Tim Taylor
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Joined: 6/26/2004
From: Rawlins,
WY, USA
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Ok I spoke with Sullivan and they suggested to go to a lower voltage pack so I tried a 7.4 instead of the 11.1 and its MUCH better..even at 7.4 it still really pumps a lot at 100%..I lowered my End Point to 30% and it seems just about perfect...at least on the ground..The smoke comes on just a few clicks under 1/2 throttle..hopefully I will be close enough so I will only have to adjust the end point a little.
Bob this is how I have my TX setup..its a 9C
Pump is plugged into channel 5
endpoint is 30%
PMix #6...throttle master..aux 5 slave
Aux 5- null
pos 1 +100
pos 2 -89
pos 3 -90
pos 4- 90
pos 5 -93
I sat mine up yesterday after I found the smoke was killing the engine at low RPM. I used the Futaba FAQ for the 9C. My reciever is a PCM 9 channel. The pump is a TME SmartSmoker Simple Smoke Pump. The pump is on channel 8. I had lots of trouble setting it up as the FAQ said but it did work as a guideline.
Setup is in PMX-6. Channel 8 is Aux2. Aux 2 had to be reversed or it was max smoke at idle and Minimum at full throtttle. The subtrim of +120 needed to be used to get the pump to slow to a crawl with the motor at idle. By crawl I mean it pumps about two clicks at a time seperated by several seconds before the next cycle. So -100 means crawl. This is still enough to put out some thick smoke at idle but it doesn't seem to want to kill the motor. Switch A was used to cut off the smoke completely. Formerly I had it on one of the side VR's. It worked OK there, but it was too easy to kill the motor plus I was wasteing oil.
Page 1;
Mix ON
Mas 3:Thro
Slv 8:Aux2
Link Off
SW A
Position Null
Page 2;
On
Thro-Aux2
Pos 1 -100
Pos 2 -100
Pos 3 -90
Pos 4 -60
Pos 5 -40
With the -90, -60, -40 the smoke thickens to max without much residue on the plane. I'm concidering reducing the numbers further to make the smoke last longer, IE -100, -100, -90, -75, -60 or lower. I'm running two 10 ounce smoke tanks. Also, I use a seperate 6v battery and external switch for the smoke.
This is just my setup, it may not work for others.
< Message edited by Tim Taylor -- 5/27/2007 11:36:08 PM >
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