Instruction Manual
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If you wish to adjust a servo’s travel or centre position, the rst step is to touch the appropriate button; you can
now adjust the value. As soon as you move the associated stick, the Select button shifts to the corresponding
position. This means that you do not need to select Left, Right and Centre when adjusting the control surface;
instead you select each point very conveniently using the transmitter stick, altering the position of the control
surface using the arrow buttons at the bottom of the screen. At the same time you can observe the effect of any
change directly on the servo.
4. BINDING A RECEIVER
Select the Receiver button from the Main menu. As you
will now see, up to four receivers can be bound to the
CORE simultaneously.
It is even possible to use different types of receiver; for
example, one PBR-9D and one PBR-5S can be bound.
All four receivers are of “equal value”, i.e. there is no
Master / Slave assignment, and no restrictions in terms
of telemetry. Telemetry sensors can be connected to all
four receivers, all of which send data to the CORE on an
equal footing.
The receivers are identied by the four capital letters A to D. The same letters appear in the telemetry data sent
from the receivers, helping to differentiate between them.
a) Binding
There are two methods of binding receivers:
1. Connect a power supply to the receiver, and it will respond by ashing green at high frequency for ten seconds.
Press the Bind button on your CORE transmitter, and the receiver now binds to it; the LED lights a continuous
green.
If you do not press the Bind button within the ten-second period, the LED switches to ashing slowly red – at
this point the receiver can no longer be bound to the transmitter. You can only re-start the process if you rst
disconnect the power supply.
2. Press the Bind button on your CORE, then connect the receiver to a power supply. The LED switches to conti-
nuous green once the receiver is bound.
Technical information: during the binding procedure the PowerBox CORE generates a random sequence
from a total of more than 32 million numbers; this is then used as the basis for calculating the hopping se-
quence and encoding the signal. The likelihood that two identical codes could be generated is therefore very
close to zero.
b) Remove
The Remove button has an important function: if you wish to uninstall a receiver from a model, it is essential to
remove that receiver from the model memory beforehand using this button. If you simply uninstall the receiver
without rst removing it at the transmitter, then the other bound receivers will not work when you next switch the
system on. This is an important safety feature, as it ensures that all the bound receivers are working when you
switch the system on, i.e. before you take off!
c) Range check
The range check function reduces the transmitter’s output power, thereby simulating a large distance between
transmitter and model. This enables you to determine any possible weaknesses in reception in the receivers.
In range check mode all the controls should work perfectly at a range of at least 50m. The range check switches
itself off automatically after 120 seconds.