RCS Digifour Digispark Conversion

[stuart mackay]

Here are some pics of my 1968 RCS Digifour Restomod with Phil_G Digispark 4 encoder, FrSky XHT and 500 maH LiPo.

It is a one owner radio and the original owner remembers buying it from RCS in Weston-Super-Mare. He paid £180 for it which equates to about £2500 in 2020 monetary values!

Had a bit of a challenge with a fractured rudder stick yoke not moving the pot, but thanks to Mike K pulse counter this was soon identified as a mechanical issue and quickly sorted by drilling and pinning the pot shaft to the stick yoke.

The stick units appear to be Bonner clones, manufactured I think by Remcon, judging by the R symbol in the lower corner of the escutcheon.

I managed to re-use the RCS receiver case and a FrSky V8 receiver now nestles unobtrusively within the case. I had hoped to use the original Orbit PS3 servos but these are 4 wire and that is a job for another day.

Here is a YouTube link to short video I made about the conversion & hope you like? Please give me a Thumbs up if you do...

Tx as received

[HenkB]

What a beauty!
Noticed the advertisement which says:

EMI designed and produced Micrologic. 60 times more reliable than conventional circuitry. Makes one wonder how they came to establish exactly that number. Testing? How?

[RobertC]

Stuart

Lovely conversion ,I unwittingly not long ago sold one of these sets, regretted it the minute I posted it off
yours is a lovely conversion thank you for sharing .......

[Wayne_H]

Great conversion Stuart, well done.

Makes me smile every time I see one of those postage stamps top-right

So you should Phil, it's a great bit of kit! Thanks again