Stick movement on CH3 controls the servo mix on CH8. No need for any additional boards.
Cheers
KG
Statistics: Posted by Phyrephish — Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:29 pm
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For turret rotation : steel gear(s) come from a 1/8 offroad car differential replacement (nylon gears should be better), hitec servo comes from my old drift car. The Hitec servo is modded for continuos rotation, so no endpoint pin on internal gears and a couple of resistance instead of center point potentiometer (easy to do). White smaller gear is the one from HL rotation system.
For gun elevation : The elevation servo is enough little and powerful and comes from an old combat Corsair (RIP), the gyro is a little Futaba G190 used long time ago for my drift x-ray...
Probably, with mike's software mod, the gyro is not necessary, i will test next weekend.
That's all, plus minus hardware like screws, washers and bolts
Statistics: Posted by crazykite — Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:45 pm
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That setup you have for the turret looks great. Did you make all the parts yourself or were some commercially available. If so where did you get them??
Cheers
KG
Statistics: Posted by Phyrephish — Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:13 pm
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Now with Mike's mix this diagram is obsolete
rc5hl_servo.jpg
I'd suggest making two of these mixes
Ch7 - Elevation servo
Ch8 - Turret servo
The existing template setup means that firing of the guns doesn't affect Mike's mix. All in all a most excellent solution
Cheers
KG
Statistics: Posted by Phyrephish — Tue Apr 28, 2015 8:54 pm
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Thanks so much for this info. It is gold. Please shout yourself a few beers from us R/C tankers.
If anyone else would like to shout Mike a beer for all of his years of work you can do so at the link below.
I would NEVER have worked it out. My next problem will be setting this mix up as part of a template.
@ crazykite - I did have to use a second channel as suggested. I'm running at about 60% of the elevation channel.
Thanks a million for this
Kevin G
Statistics: Posted by Phyrephish — Tue Apr 28, 2015 8:12 pm
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Thank you
This morning I will buy a new BEC (3A or 5A) to test new configuration, using A* RC5HL output
Stay tuned !
Statistics: Posted by crazykite — Tue Apr 28, 2015 7:02 pm
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"Try the following mixes on your camera channel (CH16 in this example)
+100% CH16
+2% RUD Switch SW1
R +100% FULL Switch SW2
R -100% FULL Switch SW3
SW1: |v|>ofs RUD 1
SW2: v>ofs CH16 100
SW3 v<ofs CH16 -100
First mix holds the channel
2nd mix adds a bit of the rudder stick in, more stick quicker moving.
3rd and 4th mixes stop the channel value going past 100%, otherwise it would and then would not move back immediately. (Limits stop the servo output, not the channel value)
SW1: detects when RUDder stick not centre
SW2 and SW3 detect the camera channel reaching full movement.
Play with the 2% in the second mix for different speed of movement. If it is too much, you will need to use another channel, e.g.
CH15: +20% RUD
then use CH15 instead of RUD in the 2nd mix. 2% of 20% is 0.4%."
This should work on both er9x/ersky9x and openTx, you may just need to adjust the response speed as described.
Note carefully the "R" on the last 2 mixes, these are "Replace" multiplex mixes.
Mike.
Statistics: Posted by MikeBlandford — Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:00 am
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Cheers
KG
Statistics: Posted by Phyrephish — Tue Apr 28, 2015 7:33 am
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Useful??? It's pretty darn close to the Holy Grail as far as I am concerned
Your servo mix is what I/tankers have been wanting for ages. It is one of the things I was going to ask you about. It is required desperately for tanks. As you can see with the post above especially for gun elevation servo. Please please post the mix details - an eepe file would be fine also.
@ Crazykite
OK obviously you are on the ball. Sounds like some excellent mods.
You can't use a "Y" cable per se as the Voltage Regulator output on the RC5HL does not have the amperage to drive all but the smallest of servos. You have to have a separate power supply for your servos (first video). This may be why your 'Y' cable is not working. As you can see the RC5HL has 'Y' signal outputs for all 5 channels A1, A2, A3, A4, A5. You can see these outs operating as they should in the GEKO video whereby the GEKO is being powered directly from the battery NOT the RC5HL.
I would suggest connecting the signal wire ONLY of your elevation servo to A3 on the RC5HL. Then find a separate 5V BEC to provide power to the servo. Likewise for the turret servo - connect the signal wire to A4 and power from the separate BEC.
Then await the post of the mix that Mike Blandford has promised. Removing the spring works of course for elevation servo movement but since the channel will not be outputting a neutral signal the sound of the elevation motor should be on continuously.
As a side note. With your modded Turret servo - have you thought about removing/disconnecting the pot and replacing with two 2.5K resistors?
Cheers and good luck
Kevin G
Statistics: Posted by Phyrephish — Tue Apr 28, 2015 7:31 am
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Statistics: Posted by crazykite — Tue Apr 28, 2015 7:05 am
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