OpenTX Mix School: Setting up Flaps on a Fixed Wing Model
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Handy index links - 1:28 for the basic method 3:45 for the servo checker tip.
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Thank you Lee! The servo checker is a great tip as is that reminder to disconnect the linkage for setting up flaps. You are a great help for a great radio in a great community! Jim D. aka Dynascrew
MrDynascrew glad it made sense! Happy flying!
I use the rotary pot on the Taranus as the input for the
flaps then just read out the values that are required on the transmitter for low
mid and high settings and then assign them along with a switch for the flaps as you do.
Saves having to connect up a servo tester.
+Trevor Buzzard nice idea!
Trevor, sounds cool. Would you mind explaining the process for setting up in a little more detail?
Just starting out, this is an awesome idea. Thanks
wow i know this is an old one but has helped me with my new radiomaster t16 thank you very much
Thanks for your Taranis series. Now I can really use my radio!
+Clive Fitzjohn glad it helped. Best of luck with the radio, we are big fans of them here!
You should include product links when you tell us viewed "you should get one if these".
best video as usual. keep it up. been subscribed to you for years.
+Won2Race interestingly I get feedback that I shouldn't do that too. Can't please everyone I guess! ;)
Painless360 what possible reason could someone provide for not providing a link? that's ridiculous.
Nothing wrong with providing an affiliate link in the description, especially if it's marked as such. If you can make a few quid, good luck to you.
You'd be surprised - most of it is about being a corporate shill and I've even been called 'dishonest!' For you - hobbyking.com/en_us/hobbyking-led-servo-tester.html ;) Happy flying!
I use old Spektrum DX7 and a DX8 transmitters and I often envy Taranis owners their RSSI information. But then I watch videos like this and think, maybe I'll stick to Spektrum. It reminds me of the old Mac v Windows arguments; I've always been a Mac user :)
Thanks for the resource though, Painless.
+patrickcol :)
Love this video well explained for a newbie, nice one.
Brilliant as usual - now I can use Companion for this. Thanks!
Hello Lee That's just what I was looking for A great helpThank you very muchTony
Just great!!!! Thanks for the help!
OK I will watch Thema again and again ; )
+MaxFpV flight cool, you just need to add a line under the existing elevator mix that adds a little of the throttle input. We do things like that literally dozens of times in the examples.. Best of luck.
Great stuff as usual
I've got flaps on my Sky Eye and a Taranis. I've heard it balloons a lot when flaps are deployed, so I'd like to mix in some elevator. On the flap servo, I set it with full deflection at neutral flap so I have the entire travel for flap down. That works well because I carved the wing forward of the bottom hinge a bit to provide more relief and throw.
I'm having a weird problem now where the elevator can deflect down, but not up.
+Hugh Hemington I normally fly the model and see how much elevator is needed to correct the ballooning and then add that amount using a simple add, connected to the flap switch in the mixes.. how are you doing it?
The magnitude of the lift depends on throttle/speed, so I'll fly it and get a feel for how the need for elevator changes from low to higher speed and probably split the difference somewhere.
Nice Video - thank you. Could you possibly expand on this and illustrate how to set up a flap elevator mix where custom flap settings are used with a 3 position switch. I did watch your other video where you just assign a switch linked directly to the flap channel. It is quite a bit easier to get the elevator mix under those conditions. But I have been struggling trying to get the mix to work properly when custom values are used for the flap positions.
Another way to slice this cake. On the outputs screen limit the servo travel. Maybe even change the centre. This does away with having to calculate percentages.
Actually in theory do this for all channels to ensure that the servo travel never exceeds physical limits (as long the servo arm isn't removed and put back in a different position)
Please make a video of it !
Just wondering - setting up an EDF as in your video - so much more precise than the old on-model trial and error. I am anticipating a long roll out on landing and would like to try (after normal landing with flaps) an “airbrakes” 90 degree position beyond Flaps 2. I’d like that on another switch if possible. Think that might work (maybe even in combination with both ailerons up)? If so, how would I set that up so that it operates independently of normal flaps?
Amazing explanation !!! As a newbie I learn a lot to program my Skyeye, many many thanks
so nice
Very nice! But you could use limits on the servo travel as opposed to weights, me thinks. I have mine on the left slider, so it is variable.
+DSA44 very possibly! As wirh most things in OpenTX there are lits of ways to skin this particular cat ;) Happy flying!
What I would personnally do would be to first set the flaps to a pot on your transmitter (or even a stick... it's temporary so it doesn't matter) instead of a switch, then figure out what channel % gives you the desired travel, and then enter these values for the switch you want to actually use. This way you don't even need a servo tester.
What is special about the (virtual) “MAX” input? Though I see how it worked in the case of your instruction (THANKS!), when I tried using an actual 3-position switch, wiith the weights set to -100%(POS1), 0%(POS2), and 100%(POS3) (to get started) as an input, the simulation showed that the output of the MIXER for the designated FLAP channel changed from -100(POS1), to 0(POS2), and stayed at 0 when switched to POS3. Any idea why? Thanks.
Check out the other videos in the Mix School and you'll see how it's used a little more... Best of luck!
Why don't you put your flaps on a slider then you can bring your slider down lowering your flaps and then set the end points so the flap stops where you want it to, that's how I done mine
+Allan T you sure can, see our video where we use a rotary switch to be able o change deflection on the fly. Useful for flaps, crow, camber etc.. happy flying!
How about a video on how to set up the throttle stick as both throttle and flaps (single servo flaps). With flaps, off, throttle on a 3 way switch. With throttle cut on SF. Reflex,cruise, camber on another 3 way switch. I have yet to get this to work on the Taranis. Everyone I asks tells me to change the throttle to a different switch or some such. I like it this way. If my Futaba 12 FG can do it the Taranis certainly should be able to. I'm having limited success and am getting frustrated. TIA
taht's pretty cool... maybe you can do a video for the same thing for us spektrum users :)
+Daytona FPV it should be even easier :)
Excellent Idea. Unfortunately, my servo tester doesn't have number readouts. :-(
They are not expensive and very useful.. Happy flying
Was wondering if you may be able to help me out? I'm running a Flysky FS-IA6B receiver with a TX16s transmitter. My FMS T28 has the ailerons and flaps wired with Y cables. How do I get my flaps to go in the same direction? It works for my ailerons but obviously not for my flaps. I will watch the video again, but any help would be appreciated. Also, I can't flip or install the servo any other way without doing some modification.
I'd check that you are not accidentally using a reversed servo for one of the flaps. Usually, by having the servos the same way on a Y cable it ensures that they both move in the same direction.. Best of luck!
As always great video :)
If I mix down elevator with a slow up and down flap deployment how do I correspondingly get the elevator movement to operate in sink with the slow flap movement. Applying delays to the flap mix doesn't seem to work correctly. I don't want the full elevator mix to be applied before the flaps have reached their final position.
That might need a video to show but it’s easy to do..
Thanks for the video Lee. I have a question for you. I have a phoenix 2000 with a 4 servo wing. I have setup crow on a 3 position switch, but would like to have a knob/slider that can control the crow movement in either half or full flap position. I know Open tx would be capable of it, but I can't get my head around it. I don't know how to make the knob/slider the primary control when crow is in the middle or lower switch position.
+Jeandré du Bois the trick is to use the slider to alter a global variable and use the GV in the mix. Hope that helps..
I could not get it to work with using the source "MAX" I had to use the switch source I was using. You didn't really go into MAX value, also I want 3 positions flap setting up middle full. When I use middle the input is 0 adjust the weight of 0 has no effect I can't set the middle setting at all using the weight.
I've covered MAX in lots of other videos. Be aware that things change from OpenTX version to OpenTX version and radio to radio.. See my plane setup videos for more options..
I know that video is super old, but I just got in from drone world. I have radiomaster boxer and matek R24-P6 and I created delta mix with lua script for my wing, everything is working, but with a twist :) So, when i move stick left-right, wing is going down-up, and when Im moving stick up-down, my wing is banking. How to fix this easiest way? Im new with this and moving from drones so, sorry for not using right terminology. Tnx
Check out th-cam.com/video/RBiNq3dWQBM/w-d-xo.html it shows how to setup elevons and troubleshoot issues like that..
hello, can you Plesse make a tutorial how to mix throttle with elevator on fixed wing? its confusing because i already habe two mixers due to elevons?
+MaxFpV flight have a look at some of the videos in the 'openTX mix school' on the channel, we cover a lot of settings in the videos and after watching a few you'll have figured out what you need to do. Best of luck
I have a couple of problems including "slow" to the flaps going down and up. How can I send you my file so you can simulate it? Thanks!
Sorry, I only provide that level of support for Patreons. If you’re not one of my Patreons then I have lots of videos covering all of these topics in the ‘OpenTX Mix school.. Best of luck!
Painless360 I am a Paytreon...
Sorry, Patreon!
Then please use that system to send me a message and we can take a look! :D
3 position on a t12 not using companion
Pardon?
Wish I had NOT bought X9D! Futaba is EASY compared this. Still that's the price you pay for buying cheapo stuff
Watch the Taranis playlist from the start. It’s designed to help..
Sorry but don't want to take me laptop to windy hillside in January with bunch of down loaded vids thanks. What i want is a half a dozen pages of A5 how to examples. Guess when i figure it out i have a little publishing job to do :-) Other than that many thanks for the time and effort you put in to making the videos.
With a little practice most pilots get the hang of it. All of my videos have examples and cover everything in detail. I guess you've got some reading/watching to do ;)