Upgrading and Flight Packs
 

OKay, so I'm looking to build a plane from an ARF kit.

How do I go about purchasing say, a flight pack that has 3 servos, an appropriate ESC, the battery and all that and actually MATCHING it to work with a separate transmitter?

This whole channel matching business wrecks my head. All I see are crystals for a certain mhz range (27 or 72) and for an appropriate channel. My question is, how do I know what channel a transmitter is going to be at? Do I have to check the transmitter first? ANd in which case, how do I get them both matching crystals to be on the same channel?

Maybe I'm being confused for no reason but it's blowing my head apart. Also, how do you check for the existing channel a transmitter is using in order to match to a purchased flight pack (in case I wanted to use a 27mhz AM 4 channel transmitter).?

I can't seem to find packages that are complete with transmitter, receiver, servos, etc. If I could I would buy them all in one packaging assuming them to all be sync'd but it seems I have to figure that out on my own.

RE: Upgrading and Flight Packs
 

-the basics-
the radio=transmitter,a basic set up is 4 channels,you can fly most planes with this.they go into as many as 14
flight pack=reciever,battery,and servos most all of them come with 4 servos.

if you don't have your radio, then when you buy one it will have a flight pack that comes with it that matches the channel of the transmitter.
a good place to check is your local hobby shop=LHS
or you can look on line at www.towerhobbies.com to start

you can buy flight packs for individual planes if you have a transmitter but it has to match the freq.or channel of the transmitter to work.
a typical flight pack has a reciever,battery usually a 600mah,and 4 servos including the on off switch.
you then need to buy a crystal that matches the freq./channel.

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RE: Upgrading and Flight Packs
 

Give us the brand of the radio you have. Also, look at the frequency crystal cover (or a sticker on the Tx), it should have something like 72.XXX MHz or 27 Chan A (or something along those lines.). From the type of transmitter you have, we can decide which flight packs are "compatible" with your transmitter (this is getting into posative/Negative shifts and PPM and PCM). Let us know.

RE: Upgrading and Flight Packs
 

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