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Here's what we found on the 40% WH Extra 300 with smartfly turbo reg and EQ10 on JR10X with spektrum module.
First, this plane has never flown on anything but spektrum. It orginally had all the same electronics but was flown with the DX-7.
Friday I came over to Warren's and took the DX-7 out. I bound the 9000 RX to the module. Everything was fine. When I started hooking up servo's we noticed that things were not quite matching up. No big surprise as the plane was on a different radio in the beginning. I had to reverse the throttle servo. We had to totally readjust the elevators and rudder with the EQ10. It was very simple with the EQ10 (now that I know how to use it). The wings were very close and only needed some tweaking.
The module comes with smartsafe or something like that.....basically failsafe is pre-set to where you have the throttle at bind and last known postion for the rest. You can change this if you want.
Saturday was test fly day! Well we got a really good range check then tried the failsafe. It went full throttle. Very confusing. This time we binded the RX again with everything hooked up. Again the failsafe went to full throttle. For the life of us we couldn't figure out why. Then I took the throttle channel and bypassed the EQ10 and plugged it straight into the RX. Re-bound and the throttle now went to idle........so the cause.........When using the EQ10 I guess the throttle setting is being noticed by the spektrum RX from the EQ10 and not the transmitter. We tried reversing the transmitter and it still went full throttle. I went into the EQ10 and reversed the throttle there and the problem was solved. (of course we had to reverse the radio now).
I hope that isn't too confusing......it was for me at the field. We rechecked all surfaces and everything was good.
Off it flew..........its got about 6 or 7 flights over the weekend by at least 3 different pilots. The plane is working flawless.
I also wanted to mention that we took the DX-7 satellite RX and plugged it into the 9000 RX. So it now has 2 satellite RX's. I put one low in the fuse on a former and one up high near the hatch. The main RX sits in the center of the fuse mid height.