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

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.