DX5e mixing...

Here's an odd one, not a huge problem, but I would like to get to the bottom of it if possible. when I hook my motors/servo up to my receiver and use the old style tank steer (left stick forward-left wheel forward, right stick forward right, wheel forward) my motors/servos work fine.

However, when I turn mixing on, driving with just the one stick, as most of you do, and push forward, the motors/servos only go forward at half the rate.

Has anyone come across something similar and is there anyway to solve it? I don't hold out much hope as I shouldn't have cheaped out on my radio gear, but the DX6i is just a bit too pricey at the moment.

I'm not sure how much this will help, but here are two possibilities:

1) I was testing a single motor, controlled through one side of a sabretooth 10a. I only had the forward channel plugged into my receiver, and the on board mixing switched on. When I had the elevator pushed as far as possible up, the motor only managed half speed forward. When I pushed the stick into the top left corner, the motor went at full speed. I am not sure why this happens.

2) Much more simple. Have you checked that the rate switch is set to 'hi'? Setting it to 'lo' limits the motor/servo speed.

Hope this helps.

Yeah, it's like you said in number 1, when i push it to top left i get full speed on the right motor, but then the left motor goes off. when i push forward and right i get full power on left motor and none on the right. but forward centre just gives 50/50 on each motor. surely a mixer should give 100/100 forward when you push the stick forward?

Have you tried calibrating the speed controller with the transmitter on the new mixer setting?

It's an electronize so im not sure about how much calibrating i can do. Plus i'm not sure what help that could give. the transmitter is only giving 50% rate when pushed directly forward. it seems like you can't get more than one motors worth of power from the pair combined when running through the mixer.

Right, forget the calibration, Electronizes can't do that.

The Hi/LO rate is on hi?

Yeah, it's on high rate. I kinda think it's just the way that the mixer is set up on the DX5e, you can't set rates so you have to live with defaults.

I tried the setup on my T6EX and all was fine.