Reftec 2.4 Conversion
Posted: 28 Sep 2020, 21:10
Evening everyone, thanks for the add Phil and Ron, appreciated.....
Anyway, I know these conversions are old hat to most people, but to me ,along with the discovery of Phils fantastic encoder board ,I am like a kid in a toy shop again, all my toot can now be reused without fear of glitches and associated ills of the older systems....
My first conversion was this Reftec 459 mhz set, got several of these but thought one for old times sake I can use again, the original system for its time was good far better than 27megs, but one big downfall , the receiver had an if board which had a frequency of 27 megs, so if it came into close proximity of A 27meg Tx, hey presto , stopped working......they were also fraught with dry joints as they aged.....
Below are before and after pics, I used an Orange Rx DSM tx module, removed from its case to reduce overall size of it, and of course the 'Famed' PhilG encoder boards stashed in the bottom right hand corner, along with a modern day dsm Rx of which I use, shown below along side the original enormous Reftec receiver, the Tx is powered by a 2s 7.4 volt LiPo battery ( I know there's a pp3 shown , that's been changed since pic taken) , and so far have proved to be enjoyable to use it and a doddle to set up ....
Rob
Anyway, I know these conversions are old hat to most people, but to me ,along with the discovery of Phils fantastic encoder board ,I am like a kid in a toy shop again, all my toot can now be reused without fear of glitches and associated ills of the older systems....
My first conversion was this Reftec 459 mhz set, got several of these but thought one for old times sake I can use again, the original system for its time was good far better than 27megs, but one big downfall , the receiver had an if board which had a frequency of 27 megs, so if it came into close proximity of A 27meg Tx, hey presto , stopped working......they were also fraught with dry joints as they aged.....
Below are before and after pics, I used an Orange Rx DSM tx module, removed from its case to reduce overall size of it, and of course the 'Famed' PhilG encoder boards stashed in the bottom right hand corner, along with a modern day dsm Rx of which I use, shown below along side the original enormous Reftec receiver, the Tx is powered by a 2s 7.4 volt LiPo battery ( I know there's a pp3 shown , that's been changed since pic taken) , and so far have proved to be enjoyable to use it and a doddle to set up ....
Rob
Somewhere I also have a Cotswold UHF and as you probably know Pete Christy flies his helis on the Talisman UHF set he designed way for World Engines way back when!