Hi Dave,

Long time no talk; I am well, thank you; hope you are too!

In keeping with my goal of having redundant R7008SB receivers I believe I can make this work with my existing PowerBox Royal.

If I understand the capabilities of this PowerBox correctly (not 100% sure that I do) it has a total of 7 output channels, 5 of which I can group up to 4 servos/channel, although typically, I’ll only need to group 2 servos/channel e.g. ailerons, elevators, rudders and flaps etc. That should leave me with 3 output channels from the R7008SB receiver, which could control the throttle and gear and wheel brakes. All of which being powered and control through the PowerBox with all the great benefits e.g. heavy gauge servo wires, voltage regulation, battery & receiver redundancy etc.

My hope is that I can control the secondary functions e.g. air brakes, lights and telemetry through the S-Bus 2 port independent of the PowerBox; realizing that the secondary functions would ‘not’ have receiver redundancy; I’m perfectly okay with this.

Anyway, that’s my wish list; I thought I’d post to chat with others who have been down this road. Let me know if you see a problem with my approach to this issue.

On the other hand, the Emcotec system looks like a solid system with parallel features; hard to beat German electronics! Let me know if you do a review on the Emcotec system, I’d like to know what you think.

Incidentally, I’d really like to see your T-38; any chance you’ll be bringing it to Jets Over Kentucky this year?

Joe