Spring 2010
the CRONICLE issue
65:11
midline when my sail joystick is fully
out, so that the jib presents maximum
area to the wind when the apparent
wind is at 170-175 degrees relative to
my course. To accomplish that I find
I must rotate the roller until é115%
appears next to thro when the sail
joystick is fully out.
Step 6. Transmitter power
To comply with various govern-
mental requirements, the DX6i can be
programmed with one of three different
power levels. Mine proved to have been
programmed for the European Union
rather than the United States. A Spek-
trum tech told me that the U.S. power
setting (of “247” — I have no idea what
that number means) is higher than the
EU setting of “326,” and several blog-
gers say that the U.S. setting gives them
better range although I was unable to
detect a reproducible difference. To
check, and change if necessary, access
the setup list, scroll until power set-
ting is highlighted, click on it, and see
what the power setting screen says. If
it says “A-EU 326” or “C-FRANCE,”
click again and scroll until it says “B-US
247,” then click again to program that
setting into memory.
Step 7. “Fail-safe” Rebinding
“Fail-safe” refers to the sheet setting
that you want your boat to have in case
communication between the transmit-
ter and the receiver fails. To embed the
sail control positions you have just fin-
ished programming into the transmitter
in the fail-safe setting you want to be
saved in your receiver, in this final step
you need to repeat the binding process
described in the preliminary section of
this recipe with your sails in the position
you want them to be if you should lose
radio communication with your boat.
I prefer to have the rudder centered
and the sails halfway out because I want
the boat to continue moving more or
less straight ahead when I lose control
during a race, to minimize the danger
of interfering with another boat before
I can warn other sailors that my boat is
out of control. Another approach is to
program fail-safe with the rudder hard
to port or starboard and the sails nearly
fully eased, to make the boat go into ‘or-
bit’ and more or less stay where it is on
the water rather than potentially sail off
over the horizon when control is lost.
Reprinted from the CRonicle, issue 65, Spring 2010. Copyright © CR 914 Class
2010. Other websites may link to this document, but it may not be copied,
reprinted or disseminated in any other form without the consent of the author.
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