How To - Set-Up an LRS Relay

January, 2016

	Relay station!

Introduction

Always liked the idea of being completely wireless on my ground station so I decided to try setting up a radio relay for my DragonLink LRS transmitter to my Taranis transmitter. The benifits of doing this are:

• Lighter transmitter
• Transmitter battery lasts longer
• No adverse range effect when you move the transmitter to different positions
• Ability to get maximum separation between LRS TX and video receivers
• Ability to sit in your nice air conditioned car while flying :)
  
  

Some of the potential drawbacks:

• Adds another system to take care of
• Adds an additional battery to charge and monitor
• Adds some delay to the control response
  
  

My Build

The components I had to buy and put together to set this up:

• FrSky X4R SBUS/CPPM receivers
• Frsky SBUD/CPPM Decoder
• 5v BEC
• 3S Lipo pack
• Light weight tripod
• Hardware bits to mount it all together
  
  

LRS relay layout

See Also

TBA

Vendors used for this project

Aloft Hobbies

Comments? Questions?

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