Ron Ireland

Hello I have read through all the posts on this thread and am now totally confused on which code to use. Electronics passed me by some years ago and I am now back to basics. I have a Arduino Nano and Mini pro. In fairness I did get Allan Bowker's system to work but I could never get the switches to work. What I would like to be able to have is the following. Landing lights switching on and off with one switch and then Red and Green nav lights, wingtip double strobe, Red and White rotating beacons and tailtip strobe/or rotating, all switched on and off with another switch. I would like to run 1/3 watt LED's as they are more visible during the day. I appreciate any help offered, thank you.

I have done that but some-one raised the question about whether the switch could handle the peak loading, I am not clever enough to work that out, I just want to make sure it doesn't fail. There was a suggestion made about not having a switch but that would mean taking the canopy off after each flight. Any ideas?

John, thanks for that, I was just wondering about adding 3-4s lipos to the regulators. On the 2s setup I am also trying to put an on-off switch in the system and as I read above it should go between battery and regulator but if I look at the so called heavy duty switch it doesn't look man enough to take the amps, any suggestions.

Hello John, just had a few emails from the shop I got them from and I have set it up as you have said, looking at the face right is in and left is out. Not sure why the manufacturer or supplier could not add that info somewhere as stupidly I have gone with them the other way round, followed the writing. Anyway I have got them working and they can now go in the planes. By the way do you know what the input voltage can be? some of them say 7-25v and then later on it says 7-15volts.

Hello Bob The only info I can give you is, it is a regulator distributed by JP Perkins bought at one of the on line model shops. All the info on it is: LIPO Regulator input voltage - 5509889 6.0v version 7 - 25 volts@5amps and Output voltage 6.0vand amperage at - 5amp. These are sold at a lot of the shops and when you get them there are no instructions, so the best I can do is as follows, I have only done a test with no load: Etronix Li-Po Regulator 5A 6V Hard Cased This great little unit allows the use of any battery from 7 to 15 volts to run your Receiver or ignition. Works with all battery chemistries ie LiPo, Li-Fe, Lion Input Voltage - 7.0v to 15v Output Regulated Voltage - 6.0v Output Amps - 5A Weight - 20g Size - 20x14x49mm

Like Dylan I am trying to connect one of these 6v regulators and no matter which way I try and I bought 2 of them I get 8.24 volt going in off a 2s lipo, and I get 7.77v coming out of the regulator. I have tried to follow the connections on John's picture but I can still not get it to work. Tried with switch and without. The regulator is a 6v 5A model. Why can they not include some instructions. Does anyone have some idea of what I could try? Thanks