RCS Inter-6 finished (almost!)
Posted: 01 Aug 2018, 23:27
After much faffing around, I have finally got my RCS Inter-6 up and running . When I got it, it had lots of battle scars and, to put it mildly, looked it's age........ A can of Lidl's silver hammer finish paint improved the case enormously and I had to remove and repair the RCS logo on the front. Two of the control switches were quite badly corroded and required dismantling and rebuilding and the ON/OFF switch was intermittent and had to be replaced with something that looked right. I am more or less "locked in" to Spektrum DSM2/DSMX so the Tx module is an Orange DIY and Phil supplied one of his "Reeduino" Tiny-6 encoders........
To cut a long story a bit shorter....... On first switch on, the correct lights seemed to come on but nothing seemed to work as it should........ TRAP FOR THE UNWARY!....... I had ordered some black push buttons for the Trim and Bind functions because I thought they would look more like those RCS might have used back in the day. Unbeknown to me, I was supplied with PUSH TO BREAK buttons (I didn't know they made such things!) instead of the more usual PUSH TO MAKE. Phil thought that I wouldn't have damaged the encoder but when I replaced the push buttons with the correct ones, it still wouldn't work . Though I was convinced that the problem was caused by something I had done, Phil kindly replaced the encoder with the latest version of board and this time everything worked perfectly first time! . After testing the Reeduino Phil thinks that it was just a rogue board (I guess it happens) . I still have to make a frequency pennant to hide the antenna and one of these days I will make up a nice big dummy "Ever Ready" battery using Ron's templates but now, at last, I have the set I yearned for but could never afford when I was 18!