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GET
START!
FIRST
STEPS
Now that you've seen the basics and that your
battery has some charge, what about a little bit of
practice? The first thing to do with your radio
would be to configure the general settings. Get to
the relevant page with MENU LONG, set time, date,
sound volume to your preference (the lower end of
the volume slider is typically needed when using
headphones, while the upper end is good for using
with the internal speaker), play with the backlight
setting, set the RF country code to your location, the
default channel order to your preference, and the
stick mode to match your flying style. Battery gauge
and alarm are factory set for the supplied battery.
It's important to center the throttle stick when
asked to set stick midpoints, but no need to do so
for the pots.
The radio will have created an empty model for
you, so after having gone back to the main view
you'll be able to go to the model setup screen by
pressing MENU SHORT and PAGE SHORT. There
you'll want to make sure you've set the RF mode
that matches the receiver you want to use. When
using the internal module, to bind your receiver
select the "Bind" field and press the ENTER key.
The module will sound a beep every few seconds.
Now follow your receiver's instructions for binding
(press and hold the F/S button then apply power
for D and X receivers, connect jumper to S pins of
channels 1 and 2 and apply power for V8x-II
receivers). The receiver LED will flash fast to
confirm binding. Press exit on the radio, Remove
the jumper on the receiver if applicable, and cycle
receiver power. You should now have servo control
of channels 1-4 with the sticks.
SETTING
UP
A
MODEL
TARANIS
BASICS
Now that everything works, it's time to stop a
moment for some theory about the basic operation
of the TARANIS firmware. As briefly described
above, TARANIS differs from the majority of
mainstream radio by its programming philosophy.
As opposed to common radios that offer a choice
between a limited set of predefined usage scenarios
(airplane, glider, helicopter), a number of functions
that are commonly used with such models (delta,
flaperon, camber, butterfly...), and have fixed
assignations (sticks always control their respective
channels), TARANIS offers a blank canvas on which
you will build your setup: the mixer screen. This
approach ensures maximum flexibility because
whatever you do you will never have to work
around what the radio expects you to do, which is a
blessing for anybody having to work with "new"
model types or configurations which still "don't
exist" for mainstream radio manufacturers, and as
such for which the built-in functions are usually
useless. So you can see it that way: For some model
types, usual predefined functions can allow setting
up a model in seconds (just enable a function), but
for others you'll spend hours trying to get around
their limitations. On TARANIS everybody is more or
less at the same level - it might take a little longer at
the beginning to set up a seemingly simple model,
but a complicated one won't take much more. As
there is no existing function you can just turn on, it
will require basic understanding of how your model
is supposed to work, and what you want each
control surface to do. This means that you might
even learn something about your model in the
process of setting it up!
The control order path starts from the sticks,
goes through the STICKS screen (anything affecting
control response like dual rates and exponential),
continues to the mixer, and ends up being adapted
to the mechanical characteristics of the model in
the SERVOS screen.
EVERYTHING
ABOUT
THE
MIXER
SCREEN
We'll start with this as it is the center of the
radio. The mixer screen lists the 32 output channels
to which you can link one or more inputs from a
long list of physical controls (sticks, pots, trims,
switches), logic sources, other channels and trainer
inputs. Each assignation is done with a mixer line. A
new model will have 4 predefined mixer lines on
