Align 2 in 1 voltage regulator

[Adder]

Hmm. So im save with my Knight Sport then

[Made2Fade]

can anyone confirm this as im busy fitting one into my brand new unflown knight 3d? Ive spent a small fortune kitting it out so would hate for it to go in straight away.
Lee

[nightstalker]

Well its going to be hard to confirm it 100% till you your self try it out,
I was at the Mk club and i was hearing others saying even Duncan Osborne was having glitches and they was flyin Trexs, now there was others there running the 2 in 1 on non trex helis and never had a problem.

Now you will be running PCM in your knight so as long as you have your failsafe set up right if you get a glitch you should be ok so it will just be quick,
But i will be very very shocked if you get a glitch as i and some other have never heard of glitches with the 2 in 1 on another heli apart from a trex.


I had a airskipper 50 and i was on ppm and i was getting glitches all the time till i went pcm, then i got a raptor and i stuck the same radio gear in it even the ppm RX and i never got a glitch, but i did change back to pcm as my club states you must run fail safe and the airskipper has G10 frames and its always known that you will have more chances of getting glitches with a carbon or G10 frame

[Made2Fade]

hmm... guess ill just have to try then.
Thanks
Lee

[nightstalker]

Keep us posted how it goes and just take it easy and also try and keep the main part of the 2 in 1 as far as you can from the rx.

As thats something else iv seen on the trex is people have the RX on one side and the 2 in 1 on the other so there very close to each other almost stuck to each other

[Made2Fade]

Never really thought much about that but looks like im gonna have to re-think my routing.
Cheers
Lee

[phil485]

Any more news on these yet???

Would love to put them on my knights, makes life so much simpler especially if you have a stand alone starter of some sort

[extreme3d]

Any more news on these yet???

Would love to put them on my knights, makes life so much simpler especially if you have a stand alone starter of some sort

Looks like theres a new version coming out. A much better, sealed unit, with better suppression. With that said I haven't been able to fault mine at the moment!

Link and scroll down.

http://www.thetrexforums.com/index.php?topic=1592.210

[moyesboy]

I see a feew comments here about glitches being more common with "Carbon or G10 frames".
Well carbon fibre is conductive, and can re route RF arround the heli. Carbon tail booms are particularly bad as they are often running parallel to the rx antenna (non 2.4G).
but G10 is glass fibre and not conductive (they make PCBs out of it primarily). I heard it had a good reputation for producing a glitch free aircraft. That makes sense to me as I got a much more reliable performance on 35Mhz when I got a g10 helidirect superframe to replace my aluminium x400 frame.

anyway a poorly designed BEC circuit where they economised on the components will be noisey and upset a 35Mhz receiver. Also it might not run well anywhere near its rated voltage and make the supply collapse and give you a lockout. so you must have lots of headroom in the rated ampage of the bec
Align presumably deigned this 2 in 1 to supply a 'copter full of digital high torque servos and gyro, governor, cylock, auto inflight mixture, cold light strings, pipe, slippers and kitchen sink...or perhaps not...