Ok, So before I fell asleep last night I was trying to think of a good way to get throttle control universally As I still don't understand the channel 7 output from the receiver listed in the wiki. Then it hit me. A servo Y cable. plug the male end of the Y into port 3 of the receiver with the servo connector from the ESC into one end, Then either solder a male on the other side or use a patch cable with 2 male ends to connect the receiver to the APM2.
The theory is that you will still have manual control of the throttle along with sending the pitch signals to the APM like nothing ever changed.
The only foreseeable consequence that I could think of in my ambien induced twilight was that there may be a issue using the BEC from the ESC due to the extra connection and wire-length.
The Idea is that now the throttle will be device independent and you would not have to put any special mixing to get the throttle output on a higher channel number and can use pretty much any ole 6 channel radio for Traditional Heli use.
Now that I bounced it out there what are your thoughts.
Carl
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I'm really not understanding the issue here.
Have you flown helicopters before?
Throttle is not equal to Collective Pitch. The APM needs your Collective Pitch signal, but not the Throttle. Your ESC needs the Throttle signal, but not the Collective Pitch. Why do you need a Y-cable?