RC RADIO SCAM ?

Zoom Master

Elite member
And I just found out that people living in America cant go over 200 mph in the US without a waver......is this rule only for drones or for rc airplanes aswell ?
 

Piotrsko

Legendary member
200 mph has always been a speed limit, just almost never enforced for a hundred reasons, mostly not being able to accurately measure using cheap handheld equipment. Micro computer modules stopped the hard, and eliminated expensive.
 

Zoom Master

Elite member
Strange, I’ve talked to some clubs in the past, and they didn’t know of a speed limit, only an altitude limit…
I didnt know either I watched a Joshua bardwell video where he was building a 200 mph drone an the said he legally couldn't fly it at that speed and that u need a waver....
 

mindstormer7

New member
I don’t think I’ll ever need a multi module I’m just starting out and will build every airplane I own so I can just build it around one radio system if I want to but I think I will never need more then say 12 channels so that makes the decision a bit more difficult.
ELRS is capable of up to 16 channels. You can do this with two 8 channel receivers set to the same bind phrase with the one set to map pins 1-8 to channels 9-16 (make sure telemetry is only enabled on one of them or they will speak over each other trying to transmit back to the radio)

Also set your packet rate to 100Hz (or 333Hz if you care more about telemetry than signal penetration) and your switch mode to "16ch rate/2". Channel 5 will act up if you don't set that up
 

Zoom Master

Elite member
ELRS is capable of up to 16 channels. You can do this with two 8 channel receivers set to the same bind phrase with the one set to map pins 1-8 to channels 9-16 (make sure telemetry is only enabled on one of them or they will speak over each other trying to transmit back to the radio)

Also set your packet rate to 100Hz (or 333Hz if you care more about telemetry than signal penetration) and your switch mode to "16ch rate/2". Channel 5 will act up if you don't set that up
Thanks for the advice and yes I could do that and I care more about signal penetration then I do about telemetry…
 

mindstormer7

New member
I like telemetry call outs for battery and time
Well the 100Hz rate will still allow for that just not at a super high refresh rate

I run at 333Hz because I use a radiomaster gps module on my planes and like to record at every .5 seconds for more detailed data after the flight and 100Hz just doesn't have the telemetry throughput to achieve that .5 seconds update interval without cutting back too much on control signals in my personal opinion

For like battery telemetry and link quality the lower 100Hz rate at the standard telemetry ratio is more than enough to get a 1 second or so update interval

I did see that the newer versions of ELRS added the capability for transmitting more advanced telemetry data like "cells" which for my FrSky sensors was able to track the individual cell voltages and total pack voltage from the balance lead and do actual lowest cell or cell deviation callouts on the radio with some set up

Lots of blabbering to say I also like telemetry and am excited for new tech on the horizon