Alarms what to do with them ?

[Puttputt maru]

Ok with the Mezon I can set alarms for a lot of things some I can see what to do with others what do you think:

Capacity
U BEC
I BEC
U Battery
I Battery
Revolution
Temp.
PWM

Capacity is easy I actually have 2 alarms. One for max mAh when I should think of landing, one for when I should land if I don't want to discharge my LIPO lower than 20%

U Battery to see if I loose LIPO cells

Temp. an obvious one too set at 150 degrees as per Danny

I BEC
U BEC
I Battery
revolution
What can i use them for as useful alarms ?
and the most unknown PWM

[BustedRaptor77]

The rest can be handy on the logs when trouble shooting and that is about it. I think U batteries is the flight pack U BEC is the BEC voltage I think.

[Puttputt maru]

Originally Posted by BustedRaptor77

The rest can be handy on the logs when trouble shooting and that is about it. I think U batteries is the flight pack U BEC is the BEC voltage I think.

yes U is voltage and I is amperage and yes one is the BEC the other the flight pack

Just want to make sure I am not missing some alarms that might be useful

[BustedRaptor77]

Originally Posted by Puttputt maru

U BEC to see if I loose LIPO cells

Is this a typo?

[Puttputt maru]

Originally Posted by BustedRaptor77

Is this a typo?

yes

corrected above thanks

[Puttputt maru]

I use my U BEC this way

https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=532569

[Kiba]

One suggestion... I have a BEC amperage alarm set. After flying several flights and keeping a log of the peak BEC current recorded in the min/max log of the Mezon I set an alarm about 2A above the highest peak that the Mezon recorded.

If that high BEC amperage alarm happens to trigger in flight it could be a sign a servo is starting to have problems and drawing excessive amperage, a linkage is binding requiring additional servo force, etc. It might not work that way and may never trigger in "real life" but it's still a nice to have alarm IMO. It isn't obtrusive and might help you spot a problem before it downs the heli so why not enable it?

[Groucho_]

Technically not an alarm, but a voice on event...

I put a tiny pop sfx whenever the throttle stick passes through the centre position...

Because the sound is a pop, you can actually feel it subtly in your hands.

Some people make little physical indentations on the actual gimbal rotating thingy inside the radio - I did it electronically.

Would've liked to have another tiny sfx where I have -5 degrees of pitch (great for autorotations) but I don't think that is possible...

[Puttputt maru]

Originally Posted by Groucho_

Technically not an alarm, but a voice on event...

I put a tiny pop sfx whenever the throttle stick passes through the centre position...

Would've liked to have another tiny sfx where I have -5 degrees of pitch (great for autorotations) but I don't think that is possible...

Great idea. The -5 degree is intriguing and needs to be solved. One thing to do tonight.

[Jotto]

Originally Posted by Groucho_

Technically not an alarm, but a voice on event...

I put a tiny pop sfx whenever the throttle stick passes through the centre position...

How did you do that?


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[cbdane]

Originally Posted by Groucho_

Technically not an alarm, but a voice on event...

I put a tiny pop sfx whenever the throttle stick passes through the centre position...

Because the sound is a pop, you can actually feel it subtly in your hands.

Some people make little physical indentations on the actual gimbal rotating thingy inside the radio - I did it electronically.

Interesting idea. I've noticed that on my TDR I haven't quite adjusted to the ergonomics where I can consistently find zero pitch on rolling tail slides. That might be just the ticket. Where did you get the .WAV file for the "pop"?

Would've liked to have another tiny sfx where I have -5 degrees of pitch (great for autorotations) but I don't think that is possible...

Can you set a logical switch for the left stick ">X" and "<Y"? By defining a tight range of X and Y, it seems you could set it to trigger at the stick position that you want.

[BustedRaptor77]

I'd like to see alarms by flight mode at some point. I think there would be some value added for doing autos. It would be obnoxious to set a repeating alarm for a high and low head speed, but if this could one day be activated when hold was on you could set a head speed range (high alarm, low alarm) to try to keep the model in.

[Groucho_]

Originally Posted by Puttputt maru

Great idea. The -5 degree is intriguing and needs to be solved. One thing to do tonight.

Post here if you manage... I'm too tired to try before tomorrow...

Originally Posted by Jotto

How did you do that?

In 'sounds on event'

Add 2 events.

Assign to P4 - One with the stick up, and the other withe the stick down.

You can add the same sound or different sounds.

I'll modify the sound slightly to be just a little bit different when I travel from negative to positive, and when I travel from positive to negative.

Originally Posted by cbdane

Where did you get the .WAV file for the "pop"?


Can you set a logical switch for the left stick ">X" and "<Y"? By defining a tight range of X and Y, it seems you could set it to trigger at the stick position that you want.

I've got a library of SFX from my real job, but I used the system sound 'pop' from my mac...

You can find very good free sfx online. Try http://soundbible.com

Originally Posted by BustedRaptor77

when hold was on you could set a head speed range (high alarm, low alarm) to try to keep the model in.

Brilliant thinking.

[BustedRaptor77]

Originally Posted by Groucho_

Brilliant thinking.

Thanks, but I was thinking about this some more and it dawned on me that the main rotor would be freewheeling so you would have to use a mag pick up or this
http://www.espritmodel.com/jeti-tele...o-mrpm-ex.aspx

So not as simple as my initial thought.

[Groucho_]

Well, it seems i've reached the limit of the DS-16 as far as sounds on events are concerned...

You can have up to twenty of them, and I've used them up...

[Groucho_]

Originally Posted by cbdane

Can you set a logical switch for the left stick ">X" and "<Y"? By defining a tight range of X and Y, it seems you could set it to trigger at the stick position that you want.

This is a better solution than my original method.

This way, you only use one sound on event instead of two.

Just tried it and it works!

EDIT: You do have to set the range somewhat wide though... -20 to +20, and even then, sometimes a very quick stick movement would be too quick for the radio to register as having passed from off to on and back to off again.

[bobloblaw]

Originally Posted by Groucho_

Well, it seems i've reached the limit of the DS-16 as far as sounds on events are concerned...

You can have up to twenty of them, and I've used them up...

Twenty per model, per event, per transmitter?

[Jotto]

I didn't know that logical switches could be set up by stick percentage, but that's pretty cool!

[Groucho_]

Originally Posted by bobloblaw

Twenty per model, per event, per transmitter?

I'm pretty sure that would be twenty per model...

[Puttputt maru]

Originally Posted by Groucho_

I'm pretty sure that would be twenty per model...

Yes it is, as the sound per event is a per model function and not a system wide function