Installing R/C equipment
 

Are there any download instruction available showing how to install R/C equipment in a new trainer any help with CD etc will be very much appreciated

Sam (UK)

RE: Installing R/C equipment
 

There is a lot of good information in this site
http://www.airfieldmodels.com/index.htm

BTW, what is CD? Same as CG?

RE: Installing R/C equipment
 

[link]http://www.geistware.com/rcmodeling/novice.htm[/link]

Ken

RE: Installing R/C equipment
 

Great Planes has many of their manuals online:

http://www.greatplanes.com/parts/index.html#kits

Download the one for the PT-40 and the one for the PT-60. Between the two, you should get a pretty good picture of what to do.

RE: Installing R/C equipment
 

There are not very good instructions with a radio. The radio manufacturers take it for granted that this is not your first time. The way I figured out how to install my first radio, was going by the kits instructions, illustrations and plans. They always tell you where to put the servo supports and from there depending on the type plane. there are usually three servos in the fuselage and one on the wing. The switch goes through the side of the fuselage and the battery and receiver location can usually be explained in the kits instructions or on the plans also. The receiver and battery need to be wrapped in foam also. The battery plugs into the first space on the receiver, the aileron in th second, the elevator third, the throttle fourth and the rudder fifth. The battery space on the receiver should be marked but that is how they are plugged in. This actually makes Channel 1 ailerons, 2 elevator, 3 throttle, and 4 rudder. Channel 1 is the second space on the receiver. Hook the battery to the switch and the wire from the switch to the receiver. On the switch there are 2 wires coming out of one side and 1 on the other side. The battery gets plugged into the female plug on the side with 2 wires. The other wire on that side is the charge wire. The wire coming out the other side goes into the batter space in the receiver. As far as the control rods I think you can figure that out by the plans and common sense. I sure hope this helps.

Gibbs

RE: Installing R/C equipment
 

Here are pics of three different receivers. While each has a different look to it, there are commonalities to them.

The first is a standard Futaba R-127DF which comes with just about every radio they sell. It has slots for channels 1 - 7 (even though it came with my 6 channel radio) plus and additional slot for the battery. This is what came with, and I use with my 6 channel Skysport radio.

The second receiver is a Futaba R146iP 6-channel PCM receiver. It has only 6 slots of which I'm using ch 1 - 4 for all 4 basic functions, plus ch 6 so I can utilize the flapperon function of my 7C computer radio. If you look at ch 5 you'll see I have the battery hooked up to it. If you look closely at ch 6 you'll see is shows 6/B. What this means is if you hook up a servo to all 6 channels, you need to run a "Y" on this channel with one end to the servo and one end to the battery. Since I'm only using 5 servos I was able to hook the battery up to ch 5 (the power buss runs through all 6 servo ports on this style of a receiver).

The third pic is the new Berg 7-channel receiver (and yes, that is a quarter next to it for a size comparison) – the blue receiver. Notice, even though it’s a 7 channel it only has 7 ports. This is another case where you can hook up the battery any of the ports, or run a “Y” to both a servo and the battery.

This may seem a bit confusing and overwhelming at first, but study the pictures and it should make since. NCIS did a good job of spelling out what channels perform what function which has for the most part standardized in the industry. Your receiver should look similar to one of those I posted

Hogflyer