Category Archives: Radio Equipment

Radiomaster Ratchet on Throttle/Winch Joystick..!!

Are you a mainsheet ratchet fan? I admit that I am, but at our club opinion is pretty passionately divided !!

In my transmitter collection, the Futabas have a ratchet as standard and the Spektrums have a ratchet you can switch on and off from outside the front cover (nice!).

However, I always thought that Radiomaster has no ratchet capability. It turns out that is probably true for my Radiomaster Pocket,… but if you have a Radiomaster with AG01 or AG02 CNC machined gimbals (eg Boxer or TX15 ) there is a ratchet in there. You do have to go inside to switch it on/off or adjust it though.

Ratchet and gimbal tension are both screw adjustable on a simple (crude!) pair of spring friction levers inside. You might also need a little “hack” if you find your ratchet adjustment spring sticks on the adjustment screw thread.

This little video (below) is a tour of the whole AG01 Gimbal joystick. (worth watching if you have a Radiomaster). If you skip forward to minute 4’15” you will arrive at the video section about adjusting the ratchet and gimbal tension – with the “hack” !!

Click here to see it:-

https://youtu.be/K8aRgndgyp0

Beginners Guide : Setting or Resetting Your Rudder Angles !!

If you have reached a point that you feel you want to check or adjust the maximum throw of your rudder blade from side to side that your transmitter generates, what is a way to do it??

I tried to simply find the answer to “what is the optimum maximum rudder angle?”…. it’s not as simple as you’d think !!

Try this:-

Spektrum – Another Good Item on Setting up Program Mixers !!

We have written about this a couple of times before, but until there’s time for us to get an up to date radio sailors manual written for the Spektrum take a look at this.

This website has an online link to a very good (US) radio sailors manual for the Spektrum DX6E. However, I think that the DX6E cannot do program mixing. The later DX8 and DX9 have it though. Program mixing enables you to implement “pinch and puff” modes on left-right throttle stick (mainsheet stick) movements.

http://www.stirling.saradioyachting.org.au/Sailing_Hints/radioprogramming1.htm