Official Freewing 90mm F-16 V2 EDF Jet Thread

[Elbee]

dr.Tom

Great flight video.

Very Cool...

Best, LB

[Hugh Wiedman]

https://youtu.be/YfBC2Th1-xo

SWEEEET! Nothing like a secret night sortie! You land better with no light than I do in bright sunlight!!

[dr.Tom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJjN4t9Z9xg

[urrl]

Great video Dr Tom! Sounds and looks much more realistic with the slower frame rates. I need to try that.

[Cbldog6]

Anyone have an issue with freewing 120A Brushless ESC with 7A UBEC and Thrust Reversing on the 90mm 8S v2 f16? Each time I’ve hooked it up it works great, once, then stays on reverse. Any help is much appreciated!

[xviper]

Anyone have an issue with freewing 120A Brushless ESC with 7A UBEC and Thrust Reversing on the 90mm 8S v2 f16? Each time I’ve hooked it up it works great, once, then stays on reverse. Any help is much appreciated!

No problems here. Reverse works each and every time. Hard to help when we don't know how you've got it set up. What radio? What channel are you using for reverse? Do you have the proper switch assigned to that channel? Which switch? What are the limits of the switch travel (-100 to +100 for Spektrum)? Does that switch work for anything else? Is the throttle calibrated?

[Cbldog6]

Sorry, this is my first go and went all in. Radio is TX16S mkII, ELRS to an ER8 receiver, throttle on ch3 with reverse on ch7, SH momentary switch assigned to rev on ch7, travel -100 to +100. Nothing else on that switch. May need to recalibrate the throttle. I’m running solo with no one else that I know of in the hobby. Thanks for your time!

[xviper]

At least now, someone with Radiomaster knowledge can come along and look at those details and possibly see where a fault might be. I'm a Spektrum guy and those points are the things I can think of to check but how these points need to be analyzed are likely different for your radio than for Spektrum. My only other thought on this topic has to do with the ESC. It is possible that in the ESC programming parameters, the reverse brake attributes was not set from the factory and you must go into it and define the reverse in that step.
I had a similar issue years ago but it was with a twin ESC and Spektrum. Reverse only worked once just like in your case but in my case, it switched over to the other ESC and stopped recognizing the first ESC. I have one Radiomaster radio but it was pre-programmed for a RTF plane. Even still, that radio system completely confuses me.
There are a few Radiomaster guys here. Hopefully one of them sees your question.

[Cbldog6]

Thanks again. Very much appreciated!

[Evan D]

Try reducing the travel on your channel 7.

[f4u ausie]

Or if U goina run off grass u don't need reverse mine stopps nicely. With out it

[Cbldog6]

So, upon further investigation, the ESC for my f16 is programmed at the factory and shipped with the reverse thrust off. They don’t make a programmer for this reverse thrust ESC so I’ll have to attempt it with the radio. I get some may not need it but then in those cases, just leave the reverse lead unplugged. If it were easy…..
Thanks for the help for this noob, everyone.

[xviper]

So, upon further investigation, the ESC for my f16 is programmed at the factory and shipped with the reverse thrust off. They don’t make a programmer for this reverse thrust ESC so I’ll have to attempt it with the radio. I get some may not need it but then in those cases, just leave the reverse lead unplugged. If it were easy…..
Thanks for the help for this noob, everyone.

As I suspected. Getting a manual for this ESC is very simple. All I did was go to the "support" tab in the MotionRC webpage for this plane. All you need to know about programming the ESC using the TX and beep tones. It's a PDF file.

https://www.motionrc.com/products/freewing-f-16-v2-ultra-performance-8s-90mm-edf-jet-pnp-fj30632p

Try this:

https://odoo-prod.motionrc.com/web/content/379690?unique=1

[Cbldog6]

Xviper…. Thanks much!

[Airguardian]

Pushing the F-16 pretty hard on this one... if you want to see what this jet is actually capable of in post-stall, don't miss it out!

[Aros]

You make my flying style look like a grandma by comparison, LOL.

[Cbldog6]

Xviper…. Thanks much!

[f4u ausie]

Airgardian. Is your F16 6 or 8s. Great flying.. I expect U have the cg back???

[Cbldog6]

So…. Concerning my issues with reverse thrust, Xviper was attempting to give me direction/help on a couple weeks ago…. Finally after ?x’s hours, it’s working. Hopefully this may help someone else running Freewing f16 v2 8S with TX16S to ER8 rx. It was a combination of being brand new to the hobby/life, a flat learning curve, and NO idea how to achieve what I wanted other than all in determination to figure it out. There were no instructions anywhere, believe me. MotionRC gave me a YouTube video to set up the initial 2 channels, but I had that figured out already. So, the programming literature I had for the ESC read option 3 on programming for reverse thrust but was actually option 4. Once that was finally established and learning Morse code for the Tx programming , lol, I saw a small glimmer of possibility. The channel set up wasn’t bad. It was channel 3 throttle with -100 to 100 with the same for reverse set on channel 7 (for me) -100 to 100 and assigned to (SH) momentary switch . The mix was an issue with no trim on channel 3, but channel 7 had to have -78 trim!!!!! It was the key to tell the ESC that it’s supposed to reverse when momentary switch was activated. Time well invested, a headache or 3, and a 6c battery I took below 2.8v was the cost, but worth it. Hopefully this can help someone else using TX16S.

[Cbldog6]

Correction on inputs…. 0-100, not -100 to 100.