On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:09:36PM -0400, Michael Lachowski wrote: | Why turn off the IPD filter. | | Just pull full up in the elevator and walk away until the elevator | returns to neutral if you have hold set.
Personally, I like how my Futaba 9C has a servo test feature, where it slowly cycles all the channels/servos back and forth with many small discrete steps. That way, you just set your TX down, and walk off with the plane for a range test. As long as the servos are steadily moving back and forth, you're good. If they start jerking or stuttering or stopping completely, then you're not good anymore. This works with whatever RX you've got, be it PPM, PPM w/ DSP, or PCM. If you're holding the plane, you can hear the servos all going tick-tick-tick-tick and anything going wrong is very obvious just from the sound alone, though of course you can watch the control surfaces yourself too. The problem with looking for glitches is that some RX's don't glitch (or glitch rarely), and as for waiting for it to go into the signal loss mode, well, it won't do that until several frames have been lost in a row. I've no idea if other radio gear has a servo test feature (my 8U didn't, my Hitec Eclipse 7 doesn't, and I don't have any other higher end gear from other manufacturers) -- but they should! -- Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] `Every man has his price. Mine is $3.95.' RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
