ORIGINAL: OhD
Peter, I've been watching the videos and reading the manual and it is looking good. I couldn't imagine how one might use the tipping of the transmitter to activate something but in the video they had it programmed to tell you the remaining time in your flight. I assume you could tip it the other way and get the remaining battery capacity. Neat stuff. It wasn't clear if you could daisy chain the logic, but I assume you can?
It is supposed to be a 4096 (12 bit) system. I wonder if you can see it at the servo?
It doesn't look like the receiver is included in the prices on their web site. Was that a show special or just good negotiating?
Jim O
The included rx was "show special" basically my buddy went over and said I'd decided not to get it yet because there was no rush with no show special, so they created one to tip me the other way :-)
The DC-16 (tray style) TX does NOT have the tilt sensor (makes no sense for a tray radio) but the standalone DS-16 does. It's basically an additional set of switches that you can do whatever you want with just like any other switch (though the DS-16 has fewer normal style switches due to lack of real-estate, the accelerometers make up for it). Yes, you can chain logic pretty extensively. On a good servo the resolution is noticeable if you have your trims set to about 50% of total travel and each click of the trim is 1% of available trim travel, the movement is markedly smaller than a single click of trim (set to it's smallest trim increment) on a spektrum radio, but I'm not sure it makes a huge difference in real life.
One thing I forgot to mention, since the RX and TX are constantly communicating, and the RX is transmitting at a lower power (20-60% of TX power depending on the RX) than the TX, the TX will sound an alarm if it loses the RX signal, but you will still have control of the plane because of the stronger transmission unless you have some major blockage suddenly.
This radio is really quite amazing and has the potential to change how we diagnose and understand failure modes. I can't wait to get a plane in the air with it! Unfortunately I'm out of town for the next several days so I don't get to play or build :-(
Peter+