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Our club fly indoors for the winter & I'm getting too damn old for A. building in a freezing cold garage & B. flying outside in this weather.

 

So ordered a TY300 indoor model from Aliexpress. In fact two. I also order a tiny DSMX Rx from them at the same time. The RX is about 1/2 your thumbnail size!

Well the receiver has arrived with only an aerial wire. There are 4 tiny pads that need RX Pos & Neg & motor wire pos & neg wired to. Each pad is around 1mm square.

 

Bearing in mind I was trained as an electronics engineer & in 1973 the first 6 weeks of my Apprenticeship at RAE Farnborough was soldering lessons & practice.

I've just bought an illuminated viewer from 7 day shop that fits over your glasses but still not looking forward to wiring this thing up.

 

Wish me well!

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They are not fun to solder need a magnifier just to see if it worked or not. 
I have bought an rx and coils to try and actuator setup and am equally as apprehensive so good luck but I think with your experience should be ok. 
 

just make sure you’ve got the leaded solder. 

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18 hours ago, Jim Hearnden 1 said:

Our club fly indoors for the winter & I'm getting too damn old for A. building in a freezing cold garage & B. flying outside in this weather.

 

So ordered a TY300 indoor model from Aliexpress. In fact two. I also order a tiny DSMX Rx from them at the same time. The RX is about 1/2 your thumbnail size!

Well the receiver has arrived with only an aerial wire. There are 4 tiny pads that need RX Pos & Neg & motor wire pos & neg wired to. Each pad is around 1mm square.

 

Bearing in mind I was trained as an electronics engineer & in 1973 the first 6 weeks of my Apprenticeship at RAE Farnborough was soldering lessons & practice.

I've just bought an illuminated viewer from 7 day shop that fits over your glasses but still not looking forward to wiring this thing up.

 

Wish me well!

Jim get a diesel heater for the garage . Very cheap to run on paraffin or red diesel if y9u can find an outlet or even jet 1 kerosene with no condensation like a lot of heaters. Your welcome to pop down and see my heater running anytime .

E.D.

Ps I know exactly what uou mean about the cold damp field 

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4 hours ago, Graham R said:

Kerosene is 99p ltr and red diesel £1.35 ltr where I am. 
I thought that kerosene was a no no in these heaters as there is no lubrication for the pump. Is that right?

Have been using kerosene in mine for two years , this will be the third year and works fine. Doesnt generate as much heat as diesel but still plenty hot enough. I have occasionally added a drop of twostroke oil to the mix. 

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6 hours ago, Engine Doctor said:

Jim get a diesel heater for the garage . Very cheap to run on paraffin or red diesel if y9u can find an outlet or even jet 1 kerosene with no condensation like a lot of heaters. Your welcome to pop down and see my heater running anytime .

E.D.

Ps I know exactly what uou mean about the cold damp field 

Thanks I saw your heater when I popped around the other week. The issue I have is the only access into a ram packed garage is through the big front door. The side door is blocked off with junk that needs clearing out. I have a fan heater there & also a dehumidifier. If I got in & closed the door, the fan heater would bring the temp up quick enough. When I was engine building & kit car building that's what I did. I now have enough jobs building up that I may camp out in there and crack on with them. Hopefully before our next indoor session.

 

My brother lives on a narrow boat full time & has one of these diesel heaters. It runs off his main diesel tank, I think he runs on red as well. It's generally pretty reliable but he does have a wood  burner & back boiler for when it misbehaves.

 

 

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