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01-28-2009, 09:52 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Arlington, TN
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|  How to program DX6i for 3 position dig
Well after much trial and error I desided to call horizon today to figure out how to program the dx6i for use for a 3 position dig. I felt like an idiot after he explaned it to me, so for those who are looking for this info here it is. Set up in airplane mode... Step 1 - go to mix 1 screen step 2 - select - gear to gear act step 3 - select - rate D -100% U 0% step 4 - select - SW flap trim INH Your dig servo will plug into the gear channel on the rx. This is almost how it will look on the screen, after these setting then go to travel adjustment screen to set your end-points. With the gear switch pushed back your in 4 wheel, pull gear switch forward to be in dig, when in 4 wheel pull down on flap switch to go to free wheel.....and there you have it.... I hope this helps anyone needing to program there dx6i...  Last edited by mudboger07; 02-05-2009 at 08:08 AM. |
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01-29-2009, 05:40 AM
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| Just jump it!   Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Cedar City, Utah
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01-29-2009, 07:20 AM
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| Just jump it! Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Cedar City, Utah
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Ok I got it. After you get it set like above. Start with gear on zero(pushed away from you) and flap on 1 (towards you) this should put you in freewheel. Go to travel adjustments and start on 30 both ways. IMPORTANT!! This is where you will make epas from, In the gear settings on travel adjs. Thats why we start in free wheel. Throwing gear switch towards you should give you 4wd ! Set epa for it. Mine ended up at 60%. Then go back to freewheel and push your flap switch up. That should give you rear lock. Set epa in Gear setting on travel adj. Mine worked out at 49%. Flap adjusments are not used!! Left mine at 100%. While in 4wd flap swith should not do anything. If you leave flap switch toward you it will go to freewheel. If you preselect it UP, it will go to rear lock, or you can go to freewheel then throw it in lock. Thanks mudboger07. Hope this helps. |
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01-29-2009, 07:38 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Arlington, TN
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 if you reverse the servo it should work as follows...the gear switch and flap switch should be pushed back for 4 wheel, for dig pull forward on the gear switch, for free wheel, the flap switch should be pushed back and the flap switch forward... either way will work....
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02-01-2009, 09:34 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: tauranga north island new zealand
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This should be added to the stickys,i programed as above for the dig on my rockforce and it worked perfectly! .Thanks mudboger your the man. id stuffed around for hours with my dx6i trying to mix switchs. |
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02-01-2009, 02:02 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Arlington, TN
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Thanks Vipxj, i played with it for about 2 months before calling horizon...  , I'm glad it helped..... | |
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04-26-2009, 01:56 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Central KY
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I know it's been a few months since the last post on this thread but I figured I would share another success story using this method. It works great on my shafty with homemade pipe dig. I originally wanted the DX6i for a berg build this spring/summer, but I happened along one in a trade with HomerJ and decided to go ahead and run it on my shafty to get used to running a stick radio. While it would be nice if the DX6i had an actual 3-position switch, this setup works well and still allows you to use 3 position dig quite efficiently. Big thanks to the OP for sharing his setup! |
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06-20-2009, 09:59 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: in a box
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Very cool info thanks for the tip. The only thing I am going to try and change is now take the gear switch and make it momentary like the trainer switch so it will be hold up for dig and flap will be switchable for freewheel |
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06-20-2009, 07:52 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2008 Location: Baltimore
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for what it is worth, I simply rotated my left side control 90* and built a simple 3 position gate for the joystick so that I have a dedicated dig, neutral and 4wd position. It has been working perfectly so far.
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04-09-2010, 08:36 PM
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| Rock Crawler  Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Boise, Idaho
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Has anyone tried this on a berg?? I would like to have front and rear dig... I will be getting another esc eventually.
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04-27-2010, 05:13 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Pasadena
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what if i had front and rear dig and a broken gear switch, could i do it on another switch like mix?
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05-20-2010, 11:07 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: MERICA!
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can a dx5e be used?
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05-21-2010, 11:16 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Colorado Springs
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I plugged the servo for the dig in the gear slot. Worked great for me. When Rottonbelly states "Go to travel adjustments and start on 30 both ways." While in travel adjust, you just flip the switch and you will see a % for each direction. It took me a minute to get this.  Thanks fellas for the great tip. Now I just need to get the mechanical portion tweaked out and I should be climbing rocks (comp style) like a billy goat! |
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11-07-2012, 03:34 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: england uk
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| Re: How to program DX6i for 3 position dig
STEP 0 GO INTO TRAVEL ADJUST AND TURN DOWN GEAR AND FLAP TO 20% +/- Step 1 - go to mix 1 screen thanks for this post, i thought id point out turning down end points first as ive just melted my dig servo |
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