I am going to bind my DX8 with an AR600 using a four cell Rx battery instead of hooking up the ESC. I only have the evelator and ailerons connected for now. It would be a PITA to try and connect everything up now. Is there any reason to connect everything up now.

Can you bind without anything but the battery being hooked up?

Thanks in advance,

Bill

Yes, you'll be fine.

There's a picture of binding in the DX8 manual with nothing but a battery and a bind plug hooked up so, yes, that works fine. I have done this for years.

Make sure the RX pack is well-charged. Binding takes a bit of current to write to the nonvolatile memory.

Thank you both. It worked!!!!!

Bill

When you Bind, you set the Failsafe Conditions. If you change any Servo Directions or enable Mixing, etc., you need to Bind again, so be sure to Bind again after the aircraft is set up.

Originally Posted by Buschbarber

When you Bind, you set the Failsafe Conditions. If you change any Servo Directions or enable Mixing, etc., you need to Bind again, so be sure to Bind again after the aircraft is set up.

True for most radios, so don't forget to have the throttle in your chosen position for failsafe. I don't think you'd want to set the failsafe to half throttle or higher.