Originally Posted by
mick15
I have to admit to being disappointed with my Cortex feeling I have been misled. Before purchase I emailed Demon to ask if it was compatible with the 18MZ Robbe 2018 and sBus, the reply was "yes". Shortly after unboxing I find it has no sBus output which if used would totally negate the principal of sBus.
i spoke to the factory guy at Jetpower who told me it would be 12 months for them to drag themselves into the twenty first century!
Originally Posted by
George
This has been discussed in a couple Demon threads (maybe even this one). The use of a SBE-1 might be a work-around, but not sure anyone has tried it yet. I know Bob_B was going to try it out, just don't know when. I'm also going to try when I return home as I have two sBus equipped planes I'd like to try the Cortex in.
Okay, I finally got a chance to try an SBE-1 into the (out) side of the Cortex which would convert the PWM to sbus essentially giving me sbus out of the gyro. The verdict: it didn't work!
It would jitter, then eventually "lock up" the system where nothing, and would only work again after cycling power. Using the PC, I switched to SBUS, and in the Diagnosis tab, the Cortex was receiving all the correct data and showed all the stick movements. I even went through the "teaching" mode and all axis showed stabilized, but as soon as the SBE-1 is plugged into the Cortex, everything freaks, then quits. I tried multiple set-up methods, but as soon as the SBE-1 becomes "active", it's over.
The only thing that may be a variable that I'm unsure of is the fact that the SBE-1 is used and not new, so I guess there's a slight chance the SBE-1 could be "bad". I will try again if I get a new SBE, or I may try to verify it by testing it in the capacity it was intended for by plugging it into a 6014 and see it will drive some sbus servos.