| Title: | Welcome To The Radio Control Conference |
| Notice: | dir's in 11, who's who in 4, sales in 6, auctions 19 |
| Moderator: | VMSSG::FRIEDRICHS |
| Created: | Tue Jan 13 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1706 |
| Total number of notes: | 27193 |
I installed a Tower Hobbies Mini Flight Pack in one airplane a couple
years ago, and used my Futaba as transmitter, with no problems.
It is possible that if you have no problems with the original receiver,
that the transmitter is 'out of tune' with respect to the Mini Flight
Pack. Typically, the transmitter is tuned, and then the receiver
is tuned to match the transmitter output for peak signal reception.
If the original receiver was 'mis-tuned' due to a transmitter set
up away from nominal, then an apparent incompatibility would exist
with another flight pack, when in reality it was really the
transmitter at fault.
In the case where you buy a replacement flight pack, the receiver
is tuned to 'middle of the road' where it should work well with
all equally tuned transmitters of the same frequency and modulation
technique.
In any case, don't attempt to retune your transmitter, (RF section),
as without proper equipment and license (at least in the States),
its not allowed.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 166.1 | Tune it up! | CRVAX1::KAPLOW | There is no 'N' in TURNKEY | Tue Jun 02 1987 14:29 | 21 |
The only thing I've ever built where micro servos wouldn't hack it
was an RC car. The micro servo just didn't have the torque for the
steering. Standard (cheap) Tower servos now work fine.
Forgot all about tuning, and I should have mentioned it in my
earlier reply. As a matter of fact, we did have to tune my friends
mini Tower RX to match his Futaba TX. Untuned, it had the short
range you mentioned. Once tuned the antenna down range was farther
than the yard length. We did it in my yard, to avoid all the metal
in the house, and the biggest problem was seing the scope face in
the bright sun. It isn't too hard to do; I will see if I can find
the instructions I have, and post a note on RX tuning. Scopes can
be borrowed from your friendly local F/S person.
As was mentioned earlier, you must have an FCC license to tune the
transmitter. If you have a ham license, and use the 50MHz RC
channels, you can tune those yourself (I do). The simple solution
is to not mess with the transmiter (unless it has a problem), and
tune the receiver to the transmitter. This is the only way to do
it when you have more than one flight pack that you use with the
same transmitter.
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