LED Lights and Beacons for RC
A new page is taking shape Here to support LED lighting on RC models and the LED controllers.
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Small FPV Flying Wing Concept
What’s the plan and why A few years back I was looking at building a larger (about 2M) flying wing for FPV. Since then I have been playing with multi-rotors. Not the 250 racing size but rather 350-400 FPV types. Considering the short flight times, relatively high accident cost in […]
UAV Regulations – CAA New Zealand – 1st August 2015 3
Get a copy here – well almost As of 12-August-2015, looking at the CAA web site here, the AC101-1 advisory is OK but following the links to the Part 101 rule takes you to the old version, dated 1-April-2014. They show Part 101 01-August-2015 costing $4.65. There seems to be […]
More thoughts on 2.4GHz RC reliability
More trouble with interference – Jan-2017 Over the last couple of weeks known control issues include: one helicopter crash, three planes crashed, one quad-copter loss of control and one quad-copter lost in the hills. The lost quad was possibly due to interference. This prompted me to have another look at […]
RC Fighting Tank – frequency changes
Can the control frequencies be changed to allow more than 2 tanks to operate at the same time? These are supplied in pairs, one on 27MHz and one on 40MHz. Conclusion Not practical; without finding out about the receiver IC, ABERX69A. Google returns no info. Transmitter The transmitter uses a […]
Futaba transmitter switch swap
The plan was to swap the back two toggle switches to move the spring loaded switch to the left. This must swap the switch function as well. The two top switches on each side are mounted on a small circuit board on each side with 4 wires connecting, +5 and […]
New RC LED controller
In testing This is the next step from the original 6-channel LED flasher-controller. More details. It is able to drive 1 watt and 3 watt LEDs directly without additional resistors and from a 3-6 cell Lipo or 12-30V DC supply. It uses a UBEC mounted on the back to provide […]
More on 2.4GHz RC control reliability 1
Glitches at the flying field Recently there have been a few 2.4GHz RC control glitches. We don’t know yet if it’s due to installation of interference. But with various models affected, it’s possibly not just installation. There is a large site nearby that may be using a wifi jammer, but […]