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Review: Turnigy 9x Flashed with ER9x + FrSky telemetry
This is my first radio and I just start this hobby 3 months ago, so please bear with me. I also rarelly wrote review so I'm not so good in writing review. Hopefully I can cover the whole aspect of it.
Turnigy 9x with its original firmware is just a normal China made Radio, there are bugs here and there. So I looked at the open source firmware Er9x (There are many variant of custom firmware for this radio, but I choose Er9x due to the popularity, other firmware like Th9x also good)
I did lots of modification on the radio, so now it will look like this:
[ATTACH]109316[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]109318[/ATTACH]
Modifications:
1. Move the antenna into the module, so the radio become a true modular Radio. This radio can use any JR compatible Radio.
2. Install ISR programming cable to reflash the firmware, Read and Write models setting.
3. Use 1500 mah Life battery, can last upto 2 weeks, with about 1 hour daily usage.
4. Do PPM Fix, so I can use this radio with Simulator like Phoenix, FMS, etc.
5. Install backlight that controlled by the Firmware.
6. Install Serial cable (black cable on the back of the radio) for Built in Telemetry using FrSky module.
Now regarding Er9x, what feature can this custom firmware provided :
•Up to 16 model memories.
•Multilevel flexible mixer - any input channel can be assigned to any output.
•Mixers can be added, multiplied or set to replace other mixers.
•8 5pt curves, 8 9pt curves with graphic visualization.
•Expo and Dr for the 4 primary channels, split Left/Right with graphic visualization.
•Throttle trim, throttle expo.
•PPM input from the trainer port can be used as input to mixer.
•Adjustable timer for each model. Can be activated by switches, throttle channel or throttle %.
•Adjustable battery warning voltage.
•Adjustable contrast.
•Adjustable beeper.
•Selectable trim increments.
•Selectable PPM output - 4ch, 6ch, 8ch, 10ch, 12ch, 14ch, 16ch.
•Selectable PPM pulse spacing.
•Limits and offsets for each output channel.
•Offset can be set with stick inputs.
•Stick calibration.
•Graphic or numerical representation of output values.
•Throttle tracing.
•Reverse throttle.
There is a PC application called eePe that we can use to setup the model, it also contain model simulation (we can see how the channel react with different type of Mixing).
Here is the splash screen of the firmware when we turn on the radio (you can change the logo with your own image, but we have to rebuild the formware)
[ATTACH]109319[/ATTACH]
Next I'm gonna write about the what I do on the mixing.
Turnigy 9x with its original firmware is just a normal China made Radio, there are bugs here and there. So I looked at the open source firmware Er9x (There are many variant of custom firmware for this radio, but I choose Er9x due to the popularity, other firmware like Th9x also good)
I did lots of modification on the radio, so now it will look like this:
[ATTACH]109316[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]109318[/ATTACH]
Modifications:
1. Move the antenna into the module, so the radio become a true modular Radio. This radio can use any JR compatible Radio.
2. Install ISR programming cable to reflash the firmware, Read and Write models setting.
3. Use 1500 mah Life battery, can last upto 2 weeks, with about 1 hour daily usage.
4. Do PPM Fix, so I can use this radio with Simulator like Phoenix, FMS, etc.
5. Install backlight that controlled by the Firmware.
6. Install Serial cable (black cable on the back of the radio) for Built in Telemetry using FrSky module.
Now regarding Er9x, what feature can this custom firmware provided :
•Up to 16 model memories.
•Multilevel flexible mixer - any input channel can be assigned to any output.
•Mixers can be added, multiplied or set to replace other mixers.
•8 5pt curves, 8 9pt curves with graphic visualization.
•Expo and Dr for the 4 primary channels, split Left/Right with graphic visualization.
•Throttle trim, throttle expo.
•PPM input from the trainer port can be used as input to mixer.
•Adjustable timer for each model. Can be activated by switches, throttle channel or throttle %.
•Adjustable battery warning voltage.
•Adjustable contrast.
•Adjustable beeper.
•Selectable trim increments.
•Selectable PPM output - 4ch, 6ch, 8ch, 10ch, 12ch, 14ch, 16ch.
•Selectable PPM pulse spacing.
•Limits and offsets for each output channel.
•Offset can be set with stick inputs.
•Stick calibration.
•Graphic or numerical representation of output values.
•Throttle tracing.
•Reverse throttle.
There is a PC application called eePe that we can use to setup the model, it also contain model simulation (we can see how the channel react with different type of Mixing).
Here is the splash screen of the firmware when we turn on the radio (you can change the logo with your own image, but we have to rebuild the formware)
[ATTACH]109319[/ATTACH]
Next I'm gonna write about the what I do on the mixing.
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