Gyro?

[rcsammy]

i see alot of people using gyro's in their cars to keep them pointing forward and i have been wanting to try one for a while
does anyone know if either a
esky EK2-0704 gyro
or a
Telebee dual rate gyro
will work in a car?

[suicideneil]

Gyro is a gyro really, arent they? Its simply a case of setting it so that the steering servo can be used to automatically adjust the steering with more precision than a human can whislt doing a high speed run. Humans tend to oversteer or not react quickly enough...

[lutach]

I have 2 gyros and one does keep the car from loosing control and the other one just keeps the servo pointing in the direction I turned it. The one that works good for me is the Esky one the other one is a Head Locking Gyro from Imax. So stay away from the head lock gyros .

[blueb8llz]

what in the heck is a gyro. i have never heard of this before. sounds like its something i need to add on my wish list for my emaxx. anybody got some links or more info they wanna shed me?

[JOEX]

Gyro

[blueb8llz]

lol damm i was really looking forward to reading on the link u sent me, now just looking forward to when im gonna eat my next gyro. no seriously, anyone got links?

[BrianG]

Gyro is short for gyroscope. For a simple demonstration, hold your dremel tool in your hand while running at high speed. Now, turn your hand different ways. Notice it sort of "resists" movement? Now imagine circuitry that measures this resistance and outputs a signal in proportion to the amount of resistance. Viola!

Here is a decent link on the theory in general. I'm sure you can figure out how it applies to R/C steering...

[bl-is-future]

Originally Posted by lutach

I have 2 gyros and one does keep the car from loosing control and the other one just keeps the servo pointing in the direction I turned it. The one that works good for me is the Esky one the other one is a Head Locking Gyro from Imax. So stay away from the head lock gyros .

reverse the direction

[blueb8llz]

ahh ok i get it now. so does anyone know if those items rcsammy listed will work on our vehicles?

[rcsammy]

the reason i asked was because i was reading about them in a E jato thread and people were saying some work for ground and some dont

[lutach]

Originally Posted by bl-is-future

reverse the direction

I tired everything I could with the Imax gyro, but it is not good for vehicles. The Esky one does the job just right. It made me look like a professional driver .

[blueb8llz]

hey lutach, where does the gyro thing actually go in the truck? what kind of car do you have it in? all i know is that the gyro plugs into the reciever correct? but i see two reciever plugs for the gyro...it needs both plugged in? sorry for the questions...this gyro things sounds like the thing i need

[lutach]

Originally Posted by blueb8llz

hey lutach, where does the gyro thing actually go in the truck? what kind of car do you have it in? all i know is that the gyro plugs into the reciever correct? but i see two reciever plugs for the gyro...it needs both plugged in? sorry for the questions...this gyro things sounds like the thing i need

I used it in my TC3 and my BPP after it swerved badly to the right and I hit the curb in one of my video's in youtube. I have tried many places to mount the gyro and I like it mounted right where my servo is. I did like it at the rear of my TC3, but it was a pain with the extra wires hanging around . One plug goes to the receiver and the other to your steering servo. The gyro's main job is to keep your car tracking straight and it works so good, it's banned from racing. I'm trying to find a way to completely hide a gyro from view and go to a race and beat the hell out of all the professionals .

[blueb8llz]

so if i wanted a gyro for my 3905 emaxx. does that mean i will need two gyros since i have two steering servos? do you have a picture of video on your gyro mounted in your car.
so you disconnect the servo plug from slot 1 from your esc and replace it with the gyro receiver plug, and then you connect the servo plug to the other gyro plug?

[lutach]

Originally Posted by blueb8llz

so if i wanted a gyro for my 3905 emaxx. does that mean i will need two gyros since i have two steering servos? do you have a picture of video on your gyro mounted in your car.
so you disconnect the servo plug from slot 1 from your esc and replace it with the gyro receiver plug, and then you connect the servo plug to the other gyro plug?

If your Emaxx has 2 servos, it has a Y adapter. All you do is disconnect the servo connector from the Rx and plug it into the gyro and the other gyro plug goes where the servo connector went in the Rx str or channel 2. I didn't take any pictures or made any videos of the gyro in action when it was installed, but I've seen a video or two in youtube or from a member here.