Receiver setup menu point N
At Receiver menu point N you have to program the failsafe position for the throttle channel. If during operation the received single-line signal is interrupted, the throttle servo/speed controller connected to the output [CH5] is automatically set to this failsafe position. To avoid accidents, you should program electric motors to “off“ and reduce throttle on nitro helicopters to idle. The other control functions will be set to „position hold“ in case of signal interruption. For these setting a failsafe position is not provided.
Set the throttle channel on your remote control to the desired position and press the button briefly. If you did not connect a function to CH5 Output and don't need throttle failsafe, press the button to complete setup anyway!
The throttle failsafe is triggered if MICROBEAST PLUS does not get valid channel data from the receiver. This particularly is the case:
- if using a single-line receiver that turns of the single-line signal in case of signal loss between receiver and transmitter (e.g. Spektrum® satellite receiver or Graupner® receiver in „SUMDOF“ mode)
- if the connection between MICROBEAST PLUS and receiver gets disconnected
- during initialization when the transmitter was not switched on before or was switched on too late and the radio link between transmitter and receiver is not established yet
- when using the autorotation bailout feature of electric RPM Governor and throttle failsafe position is lower than throttle low position that is setup at Governor menu point B (Software version 4.1.x only)
Note: The fail-safe function is not effective if the receiver continues sending data even if the radio link is interrupted. In this case the failsafe setting of the remote control system may take precedence.
This completes the receiver setup and the MICROBEAST PLUS will go into sleep state after the button is pressed (all Menu-LEDs flash). Power off the unit and power it again. It will start with the standard initialization procedure and if the adjustments of Receiver setup menu have been set correctly, the unit will recognize your receiver and control channels now. You can see this by the circulating LED row on the right side (Menu-LEDs H-N). When the receiver initialization is finished the row will disappear and change to circulation of Menu-LEDs A-G that shows sensor initialization is running. If this is finished too, MICROBEAST PLUS will go into operation mode and you may proceed with basic setup of your helicopter.