Optic 6 transmitter and Hobby King X-1000 head tracker

Here's the documentation of the Hobby King Head Tracker X-1000

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I'm using an Hitec Optic 6 transmitter, and I was puzzled because it didn't work when I plugged it in, wherease it was said that it was plug and play.

I have to say that the package came without any notice, so it was quite difficult to find out about the configuration. But I ended up finding the documentation on hobby king's web site.

Well, talking about the connection, it is really plug n play for the optic 6!

But by default (that's the piece of information I didn't have), the HT is made to output the signal on the receiver on channel 7 and channel 8 ! So you have to use an 8 channel receiver to make it work. I was using a 6 channel receiver and was hopping to make it work on channel 5 + 6.

So.. it's possible, but it's not default configuration. You have to change the default configuration. The PDF shows how to do that, but in my case, I just changed the recevier for an 8 channel receiver and.. it worked !

Hope it can help anyone facing the same problem..