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Radio - Futaba FASST > Futaba 10C FASST 2.4GHz - Special Thread

rdalcanto
Key Veteran
Location: Salt Lake City, UT

You don't want the antenna going in front of the handle, because then it will be pointing directly at your heli, and the signal is weakest that way. You want to point it down a little toward the ground when you fly so the heli sees the side of the antenna the entire time.

Team MRC & Magnum Fuels

06-25-2008 04:12 AM

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baby_zyklon
Key Veteran
Location: Singapore

I see. Actually I was thinking about the tx resting on the antenna and module all the time when you lay it on the table, not to mention what happens when you accidentally topple it. That can't be good right? But I guess a aftermarket tx stand should solve that.

06-25-2008 04:32 AM

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Harold Kroeker
Heliman
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Activating 7 point curves

I got my 10C today, copied my models over from my 9C and, as others have reported, activated the throttle curves, the throttle hold, and throttle cut switch. When I was activating the throttle curves, I noticed that it had copied the 5 point curves over from my 9C and had left points 3 and 5 blank. The curves were still smooth and the old point 2 was located halfway between the new points 2 & 3, the old point 3 was the new point 4 and the old point 4 was located halfway between the new point 5 & 6. I went flying and everything worked great. My Raptor 50 flew just like it did with my 9C transmitter. After I got home, I tried to activate the missing points on the curves but was not able to. When I tried to change the value from the displayed -- it just beeped at me. Does anyone know how to get the radio to allow me to convert the copied 5 pont curves to 7 pont curves?

06-25-2008 06:02 AM

turboomni
Elite Veteran
Location: 63 Rambler Down By The Dumpster

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My Raptor 50 flew just like it did with my 9C transmitter

That's good?? 9C is the slowest radio out there. What servos you using??

Setup is everything, All my heli's can fly better than I can pilot them

06-26-2008 04:36 AM

danny_isr
Senior Heliman
Location: Boulder,Colorado

i would like to hear how it compares to the 9z .
or from people that moved from 9Z to it.
does it have all the capability of the 9Z (flexibility/mixes)

thanks Dan

Freya91,Trex450 SE,9ZHP,CellPro4,Schulze ISL6-330,AirThunder2200

06-26-2008 04:59 AM

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xahhax
Senior Heliman
Location: Switzerland, Lausanne

got mine as well today.
coming from a 7C, I like the build quality very much.
Tonight I program the 10C for my T500 and T600N :-)

06-26-2008 03:04 PM

Harold Kroeker
Heliman
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Activating 7 point curves

I got a PM that explained that to get the radio to allow me to convert the copied 5 point curves to 7 point curves "Go back to the missing point and move over to the percent (on the right side) and hold the round button down for 3 seconds. It will add it then."

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That's good?? 9C is the slowest radio out there. What servos you using??

My flying skills are not good enough to detect any difference between a fast or slow radio. My brain and my thumbs are definitely the limiting factor here. When I said that it flew the same as my 9C, I meant that all of the settings copied over from my 9C perfectly as far as I could tell.

06-26-2008 05:50 PM

rdalcanto
Key Veteran
Location: Salt Lake City, UT

I don't think you are going to notice a 20-40 millisecond latency difference when even the fastest servos are much slower than that. I think where we will notice a difference is in CCPM helicopters where the 9C would cause the swash plate to wobble.

Team MRC & Magnum Fuels

06-27-2008 03:13 AM

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rotorstart
Senior Heliman
Location: New England

Trex-600 swash type

For the Trex-600E, the swash type is HR3 for 120 degree, right?

Also for THRO F/S, I couldn't set it to 0%. The lowest I could do was 15%. Any idea?

06-27-2008 03:58 AM

phattalon
Senior Heliman
Location: Muncie In

sr-3

Jason Russell

06-27-2008 04:01 AM

NewHeli
Key Veteran
Location: State College, Pennsylvania, USA

The throttle failsafe, if it's like the 9C, you select F/S for that channel, then put your thr. stick at idle, and then hold the dial down. It will give you some value (15% I guess for you). 0 Does not mean idle, 0 is probably your throttle closed. If you want it close, you also have to hold your throttle cut switch when setting your failsafe. I think mine is 18% or something for idle.

To test it, move your thr. stick just slighly above idle and then shut the tx. off--see if the thr. servo goes back down to idle.

Nathaniel

Nathaniel Rice
Team Empire Hobby
Team Miniature Aircraft USA

06-27-2008 01:06 PM

K-ROK
Heliman
Location: REDBANK NJ USA

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06-27-2008 07:37 PM

Bad Karma
Veteran
Location: UK

Just got my 10C today, this radio rocks, I love that you can move the points on the throttle and pitch curves side to side aswell as the normal height adjustment

06-27-2008 11:38 PM

xahhax
Senior Heliman
Location: Switzerland, Lausanne

ok, I have a 10C. Flew some flights with the T500 and I have just reconfigured my 600N.
Now, I come from a 7C 72mhz. They were 2 main reasons for upgrade:
2.4ghz and 'not-making-mistake-of-wrong-model-selected-in-tx'
Or so I thought, i.e. I thought with FASST the RX was linked to the MODEL selected in the TX...but it looks like it is linked to the TX as a whole. i.e. the TX programmed for my T600N is still happy with the T500 which is NOT what I expected.

Am I missing something here?

06-28-2008 10:43 AM

rdalcanto
Key Veteran
Location: Salt Lake City, UT

There is not a two way communication with the receiver. If your pre-flight routine is so bad that you don't even look at the name of the model on the HUGE screen, you can attempt to fly with the wrong program. (I'm not certain this will work, but I think that) one solution is to put an 8 channel receiver in one, and a seven channel in the other, that way you have to change model and power down the radio or it won't link with the wrong receiver.

Team MRC & Magnum Fuels

06-28-2008 01:55 PM

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Bad Karma
Veteran
Location: UK

Model match is only on Spektrum and JR, whereas frequency hopping is only on Futaba.

Out of the two I would value frequency hopping more.

06-28-2008 02:03 PM

xahhax
Senior Heliman
Location: Switzerland, Lausanne

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If your pre-flight routine is so bad that you don't even look at the name of the model on the HUGE screen, you can attempt to fly with the wrong program.

Well, it happened to me once to crash a heli because of this.
Stupid I know...

thanks for the answer!

06-28-2008 07:38 PM

cub2000
Veteran
Location: Massachusetts

The only disappointment on the Futaba 10c for me is the dial wheel that appears to have plenty of play in it when I turn. It looks cheap.

06-29-2008 01:51 PM

homerlex
Senior Heliman
Location: USA

Hmm, my dial wheel feels just fine. Maybe you got a bad one

06-29-2008 02:10 PM

cub2000
Veteran
Location: Massachusetts

Touch the wheel on the right edge, move it left and right and you don't see it move?

06-29-2008 05:16 PM

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