michael cawood Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 anybody help, I have a 6ex 2.4ghz I bought in 2009 I think. never had a problem with it. this year I bought a second one as I had run out of model memories. I wanted to teach my grandson to fly so I bought a buddy lead from an internet site. plugging it in and trying it in every combination produced no results. slave tx In either configuration would not turn on. at elvington on Saturday I bit the bullet and bought a genuine futaba buddy lead. plugging in the slave turned on.but the plane would only work from the master. the trainer switch would not change the tx. tried both ways. stripped both tx s checked plug wiring ok, checked both trainer switches working ok with meter, tried again still nothing. master tx controls, no transfer to slave. run out of ideas any one with a new perspective ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Bott - Moderator Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Does the students Tx have to be set to PPM or something Michael? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Skilbeck Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 A few years back our club bought some new Futaba 2.4 6EXs and found they wouldn't buddy together, did exactly what you say. They were returned to Ripmax and found to be faulty, we got them replaced, but unless you tried to use the Tx as the buddy you'd never know. There may still be a few of these sets out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael cawood Posted August 10, 2014 Author Share Posted August 10, 2014 I have never changed any settings apart from model parameters since I have had either tx. in fact I would not know how to set ppm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael cawood Posted August 10, 2014 Author Share Posted August 10, 2014 that's informative frank thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael cawood Posted August 10, 2014 Author Share Posted August 10, 2014 in fact I remember having to send my tx back for the fault in coding with the first tx's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Bott - Moderator Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Posted by michael cawood on 10/08/2014 18:58:24: I have never changed any settings apart from model parameters since I have had either tx. in fact I would not know how to set ppm. Thought so... ppm is mentioned in the instructions for buddying 2 6EXs. It does imply that it only needs doing if the Tx has this capability. If yours are 2.4Ghz ones, then they probably don't have this option. Does anyone know for sure? See page 33 of the manual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael cawood Posted August 10, 2014 Author Share Posted August 10, 2014 the only worrying thing is that the cheap lead from the internet (£5) would not activate the slave tx. the genuine futaba lead (£18.50) would bring on the slave but not work the control. checking both leads they are wired the same pin to pin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caveman Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Michael, I have a 6EX 2.4 and have buddied, me as the slave, with a 6EX 35MHz, so it does work on mine, which dates from 2009. Have you switched on trainer mode? See page 15 of the manual (see Chris's post above) If you can't get that to work, I have been using, successfully, one of these: **LINK** Beauty of this is that the slave and master tx's can be of any make, mode or frequency system. They're very easy to setup and there is no delay on switching between master to slave or vice versa. And as I use the gear switch to pass control to the slave there's no endless holding onto a trainer switch while the slave is active. Hope this is helpful. Regards GDB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael cawood Posted August 10, 2014 Author Share Posted August 10, 2014 that's very intresting caveman, had not noticed that section. given up for tonight and put all gear away but will certainly try that tomorrow and let you know how I go on. cheers mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael cawood Posted August 11, 2014 Author Share Posted August 11, 2014 tried again this afternoon, enabled TRNR function on master and slave. everything worked perfectly. well done caveman, as an electrician I would have told the the client that it was a RTFM problem, which it was. many thanks mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 RTFM means Read The Futaba Manual? If you do read the manual ( its online too) you will find it says that any Futaba Tx with the rectangular plug can be used for training. That means an old 35mhz Futaba with rectangular plug can be used to buddy with a 2.4ghz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engine Doctor Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 The training mode usually needs to be switched on as it defaults to "inhibited" as soon as the Tx is switched to another model . Worth a check. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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