(I know, nothing very exciting, but thought some folks might find it interesting. We get a lot of questions about moving models to new radios, and OpenTX does make the process pretty darn easy.)
I decided it was finally time to switch over to a new radio. My good ol' Taranis has served me well, but when the X7 radios came in I started using one, but never officially switched over. The Taranis was my main radio still, but I was putting some of my new toys onto the X7. I had to be careful that I grabbed the right radio.
My brother came by and I set him up with a Q100 mini quad to rekindle his RC addiction, and well, he needed everything else so it was a good opportunity for me to upgrade to an X7S and give my brother my current X7 and I would take the time to move all of my model memories over from the very old Taranis into a nice new X7S.
I thought it was going to be a pain to move the model memories over from a very old version of OpenTX to the X7S running 2.2.1, but it was just a matter of reading in the old radio files into Companion, and then copying them into my X7S window in Companion and writing them to the X7S. I'll need to adjust some of the models that used the Taranis side sliders, and conform the update process worked well. I finally have all of my models in a single radio running under a current version of OpenTX.
I debated what radio I would use for my personal radio, I know some expect me to have the biggest and newest thing I sell, but that really is not my style. I want the right tool for the job. I was going back and forth between the X7S and the X10. Ultimately I like the smaller and lighter X7S for my slope flying, and I also like that it is a little cheaper.
I also love the idea that I use one of our lowest priced radios to fly some very large and very expensive planes.
So an X7S it is. Now I'm going to make some changes to some of my global settings and such that I have been wanting to do for a long time. Then as I go through my models I can clean up all of the model programs a bit and have a better more consistent use of the radio's switches etc. For example I like to use my right pot for volume control, but since that is the center detent pot on the X7 radios I will probably switch over to the left side pot, and I might make that only take effect if I am holding the momentary switch. (I'll put some thought to this before I cast it in stone.)
No mods to the radio yet, but will probably do a couple of cosmetic changes. Also, I am running a prototype lipo we had brought in for the X7 radios. The prototype did not pass muster to sell as a normal product, but it is fine for my use. Lets just say this radio is not going to run out of battery, she has 4 amp/hours of battery shoved in the back.
I also jumped from a hard case to the softcase. About to see about some special something for that too.
I decided it was finally time to switch over to a new radio. My good ol' Taranis has served me well, but when the X7 radios came in I started using one, but never officially switched over. The Taranis was my main radio still, but I was putting some of my new toys onto the X7. I had to be careful that I grabbed the right radio.
My brother came by and I set him up with a Q100 mini quad to rekindle his RC addiction, and well, he needed everything else so it was a good opportunity for me to upgrade to an X7S and give my brother my current X7 and I would take the time to move all of my model memories over from the very old Taranis into a nice new X7S.
I thought it was going to be a pain to move the model memories over from a very old version of OpenTX to the X7S running 2.2.1, but it was just a matter of reading in the old radio files into Companion, and then copying them into my X7S window in Companion and writing them to the X7S. I'll need to adjust some of the models that used the Taranis side sliders, and conform the update process worked well. I finally have all of my models in a single radio running under a current version of OpenTX.
I debated what radio I would use for my personal radio, I know some expect me to have the biggest and newest thing I sell, but that really is not my style. I want the right tool for the job. I was going back and forth between the X7S and the X10. Ultimately I like the smaller and lighter X7S for my slope flying, and I also like that it is a little cheaper.
I also love the idea that I use one of our lowest priced radios to fly some very large and very expensive planes.So an X7S it is. Now I'm going to make some changes to some of my global settings and such that I have been wanting to do for a long time. Then as I go through my models I can clean up all of the model programs a bit and have a better more consistent use of the radio's switches etc. For example I like to use my right pot for volume control, but since that is the center detent pot on the X7 radios I will probably switch over to the left side pot, and I might make that only take effect if I am holding the momentary switch. (I'll put some thought to this before I cast it in stone.)
No mods to the radio yet, but will probably do a couple of cosmetic changes. Also, I am running a prototype lipo we had brought in for the X7 radios. The prototype did not pass muster to sell as a normal product, but it is fine for my use. Lets just say this radio is not going to run out of battery, she has 4 amp/hours of battery shoved in the back.
I also jumped from a hard case to the softcase. About to see about some special something for that too.
