions in hand? Go through each and every step and make sure all of them coincide with the plane you have and what you want the gyro to do. Wing type? Mounting orientation? Begin with low gyro rate gain? Gyro direction for each control surface? "Mode" function enabled or not and in which mode is it in when you plug everything in? Polarity of all plugs correct? And there are other parameters that the instructions will cover.

I've down loaded them. I hadn't got to any part of setting the gyro up at this stage just literally plugged it all up and powered the herc up. The elevators went down and the rudder turned and both stayed in this possition

[xviper]

Ok so tonight i plugged the A3L in and as soon as i powered up the plane all surfaces servos went to max one way i checked connection all ok. I disconnected the A3L Gyro and placed the ailerons lead, elevator lead and rudder lead back in the the Futaba Receiver and all surfaces went back to normal.is there something here i missed for the elevator and rudder to max one way.

Hard to say without knowing exactly what you've done so far. There could be lots of things you've missed. Do you have the A3L instructions in hand? Go through each and every step and make sure all of them coincide with the plane you have and what you want the gyro to do. Wing type? Mounting orientation? Begin with low gyro rate gain? Gyro direction for each control surface? "Mode" function enabled or not and in which mode is it in when you plug everything in? Polarity of all plugs correct? And there are other parameters that the instructions will cover.