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help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« on: October 20, 2015, 06:18:03 pm »

well 2 500 boats

i have built 2 club 500 boats first one fine

planet t5 radio used the receiver which came with the t5 ( new )

now i bought a receiver from ebay  which states will work fine with the t5

markings on receiver are r4ms ( planet receiver ) 3.1g micro receiver ?

m troniks viper marine 15amp esc

if someone could give a guide to how to wire it up, i took it as rudder to rudder on reciever and esc to batt on receiver, battery is fully charged and get nothing

please enlighten me what i am doing wrong taking that i am missing something to do with setting up as 2nd boat ?

have a full build log if interest but noticed lots of builds on the club 500 already

thanks in advance


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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2015, 06:30:02 pm »

The ESC plugs into the channel you are using for the throttle, the battery socket is only used if a separate Rx battery pack is used.
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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2015, 06:36:25 pm »


Plug the rudder servo into aileron if one is marked as it will be an air rx.
I assume it binds with the TX ok.
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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2015, 06:54:24 pm »

clarify for me please  rudder wire to middle socket Ail

esc to    ?   

pic to help

thank you for quick replies

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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2015, 07:11:19 pm »

ESC into throttle,  rudder into ailerons,  that will give you throttle on left stick and rudder on right stick.  :-))
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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2015, 01:12:51 am »

just to make things clear for you. I assume you have your throttle on the left stick of transmitter, and your rudder on the right stick?

Now, the complication is that the receiver is marked up as though its for a model aircraft, and they use different channels. The rudder on a rc plane, is the left stick, moving left/right. The throttle is the same up/down, rc plane ailerons is right stick left/right and the rc plane elevator is right stick up/down

So, for a club 500 which uses 2 channels, throttle is same, but... your rudder plugs into the ail (aileron) channel on the receiver

(all assuming you use the most popular UK  set up of mode 2 throttle on left)

Make sure you have the connectors into the rx the correct way around, I don't have a planet 5 setup that is easy to see so cant remember which way around the lead goes

You will now have throttle on left stick, up, and rudder on right stick, lweft right. I seem to remember standard the planet t5 is not a self centring throttle stick, this is because rc planes don't have reverse! so you cannot go backwards with your club 500, although, your esc has the capability to do this. Its an easy fix, open up the tx, and remove the spring setup on the elevator (right stick) which you don't use, and fit to the throttle stick, viola, you now have a self centring stick, so you can now have reverse :-))

You will need to reset your esc with the throttle stick in the centre, full forward, then full reverse, back to neutral. My experience of those esc's in my club 500's are they are good, but always check you still have full throttle. Other members in my club have mentioned that periodically the esc drops full throttle, no idea why, as we race, I check it every race day O0
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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2015, 11:04:59 am »

thanks for all the help

got a bit further on, now have a flashing orange light on the receiver but still no involvement with the controls

it has the pins connected on the receiver facing the battery sign.
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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2015, 11:10:56 am »

Have you gone through the binding process?


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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2015, 01:48:11 pm »

yes quite a simple process just basically a button on top of receiver held down... it flashed really quickly for 20 seconds then settled down to a blinking red light every second still no response from controls
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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2015, 03:19:24 pm »

The pin connections on the receiver are important. If you plug the servo or ESC onto them the wrong way around then nothing will work. The Black (or Brown) wire is the negative and fits onto the pin nearest to the edge of the receiver. For receivers where the pins stick out of the end the negative pin is the one on the bottom (with the printed logo uppermost, like the photo).
If the receiver LED is flashing then you have power there; if there is a voltage showing on the Tx display (typically something like 5.4 for fully-charged cells) then you have power there, too. There should therefore be no reason why you can't bind the two. RTFM again - it might be a simple procedure but if you get it in the wrong order then it won't work.
If you are still unable to get the two to bind then the conclusion is that you have bought a faulty receiver. It happens. (I'm assuming here that the T5 transmitter works fine with the other receiver in the other Club 500.) What you do about that is entirely up to you!
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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2015, 04:24:08 pm »

The receiver led is solid when binding is successful.

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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2015, 05:44:31 pm »

I also dont think its bound correctly. 
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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2015, 05:51:10 pm »

Switch your RECEIVER on first, press and hold down the bind button - then switch on your TRANSMITTER.
LED's should flash briefly then stay solid when binding is complete.


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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2015, 10:02:05 am »


No one has mentioned the binding plug yet.

This shorts out the two outside pins on the receiver, whilst the transmitter bind button is pressed.

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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2015, 10:04:10 am »

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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #15 on: October 22, 2015, 10:17:23 am »

Please can we all just pay some attention to the manual? There is no binding plug with this system. There is no mention of holding down the binding button. You do it this way, in this order:
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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #16 on: October 22, 2015, 10:27:51 am »


Thank you Dave.

I used to have a planet so should have remembered this.    %)

Cheers

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Re: help with first boat club 500 transmitter and receiver
« Reply #17 on: October 22, 2015, 11:35:08 am »

thanks all for the detailed answers, hands up I was doing binding process slightly wrong but all sorted and working now

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