The SL720 gyro is designed as a tail rotor gyro for model helicopters, but the remarkable flexibility that the PC interface of the SL720 gyro provides means it can be used for a variety of specialist applications, not only on radio control models, but for camera stabilisation, wheelchairs, lighting rigs etc. If you need help on setting up a SL720 for an unusual application, please contact us.

Use on other axes:
The SL720 can be used on cyclic axes on helicopters - to go flybarless, and on fixed wing aircraft for stability - including to prop hang.

Advantages of Flybarless:

• it removes some of the drag associated with the flybar
• more immune to turbulence
• electronically adjustable handling characteristics, so more easily tuned compared to making mechanical changes
• holds the models attitude more accurately in eg fast forward flight
• no links to get tight or sloppy - less maintenance and more robust - no flybar to break in a crash!
• for Scale - much more realistic visually
• and flys more like the 'ideal' machine - one pilot was heard to say it 'flew just like a simulator'!

Suggested aileron gyro setup as of April 2008.......... Suggested elevator gyro setup as of April 2008

On CCPM machines you will need to use a CycLock mixer

Camera stabilisation:
Geoff Bell of Flightcam has used CSM gyros for many years - not just on model helicopters carrying cameras, but on other innovative things - you might recall 'Dungcam' from a few years ago, and then when he needed to stabilise cameras attached to the tusks of elephants for the BBC's acclaimed "Tiger - Spy in the Jungle" series he again relied on SL720 gyros supplied by CSM.

Have a look at these Clip1 Clip2 Clip3 to see some of the excellent results he obtained. ( © BBC)

Use for the profoundly disabled:
An Irish company called Unique Perspectives have used the SL720 gyro for a couple of applications: the first is directly as a heading hold gyro on a wheelchair - where the client has little control the slightest unevenness of the floor can send the wheelchair off-course and this is corrected by a gyro: www.click2go.ie

And when one of the World's premier theatre companies were developing a revolutionary stabilised lighting rig they turned to CSM to provide the gyro expertise they required. See a demonstration of LightLock in action, and a promotional piece by Patrick Stewart.

 

 

Darryl Sprayberry, with his award winning Scale flybarless machine, using two SL720 gyros for cyclic stabilisation.

A Tiger cub investigating its reflection in Trunkcam when it was left on the ground near their lair.

For further info on specialist applications, and for help in fine tuning your SL720 gyro, please contact CSM at tech@csm-ltd.co.uk or phone (+44) 0 1457 854680

CSM gyros and other products are available from your local model shop through our distributors RC Models Distribution Ltd: email sales@rcmodels.org or phone (+44) 0 161 929 5955