Question on the futaba 10px

[Wesleys Custom RC]

I see guys posting top speeds with their boats. Does the radio give you anything other than top and average speed. Like, at what point or location on the water was the top speed reached? Can you download a visual on your phone or laptop. Probably dumb questions but I have been just using a radar gun on a tripod and better info is the only reason I would spend the extra money on a new system.

 

[P THOMAS]

The Telemetry gps shows running speed and saves top speed for that run. You can reset the top speed by touching the speed on the telm screen and it reset to current speed. I usally too busy to do that while racing HA
Someone here had the program to link the futaba data to google earth or somthing like that.

 

[Mark Anderson]

It can data log so you can down load a run or runs and look at the data.

 

[Wesleys Custom RC]

It can data log so you can down load a run or runs and look at the data.

Does it track you around the course thru GPS like you see with the big boats?

 

[Mark Anderson]

I have not played with it. But it converts the data log to a CSV file. I have seen those files overlayed onto google earth by several people.

 

[Wesleys Custom RC]

I'm looking at gps trackers and it "looks" like i could do the same thing with one of those for under 100. Only issue is there are tons of different models.

 

[P THOMAS]

Try this link
http://www.developitbest.com/telelogs/

 

[ChrisHerzog]

I'm looking at gps trackers and it "looks" like i could do the same thing with one of those for under 100. Only issue is there are tons of different models.

I just bought all new Rx and gps for my boats. I actually was using them at the Gas Nats a few month back.

It doesn’t map a track out on your TX nor have I found anyway to download that information from the Futaba software.

It will tell you current speed, and top speed as stated above. It can tell you distances between the TX and RX and altitude of the gps unit. I personally wanted it for testing props. With the help of someone I can tell how far I’m pulling and where on the corse the boat stop pulling. And also, as a quick reference for me at a race to see if my boat is running at the speed it should be running at after every heat.

I know years ago we all bought Garmen hand held gps that you could get a corse displayed on. It also gave top mph and those were all about 100.00.

 

[Wesleys Custom RC]

Ya, that's kinda the data I was looking for but I've found you learn more with "lap time" than top speed. At least if you are going to be heat racing.

 

[ChrisHerzog]

Ya, that's kinda the data I was looking for but I've found you learn more with "lap time" than top speed. At least if you are going to be heat racing.

For lap times I use the stop watch built into the Tx.

 

[Mark Anderson]

The Link Phil shared is a solution to convert the csv files to veiw on google earth. Glider guys have been doing it for a while.