Oops wrote:Thinking further, it should be possible that when a combination of channels or channel position is used then an extra channel gets activated. Let say, the throttle is below a certain % or the flaps are down...
This would free up two channels.
Thanks.
I had to scan all your posts to figure out you are using a 9X radio with the frsky telemetry system. What I could not determine is if you have switched to custom firmware, such as ER9X in your radio. IF you are running ER9X, you can make all sorts of combinations/mixes. You can use the pots/switches/3 way switch to modify what's going on. You could mix the flaps in when throttle is down, or you could have it set so that when the 3 way switch is one position you can have the flaps drop at x% throttle, but if the switch is in a different position, x% throttle would NOT activate the flaps and so on.... With ER9X, there are only 2 limitations... MAX 8 physical Channels in the receiver (for now... I believe that's being worked on, actually), and your imagination, the latter being the most important.
I am no expert on ER9X but I have created a theoretical aircraft in my mind that I will be building later and I have created a test platform with all the servoes/ESC and such that I will need. I have used this platform to determine that my imagined mixes work. I continue to use this platform and my radio to test new ideas, but apparently I could do this with the eepe software that works with ER9X and not have to touch the radio to try things out. My only problem is that my version of Linux does not have all the dependencies available (yet) for me to install the linux version of eepe so I rarely use it, as I have to boot an old copy of windows that I have and just absolutely can not stand. I have to keep it for those rare times when I'm forced to run software not written for linux... but that's my problem, not yours.
If you have not yet switched to one of the available software options for the 9X, you will be limited in what you can do with the radio.
Regards
Christian