Can you use old school air plane rc on a phantom?

[Avax]

Hi, I am a newbie looking to get into the hobby. I see a some folks are upgrading to 8 or 16 channel Futaba controllers. I have a "never used" Futaba FP-T8UAP PCM1024 72mhz radio and receiver that is about 12 years old that has been collecting dust.

So before I throw it on EBay to raise money for the drone fund. Is possible to adapt it to the phantom, and if so does it even make sense.

Thanks.

 

[RipperFox]

Not a good choice due to Freq. And need new Rx if you did try it.

 

[OI Photography]

It won't work with a P2 even if you do have the receiver with the Tx, the P2 requires S-bus output.

 

[N017RW]

It won't work with a P2 even if you do have the receiver with the Tx, the P2 requires S-bus output.

Is that just the 'Phantom' version of the Naza?

I know the standard version supports 'traditional' receivers in fact the Naza ports are marked A, E, T, R, etc.

In any case s-Bus converters are available if the OP wishes.

 

[OI Photography]

It won't work with a P2 even if you do have the receiver with the Tx, the P2 requires S-bus output.

Is that just the 'Phantom' version of the Naza?

I know the standard version supports 'traditional' receivers in fact the Naza ports are marked A, E, T, R, etc.

In any case s-Bus converters are available if the OP wishes.

Correct, the regular NAZA v1/v2 in P1's can use Traditional/PPM/S-bus, for some reason they locked the others out in the P2-specific firmware.

Good point on the converters, I knew you could convert S-bus to C/PPM but I didn't know it could be done in reverse

 

[N017RW]

I believe this is it here:
http://manuals.hobbico.com/fut/sbe-1-manual.pdf

 

[Avax]

OK cool it can be done with either the early version of the naza or with the s-bus converter.

Thanks for the info. Next question would you loose range?

Thanks