Moving from DX6i to new DX7

[bakly]

Hey all!

My wifey surprised me with money for my RC fund for my birthday. With it I bought a DX7 (Mostly because I wanted to use all flight modes on my models and I liked the rechargeable batt). I was just starting to 'get' my DX6i and feel like the menus and setups are a little more complicated on the new one. Are there any tutorials out there, or does anyone have some good tips for setups. I'm looking for basics. Most of what I've found out there (here/youtube) is for the older/other transmitter(s). How different are they?

I have figured out how to download spm files and successfully got my nano qx 3d and my inductrix running. But I'd like to actually learn how to do it and tweak things myself. I've been trying to setup my 230 S (nagging feeling that it's not going to work ha) and will want to get my nano cpx and 130x setup as well at some point.

Thanks!

[Coco66]

Follow the programming tables on the Blade manuals and do things yourself. Now that you have nanoQX setup, start another TX model from scratch for it and try to get there where you are with the downloaded one...

[19trax95]

The blade stuff is pretty straight forward to setup as per the manual.

You can look for dx9 setup guide as well since it's the exact same for the dx6,dx7,dx9, and dx18.

Or you can just download the setup files for each of your models. Most of them have a file available. Only thing with that is you don't learn anything about how to set it up.

[bakly]

Originally Posted by 19trax95

You can look for dx9 setup guide as well since it's the exact same for the dx6,dx7,dx9, and dx18.

Thanks - I wasn't sure about that. I figured they must be since their charts are combined in some manuals, but it helps to have it confirmed.

Originally Posted by Coco66

Follow the programming tables on the Blade manuals and do things yourself. Now that you have nanoQX setup, start another TX model from scratch for it and try to get there where you are with the downloaded one...

I'm trying to do that. Wouldn't heli's I want to program from scratch have some differences to the quads that I downloaded?

I've read the DX7 manual, the model manuals, and done a lot of reading up on the interwebs. Just having some trouble wrapping my head around what I'm actually doing vs mindlessly copying the manual suggested setups onto the tx (not that its easy for a new guy like me). Was starting to figure out the DX6i but there's not a lot of (new) DX7 specific info that I can find - that's what I'm after - someone, somewhere has a DX7 getting started basics guide or video? Maybe?

[bakly]

Found something helpful here:

DX9 How To Helicopter Basic Setup (13 min 37 sec)

Thanks for that tip 19trax95 - I wasn't aware that the DX6,7,9,18 were so similar to set up. This will help. Carry on!

[19trax95]

No problem. They are basically identical, except the 9 and 18 obviously will have more assignable stuff and the 6 will have less. But for most basic helicopters from micro up to 700+ will be the same.

Where stuff can get different is when you start adding stuff like lights, retracts, and things like a rescue feature. Then you might get into different stuff that say a dx9 might have, that a dx7 might not.

But really the only thing for helis is rescue, and i think thats just a switch you assign ( not positive as i dont have any units that have rescue)