Re: For Sell - Flyzone Seawind

[Bigstik]

Hi Oscar,

I'd like to know how to set up the separate water rudder and retract sequence. Just finished rebuilding mine after a nose dive. Bought a new fuse and swapped out everything I could.
Btw, I never did get the diff throttle to work on my Skymule.

Alan

[octagon]

Hi Alan,
I used this video and it works well, with the exception of not being able to have a throttle kill work on the motor on Aux1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DppCarTGRVo
I did have to mess around a bit, but if you follow the video, and stop it and make the same adjustments as he does in the video, you will find it works fine I think. If you do not have  a new DX6 or DX9, just do a google search and you will find plenty more videos.

[Oscar]

Hi Alan

The Skymule really doesn't need Differential Thrust.  It makes it more complicate.  My SeaMule (Skymule conversation to Sea plane) flies better with regular setup.  I probably will only use the Differential Thrust for water taxiing. (still haven't try it on water yet but on grass, it did quite well)

For the Seawind separate water rudder setup, I added a separate servo for the water rudder. 

Here's what I did on my transmitter DX9 setup...

Gear Retract is output on my TX CH5 (GEAR).
Water Rudder Retract is output on my TX CH7 (AUX2).
My input is my three-position switch "G".

SW:G-POS:0 = GEAR DOWN / RUDDER UP (CH5 -100% / CH7 -100%)
SW:G-POS:1 = GEAR UP / RUDDER UP (CH5 +100% / CH7 -100%)
SW:G-POS:2 = GEAR UP / RUDDER DOWN (CH5 +100% / CH7 +100%)

Make your substitutions for switch, positions, radio channels, etc to fit your own needs if you don't like switch G for the 3 position switch.

You'll want to setup your three-position "gear" switch to output three values but don't output the switch directly to the "gear retract" or rudder retract" channels as you'll output those through a combination of four mixes.

Under the "Digital Switch Setup" menu, scroll over to "Switch G"

Pos 0: -100%
Pos1: +100%
Pos2: +100%
Channel: Inhibit

Then go into the "Channel Assign" menu.
On the "Rx Port Assignments" page:
5 GEAR: Gear
7 AUX2: Aux 2

Click [NEXT] and on the "Channel Input Config" page set:
5 Gear: Inh
7 Aux2: Inh

Setup four mixes to output an "up" and a "down" command for the "gear retract" and the "rudder retract" radio channels. This is where all the "magic" happens.

Under the "Mixing" menu, scroll down to an open mix.

Mix 1
ON > AX2
Rate: -100% -100%
Offset: 0%
Switch: Switch G
0: dark text on light background (mix disabled)
1: dark text on light background (mix disabled)
2: light text on dark background (mix enabled)

Back out and scroll to the next open mix.

Mix 2
ON > AX2
Rate: +100% +100%
Offset: 0%
Switch: Switch G
0: light text on dark background (mix enabled)
1: light text on dark background (mix enabled)
2: dark text on light background (mix disabled)

Back out and scroll to the next open mix.

Mix 3
ON > GER
Rate: 100% 100%
Offset: 0%
Switch: Switch G
0: light text on dark background (mix enabled)
1: dark text on light background (mix disabled)
2: dark text on light background (mix disabled)

Back out and scroll to the next open mix.

Mix 4
ON > GER
Rate: -100% -100%
Offset: 0%
Switch: Switch G
0: dark text on light background (mix disabled)
1: light text on dark background (mix enabled)
2: light text on dark background (mix enabled)

Back to Function List and Select Servo Setup
Under Reverse
Reverse GER
Reverse AX2

[Bigstik]

Thanks Oscar.

[Frank v B]

Oscar, you just proved you are the most valuable member of this Club because you are the only one to have read and understood the TX programming instruction booklet.

Frank