using a buddy box

Steve · 2006-10-28T20:01:24+00:00

My trainer never used a buddy box with me, he was content to justhand the Tx back and forth. I have a friend that wants me to help himlearn to fly but he feels more comfortable using a buddy box. I havethe cord that I bought a couple years ago and never used, but I'm notsure of the details of how the system works. Does his Tx become the slave, and I just hold the Trainer switch onmine to let him fly and then release it when I want to take over? Heturns his Tx on, and I leave mine off, right? Does it matter if weeach have a Trainer switch? I'm sure this is simple stuff, I've just never done it before and I'dlike to not have to figure it out before I meet him at the field.Thanks,Steve

Oct 28, 2006 22 Replies

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Martin X. Moleski, SJ 19 years ago

On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:11:29 GMT, "Doug McLaren" wrote in :

I feared that might be the case--I never sat down to work it out.

I had hoped the computer radio would just read the gimbals in the buddy box, then do the right mixing. I was wrong.

I just got the 9303 this afternoon. Poking around in the menus, it looked like the Futaba 9-something system that my friend has, so I was feeling optimistic that it might work this way.

No time to Read The Friendly Manual yet. :o)

Marty

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quietguy 19 years ago

Crystal is not required - but battery is needed

Works fine - when I first started using buddy box I made my JR8310 the master - after a while I thought I would change this so I (as a learner) got the benefit of my nice 8130 - so changed things around and put the crystal into the cheapy JR xmitter so it was the master and the 8130 was the slave - this worked just fine

Not the JRs

Yep, the slave has to be in the off position - only the master is switched on

David

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Hugh Prescott 19 years ago

Greetings

RE: JR slave circuts

Yes the slave TX switch remains off when used as a slave.

The slave TX is required to have the battery pack installed.

The OF /ON switch on JR radios has two sections. One turns on the RF section and the other turns on the encoder section.

When you plug in the master/slave cable to slave it completes a circut to power just the encoder in the slave.

Do not leave the cable plugged into a slave or master when not using it as it will discharge the battery.

The JR master/slave cable is nothing more than a mono mini phone jack cable. Only the serial data flows through it, no power.

Hugh

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