FAIL SAFE

[craig_colliass]

Hi I have been asking Paul the technical guy from Technobots about a radio fail safe for the new heavy weapon. The reply was.

Failsafe work by detecting (as a minimum) if the pulse width is outside of a 'healthy' signal. Typically this would be say 0.9 to 2.1mS. You need to make sure that your receiver outputs a value that is outside of this range when the transmitter is turned off. Some receiver systems hold last value which means a failsafe would not operate.

Dose the DX5e receiver go out of these limits when the Tx is switched off? I am using the throttle channel

Thanks

Craig

[terry]

why cant you just use one of the channels as an on off switch ?
on toxic i use futaba 2.4ghz, the 3rd channel goes into failsafe if no signal is received, this channel
was suppost to be a throttle for a heli but its connected to a switch on my transmitter, it turns the robot on and off and that channel also turns my watty on and off aswell.
failsafe and remote switch all in 1 !
c u tomorrow.

[widow_twanky]

DX5e give no signal if it loses signal from the transmitter, failsafes have always worked just fine when using it with us.

Andy

[woody]

DX5e give no signal if it loses signal from the transmitter, failsafes have always worked just fine when using it with us.

I agree ZERO or NULL is definately outside of a 'healthy' signal

[widow_twanky]

Sorry, just to be padantic, the AR500 receiver will give no output (this normally comes with the dx5e). You can use a BR6000 which will failsafe at mid point (if that's what you set when binding)

Andy