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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 8/15/2012 8:40 AM   
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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 8/26/2012 5:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		I just purchased a DX-18 this week with the primary intentions of getting the two jets I have currently flying onto something that is equipped with telemetry and getting everything converted from DMS2 to DSMX.

Here are some current observations. The DX-18 is not quite as comfortable to me as my 11x is. Its close but Ive been using the 11x for two seasons. It will take a little bit to get used to something different so thats not a big deal.

I like the telemetry, right now I have only the basic which is signal strength, fades and holds and RX battery level. just having some feedback on the RX battery condition and being able to set alarms for low RX batteries is worth what I paid. I fly Jet Central and was told there would be some telemetry for temp and RPM forth coming. The GPS logger will be good to have as it gives ground speed and might make it easier to find a downed plane lost in deep woods. (I speak from personal experience this yearAnd that all im going to say about that! )

I think setting up flight modes is a bit simpler than with the 11x, and u can have five if need them rather than 3.

Binding is super simple-not that is was hard with the 11x-its even simpler with the 18. The radio will automatically decide if the RX you are binding to is DSM2 or DSMX. No muss, no fuss.

NOW a couple of dislikes.

I really liked on the 11x being able to switch between function and system modes without having to cut the radio off and then turn it back on while pressing other buttons. Guess what? you have to turn the DX-18 off and turn it back on while holding the scroll roller down to get into System mode. Archaic

My other dislike-not being able to adjust both aileron and elevator in flap setup. Its elevator comp only. The 11x lets you do both in the flap menu. I know u can do a mix and set up to activate some aileron comp with the flap switch but UGHHHHH-2X Archaic and very disappointing. (if i have missed something and there is elev and aileron comp in the flap setting please, please let me know!!)

My initial outing with the DX-18 today was in a 60" EF Extra that has many flights with the 11x. I use flaperon mix with up elevator on high rates for doing harriers and knife edge spins. On the DX-18 i could not find flaperon anywhere in the mixing channel selection. Finally after the process of elimination-or selective guessing, your choice- I found that if you pick flaperon at the wing type selection and mix use ELEV as the master and LEFT Aileron as the slave I was able to achieve a flaperon mix with the elevator. Once again if someone knows something I don't, let me know.

I am flying my Torus with the 18 tommorow, Will let u know how it goes.

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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 8/29/2012 9:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, its designed that way to do a mix with the elevator to the aux channel you have the aileron plugged into.. It just knows its flaperon because you didnt select ail channel... the trim still works too.. then put that mix on a switch or flt mode.

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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 8/30/2012 5:43 AM   
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Yes, its designed that way to do a mix with the elevator to the aux channel you have the aileron plugged into.. It just knows its flaperon because you didnt select ail channel... the trim still works too.. then put that mix on a switch or flt mode.



Yes thank you for confirming that. I went back into the manual and found an explanation of the very thing you state and I found by accident. Its termed "Back mixing" and is explained. Had I bothered to read the whole manual the first go round I would have known.

Haven't been able to put but one flight on the Torus since installing the DX-18 but it went off with out a hitch. The telemetry for the RX voltage and the recording of frame loss, fades and holds is something that is very reassuring. For a ten minute start-up to shut down flight my frame loses for the AR12000 RX with were 126,24,56, and 144, 0 fades, 0 holds.

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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 8/30/2012 2:34 PM   
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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 8/30/2012 3:08 PM   
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Status: online 		Bob, I just did a mix FLP>LAL 1=0%
2=0%
3=43%
Switch=Flight Mode
Tick Box 3

Good starting point, just adjust Point 3 until you get the required up throw on ailerons (on landing flap),

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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 8/30/2012 5:24 PM   
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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 8/31/2012 5:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		Bob-O if you don't get it setup I'll help you with it next week.

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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 8/31/2012 5:18 AM   
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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 8/31/2012 3:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hi Bob:
Hope things worked after our phone call yesterday...I will be back from MN about 3 PM and will give you a buzz when I have my radio in hand. Crow went in smoothly on my UB and Arf Bandit after figuring out the L Ail quirk and using default channel assignments. There still is a mate and flaperon function like on the 12X, but it is imbedded differently in the firmware and not named as such.



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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 8/31/2012 10:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		The 1,2,3 settings described by Gary are variable depending on what the exact neutral postion of the flap is, i.e. mid-flap switch setting on switch D or whatever switch you are using for flaps, as well as the overall geometric setup of the flap servo and horns.

On my ARF Bandit, I use 1=+125, 2=0 and 3 or Offset is -35 which gives me about 3/8" up aileron with full flaps.

If you want a bit of crow with 1/2 landing or takeoff flaps, activate tick 2 as well as tick 3. I do it to help forestall any tip stalling tendency with 1/2 flaps. You can set flap speed on the flap menu, but I set my flap, aileron, and elevator speeds all together on the mix page. 3.0 seconds seems about right.

On the aircraft type menu, I set up dual aileron servos, dual flap servos for the wing, dual elevator servos on the stab, and dual rudders on the fin. On a single fin plane like the the BARF or UB, or when dual rudders are Y'd together like on a Boomer, one rudder becomes the true rudder and the other rudder is mated to it, which I use for N/G steeing. This saves another mix. If you want to turn off the N/G or make it adjustable, just like on the 12X, just do a N/G to N/G mix and use the gear switch as a switch and a knob for trimming the N/G for straight tracking.







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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 9/2/2012 1:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		I discovered that using dual rudders in the airplane type menu and setting up the rudder on R rudder and N/G on the L rudder does not allow me to set up a mix to trim the nose wheel and turn off the servo with gear retraction. So I set up a rudder to aux 3 mix (aux 3 is my nose wheel port on my 1221RX). Then on the port assignment menu, select Aux 3 receiver port, and then scroll to channel input config menu and select whatever switch you use to trim the nose wheel for centering (I use the LTrAbutton)......finally on the mix menu, select the gear switch (A) as the Switch and done.

Then when done, don't forget to export to SD card

As Goose notes, best to use the analog trim selection LTrA rather than LTrD I originally posted.....

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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 9/3/2012 3:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		Tom, you need to select L trim A

A is for analog and allows stepping the trim.
D is for digital and will give you 100% stepping like off/on..

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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 9/3/2012 7:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		Right on Goose......I was using the D trim as you can change the step but not as fine as you can on the analog mode......similar to the left side lever trim option vs the throttle trim on the throttle channel....

Thanks for the tip.......

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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 9/4/2012 6:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		Is it possible to bind DX18 to a JR 1221X?  Has any one tried it successfully ?  Will all 12 channels work proportionally?   

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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 9/4/2012 6:32 AM   
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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 9/4/2012 6:33 AM   
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Is it possible to bind DX18 to a JR 1221X?  Has any one tried it successfully ?  Will all 12 channels work proportionally?   

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I would think it would work OK.. I have bound mine to two jets with AR1200 Rx in them and it did fine. And all 12 channels will be proportional You will have to activate the X-port in the System mode of the TX to activate the other two channels as there are by default the first ten channel setups only in the main menu. Now my understanding is that if u use less than a twelve channel RX u have to activate the X-port menu and use the X-port channel expander modual. Any channels used on the module will also be proportional but will be at at much slower frame rate and should be used for NON-flight critical devices such as flaps (yes I know that flaps are critical in a big sense but not like ailerons and elevators) smoke pumps, bomb releases etc.

Despite the large attempt by the OTHER big name radio company with its advertisement eluding that the DX-18 -they call it "a certain manufactures 18 channel radio" - trying to tell you otherwise, the DX-18 allows for ALL 18 Channels to perform proportionally.

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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 9/4/2012 9:46 AM   
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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 9/5/2012 2:46 AM   
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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 9/5/2012 7:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		 Thanks goose....  I ordered my DX-18 today with a JR1221X reciever.  I also got the TM1000...  Should have it before the weekend will test it on a foamy plane before moving it into my new BVM eMig-15...

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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 9/10/2012 5:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		Tom Thanks for the info on hooking up the nose wheel to the rudder. Very slick. I've been using my DX-18 for several months now just in simple 4 & 5 channel airplanes. I decided to put it in my R-54. I found something that puzzles me and hope I can explain it well enough to be understood.
I selected the two flap option in aircraft type. It automatically assigned the flaps in the channel assign menu to aux 1 and aux 2. RT and left flap respectively. Since I wanted to assign the ECU aux throttle lead to aux 2 on the receiver (it's a Jetcat P-70) I moved the left flap from aux 2 to aux 3. I then went to assign aux 2 back to the aux 2 channel and it was gone. I could not assign aux 2 back to aux 2 in the port assignment menu. The work around of course is to assign another aux channel to aux2 then activate it by assigning it to switch E. It seems that if you don't use the auto assign channels as is you actually lose a channel.
Does this make sense?
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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 9/10/2012 8:56 AM   
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Status: online 		What the 18 actually does is assign the most important controls, flying surfaces, in the first available channels.
Like you I used to use Aux2 for ucu control. This is a complete waste of time and a channel, I advise you to forget it.
If you are worried about killing the turbine fast simply assign a throttle cut switch, I use switch H.
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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 9/11/2012 6:33 AM   
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What the 18 actually does is assign the most important controls, flying surfaces, in the first available channels.
Like you I used to use Aux2 for ucu control. This is a complete waste of time and a channel, I advise you to forget it.
If you are worried about killing the turbine fast simply assign a throttle cut switch, I use switch H.
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Gary - Thanks for the information on how the flying surfaces are assigned. It just seems strange that if you change them you lose a channel. My first radio was a Heathkit GD 47. I have traversed through a number of radios over the years, my last one is the JR 11X. This DX-18 is a whole new breed of cat. It's a fantastic radio. I also appreciate your concern about me waisting time. I have been retired for 14 years now and I just waist time whenever I want to. Also at this age forgetting things is not a problem.
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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 9/11/2012 8:57 AM   
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Status: online 		Hi Galen,

Sorry about the wasting time, badly phrased that. When I got into turbines about three years ago I religously used the aux ecu as per the JC manual then èventually got a Wren and realised that I was the only one in the UK throwing a channel away. This was on a JR DSX 9 so I hàd to use a matchbox or two sometimes.
When first using the DX18 I got confused because it kept throwing out the gear channel which annoyed me initially, but then I realised that gear is just a non proportional switch so the Tx just chucks it out so the early crucial channels get priority presumably for latency, common sense I guess. I quickly got used to it though.
I can't quite understand how you can lose a channel though especially as one of the battery inputs is actually a 10th channel, simply plug the battery into any spare port.
I started off on a Macgregor single channel reed set more years ago than I care to remember!
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RE: Spektrum DX18 - 9/13/2012 3:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am about to set up my old CARF Lightning on my new DX18, using a 12020 Rx and PB Sensor switch.

Any advice (or general usage) on channel asignment?  Or do you let the Tx assign default channels?

And which switches do you use for what?  (Mode 2 fliers only please)

I am thinking :-   switch A for retracts
                                         D for 3 position flaps
                                         Right slider for wheelbrakes
                                         Left slider for airbrakes (if/when fitted)
                                         G for engine cutoff instead of pulling trim back
                                     C and F  are rates

How about smoke?  switch B maybe (when I connect it up)

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