Giving up on piccoboard before I get it:)

Well, the dealer I ordered my Piccolo and picoboard from was screwed by the distribtor who apparently committed to ship certain quantities and then diverted it to their own customers who ordered later - leaving him frustrated enough to give up on the product, rather than disappoint his own customers any further. This gave me a chance to reconsider my options, and after watching what many of you guys are going through I'm going to purchase separate components instead. Perhaps they will be more reliable too and be easier to fix or replace as needed, as well as being suitable for other uses. I'm going to use a Hitec Feather, GWS PG-03 Micro Gyro, and 2 "micro 6" speed controls. It might take me a while to get the mixing right, but I can't take the risk or the wait with the 72 mhz piccoboard. I'll likely use one of my 555 receivers for a while because the "revised" feather might take a while longer than the other stuff to get here. I'll likely post the results in a couple of weeks.

Cheers!

Glen

Follow-up: I had trouble setting up the tail rotor ESC, because the Micro 6 requires manually moving the stick from low to high, them back to low to initialize it. Once I was programming something other than a 1 to 1 correspondence with the throttle channel, it would rarely work. Perhaps this is why I could not get revolution mixing working either. I changed to simply mixing rudder with throttle and it did not work right until I robbed a JMP-HF9 speed control from my Mouse to use on the tail rotor. I did test hops on my bed and got it close to trimmmed. On the first flight outdoors, I had it hovering nice at chest height right in front of me until the winds came up, I goosed the throttle so I would not have to duck, and tried to swing it through a 360 degree turn. I did not have enough "oomph" to finish the turn - it was like the wind pushed the rotor disk down. If it wasn't carrying the weight of a temporary 555 receiver AND the fiberglass rod training gear, maybe I would not have had my gentle crash and lost a bearing in the snow. It did seem to fly OK though

Glen