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- From: bloom@inland.com
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: What radio to get? (After 20 year absence)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.082123.2463@inland.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 08:21:22 CST
- References: <RFINCH.92Oct29202629@venice.water.ca.gov> <1992Nov02.011358.5085@kronos.com> <1992Nov2.144112.25797@bnr.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov2.144112.25797@bnr.ca>, petera@bcars630.UUCP (Peter Ashwood-Smith) writes:
- > |> It is amazing what the top of the line radios can do. There was a
- > |> posting here
- > |> about a year ago listing all of the features of a new such radio.
- > |>
- > I own a new Futaba SUPER 7 heli radio. I bought the heli
- > version because it comes with better servos and a higher
- > capacity battery pack and is supposed to be able to do all the
- >going to have the most fun with these kind of radios. Regular sport flyers
- >with perhaps flaps and retracts are not going to require most of the
- >features. Some of the features are actually not really a good idea
- > to use, for example control throws should be adjusted mechanically and
- > not digitally since you wind up using less than the servo's full
- > throw and hence get more slop and less leverage. The mixing is also
- > rather bizare because you never know what order things are mixed in.
- > This means that combining several things together is almost impossible.
- > I guess that if they had designed it with functions describing an
- > output they would have confused most of the potential customers but I for
- > one would have loved something like:
- >
- > Ch1 = Ch7 ? .45*Ch6 : .95*ch6
-
- Actually, I find most of the features on the Super 7 quite useful. The
- electronic mixing is great for removing control surface coupling, and
- makes slow rolls and point rolls and knife edge flight a hell of a lot
- easier. I just mix in some opposite aileron on the rudder to eliminate
- roll coupling. I also just mix in some elevator to eliminate pitch
- coupling with the rudder. Using Futaba lingo, the rudder is the Master
- channel and the aileron would be the slave channel - master tells the
- slave what to do and not vice versa. Electronic trim setting is also
- a nice feature. Before flying, my mechanical trim switches are always
- put back where I know they should be - right in the middle in the detent.
- As far as control throws, electronic adjustment allows you the luxury of
- having more throw in one direction than the other, and you can change
- things around easily at the field to see if you like more or less throw,
- exponential etc.
-