Bartman
Defender of the Noob!
I've recently switched from a JR 9503 DSM2 to a DSMX and I'm trying get my Swift back in the air. It has two aileron servos, one is plugged into the aileron channel and the other aileron servo is plugged into the Flaps channel and it's been a while since I set this up so I'm starting from scratch to get it working again. There are a lot of different ways to run aileron servos, you can have one on one channel, two on one channel, two on separate channels acting only as aileron servos, you can have two on two channels acting as both ailerons and flaps (Flaperons), you can have four, six, eight.....it can get really complicated. Right now though, we're looking at two simple servos, one on one wing, the other on the other wing.
I'm searching for the instructions to mix the two channels so I figured I'd post it here for your reading enjoyment.
Here's the main page at Horizon.com for the radio and there's also a tab there with a download link for the user manual.
http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/x9503-2-4-heli-tx-with-r921x-rx-no-servos-md2-JRP2935X#t1
Every radio has different language so first you have to figure out what the function you're looking for is called and this can be the hardest part if you've recently switched from one brand to another. In this case JR calls two servos set up the way I described above, Flaperons.
The instructions start on page A-11.
Scrolling and clicking with the selector (I call it the scroll wheel, JR calls it the Selector) makes things happen.
There are two different Menu systems in the 9503, the Function List and the System Menu, hold the scrolling wheel down as you turn on the radio to enter the System Menu
Go to DeviceSEL
Use the scrolling wheel to highlight the bottom line under the word FLAP
Push the scrolling wheel, then push it again until the word INH appears, this will keep your ailerons from being inadvertently actuated as flaps
Now roll the scroll wheel back to the spot just above the .SYS that you just selected, press the scroll wheel until it says OFF
Click the button next to the word LIST on the left
Scroll down to the menu item Wing TYPE
Place the flashing cursor over the word Wing and click the Selector to open a window with three items
Scroll to FLAPERON and then select it with a click
That ought to be it for the setup. If you want to test to see if this did the trick, disconnect any control rods before powering up your radio system so that any mistakes you might have made won't cause damage to your plane if servos and stuff start going haywire.
When the servos are confirmed to be doing what you want and when you're pretty sure that you can safely attach the controls to the servos, get everything connected and power it all up. Adjust the controls as best you can to center the flying surfaces. You'll want your ailerons (in this case) to be as centered as possible before you start to tune things with the radio.
Turn on the radio like you normally would and then hit the LIST button on the left to get to the Function List. Scroll down and select Sub Trim. If you didn't look before you started there were AIL and FLAP items in the Sub Trim list. Now that you've configured your radio for Flaperons you'll see LAIL and RAIL. Left Aileron is where FLAP used to be and RAIL is where AIL used to be. That's because you can now tune your right and left ailerons separately using the channels for AIL and FLAP (but they are called LAIL and RAIL now). Select LAIL or RAIL and scroll the value up or down to set your ailerons perfectly centered and then hit enter the values by hitting the ENT button on the left.
There are other adjustments that can be made but this should have you over the hardest part. The rest can be explained in a future post or just ask and we'll keep going on aileron set up. There's differential, exponential plus if you want to get nuts you can also set up your ailerons to act as flaps and then program a mix to have your flaps move when you apply elevator. The control line stunt guys have been doing it for decades to make their corners really sharp when they're flying aerobatics. If you're just starting out, you've got enough info at this point to be a step closer to flying. You can always play with your radio's advanced features later on.
Bart
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I'm searching for the instructions to mix the two channels so I figured I'd post it here for your reading enjoyment.
Here's the main page at Horizon.com for the radio and there's also a tab there with a download link for the user manual.
http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/x9503-2-4-heli-tx-with-r921x-rx-no-servos-md2-JRP2935X#t1
Every radio has different language so first you have to figure out what the function you're looking for is called and this can be the hardest part if you've recently switched from one brand to another. In this case JR calls two servos set up the way I described above, Flaperons.
The instructions start on page A-11.
Scrolling and clicking with the selector (I call it the scroll wheel, JR calls it the Selector) makes things happen.
There are two different Menu systems in the 9503, the Function List and the System Menu, hold the scrolling wheel down as you turn on the radio to enter the System Menu
Go to DeviceSEL
Use the scrolling wheel to highlight the bottom line under the word FLAP
Push the scrolling wheel, then push it again until the word INH appears, this will keep your ailerons from being inadvertently actuated as flaps
Now roll the scroll wheel back to the spot just above the .SYS that you just selected, press the scroll wheel until it says OFF
Click the button next to the word LIST on the left
Scroll down to the menu item Wing TYPE
Place the flashing cursor over the word Wing and click the Selector to open a window with three items
Scroll to FLAPERON and then select it with a click
That ought to be it for the setup. If you want to test to see if this did the trick, disconnect any control rods before powering up your radio system so that any mistakes you might have made won't cause damage to your plane if servos and stuff start going haywire.
When the servos are confirmed to be doing what you want and when you're pretty sure that you can safely attach the controls to the servos, get everything connected and power it all up. Adjust the controls as best you can to center the flying surfaces. You'll want your ailerons (in this case) to be as centered as possible before you start to tune things with the radio.
Turn on the radio like you normally would and then hit the LIST button on the left to get to the Function List. Scroll down and select Sub Trim. If you didn't look before you started there were AIL and FLAP items in the Sub Trim list. Now that you've configured your radio for Flaperons you'll see LAIL and RAIL. Left Aileron is where FLAP used to be and RAIL is where AIL used to be. That's because you can now tune your right and left ailerons separately using the channels for AIL and FLAP (but they are called LAIL and RAIL now). Select LAIL or RAIL and scroll the value up or down to set your ailerons perfectly centered and then hit enter the values by hitting the ENT button on the left.
There are other adjustments that can be made but this should have you over the hardest part. The rest can be explained in a future post or just ask and we'll keep going on aileron set up. There's differential, exponential plus if you want to get nuts you can also set up your ailerons to act as flaps and then program a mix to have your flaps move when you apply elevator. The control line stunt guys have been doing it for decades to make their corners really sharp when they're flying aerobatics. If you're just starting out, you've got enough info at this point to be a step closer to flying. You can always play with your radio's advanced features later on.
Bart
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