Comment by PopaD on July 25, 2011 at 3:03am

Hi, @tom jones, can you give us some pictures. If I understand wright you increase range of DX5e folowing this article. Thank to author, too. Best regards.

Comment by PopaD on July 25, 2011 at 3:04am

sorry, right :) not wright !

Comment by James Roney on August 5, 2011 at 1:14am

The first time I saw this post.  Read through it and found it rather interesting and was wondering why people were using seperate batteries to power the booster when one could use a simple regulator to power pass power through to drop to 6v.  I would have also suggested this option as it allows you to monitor the overall battery voltage so that you dont get a surprise one way or the other.  Think its a very cool idea.  WD.  I like the integration I saw on page 24.  Seems like the right way forward.

Comment by Jakob Adams on December 7, 2011 at 3:35am

Hello folks,

this is going to be my first post in DIY Drones.

First of all: Thanks for the great thread about boosting the Spektrum transmitters. Normally I'm useing a DX8, but it is about 3 months old so I didn't want to loose guarantee. 

I bought a DX5e and installed the shown booster, the only thing missing is the UBEC, for testing I simply use the AC/DC adaptor. 

Is it correct that the green LED keeps illuminated when the booster is working? It doesn't disturb my WLAN at all, I'm not shure wheather it works or not.

Unfortunately the flying field is a few kilometers away so I hope to hear it from you ;)

Thanks for the support

3D Robotics Comment by Jordi Muñoz on December 7, 2011 at 12:25pm

Yes is normal to have the LED turned on forever. The booster is just a booster not a 2.4Ghz jammer so your WIFI should be always fine, also good routers always use the least congested channel. 

The best way to test it is to have a friend drive away with the receiver and servos. But we are talking about more than 10 miles if you don't have obstructed views. If you loose signal in less than 2 miles then your booster is not working... 

3D Robotics Comment by Jordi Muñoz on December 7, 2011 at 12:28pm

About your warranty, I have a friend that did this trick but unfortunately the coax cable got disconnected and burned the module. He sent it to Spektrum even with the drilled hole for the new antenna (That was shameless) and they changed the module for free. You are allowed to open your radio, some times you have to in order to adjust the sticks.. 

Comment by Jakob Adams on December 7, 2011 at 12:31pm

Hi Jordi,

thanks for your answer. I've tried the transmitter with an AR6100-Receiver, it works as it should.

BUT: After about 2 minutes the AC/DC adaptor started blinking and so did the amplifier. The Servo still worked, of course, I stood only 2 meters away from the receiver. Is this normal? Of course I don't want to use the ACDC adaptor on the field, but what causes this problem? ACDC adaptor and amplifier were cold as before, no warming or something.

Is it correct that the amplifier bypasses the signal of the tranmitter? So could I turn the transmitter on without powering the amplifier?

Thanks for your help.

Jakob

Comment by Yusuf Onajobi on December 17, 2011 at 9:54am

Please, can the booster be used with the XBEE for longer range??????

3D Robotics Comment by Jordi Muñoz on December 17, 2011 at 3:00pm

Yusuf, Yes but is only one way. Unless you mount one on each side.

Comment by Yusuf Onajobi on December 27, 2011 at 9:46am

Thanks Jordi but think about this,  if i install one on each side and then add a high gain patch antenna to the ground module, we could be talking of miles upon miles if i'm correct and please do you know the weight of the booster and also it's input voltage and do you think there could be any problem as a result of such arrangement....

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