The radio control system in Jack was a Deltang receiver which has stopped working. I wish to control the throttle and forward reverse and the whistle. I have a Fosworks Tx and Rx, can’t seem to find a way to control the whistle. My old remote control systems transmitter controls the whistle by pressing a button, which is also the bind button. This will control a.Spektrum six channel receiver. Is there any special way to manipulate the signal to control the whistle? I plan to power this with a 3S Lipo battery which requires balance charging which makes accessing the plugs to plug in the power and to plug in the balance charger quite difficult. I would welcome any suggestions and further discussion.
Rufus
Steve Foster at Fosworks is quite approachable. From my initial glance, the Fosworks TX Omni 2 has 3 buttons and can handle 3 additional functions.
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You are aware that the buttons on an RCS or Fosworks TX are directly related to channels on your RX? For example, the bind button on your RCS triggered the (?) channel. The whistle servo on your Henry was connected to that corresponding RX channel.
Steve at Fosworks can tell you which RX channel is triggered by each button.
Incidentally, your RCS TX can control a variety of DSM RX, as you noted when you said the Spektrum RX worked. I used Orange RX and Spektrum RX in a variety of locos, as I love my RCS handsets.
A 3s lipo is a bit strong for an RC RX/Servo, you would need a 5- 6V voltage regulator, or a 2s Lipo.
Part of the problem is the location of the whistle valve servo on Jack. It’s buried under stuff and the right front corner of the cab and I can’t seem to see it and I don’t want to take the cab apart just to see it and see if it works. When it did work, I remember it was just a tiny movement to pull on the whistle valve, which is hard to see when it happens. The other problem is the location of the battery and transmitter And Jack. The battery it came with is an older nickel metal hydride, which can be charged through the off socket. I plan to use Lipo batteries which need a balance charger.
my servos are listed as 4.8 to 6 V. My 2s & 3s batteries put out 7.4 V and everything on my aircraft and Trains has been running fine with that without problem
If you can, unplug the lead for this servo from the Rx and plug in another spare servo into the same slot to make sure all is well. If the spare servo does not work you may have a bad channel or are not using the correct Tx channel. Do this before dismantling a lot of stuff. Or plug your whistle servo plug into another known to work Rx channel on your Rx and see if it works.
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