Hi all,

Working on my fourth plane setup on my weatronic 12-22. It is always a little bit of leaning curve when setting up a new plane..

Anyway I am looking for ideas how to manage the gear and doors, one channel, two servos - what shape servo curve, servo speed will let this work easily?

Also, I took the 12-22 out of my A10 for good, reset the receiver and applied my goshawk setup, but I can't get the name of the file in the receiver to change. I have changed the rx file in gigacontrol to "goshawk" but when I plug into the tx/receiver I get the correct setup/servo arrangement but it still is labeled a10...., not sure what is going on there..any ideas?


Thanks
Dave

Dave, which firmware version are you on and do you want open-shut or shut-open-shut doors?

firmware - I am a few behind but also ok with keeping the older and working version - I think it is 2.03.

I am using Gigacontrol 2.30.

I need simple door open, gear out and reverse. But, I would like to learn how to also do it with closing the main gear doors after gear out. I wish I could do scale but the SM nose doors hit the servo on the nose gear so they can't be closed after the strut is down and the Goshawk does have closed main gear doors on the ground...

Anyway,

Thanks for you help,
Dave

You do need to have servo slowing at the Tx, the wea servo slowing will not work. If you use Wea servo slowing it doesn't follow the curve, it just goes end to end as if on the usual diagonal slope.

The following shows the door curve I use on my EE Lightning which is a simple doors open-shut. For doors shut-open-shut just put in a raised bit at the left end so that the curve is symmetrical left to right.

You have to time where in the door sequence the legs do their bit, you want the legs to start coming up at the start of the sequence, not at the mid point, so use similar curve to the doors but shifted to the opposite end.

Hey Dave,

If you like, pm me your email and I'll send you my file for my CARF Hawk to have a look at. It's set up to leave the nose doors open but, close the main doors when the gear is down like the Goshawk. This requires only one channel but, 3 valves to accomplish and as Harry pointed out, a delay in the Tx. I use 5 seconds.

Only thing is, I'm not sure if you'll be able to look at my file in the older version of Giga. You may have to download the current one to see it. Your issue with the name may be a bug in the older software too, it doesn't occur in the latest. You should really update anyway, the current version has been out for a while now, works and looks great.

Regards,

Mike

Thank you both for your help.

Mike - where can I easily download the correct Tx and Rx firmware updates? Did you get from the Weatronics (europe) site?

Also are you using a newer Gigacontrol?

I should update. I have the older Tx antennae and I didn't want to screw anything up. My UB is running just fine...

DD

Yes, they are on the Weatronic Germany site

http://www.weatronic.com/en/index.ph...uebersicht.php

When you download Gigacontrol, save it to a different directory ie. not the default one that pops up. This way, you will have both versions of Giga available to you. If you go with the default directory , the new version will replace your old one and you existing files won't work.

Mike

I updated everything just a couple of weeks ago from v2.30, it went fine.

One thing to do is save each rx model file in the latest version of gigacontrol before updating the tx and rx, as model files made in much older versions of gigacontrol can't be read by the latest version so they can't be restored to the rx after the rx is upgraded. If you have any micro rx you will need the special cable to attach them to the usb port of the pc. Tx module and 12-22 rx are updated by their micro sd card.

The sequence is:
save rx model file old gigacontrol just in case
update gigacontrol
save rx model file in new gigacontrol
update tx
update rx
bind rx
load rx model file made in new version of gigacontrol