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  • Darren September 3, 2011 at 8:42am

    I have the smartieparts dot com board and love it!

    I went back to stock firmware for a day, in order to help a friend through some programming. But went immediatly back to the er9x firmware. I had also loaned the board to another diydrones member, to program his due to backorder on smartieparts, but can testify "I really missed the backlight sooooooo much!" :) I dont think I'll be doing that again ;)

    I also took out the stock radio module by desoldering the antenna cable, then resoldering it through a small hole under the label. Here is pics.

    I did that so I could swap it back and fourth for the FrSky module two way telemetry, you can see it behind the HK-V2 module in that pic.

     

     

    https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3692209026?profile=original
  • Ryan C Smith September 3, 2011 at 8:24am

    yes it is night an day.

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    Hai Tran September 3, 2011 at 5:21am

    thanks for all the info, I'm still waiting on the smartieboard to arrive, from the training videos the ER9 firmware looks a lot better than stock.

  • apocolipse September 3, 2011 at 1:43am

    I just bought one of these, I plan on using the ER9x firmware (need to buy a programmer), and a Scherrer LRS uhf system (with a JR module plug that will work with the 9x).  Seems the 1k ohm resistor mod is needed for this too, i'll have to wait and see.

  • Dan Porter September 2, 2011 at 12:20pm

    @Hai Tran and Tasso - Or for a little more money you can use this one: DHT (comes with a RX) and just remove the internal antenna of the 9X. The module is pin compatiable with the 9X.

     

  • Ryan C Smith September 2, 2011 at 11:49am

    @ Hai Tran    For use with a sim you need to cut a trace and add a 1k ohm resister like in this video. So you can keep your FRSKy DIY Mod and still use in a sim. Watch this Youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD6Gia4G7Go

     

    @Tassos here is a good video on the FRSKY DIY mod. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHnV6hGH108

     

     

  • charlie Soppelsa September 2, 2011 at 4:02am

    I would be weary of the FrSky receiver, I used a 8 channel unit and FrSky tx unit in my Futaba T9CP. I had lots of  problems, flips and crashes. Investigating you could see the ACM outputs doing weird things. I went back to Futaba 35mHz and everything was okay. Maybe FrSky frame rate is different.

  • Amilcar Lucas September 2, 2011 at 3:21am

    Hai, I have both the smartieboard, the FrSky and the ER9X. And I must say, they're great.

    And the Simulator still works here (Xplane connected via phone jack)

     

  • Tassos Polichronopoulos September 2, 2011 at 1:30am

    HI can you please provide a link for the diy Frsky mod for the 9x?

    Thank you in advance

  • ThomasB September 2, 2011 at 12:00am

    Yes the beeps are very annoying. But after some minutes of soldering some cables,

    and a short programming action (ER9X) with my ATMEGA Programmer the beeps were gone  :)

     

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