Programming the Koby 40 LV

[renefigueroa]

I am preparing to put a little Koby 40 on one of my 450X's along with Savox servos and a Western Digital BEC. I have two Helijive 120's as well as a Kosmik 160 and was wondering about the programming compared to the other ones. The Koby makes no mention of setting a linear TC for programming, and it says to set the throttle to the emf-brake position on page 15 of the manual. I am taking this to mean throttle hold? I am also presuming I would program mode 1 first to insure all is cleared, and then program mode 4?
Thanks

[renefigueroa]

I have tried to program the Koby today. After wiring in the ESC and BEC and powering it all for the first time, it all went well. Well almost as I had no motor, either forward or backwards, and the Koby once in the program mode would not stop going through all the slow beeps,"modes", when I advanced full throttle and no confirmation tones. By pure luck I think, I found if I moved the throttle cut on the DX9 from -100 to -90 I then had a motor. I am quite sure this is related to the Koby and what it is detecting. I also set a linear throttle curve for the time being. All of my other bigger helis, two 550X's, Compass 7HV and another similar 450X have the throttle cut set at -100.

[Wh1teAfr1can]

Originally Posted by renefigueroa

I have tried to program the Koby today. After wiring in the ESC and BEC and powering it all for the first time, it all went well. Well almost as I had no motor, either forward or backwards, and the Koby once in the program mode would not stop going through all the slow beeps,"modes", when I advanced full throttle and no confirmation tones. By pure luck I think, I found if I moved the throttle cut on the DX9 from -100 to -90 I then had a motor. I am quite sure this is related to the Koby and what it is detecting. I also set a linear throttle curve for the time being. All of my other bigger helis, two 550X's, Compass 7HV and another similar 450X have the throttle cut set at -100.

You should not be using throttle cut during programming. You should have a 0-25-50-75-100 linear throttle curve and use only that for programming.

[renefigueroa]

And I have tried it both ways lol. Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. The TC is set at -100, however the throttle hold is off. With it set this way, the motor will not run until the tc setting on the radio is changed to -90. If I set the throttle cut at zero, obviously the motor will run. Should I disconnect it? Maybe this is why the Koby might not be seeing zero? And if I disconnect the motor, what do I replace the beeps with? Thanks for helping, it seems like I went through learning curves on both the kosmik and Helijives as well. The jive was as simple as having the throttle hold off.

[Wh1teAfr1can]

Originally Posted by renefigueroa

And I have tried it both ways lol. Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. The TC is set at -100, however the throttle hold is off. With it set this way, the motor will not run until the tc setting on the radio is changed to -90. If I set the throttle cut at zero, obviously the motor will run. Should I disconnect it? Maybe this is why the Koby might not be seeing zero? And if I disconnect the motor, what do I replace the beeps with? Thanks for helping, it seems like I went through learning curves on both the kosmik and Helijives as well. The jive was as simple as having the throttle hold off.

again why are you using throttle cut???? and if it is not recognizing your throttle stick changing from low to high then you either dont have a linear throttle curve or you dont have one at all in the flight mode that you are trying to program. The koby programs exactly the same as a kosmik or a jive it is different from the jive and the same as the kosmik in the regard that it has a button to enter programming mode.

[renefigueroa]

I do have a linear TC in all modes. The DX9 is my first Spektrum TX and I have used JR before. I am equating TC and TH together somehow. I agree with you lol, just not sure what I am missing. So I should have TC at zero then at least for the programming?

[Wh1teAfr1can]

Originally Posted by renefigueroa

I do have a linear TC in all modes. The DX9 is my first Spektrum TX and I have used JR before. I am equating TC and TH together somehow. I agree with you lol, just not sure what I am missing. So I should have TC at zero then at least for the programming?

for programming you should not need TC at all or throttle hold. you simply start with the throttle down plug in press the button wait for desired mode and move the stick to the top.

[renefigueroa]

Thank you, I agree. I was changing a stock 450X to this new fancy new configuration, call it a learning experience. I think I mentioned what little earlier experience I had, and it was on airplanes and FM radios, so how do I get rid of TC on the DX9? Set it to zero? Sorry don't mean to be obtuse, just trying to learn. Again thank you for taking the time to help.

[renefigueroa]

Originally Posted by Wh1teAfr1can

for programming you should not need TC at all or throttle hold. you simply start with the throttle down plug in press the button wait for desired mode and move the stick to the top.

It is programmed, yeahh. I set the TC value to zero and inhibited it on the menu as well. Thank you. Again I was a bit vague on the TC on the Spektrum radios, and was confusing it with TH. HF member Primal sent me a nice primer on it last night. I will now set the TC to 80% per the manual and tidy the wires and a test flight.