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- From: jahr@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Steve Jahr)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: Transmitter/Receiver Mods
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:40:13 GMT
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- Chris Kaiser (kaiser@elec.canterbury.ac.nz) wrote:
-
- ... basic stuff about plane needing elevon type mixing deleted ...
-
- : > 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).
-
- Well...... this sounds good on paper. The problem is that the inside
- of a Tx is a very hostile environment for electronic thing-ies. Seems
- that there is a great deal of EM garbage/noise being generated from
- that long metal thing sticking out (:
-
- Seriously, I tried a little op-amp adder for a dual rate circuit once
- and it didn't work anything like I expected. As I recall it worked on
- the voltmeter *until* I reconnected the RF module and then it went nuts.
- Seems that the op-amp tried to follow the RF signal noise as well as
- the control pot signal. Nothing that I tried would clean up the signal
- enough (filter capacitors and RF chokes).
-
- Perhaps if you use a *really* slow op-amp though...
-
- Steve Jahr
- jahr@hprnd.rose.hp.com
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