Total Newbie on a budget

[bitternboy]

I've run drill motors on 30a botbitz and 6s before now and they've been fine, so you've no need to worry in that regard. Can't recommend 6s too highly though lol

Why no love for 6s?

[bitternboy]

Thanks. I've put all the wires etc into a little box beween the motors to neaten it up and protect them a bit.

You said you use the flysky. I have the CT6B and I'm wondering how have you set yours for steering? I can't work out how to make it steer with both wheel's.

Ive got it so when I push the right stick forward and back both wheels go together.
Then I've set the left stick to steer but can only get it to operate one wheel. What I want to do is turn the left stick left and both wheels rotate opposite directions to turn and the other way when I go right.

Is that possible with the flysky?

And yeah that should be possible. I don't own that transmitter but the setup you want is a pretty standard mixing setting.

If, for whatever reason, the transmitter won't do what you want, you can install a plug and play mixer between the ESCs and receiver in your robot and leave the transmitter unmixed for the same result.


Hope it works out

[lowndsy]

I got a separate mtronics tank mixer for about a tenner - tiny little unit that just plugs between the receiver and speed controllers. Only had it running with test gear so far but it seems to work great.

[lowndsy]

How would I use the plug and play mixer in amongst that setup to get CH3 control both wheels, turning in opposite directions?

I haven't tested if it reverses one side in a turn. The point of little units like the mtronic is that there aren't any settings to worry about so I would imagine it either works or it doesn't.

Might have everything running properly at the weekend, so will check then.

[bitternboy]

A plug and play mixer would require no mixing on your transmitter, with channels 1 and 3 on the transmitters directly controlling the 2 used channels on the receiver.

I know it might be cheating but could you get hold of a ready to use V-tail mixing model for your tx? That would get you there straight away.

[bitternboy]

I know it might be cheating but could you get hold of a ready to use V-tail mixing model for your tx? That would get you there straight away.

That wasn't very clear of me. I meant - there must be a default tx programming file available somewhere with V-tail mixing taken care of. I'm not an expert in the slightest in programming that tx but I thought it might be a shortcut worth tracking down

Getting a physical mixer might be a bit silly as you say.