On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:04:37AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This is the only one I hav been able to get to work with both FM and | PCM. But I have not been able to get it to work with 2.4 GHz. | Spektrum receivers.
I like how they say it -- NOTE: This is the only Lost Model Locator of its type and size available that will work with most PCM systems! ... "of it's type" basically guarantees that no matter what new products come out, this statement is still accurate, because they won't be "of it's type" -- they'll be a different type, even if they do exactly the same thing. (Still, looks very nice and small. And it also looks like it *should* work with 2.4 GHz gear if you follow their programming instructions, but of course I've not tried it.) | Gordy, you say you can make it work. Have you actually tried? If you | have been successful, perhaps you can give us a step by step. The | procedure I used for PCM did not work for 2.4 GHz Spektrum. This will work fine with PPM, PCM or 2.4 GHz stuff, and you won't have to do any special programming to make it work -- http://www.hobbico.com/radioaccys/hcap0335.html The lost plane alarm will be activated if the servo channel it's on stops getting pulses, which is what works with normal PPM stuff and doesn't work with PCM or 2.4 GHz gear. However, the transmiter inactivity signal (which sounds the same as the lost plane alarm) will still work even with PCM or 2.4 GHz -- if you stop moving the sticks (or if you go into and stay in failsafe), that channel will be idle (not changing, though it may still be getting servo pulses), and once it's been idle for a minute, the alarm start beeping as if your plane was lost. And yes, I've tried it. The downside is that your plane will get upset and start beeping if you leave it turned on and idle for a few minutes -- like when you put it down between flights. Most annoying. I wish they'd made the timeout five minutes instead. -- Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You fight until hell freezes over. Then you fight on the ice." --Richard Russell 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
