Sorry, Paul, should have covered that. With the DR you dont need ANY additions to your cables , the DR takes care of that but Weatronic recommends you use stranded, twisted, cables. Intairco (www.intairco.net) supplies just such cables with gold connectors at a very reasonable price. You will be amazed at just what this receiver can do !

Regards,

David Gladwin.

Thanks Dave for clearing that up. I was reading the manual from oline, the installation determines which axis the gyro will work on, looks like to me if I want the rudder or nose wheel controlled, I have to buy an external gyro and connect it to the weatronic, correct?

Paul

Paul,
I think you can put it 'vertically' and it will work on the nose or rudder. Not sure how practical that is[X(]
Edgar

Yes, to control the yaw axis with the DR gyro function you will have to mount it vertically so an external gyro may be best, and thats what I am doing on my Hawks. I mentioned this to the Weatronics team at Jet Power and I dont think my comments went unheeded. Watch for future developments.
Regards, David Gladwin.

thanks guys, looks like I am all questioned out on this topic for now, lol

I still have time to wait for purchasing the weatronic, but I will keep an eye out for updates.

Paul

I am installing a weatronic in my boomer XL, How are you guys running the airiels, do I need to use a whip on one, I don't like the look of them. The way I have it at the moment is one running one side to the front and the other on the other side running to the back finishing alongside the engine. Should this be ok or should i have a small whip on the nose.

I read the manual, it states for best performance is to have one on extenal whip and other run along iniside length of fuse, if excess carbon is used, then to run thru one wing.

Paul

I would definetly use a whip on one of the antennas assuming that you use 35 mhz.

72 mhz have better range from what I'm told.
Heared a story about the JWM in UK some years ago when the Americans had to put 35 mhz receivers in their planes and still kept the antenna inside the plane as I understand is normal in the US.
The story said there was a lot of range/ interference issues.

That being said, on the two flights I had with the Lightning/ Weatronic this weekend, none of areials was ever low on signal at any point during the flights. One of them is located inside the fuse while the other is on a whip....

What I saw was that when one of the antennas had a lower signal, the other one was usually stronger at the same time. It still kept antenna 1 as "used" at all times during the flights as the signal was alway good enough.

I have a Weatronics in my FLASH on 72mhz and it has been rock solid. I have one antennae using a Deans two piece base loaded whip mounted in front of the canopy and the other run back through the fuselage on the opposite side of the wiring going to the turbine. So far, with about 25 flights it has never had any loss of signal. Always uses # 1 antennae, which is the base loaded one, and no frame loss on the # 2 either!! I am sold on these receivers! They seem pricy but when you consider what is in them, 2 receivers, redundant power supply, voltage regulator, gyro and GPS! Install the same things individually and see what that total is! For me, just 2 of the Futab G3 receivers is more than the cost of the Weatronics!!

I have another question, I sent it off to weatronic info email as well,

"I have a question about the DR, if I want to put to servos on the same channel, eg; each one will do a retract valve each, but one is for doors and the other is for the retracts, can I change or delay the time of each servo is activated on the same channel?"


this would eliminate the need for any electronic timming devices, yes?

Paul

NO, not in current format but it may come in time. ( but lets see if weatronics proves me wrong !) It doesnt make tea either , well not yet !

Regards,

David Gladwin

Paul can you use the hitec servo programming feature to slow down one of the servos one of the servos to make it work?
Otherwise you can do a mechanical setup that connect a slow servo to both valves. Saw it in a recent RCJett magazine article about the SM F-16.

Hi Egdar, I could but they are 85mg non digitals, i am using them on UP#1 valves, I have a mini Hobby Gear & Door computer, This will work fine, but thought that the weatronic might take of it also, still not heard from them yet. I could aslo use a UP #3 and slow down the servo in the 9zcwII programming, but....... don't have one.

Paul

Paul:

The Weatronic guys are working on a intergrated gear door sequencer function with the receiver. If we are lucky, we will be able to uppgrade the software to get in in to existing receivers.

Have a look [link=http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=5553687]here[/link] to se what Alwin from Weatronic wrote to me....

thanks, I was reading that thread the other day, man got to read everyone to stay on top of things. I still don't have mine yet. got some other ventures to finsh up first. but great to hear about the new 12 channel upgrade, I hope they can do it in PCM as well.

Lets see, maybe they can use the rx using the gps input to return the model to base, hmmmmm...... imagine that one, autopilted landing feature, could these gps units be that precise? now that would get costly

Paul

Dear all
Just update my WT to 12 channels, works perfectly

JP ZARDINI
ZN LINE
CARF rep sale

JPZ,
Where did you get the firmware update to go to 12 channels? I don't see it on their website.

Dear all

I just update my DR 10-20 gyro to 12-20 gyro ( new firmware )

Very easy and superb !

JP ZARDINI
ZN
CARF rep sale

Hi
I was in Sinsheim last week and receive the CD from Mr Muller.
I can send you by mail
JP

JPZ,
can you send the firmware by e-mail?
[email protected]

MC