Your
MIXER
screen now looks like this:
There may be some clean-up to the response directions based on motor polarity that we’ll sort
out in the troubleshooting section, but that’s our mix.
Assigning an Output Channel to a Switch
Sometimes you don’t need the range and precision of a control stick to activate an output
channel. Maybe you’re just activating an RC switch to fire a flipper mechanism. A transmitter
switch would serve that purpose nicely – let’s assign one to output
CH5
:
Your MIXER screen now looks like this:
CH5
is unassigned. We will assign it to respond to the momentary toggle switch
SH
.
On the
MIXER
screen:
Scroll to highlight the
CH5
line, then tap
ENTER
.
Scroll down to
Source
, tap
ENTER
, scroll to
SH
.
Tap
ENTER
, tap
EXIT
twice.
NOTE:
For aircraft applications, an Elevon mix will typically ‘
Weight
’ the mix
elements at ‘
50
’ rather than ‘
100
’ to prevent ‘clipping’ the motion of the servos used
to move their fight control surfaces. That isn’t an issue with robot control, plus we
need to assure that the electronic speed controllers provide full forward and reverse
throttle in response to Elevator input. The ‘
100
’ weight on Aileron gives more steering
response than most drivers like, but we will take care of that in the INPUTS screen.