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Beginner’s Guide to Winches and Drums

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I was going to start a fresh item on Winches and Drums, but have lacked the time to get on with it.

Instead, take a look at this page (link below) on Lester Gilbert’s fabulous IOM website. It;s possibly a little dated now, but I found it very good for :-

1/ Understanding more about how the basics of how the transmitter joystick is actually talking to the winch.

2/ Get the basics of a plain drum, spiral drum designs and drum sizes versus winch power

3/ The spiral drum is really clever in its intent, but realise that electronics might have taken over this role. Now we have Throttle-curve on our transmitters plus the latest Stinger winches have this function onboard in their software.

4/ Good simple explanation, with diagrams, of Open Loop and Closed Loop sheeting systems – which I found great.

Take a look here:-

https://www.onemetre.net/Build/Drums/Drums.htm

Beginners Guide to Transmitters : Installing “Ken Read” Reaching/Downwind Mode on Futaba T6K…!!

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We have just published version 9 of our Radio Sailing Guide for the Futaba T6k.

Earlier this year, mega-star yachtsman, Ken Read published a one hour Youtube video on setting up the DF95. The last part of the video is about exploiting the transmitter.

In his concept, he uses one of his two-position switches to give himself an upwind mode and a reaching/downwind mode for mainsheet sensitivity.

We have taken this idea and added it to our “Advanced Topics” section of the manual. We have used a three position switch on the Futaba to give us Normal, Pinch and Puff Modes. We have integrated Ken Read’s idea into our “Puff Mode”. See section 4.2.3.3 of our manual to see how you can give it a try.

Go to the “Transmitter Manuals” Category of this website, or use the Search Bar.