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You can read the manual, but the videos helped me get over the programming, there are lots of tutorials on Scott Page's youtube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaMwa_DbHw8&list=TLIirG98Hw8ywCxsfTSNfBP_uYI7lvfZCW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaMwa_DbHw8&list=TLIirG98Hw8ywCxsfTSNfBP_uYI7lvfZCW
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For mine they don't calibrate well.... I don't get -100 to +100 throw on them, even after calibration I get something usually like -110 to +98... its not really a big deal to me, but I still wish they were nice.. I actually wish they were smooth and didn't click... but thats a personal preference...
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I have my 30cc 3dhs Slick programmed in. Whenever the weather here in Ohio gets better I will fly it and post my results. From what I have found online the range seems to be outstanding. Looks like the fpv guys have tried it out extensively and gotten very long range. Much farther than my eyes can see?
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I'm flying smaller glow planes and gliders with mine. I have had my 2 meter glider at the limit of visibility without problems. It is nice to have telemetry so I know exactly what the signal strength is at the receiver when at extreme range. Better still to have a voice alert when signal strength drops to a minimum or battery voltage drops below my preset level.
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Frankly... I do have a lot of confidence in it so far, it will go in larger and larger planes, but I'm also in no rush there. Most of us have had this radio less than 6 months, I've had mine for a month and a half... Trust and confidence takes time, or at least it should take time.... I think once you start to get through the 2014 flying season you'll see more and more flying vids of more expensive planes than a foamie...
I guess my point is lets not rush it. I think its a great radio, I have been given no indications through flying the foamie that there are going to be any problems with it in larger planes...but I am still being cautious, I think we all have to be a little bit as responsible members of this community.
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My confidence in this system is low enough I haven't flown it in anything, the FrSky Rx's that first came onto the market as Futaba Compatible where bad enough I sold them all on to someone who wanted to use them in a non flying environment, but I will keep playing with the programming, but don't think it will ever leave the ground in one of my airframes.
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My confidence in this system is low enough I haven't flown it in anything, the FrSky Rx's that first came onto the market as Futaba Compatible where bad enough I sold them all on to someone who wanted to use them in a non flying environment, but I will keep playing with the programming, but don't think it will ever leave the ground in one of my airframes.
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Later;
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And about Sprengbrook and all the others, but then in those days all of them where suspect, we are not talking in an era of reliable radio control as long as you don't count non hopping Spektrum.
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My confidence in this system is low enough I haven't flown it in anything, the FrSky Rx's that first came onto the market as Futaba Compatible where bad enough I sold them all on to someone who wanted to use them in a non flying environment, but I will keep playing with the programming, but don't think it will ever leave the ground in one of my airframes.
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grab a foamy and go have some fun !
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Your probably not old enough to remember Sprengbrook, it was one of the first proportional radios together with Fleet, back when I was flying reeds and galloping ghost.
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Reeds were too expensive for me, but I watched a few folks flying with it. A good reed flier looked like someone playing a musical instrument the way their fingers flew around the switches. We set up a receiver with a speaker, and the tones almost sounded like they actually were playing music.
Maybe the Sprengbrook was only on your side of the 'Pond', or maybe it just wasn't available where I lived. No internet and very few publications covered the hobby then so people used what was available at the hobby shops. Brings back many good memories, and of course some bad ones also.
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Sprengbrook was the brain child of Harry Brooks and Doug Spreng, Doug being an US citizen and if I remember correctly a quite well known guy in F3A at the time. I also remember the rubber band escapement, and when the rubber broke the whole of the tissue covering on the fuselage would be toast, ah those where the days, thank the Lord they are just but a memory now.
Enough nostalgia, time to get back to the Fr Sky Taranis or we will get shouted at.
Mike
Enough nostalgia, time to get back to the Fr Sky Taranis or we will get shouted at.
Mike
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Doug Spring was the inventor of the pulse matching analog servo. The standard servo we have today is the same that Doug invented. The high speed analog servo that we call digital is nothing more than an update.
Doug produced the first digital radio called Digicon. It had problems. The problems were solved and a number of radios appeared. Microavionics, PCS, Bonner. EK,Citizenship, All using Dougs servo.
Doug was hired by Brooks to come to England to design and produce the Springbrook radio. It was never sold in the US.
Doug produced the first digital radio called Digicon. It had problems. The problems were solved and a number of radios appeared. Microavionics, PCS, Bonner. EK,Citizenship, All using Dougs servo.
Doug was hired by Brooks to come to England to design and produce the Springbrook radio. It was never sold in the US.