Dood
Elite Veteran
Location: America's Dairyland
| Have a look at a Similar thread from way back in 2002.
I summarized some of the best predictions.
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| Futaba gyros with built in governors.... my only thought
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Not quite, but I see we have receivers with built in governors now.
Spektrum AR7100R.
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| A dedicated YS .45 or .50 heli engine.
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a YS.50 was available last year.
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| An affordable sport Caliber .50 or even a .60 (like the Caliber .30 only with a metal clutch bell)
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Caliber 5 is old news.
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| I want to see bigger balllinks and control rods, higher torque more reliable servos... With these big engines, I think we are pushing the design limits of these things as far as strength goes... What happens when the new 110 or whatever comes out???
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I guess 5mm balls is the standard these days, what were was the norm in 2002?
For sure servos have gotten better.
Im not sure.
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A perfect mail order house that has fair prices.
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Nobodies perfect, but there are quite a few good online heli stores.
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| USB plugs so you can use a computer to program the radio, backup data and have a big graphics screen.
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This has been done. JR has some data software, and so does Futaba.
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| Megabytes of memory for 1000s of models. Software programability,
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Removeable SD cards, etc good enough?
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| if I want 33 P-mixes and 52 pitch curve points then I should be able to click on a windows button and get them.
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Who needs that many mixes is beyond me. 
7 to 9 point curves seem to be the norm.
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| Radios that use a modern transmission encoding. Like Network addressing, 2.4Ghz , Spread Spectrum. Anything to get away from WW1 vintage crystal control.
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Spektrum, FASST, XPS...
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| Telemetry from the heli to the tx. Battery state, rpm, fuel level, glitch reporting, failure alerts to either a sunglass mounted display or synth voice on the tx to headphones.
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Spektrum has a telemetry system for their surface radios. Im not sure what all it does.
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| Servos that don't cost U$120 and fail after a gallon.
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Some of the really good servos cost ALMOST that much.
Im willing to bet they're more reliable now.
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| High current fuel cells so electric power becomes better than glow or gas.
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Lipos.
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| PCM receivers with build in 1st stage glitch counters that cost the same as PPM rxs. Failsafe set so throttle goes to idle vice hold.
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whats PCM?
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| Servo, battery and switch wires that can handle high currents. Mod the receiver too.
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The new thing is rx's that come with heavy duty wires hard wired in, ie the AR7100 and AR9100.
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| At a nightflying event last weekend (With Curtis) the guys were asking for backlit Xmitter LCD's
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12x, some versions of the DSX9, Futaba 10C, 14mz...
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| I would like to see engines that are easier to set up for peak performance. After three years of flying I still haven't developed an ear/feel for peaking an engine. It's trial and error for me.
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How about a gadget that tunes the engine for you?
eg; Carb Smart.
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(1) Better selection of colors for anodized parts (simple)
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Lots.
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| My biggest pet peve and is certainly do-able right now is transmitter frequencies. You can go down and buy a cordless phone for $89 that uses any of 200 channels to transmit from and automatically switches from one to the next if there is interference. Why can't our transmitters be like that. No need to "use" a frequency. All frequencies are open to everyone. If you are flying and someone turns on your transmitter picks the next available frequency. Can't be too hard to make I think....
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Im telling you, some of these guys KNEW 2.4ghz was coming!!
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| How about manufactures that actually do a little Research and development instead of using me as their test group
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ALIGN.
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| Seriously, Probably the single best thing that could be implemented for us with existing technology (IMO) is a encoded TX/RX system. I mean do you need to change frig*ing quartz cystals everytime you make a different phone call on your mobile because someone has your channel or unable to unlock your car because there are more than 50 cars within 2 miles using your radio slot, not hardly.
Take the time it takes to transmit 1 channel,1ms or whatever and send 10-20 binary bits (1000-1,000,000 combinations) to identify your Tx to its Rx(now you only have 9 channels, so what) It would be possible to
manufacture all radios with there own unique code, no two are sold 'on the same channel' thats easy peasy lemon squezey.
. Receivers would have a button that 'locks it' to the code it just received so untill the button is pressed again it stays on that channel, and so any number of rx could be used from 1 TX but easily changed over again. Childs play. No one would ever get shot down and no need to buy over-priced xtals. Its not even new stuff, cell phones used it for years.
Electronic carburation control would be great but probably expensive.
Cordless servos would be pointless.
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Chalk up another one for the 2.4ghz prediction.
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| Here's what I think manufacturers should strive for.
1. Spread spectrum TX/RX. No more shoot downs.
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And ANOTHER ONE for 2.4ghz!
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| 2. Micro servos that equal or better the performance of standard servos. This will open up serious performance increases for ALL aspects of remote control.
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Not sure about "EQUAL" but I bet some of the micro servos in 2008 have some better specs than many standard servos from 2002.
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| 3. Mass production of carbon fiber so that entry level stuff can have em.
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Yes.
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| 4. Improvement in power/weight ratio for e-helis.
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Yes. Biggest improvement made here was probably lipos.
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| 5. Nitromethane monopoly of the U.S. broken.
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Hmm. Nitro. China. 2008 and the year of no nitro.
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| 1. Digital Spread TX/RX -- Probably cheaper to produce then the antique crystals we are using now.
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is 2.4ghz cheaper to produce? anyone?
oh BTW, chalk up another for 2.4ghz predictions.
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2. High Torque/High Speed Linear Servos
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not "linear" but is the DS8717 strong enough and fast enough for you?
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| 3. Cheap Fuel Injected engine with a built in Temp for tuning
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Fuel injection: NO.
Carb Smart: YES.
The surface guys have it.
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