Co-Pilot II - How To, Made Simple!

[sutty]

I doubt that your example provides any clue as to whether they have great support or not. It is a single example where something went astray. Perhaps the phone lines went down, or they had a power cut, or they had to evacuate the building for a bomb scare. Based on what I read in here, if the experience of other people is anything to go by, the support is normally excellent, and I can't imagine that questioning their commitment to support will do anything to assist you in receiving support from them in this forum, which they do frequent, and often contribute to.

That aside, it doesn't bother me, so hopefully to help a little, though others may be able to help more, the DX8 needs to be able to output a switchable value independent of the flight modes, so if your gear channel if somehow linked to your flight modes, then this would give difficulties with the CPII seeing different values as the flight mode was changed. You just need the gear channel to change value only in response to your gear switch. Put a cheap servo in there, and see what it does, and make sure it doesn't respond to the flight mode switch. If it is a three position switch then you should get three servo positions, and this will allow you to select more CPII modes.

When you are doing the set-up, you will get to a point where you will be asked to enable remote on/off. Somewhere during this step you will be able to see the actual value that the CPII is receiving, and you will be able to see if it changes or not when you move the switch. If you can see that the value changes, but the CPII then reports that the value didn't change enough, then you could increase the channel end points to rectify this, however a normal setting of 100% should be enough.

Elsewhere, later I think, you will be asked if you are going to need to set the gain in the CPII. Since you are short of channels, and have gone for this option, this is where you would choose yes to controlling the gain from the CPII, and would set the value accordingly for your gyro.

Length of the tube doesn't matter and I'm unclear as to why you have updated the firmware 'too soon', as you were advised, if you are using the HD module. Maybe it is because you are supposed to have a known, proven, working, CPII platform, before you deploy the HD module, and that the update is not recommended if you are not deploying the HD, which by default creates a sort of natural order by which to do things.

Cheers

Sutty