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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!sbixby
- From: sbixby@cup.portal.com (Steven W Bixby)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: Transmitter/Receiver Mods
- Message-ID: <74149@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 10:44:03 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <C18E6w.3zr@inews.Intel.COM>,<96797@rphroy.ph.gmr.com>
- <1993Jan22.134412.1975@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu>
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- >>>I have a 4-channel Futaba FM system, and I was thinking of getting
- >>>a plane (Sig Samuri glider) that needs elevon mixing.
- >>>
- >>>Does anyone make a little black box that goes in the plane
- >>>to do the mixing electronically?
- >>
- >>ACE makes a little box called a Cristy mixer that will do elevon mixing. I th
- i
- >nk
-
- > ...and it reduces the available throw on each servo by 50%.
-
- And it still doesn't let you modify your differential throws on the elevons
- for clean rolling motion; you'd have to do it manually.
-
- Personally, I think a computer radio is essential for (relatively) exotic
- control surface planes, like the Samurai. Without it, you spend many hours
- mechanically adjusting wheel/horn angles to get a 'correct' flight path.
- IE, on the Samurai: If your setup with a mechanically controlled differential
- does barrel-type rolls when you crank the ailerons only over, you'll have
- to fiddle endlessly with the mech differential. With a computer radio,
- you can do it electronically, and practically adjust it as you fly; or
- at least, have it set up and flying well within a couple of hours.
-
- Besides, to us techno-geeks, computerized equipment is a must. :)
-
- -swb- (Steve Bixby, sbixby@cup.portal.com)
-