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Deviation User’s Manual for Devo7e/10
Advanced Topics
10 Advanced Topics
10.1
Setting up a Buddy-Box
Deviation can be used to act as either the instructor (master) or student (slave) transmitter
in a buddy-box configuration. In this mode, the instructor and student connect their
respective transmitters together with a trainer cord via the DSC port. The instructor’s
transmitter will actually communicate with the model, but the instructor can use a switch
to allow the student to control the model. When the switch is enabled, the student’s
transmitter sends input (stick) information through the trainer cord to the instructor’s
transmitter and these inputs replace the instructor’s inputs.
Deviation can be configured to work with virtually any transmitter that supports either
master or slave mode. Matching Deviation to a different manufacturer requires knowing
the PPM parameters for the paired transmitter, and properly configuring the ‘Center PW’
and ‘Delta PW’ properly as well as knowing how many channels are transmitted and what
the channel ordering is. The best place to find this information is to ask on the
www.deviationtx.com forums.
10.1.1
Master Mode
Master mode is configured by selecting either ‘Channel’ or ‘Stick’ from the ‘PPM In’
spin-box in section 8.1 Model setup (Standard & Advanced GUI). Pressing ‘ENT’ on
either ‘Stick’ or ‘Channel’ will show the ‘Trainer Cfg’ pages. The 2 modes behave
slightly differently:
Stick: In stick mode, each input channel is
mapped to a stick on the master transmitter. In
this mode, the student moving the stick will
behave exactly as if the instructor had moved the
stick. Generally when using this mode, the
student’s transmitter will directly pass the stick
position (no mixing) and the instructor’s
transmitter will do all necessary mixing.
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