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- From: kaiser@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Chris Kaiser)
- Subject: Re: Transmitter/Receiver Mods
- Message-ID: <C1G1zn.5Fq@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
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- Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- References: <C18E6w.3zr@inews.Intel.COM> <C1F9Lq.1t9@hpchase.rose.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:33:23 GMT
- Lines: 62
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- In article <C1F9Lq.1t9@hpchase.rose.hp.com>, jahr@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Steve Jahr) writes:
- > Doug Braun (dbraun@cad636.intel.com) wrote:
- > :
- > : --
- > :
- > : 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? Otherwise, has anyone ever
- > : heard of a modifiecation to the transmitter to hard-wire
- > : it to do the mixing? How about a mod to add more channels?
- > : I would assume the chip in the transmitter that does all the work
- > : has the capability of doing more than 4 channels, and you
- > : could wire in pots or switches to some unused inputs to
- > : get more channels.
- >
- > As has been posted...
- >
- > You could use the ACE Christy electronic mixer.
- > You could use a mechanical mixer (sliding tray or DuBro).
- > You could use the RCD "MOM" (Master Onboard Mixer).
-
- Scratch that mechanical mixer... the Samuri is a 2-channel model
- that uses wingerons, i.e. both whole wings rotate independently to
- provide roll control and together to give pitch control (requires
- strong ball-raced servos...). There isn't enough room in the fuse
- to add a mechanical mixer (unless you're extremely clever), and
- with the wing twist setup you don't want ***ANY*** slop in the
- linkages.
-
- > As to mixing... it is probably possible. The biggest difficulty
- > would be creating two "inverse" signals to drive the alternate
- > ailerons. Once this is accomplished, then mixing the elevator
- > signal onto these signals is probably fairly simple. To provide
- > fuel for thought... I'll repost something I wrote up a while back
- > on adding channels to a Tx. The main relevance to this discussion
- > is basic control stick circuitry.
-
- ... good stuff on adding channels deleted ...
-
- The way to do this in the Tx is to add the aileron and elevator
- channels together for one servo, and subtract them for the other
- - then use servo reversing if necessary to get the right actions.
- Building an "adder" and "sutracter" is not hard if you have some
- basic electronic knowledge. The subtractor is the trickier of the
- two as you need to set up a reference voltage equal to that of
- the control stick when it's at neutral. Somebody posted a Tx V-tail
- mixer quite a while ago that used this principle (same circuit, just
- different channels mixed). If that person is still on the net perhaps
- they could repost the circuit. Failing that, and if there is interest,
- I could post my circuit. However I must point out that I didn't get
- around to building it (not because I didn't think it would it work,
- but because I ended up using my computer radio for that model instead).
-
-
- Chris Kaiser
-
- Postgrad, Elec. Eng. Dept.
- University of Canterbury
- Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND
-
-