Originally Posted by nicodh

....I saw it has 4 cables, black, red, white and yellow. If I cut down for example the red one (or black) and put a switch in the middle, this would simply cut down the power of the module and then keep tracking my mails and for the rest of the persons in the house. Is it correct?
....

Yes, you just need to put a switch in the VCC-5V line to the RF board. This will inhibit the transmission.

Originally Posted by losikid

hobbypartz.com has them, and free shipping

I lied, no they don't i thought they did but i can't find them

Only Hobby King separates the CT-6 radio from the programming cord. All other sellers of the 6 channel (under various names, but all maked by FlySky) include the cord with the radio.

I've asked Hobby King several times why they sell the CT6A in their US warehouse but don't also carry the programming cords. They never answered.

I have a USB-RS232 9 pin converter cable that I bought on Ebay for a couple of bucks. Uses the same driver as the programming cable. I wonder if that could be used with a mouse cable?

I got my radio from Hobbypartz so it did include the correct cable, I'm just curious for thos who don't have one.

Originally Posted by victapilot

I have a USB-RS232 9 pin converter cable that I bought on Ebay for a couple of bucks. Uses the same driver as the programming cable. I wonder if that could be used with a mouse cable?

I got my radio from Hobbypartz so it did include the correct cable, I'm just curious for thos who don't have one.

It could be used if you also change the RS-232 voltage levels to TTL levels. DO NOT USE RS-232 voltage levels directly with your radio.

If your computer has one, you can also use your RS-232 serial port, but again you need some sort of active level changer to change RS-232 levels (+-12V or so) to TTL levels (0 to 5V)

I bought the Fly Sky CT6B Tx/Rx combo from Hobby Partz and it works fine. However, I would like to get a couple more of the $9 receivers--(R6B) and they never seem to have them in stock. Is there any other source or will some other receiver work? I have another plane waiting for a receiver and don't want to have to switch the original Rx every time I want to fly a different plane.

Thanks in advance

Bob

Bob,
Its been said that these receivers from hobby king will work with the ct6b:

http://hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store...dProduct=12901

My brother has the hobby king version of the flysky radio, but we have never tested receiver compatibility. I have one of those on order from hobby king, just because it was in stock, and should work with my flysky transmitter. They will probably be sold out by the time mine gets here from Hong Kong, so based on what I've read it might be best to grab one of those.

-heath

Originally Posted by dumb_thumbs

Bob,
Its been said that these receivers from hobby king will work with the ct6b:

http://hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store...dProduct=12901

My brother has the hobby king version of the flysky radio, but we have never tested receiver compatibility. I have one of those on order from hobby king, just because it was in stock, and should work with my flysky transmitter. They will probably be sold out by the time mine gets here from Hong Kong, so based on what I've read it might be best to grab one of those.

-heath

Thanks "Thumbs"
I posted another inquiry on the Transmitter Forum to see if anyone with first hand experience could verify your suggestion, then checked the Hobby Partz website. The receiver they sell is now in stock so I ordered a couple. However, for future reference, I would still like to know for sure if in fact your suggested replacement would work.

Worst case, for $22.99 could always get another Tx with the receiver and could bypass having to use the computer to change to a different plane. Lets see--20 planes, twenty transmitters, 160 batteries,----

Bob

Bob,

Thumbs' advice is sound. The Hobby King V2 receivers are rebranded FlySky R6B receivers.

You just have to be careful not to get the V1 receivers, which are for the old RF version radio CT6A. Hobby King, in their 'infinite' wisdom, didn't use the B designation, but instead kept the A in the model number, and just added "V2" to the end.

I don't know what the Deal is with Hobbypartz but They scrambled the links and I had to search on CT6B to see the pages for the Tx and Rx. If you select Electronics-> TX/RX from the main page, you get the old out of stock CT6A.
$31.70 for the tx/rx combo and $9 for the B version Rx.
Both were in stock
I had to order one for a friend to set up today.

I've been happily flying with my FS-CT6B (V2) for a couple months now. I crashed landed my plane (a Sky Surfer) and since then I've had very limited range with that reciever. I switched out to another rx and that fixed the problem. I'm wondering if anyone else had had failures with that rx?

Specifically, the most catastrophic thing that I can figure happened during the crash: one of the aileron servo horns caught on something (a branch I think) as the plane slid forward. This rotated the servo past the maximum position and stripped out the servo gears. I tried replacing the gears but the servo was toast (after replacing the gears it was all jittery and wouldn't work when I connected to the rx). Did I somehow short out the rx? What else could have happened?

range loss is normally due to the antenna. Maybe open the cover and see if the ant connection is good. Only do this at own risk.

anyone ever shot down by another 2.4ghz radio? i swear some buddies specktrum radios are causing issues for my v1 radio on occasion.

Originally Posted by captaingeek

anyone ever shot down by another 2.4ghz radio? i swear some buddies specktrum radios are causing issues for my v1 radio on occasion.

I lost control at a fly-inn last year. Funny thing is a guy with a Spektrum lost his at exactly the same time. We never figured out why, but there were lots of folks at the field with all types of system

Originally Posted by GrootWitBaas

range loss is normally due to the antenna.

+1. Chances are that you either broke the antenna lead where it solders to the circuit board, or you may have broken the antenna under the red heat shrink where it makes a folded dipole antenna.

Stripping a servo would not have adversely affected the receiver's range performance.

Originally Posted by captaingeek

anyone ever shot down by another 2.4ghz radio? i swear some buddies specktrum radios are causing issues for my v1 radio on occasion.

WJBite has problems at the pond where he operates when there are too many frequency hopping systems turned on. Both Spektrum's DSM2 and the FlySky V1 RF systems are not frequency hopping. DSM2 picks a pair of frequencies to use at turn on, and FlySky chooses a single frequency to use at turn on. WJBite's problem arrises when the radio transmitter turns on, if it cannot sense a clear 2.4 GHz channel, it will not transmit at all.

With either system, it is easy for a FPV video transmitter operating at 2.4 GHz to completely lock out the receivers, because the video transmitters use about 1/2 of the available 2.4 GHz band. If you are flying on a fixed frequency (or a closely spaced pair of frequencies in the case of the DSM2 system) then someone turns on a FPV video transmitter, you're toast.

FlySky V2 and the newly announced DSMX are true frequency hopping systems, where the transmitter constantly changes what frequency it is transmitting on, and the receiver follows the transmitter. Since they hop around, they are less likey to be compeletly locked out. They may experience brief outages, but will soon hop to a clear frequency and the pilot may never notice.