From The Ground Up (Advice Thread)

[PJ-27]

Re: From The Ground Up (Advice Thread)

Try Giant Shark or Hobby King for packs of Deans (well rip off ones).

[shakesc]

Re: From The Ground Up (Advice Thread)

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[Roland]

Re: From The Ground Up (Advice Thread)

Hey y'all! Builds getting to the end stages now, the only bit I'm still kinda confused by is how to wire my AR 6000 and the module, it's a 4*4 robot with tank steering, for reference:

http://i.imgur.com/CVOrxw3.jpg

Where do the black tabs go and where does the second set of wires go? Thanks again and I hope you're all having a great February

[typhoon_driver]

Re: From The Ground Up (Advice Thread)

I assume those servo wires have standard servo plugs on the ends. In which case both reds and both black wires go into the positive and negative terminals with the second white signal wire going into s2. Then making sure they are correctly orientated plug the servo wires into the receiver

[Roland]

Re: From The Ground Up (Advice Thread)

Brilliant, I've done exactly that, but which slots should the plugs go into? there's a hole bunch with different names and I'm not sure which ones to use, superly duperly terrible at electronics.

[typhoon_driver]

Re: From The Ground Up (Advice Thread)

You will notice that each slot on the receiver is numbered (or should be). These correspond to the number of channels that your Tx/Rx have. So for instance one axis on the sticks is a certain channel. Take a look through your manual for your transmitter and it should detail which channels are which.

[Roland]

Re: From The Ground Up (Advice Thread)

I'm going to guess the instructions came with the Rx box, which I've left at home 360 miles away from where I am now. Balls balls balls. You've been a great help! Thank you veeeeery much

I'll have to do the rest of the reciever wiring when I get home! Bargh.

[Max]

Re: From The Ground Up (Advice Thread)

Just plug one into the aile pins and the other into the elev pins.
Make sure the dip switches are set up for tank style steering.

[Roland]

Re: From The Ground Up (Advice Thread)

Wahey, the RC end is all wired up now!

On a side note, what paints generally adhere to HDPE?

-Roland

[Anttazz]

Re: From The Ground Up (Advice Thread)

None that I've found , it chips off at the slightest touch

[Max]

Re: From The Ground Up (Advice Thread)

I would use some kind of stickers/ sticky back plastic and stencils.

[Roland]

So it's been over three years since I began this thread... We're getting to the end of the build now!

Trying to calibrate the DX5e but I'm totally confused, I place the plug into the bind slot on the receiver but it doesn't come up as flashing, it has a red LED on and a Amber LED on and that's it, with the other plug it just comes up with a single red LED, so the receiver wont allow me to calibrate my remote... sigh. So close to being finished, I can post photos if needed.

[Roland]

So I took a look around the net for more extensive manuals or aircraft forums for help, there's really not an awful lot. I'm so confused by the instructions, I've removed a servo plug to use as a binding plug but I don't know where that's supposed to go as the instructions say for it to go in the 'bat' slot, which I don't have on an AR6000x. I'm guessing the wires still connected to the sabretooth take the place of the battery wires so I just put that in a random slot, but the amber lights don't flash...

I took a peek at the sabretooth and only status 1 LED is lit, does that mean I have a wiring problem? I'm so confused and the instructions for these things are too basic to follow.

[razerdave]

With a sabretooth only 1 LED should be lit in normal operations (the blue one). Red one only comes on if there is a problem.

As for the binding issue, here is how you should do it:

1: Put bind plug in the Batt/bind slot on your RX
2: plug a receiver pack (or some other 4.8-6v power source) into any other socket. Make sure the polarity matches the little symbols on the RX's case. It should be flashing its amber LED.
3: On the TX, pull the switch marked 'Trainer' towards you and hold it there. Turn on the TX; all the power lights should light up and flash.
4: The amber light on the receiver should blink slowly, go out, then go solidly on. Release the trainer switch. Job done.

If it does not work, then your receiver is probably knackerd.

[Roland]

So I guess the issue is the binding plug if not the receiver, what I read is to create a binding plug you connect the two outer wires on a servo plug and then plug it in to the bind slot, is that correct? If so I've done that fine. Then I connected the other servo wire which was pulling 5V via the sabertooth to the receiver, this gave me a red and amber light, but no flashing.

The AR6000x was never used before this so it'd be a shame for it to already be broken.