Aircraft vs Heli receivers

[Mshorty]

Is there a difference between receivers for planes and receivers for helis? Specifically, will a Spektrum AR636 receiver with AS3X work in a helicopter. I want to put one in an old (2006) Blade CP Pro.

Thanks for the help

Mike

[Imzzaudae]

AR636 3GX receiver is fixed wing airplane receiver with 3 axes gyro for airplane use.

After giving it some thought it would be cool to try and make it work on a flybar helicopter!

As the CP Pro helicopter has an electric motor driven tail rotor. You will need a receiver with tail gyro and tail rotor speed controller and main motor speed controller built in!

Best find a cheep Blade CP parts helicopter and rob the parts you need or keep it as decoration.

MCPX BL would offer way more bang for the buck.
Hope this helps.
Ron

[Mshorty]

This Blade uses a normal 6 ch receiver and a separate controller/gyro that contains the ESCs and the gyro. Does that mean that any 6 ch receiver without stabilization should work? I guess one of the things that I am asking is, does a normal receiver (without stabilization) just receive the signals from the transmitter and forward them to the servos or is there some mixing/programming going on in the receiver?

[Imzzaudae]

If you can plug the tail gyro into the rudder slot of a standard 6 channel RX

**** The tail motor ESC would still need it's own power supply as the rudder channel of the receiver would not provide a power source! ****

Is there a tail motor power source off the main ESC and a rudder lead to receiver?

Plug the main motor ESC into throttle port, I'd say have at it a standard 6 channel receiver should work work fine. The mixing goes on in the transmitter depending on the swash type.

I scrapped an old CX2 not long ago and got a Micro AR6100e Micro receiver that would fit this application! Just in case you have a scrap CX2 around. I'm saving it for a anther project.

An AR6210 without the plug in satellite would also lend itself to this setup.

[Mshorty]

The controller contains an ESC for the main motor and an ESC for the tail motor. You can turn the internal gyro gain down to 0 and use a separate HH gyro if you want. Everything works fine but I want to change from 72 mhz to 2.4 ghz. It uses a 120 degree swash so a regular 2.4 ghz receiver should work. Thanks for the help

Mike

[Imzzaudae]

Yes Mike.
Should work great.