On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:53:49AM -0800, Dan wrote: | I have two film cans full of receiver crystals. Problem is I don't | know which brand of receiver they fit. ... | Is there a way to identify the receiver type/mfg. by the color of the | tag?
I don't know. But I have a guess about who would know -- http://members.aol.com/davthacker/radicalrcxtalexchange.htm Perhaps he might be willing to offer a bit of assistance, especially if you're a good customer or you give him some of the crystals? :) | I assume that Airtronics and Hitec are not interchangeable (?) Generally you should not mix brands, though in practice it may work. But do you want to risk a plane on it? To make matters worse, single conversion and double conversions crystals have totally different values and so getting them mixed up won't work at all. Hopefully the crystals generally do have the frequency or channel listed on them? If not, this could become a really large project just figuring out what channel everything is on. To make matters worse, some R/C crystals list the actual frequency rather than the R/C channel in question. But this might be a good thing, as it'll help you determine if it's a single conversion or dual conversion crystal, as single conversion are usually 455 KHz off, and the dual conversions are usually 10.7 MHz off. -- Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Few things in life are as comforting as knowing how to quietly and safely dispose of a human body RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
