How To - Set-Up an LRS Relay

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How-To
January, 2016

TXR01.JPG
  Relay station!


Introduction

Always liked the idea of being completely wireless on my ground station so I decided to try setting up a radio relay for my DragonLink LRS transmitter to my Taranis transmitter. The benifits of doing this are:

  • Lighter transmitter
  • Transmitter battery lasts longer
  • No adverse range effect when you move the transmitter to different positions
  • Ability to get maximum separation between LRS TX and video receivers
  • Ability to sit in your nice air conditioned car while flying :)

Some of the potential drawbacks:

  • Adds another system to take care of
  • Adds an additional battery to charge and monitor
  • Adds some delay to the control response

My Build

The components I had to buy and put together to set this up:

  • FrSky X4R SBUS/CPPM receivers
  • Frsky SBUD/CPPM Decoder
  • 5v BEC
  • 3S Lipo pack
  • Light weight tripod
  • Hardware bits to mount it all together

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LRS relay layout


See Also

TBA


Vendors used for this project

Aloft Hobbies


Comments? Questions?

email me!