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Spektrum DX5C programming question

oldnick

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I've wired up reverse lights to my crawler, and want them to come on whenever I go backwards.

Can anyone help or recommend a guide how to achieve this?

Thanks in advance
 
Get one of these from Hey'OK Performance:

Al at Hey'OK makes every good electronics, they are worth every penny!
 
Thanks @Devwon and @Greatscott , I've arrived at an acceptable solution with the bits I had to hand, the Hey,OK thing looks great (and I've bookmarked his site) but I'm skint :(
I chose to use Aux 2 channel, switched on and off by switch C, substitute your own values.

1. Go to mixing on the menu. Scroll down to mix 0 and click on it. This will open a screen with master/slave/rate etc.
For Master select Throttle, for Slave select Aux 2, for Rate select -100% +0%, for switch select C (two position [0][1]), for Trim select Inhibit.

2. Go to Aux Assign. For Channel select Aux 2, for Input select Inhibit.

This got me reverse lights, but they only came on with quite a fast reverse. To improve things;

3. Go to Sub Trim. For Aux 2 scroll to +100.

For my nano switch linked to above it is triggered at about 45/100 showing on Aux 2 on the monitor screen. By chucking maximum sub trim at it the resting position of Aux 2 is moved to 29/100. This means the throttle only has to get to about -15 to trigger the reverse lights. Not perfect as the mix only links the reverse throttle and Aux 2 as a mirror of each other, whereas I want ANY reverse to trigger 100% Aux 2.

Stay tuned for the next thrilling instalment... or just buy the Hey,OK brake/reverse/driving light controller!
 
Hahaha, we chose the wrong hobby as I'm also skint and quite miserly. Glad you're able to make it work with what you had!
 
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