I'd say virtually all of us love the XPS stuff for various reasons. I have the original internal module in my Evo 9 Tx. V 1.03 I think. I fly this at the NEAT Fair in NY each Septmeber with as many as 50 other planes in the air and 99% of them are on 2.4. This is why I love XPS "I HAVE NEVER HAD A Glitch there !!!" follow the link to a great electric event. http://www.neatfair.org/ scroll down to the two pictures. I took the one on the right with my XPS helicam a couple years ago. All electric event week following Reinbeck.
Al

Originally Posted by tholmes345

You aren't stuck. Merely delayed. There is always someone who will buy a crashasaurus. I know plenty of JR flyers that would jump at the chance to get another DX8. Of course at the right price.

I will keep my dx8 to fly the bnf stuff.

That's a sophisticated radio for BnF stuff, I always thought of my 9C as overkill, but then if I needed to do some kind of mix it sure was easy to accomplish the task.

Originally Posted by village_idiot

That's a sophisticated radio for BnF stuff, I always thought of my 9C as overkill, but then if I needed to do some kind of mix it sure was easy to accomplish the task.

I know it is overkill, but I had a DX6i and I did not like it. I like the DX8 much better than the DX6i.
Who knows, when I buy the XPS 16, I might change my mind and sell all Spektrum stuff.

If a DX8 is overkill for the UM BnF, what about my 9303 2.4! It's been completely relegated to UM's. Everything important fly's on XPS!

Mike

Maybe there is a PPM trainer connection and you can do like IvanC did to his 8FG running the Spektrum module from the trainer connection. If you only need 6 channels you might be able to build something out of a DX4e or you could build the short range version from the MLP4DSM or LP5DSM, it works just fine for short range (see DIY electronics section).

Originally Posted by village_idiot

That's a sophisticated radio for BnF stuff, I always thought of my 9C as overkill, but then if I needed to do some kind of mix it sure was easy to accomplish the task.

My guess is I'm not telling you anything new, but some of the UM BnF stuff is getting pretty sophisticated. I'm basically doing all the same stuff with my micros that I'm doing with my larger planes and helis and doing it indoors with micros takes more skill.

I used to have a Spektrum DM8 module for my 9CAPS but I was running out of model memories so I bought a DX6i to fly the UM stuff with and sold the Spektrum module. I'm not quite ready to say that was a mistake yet, but I dearly miss the Futaba now when I'm flying my UM fleet.

Pete

Originally Posted by JimDrew

$500,000 and 18 months of development for the DivBee module is not much of a joke to me...

People have already seen and played with the transmitter, so it's not like we are showing a picture and saying, "see how great it will be".

Speaking of the DivBee...

Do you have some boards that allow them to be easily connected as a serial device, with USB for attaching to a PC? I'm thinking of something like this:

https://store.diydrones.com/Xbee_Tel...metry-xbee.htm

And any chance of getting a pair of these to try out?

We will have a simple modem board that allows serial communications. We do have a USB<>serial adapter, but it is not something that is required for our modules as they don't need to be programmed like the XBEE modules do. Our DivBee modules do not have a CPU, so they can be put into any design that has a SPI port. Our modem board has a PIC, LED, and push button switch. You can program them using any PIC programmer, but they will come with simple modem firmware already installed, complete with a custom IEEE MAC address. You can bind two units together for exclusive communications, just like you do with our transmitter modules and receivers. We were able to get the pricing down now to just $19.95 for the DivBee modules. The modem boards will be $12.95. Full schematics, PCB layout, and source code for the modem boards will be available at no cost.

I'll tell you what I need... I need a device that can transparently emulate a USB cable that is small and cheap and probably has a place to solder battery connections. Needs an A connector on one board and a B connector on the other (both full size). Not sure of the ultimate bit rate needed but I can say that range only needs to be about 10 feet which should help boost the bit rate. I might be able to fit the battery pack inside the device, need to open it when I finally find a solution that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

Hahahaha. Homie said crashasaurous. Aaahahahahah. Careful Homie, you will be scorned at home ;-). I thought Id never hear the end of it when i switched.

Originally Posted by Manta1

Hahahaha. Homie said crashasaurous. Aaahahahahah. Careful Homie, you will be scorned at home ;-). I thought Id never hear the end of it when i switched.

Well you know how that works. When you don't give a rat's butt what other people think, it makes it easy. Most people fly what their mentors and heroes fly. I have no students or adorers.

I had an RF interference caused by a loose spark plug connector. The comment was that "my radio is better than yours." (JR flyer) In fact nobody's system is immune to that problem. That is the reason the connector is so difficult put on and take off when it fits right. The point is, a lesser known MFG will always be the problem rather than the "problem" being the problem.

Originally Posted by tholmes345

In fact nobody's system is immune to that problem.

That is not true. Any radio system operating above about 300MHz will not have a problem with ignition system issues. However, servos can be affected by these types of things - just not the receiver itself.

Originally Posted by JimDrew

That is not true. Any radio system operating above about 300MHz will not have a problem with ignition system issues. However, servos can be affected by these types of things - just not the receiver itself.

I stand corrected. It was the servos I had problems with. Thank you for the enlightenment. I guess that the Rx or Tx is blamed first by those like myself who have only enough electronic experience to recognize little boxes with wires. I was actually echoing what someone with vastly more knowledge about such things. I may have misunderstood what he meant too.

If there is anything I hate is somebody conveying misinformation. Thanks again.

No worries! People often think that since the servo is connected to (and controlled by) the receiver, any issues with random or glitchy movement must be due to the receiver.