ORIGINAL: bigedmustafa
ORIGINAL: speedy72vega
I have a DX6i TX and am teaching a buddy how to fly with a buddy cable. He has the PZ Corsair RTF that came with the DX5e. His TX must be OFF, not on when the cable is hooked up. No computerized controls on the DX5e, just High/Low rates. It works just fine.
I'm glad you guys got that to work! The DX6i's own manual states, ''The transmitter can be used as a master but the slave transmitter must have the same programming (i.e. reverse, travel adjust, dual rates, mixes, sub trims, etc.) as the master.''
We've been unable to get the DX6i to work with our club's two SX400 buddy boxes. I'm certain we've tried using DX6i transmitters as master boxes with DX5e transmitters as slaves before, too. I can't imagine why it works for you but we couldn't get it to work for us. It's funny that the DX5e works with no power, it shouldn't be creating a signal to send to the DX6i if it's not powered up.
One of these days, I'll have to sit down with the other instructors and a whole pile of radios and cables and sort out exactly how everything works.
Ed, there's a switch built into the cord jack that powers up the slave TX. You can plug the cord into the jack, without it being connected to the master TX, and the radio will power up, even with the switch off. If you try to buddy with the slave TX on, there's no communication with the master for some reason. It took me awhile to figure that one out, there's nothing at all in my DX6i manual about buddy box instructions.
I just leave the DX5e in low rate mode, and it works perfect. I've been training my friend like this for 3 or 4 weekends now. If you decide to use the timer function on the DX6i, you will need to go to settings and change the trigger switch, the default is the trainer switch. I set mine to the engine cut switch for the timer.
One thing to note: I'm not sure if it's true or not, but I was told by the LHS that only the Spektrum buddy cord will work. My friend went and bought the Spektrum cable, we never tried a different brand cable.