I've been following the instruction in the manual trying to turn this on on my Spektrum DX6 but it doesn't seem to be working. Anyone know any possible ways I could be going wrong?
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I've been following the instruction in the manual trying to turn this on on my Spektrum DX6 but it doesn't seem to be working. Anyone know any possible ways I could be going wrong?
http://manatee-rc.com/Docs/dx6manual-english.pdf
Page 29 - 30 all about entering system mode.
Pick Type AC aircraft mode.
Then
Delta Wing page 35
Cheers,
I was reading through that manual as I had a hard copy in the house too. Not the easiest thing to understand by any means but I think I have it now. It still does some funny things though, for example, everything is controller by the right stick, except turning right which is controller by pressing forward on the left stick, bizarrely. I'm going to try resetting to factory defaults then do as you suggested again.
Thanks again Woody.
You just have to plug the different leads from your ESC to different channels and then it's just luck trying to find a combo that works for you
Tony is doing the right thing ...he appears to have been fiddling around and managed to get a cross over mix combo with the other stick...a reset to normal will clear this and he can start afresh.
ahhhh, i see now, my miss understanding
Thought i'd bring this back up rather than start a new thread.
Having some trouble with the way my DX6 is mixing, full forward is up and left and reverse is down and right, I think i'm getting closer to the solution of all this mixing but just cant work out this last (hopefully) small problem.
Sounds like you have NO mixing.
Would it not only be no mixing if it needed both sticks to carry out all the different ways of moving?
The setup is as follows:
Four drill motors:
Back two controlled by two Electronize units
Front two controlled by Scorpion XL
Electronize and Scorpion XL RC wires going into two Y-leads and then into the receiver.
It works fine with mixing on the Scorpion (except the rear wheels aren't mixed so they run independently) so with the Scorpion set to tank steering (no mixing) it should be possible to turn on mixing in the radio and control all four wheels with one stick.
So when we set that up, it would drive correctly mixed but the two front wheels would go slower than the two back wheels. Switch it back to tank steering and the front wheels return to their normal speed. I'm not used to DX6s so I'm unfamiliar with the mixer settings; thought it might be a dual rates issue but that shouldn't be affecting the speed of the front motors when all four wheels are going in the same direction :?
EDIT: Tony, the way it was set up when I left was no mixing. One side of the drive was on one channel (up/down) and the other side was on another channel (left/right). When it's mixed, it's combining both channels so that up/down moves both sides of the drive instead of just one, same with left/right.
Oh heck ...what a drive combo!
You have definitely no mixing ...one of the OLD TRICKS ...pre electrickery mixing... was to remount the transmitter stick pod by rotating it 45 degrees.
I'll have a think about your VERY STRANGE drive combo.
Of course, my mistake. I think I need a very early bedtime today i'm not thinking straight at all. I just made an Ar$e of explaining it to someone else too.
It's going to be a pain in the Ass to setup...like you have it....and maybe impossible.
Go for the XL in combined mode on one side ....and duel Electronize off a Y lead on the other.
You then have the possibility of altering the servo travel TRV ADJ to compensate for drive side speed differences.
I'd also make sure that the XL calibration is factory reset via the calibration jumper BEFORE attempting to match the drive sides.
http://www.robotpower.com/downloads/Rob ... kstart.pdf
The motors are all the same aren't they? ....Please say yes! :?
Haha, don't worry Tony, it happens to us all. I should be in bed but can't be bothered shifting all my tools off it :uhoh:
@Woody: yeah it's certainly a bit different for a drive system! There's reason to the madness though. If the mixing in the transmitter doesn't work I think we talked about just connecting an external mixer to the Electronize controllers for the back wheels and using the built-in mixing of the XL for the front wheels.
If all else fails though, there is always the jaunty-angle transmitter method as you mentioned :)
EDIT: Just noticed your above suggestion Woody. The robot is now back in Tony's hands so will have to see if he can try that out and what the results will be.
Can't hurt to try .... but it might be doomed to failure...getting the two different ESC's to match speed outputs is going to be ...Ummmmm ..Challenging!Quote:
we talked about just connecting an external mixer to the Electronize controllers
I don't want to say too much for fear of making myself look more stupid after my last statement haha.
The only thing about that setup you suggest Woody that I noticed today when we were testing it with wheels off the ground was the XL and Electronize's respond slightly differently to stick movements and that might cause it to veer off to the side, especially when accelerating from stopped or slowing down to a stop.
I'm glad we're trying it on the day of the champs then :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by woody
Yeah, matching the wheel speeds will be a bit tricky, suppose the best way to judge will be by the sound of the motors. The idea of the Electronize controlling the rear wheels instead of the front was that they're less precise than the XL and since the back wheels are more likely to be skidding and (potentially?) wheel spinning when turning, any speed differences would be barely noticeable or not have a profound effect on the robot's driving characteristics.
I guess time, and testing, will tell though.
The motors are all the same Woody yes. Sorry I missed that bit of your response until now.