[NSRCA-discussion] curious

[Atwood, Mark]

Hey Bill,

I wasn't referring to multiple servos on a single control (2 elevator servos, etc) as much as mixing them to function together.  So for example when you want to reflex the trailing edge of your glider wing, you need your inner and outer Ailerons and Flaps to all move in unison.  That's going to be hard to do with the 14mz if you're asking 6 servos to move exactly together because of the way it sends the signal in groups.   I believe the ATX 10ch is the only radio currently pushing all 10 channels in parallel.   I'm sure more will be doing that soon though.  And you could be right that it was the IMAC group that pushed for that, but I did think it was glider guys and reflexing the wing in particular that drove the point home.

-Mark

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Atwood, Mark wrote:
This will end up being somewhat of a shameless plug, but when we were involved in discussing features of the new Airtronics radio (SD-10G), this issues of grouping channels was a BIG deal to the glider guys.  T


Honestly it is not that big of a deal. On a glider while we have 6 servos (most competitive planes) they are used for flap (2), ailerons (2) rudder and elevator. So a group of 4 is more than adequate since even in a worse case the wing servos you want to have as little difference as possible, but I cannot ever recall any glider guy I know, including most of the Airtronics sponsored glider pilots, ever even talk about that. Trust me, I fly with these guys all the time and if they could rub my nose in something, they would (Airtronics guys are just so.... well, you know!!) :~}

Now the IMAC/giant scale/3D guys it is a HUGE deal. With 2 to 3 servos per surface and so on, the more channels grouped the better. And in that world channel grouping is a very hot topic of conversation.


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