djmp69

Got the BNF Xtra 300, and I noticed the receiver has plugged into ch6 via a red/black pair of wires what looks to be a capacitor of some sort. Just wondering what this is in case I have a need to put a new receiver in the plane or unplug everything for whatever reason?

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djmp69

OK, finally found an answer I think, it's put there for overload protection against brown outs and resets..

AndyKunz

Except it does absolutely nothing to keep from resetting the micro. The amount of power that it can hold is gobbled up by a servo in microseconds.

Just provide adequate power. Simplest solution of all.

Andy

djmp69

Agreed, Andy. Like most "fixes" or safeguards, they shouldnt be relied upon, just do the correct thing in the first place. Use correct power, proper servo setup, don't use damaged/old frayed wires with broken connectors, etc

djmp69

Got it all set up. We'll so I thought. I've tried both safe select on and off binding methods. Nice that I. The ix12 you can turn safe select on and off from forward programming as well. My problem however is that only SAFE seems to work. When active, controls are limited as they should. When I move the plane, it wants to right itself. No problem.

BUT. I see no evidence of AS3X working. I don't feel it either. Nor do I hear the servos chittering like in the videos I watch or my other planes that have as3x receivers in them. I have tried even using exaggerated gains just to see if I got any movement. Nothing. I've tried both setting up a new model AND using the template. Always same result.

I really feel like I'm missing something, but, having successfully set up my other receivers, I can't imagine what.

I've looked and can't find any documentation of the problem I'm experiencing.

Any ideas?

AndyKunz

Did you throttle up? AS3X doesn't start until the throttle has been run-up first.

How do you have the gains set?

You know we have a great tutorial and Q&A thread or three on RCG for this? The blog you want to read is by flightengr.

Andy

djmp69

No, didn't know about the tutorial, I unfortunately don't have an rcg account, but I'll give it a try.

Yep, throttled up. Learned this long ago on my 9350.

The gains I have are the ones in there set when it autoconfiged. I left them as is (except for my tests, then put them back) as the manual stated that the as3x was specially tuned for the plane and needed no programming. As I have seen what can happen with wrongly set gains, I opted to leave them as is until I get everything going properly.

I will look into the tutorial (thanks for that) but I certainly welcome your input as well! My ultimate goal is that I want to use as3x selectively without the threat of accidentally turning on SAFE.

Thanks again, Andy!