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Permalink Reply by Jeffrey batista on September 27, 2010 at 4:49pm

any one?

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Permalink Reply by Joel on September 27, 2010 at 5:06pm

I don't know for sure, but I don't see why not. I'm not sure how many channels are needed for a quad, but for certain things such as needing a 3 position switch you can edit that with programming. I plan on using the DX6i for a UAV, but I was planning on a plane. Just recently I'm thinking of going the quadcopter rout(or even trying on my heli). So i guess I would also like to know if 6 channel will be okay!

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JDronesPermalink Reply by Jani Hirvinen on September 28, 2010 at 4:06am

Minimum you only need 4 channels to fly quadrotors. This also depends on software design, ArduCopter can be flown with only 4 channels but to have all current features you need minimum of 6 channels. In future I'd say 8-9 channels would be good to have especially if you some day want to connect cameras and other devices on board.

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Doug Weibel on September 28, 2010 at 4:39pm

Actually, you need to check it out just a bit.

I don't know about the HBK3, but I had a HBK2 with a stock radio. The radio comes set up for CCPM mixing, but for the quad you will not want any mixing. The HBK2 radio had a set of DIP switches that you could use to change the mixing. Back a ways I was able to find a thread on RCGroups that gave the correct DIP switch settings to turn off the mixing. So - you need to make sure that you can turn off the CCPM mixing on your radio.

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Permalink Reply by Jeffrey batista on September 30, 2010 at 10:41am

Thanks guys then i rather way for the hobby king radions to be back in stock

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