Originally Posted by
David Gladwin
Well, I have been flying Weatronics since the very first, don't notice any latency, or servo roughness; use all varieties of their receivers, Tiny to 30 servo Gizmo, models from an electric Tomboy to big Hawks and BVM F4. Use 2 12Xs and a10x on S PCM. (10. on ppm) just bought another Micro 12 G 111 for my DG303. So, I thought I must be missing something. Today I Tried a couple of receivers and Txs, response is so fast I can't detect ANY latency, servo resolution is very precise, as good as I have seen and I have been flying proportional rc since 1966. This can be seen clearly when adjusting servo points on GigaControl, the servo responds to even one step in the 4096 points available. Servos used were an old 4131 and brand new 8411 HV.
So, your results Mike, seem very strange, very strange indeed. I have no experience of Futaba equipment.
Last week, a friend was flying my PST Reaction, he complained it was TOO responsive.
Anyway, my experience with a lot of this Weatronics equipment is that a 12x so equipped is a VERY capable radio control system, more than able to meet the demands of 99 % tof model jets, so don't fret about the BAT, it will come ! Until it is here and fully programmed I, for one, are more than happy to continue with my JR radios with Weatronics Transmitter modules and the incredibly capable receivers. Together they form a really superb system, let there be no doubt about it!
For those interested, JR 12x module type transmitters are still available from RC Japan at a very reasonable price.
As soon as the BAT 60 is working with Micro receivers, UK fliers will be able to get hands-on, flying experience on my PST Reaction.
David
I not sure why your results are so different David. I did discuss this with Oli at the time I was using Wea and he did confirm the servo movement being quite choppy in JR spcm although he said, he didn't notice it while flying the aircraft. The severe limitation for me using the 12x in PPM was the 8 control channel limit.
As for the latency, it's not crucial that it's incredibly low for jet flying as movements are typically very small and slow, no huge deflections like an aerobatic ship but, you can actually "see" the difference in the speed of response when slamming the sticks around while on the ground or in the shop. This only stands to reason as the Wea system is using the tx's PPM or PCM signal and then converting it. It's got the latency of the 72mhz Tx host system. What made me clearly aware of this is that only my 4 turbine jets were running Weatronic, I continued to run my other 12x on Spek in my big aerobatic planes. The difference in servo response and speed between the two systems was very apparent.
Don't get me wrong, there were many things that I liked about the Wea system in particular, the fabulous data logging , these were two of the things I didn't like. In the end, there were more things that I didn't like than I did so, I ultimately made a change.
Mike