Product Information
Thermal Scout
Lift Finder for R/C Gliders
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$4.00
Spektrum Filter Cable
Filter Cables
for the Thermal Scout output mode
for the Thermal Scout output mode
$49.00
Thermal Scout
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The Simple Way to Better Soaring!
-• Wags the rudder & rocks the wings to indicate lift
-• Installs between your receiver and rudder servo
-• Smaller than a postage stamp; only 1/8 oz.
-• Uses atmospheric air-pressure sensing to measure lift (the same
-- technology as our popular How High altimeter)
-• For all R/C gliders and motorgliders; even V-tails and flying wings
-• New Feature! Voltage and tone (variometer) output modes for telemetry
-- and FPV systems (see details below)
Visualize Thermals with the Thermal Scout!
Nothing matches the feeling of piloting your R/C glider higher and higher powered only by invisible lifting currents of warming air – thermals. The Thermal Scout greatly aids your ability to find thermals by indicating when your plane is rising in lifting air. When your plane enters lift, the Thermal Scout will swing the plane’s rudder from side to side. This creates an overall rocking motion that allows you to see when you’ve entered a thermal. The invisible becomes visible!
You control the Thermal Scout using an extra channel on your transmitter. Once you have found lift, switch off the unit and circle in the rising air. At any time you can switch the system back on and the waving rudder will verify that you are still in lift.
The Thermal Scout works with standard R/C systems without the need for any additional equipment.
New Rate-Of-Climb Output
The Thermal Scout now has an output mode that provides a rate-of-climb (vertical speed) signal for telemetry, logging, or FPV systems. The signal is in the form of a voltage or a tone which increases as your plane climbs and decreases as your plane descends. See the Data Output Mode Instruction Supplement for full details.
-• Wags the rudder & rocks the wings to indicate lift
-• Installs between your receiver and rudder servo
-• Smaller than a postage stamp; only 1/8 oz.
-• Uses atmospheric air-pressure sensing to measure lift (the same
-- technology as our popular How High altimeter)
-• For all R/C gliders and motorgliders; even V-tails and flying wings
-• New Feature! Voltage and tone (variometer) output modes for telemetry
-- and FPV systems (see details below)
Visualize Thermals with the Thermal Scout!
Nothing matches the feeling of piloting your R/C glider higher and higher powered only by invisible lifting currents of warming air – thermals. The Thermal Scout greatly aids your ability to find thermals by indicating when your plane is rising in lifting air. When your plane enters lift, the Thermal Scout will swing the plane’s rudder from side to side. This creates an overall rocking motion that allows you to see when you’ve entered a thermal. The invisible becomes visible!
You control the Thermal Scout using an extra channel on your transmitter. Once you have found lift, switch off the unit and circle in the rising air. At any time you can switch the system back on and the waving rudder will verify that you are still in lift.
The Thermal Scout works with standard R/C systems without the need for any additional equipment.
New Rate-Of-Climb Output
The Thermal Scout now has an output mode that provides a rate-of-climb (vertical speed) signal for telemetry, logging, or FPV systems. The signal is in the form of a voltage or a tone which increases as your plane climbs and decreases as your plane descends. See the Data Output Mode Instruction Supplement for full details.
To convert the Pulse Width Modulated (PWM)
output from the Thermal Scout into a voltage
signal a simple RC filter is needed. These cables
have built-in filters and connectors for popular
telemetry radios. (See the Data Output Mode
Instruction Supplement for details.)
These cables are for telemetry systems. They are NOT needed for normal operation with a conventional R/C system.
-• Spektrum Filter Cable - JST ZH 3-pin connector for Spektrum TN1000 and TM1100 telemetry modules.
-• Hitec Filter Cable New! - JST ZH 2-pin connector for Hitec "Sensor Station - Blue".
-• FrSky Filter Cable - Servo-style connector for the FrSky D8R receiver AD2 input.
-• Generic Filter Cable - Wire leads for connection to any volt measuring input.
-• Unfiltered Cable - Simple 3-wire lead for tone output to user circuits.
Note: These cables are for use with the Thermal Scout. Click here for How High RT cables.
These cables are for telemetry systems. They are NOT needed for normal operation with a conventional R/C system.
-• Spektrum Filter Cable - JST ZH 3-pin connector for Spektrum TN1000 and TM1100 telemetry modules.
-• Hitec Filter Cable New! - JST ZH 2-pin connector for Hitec "Sensor Station - Blue".
-• FrSky Filter Cable - Servo-style connector for the FrSky D8R receiver AD2 input.
-• Generic Filter Cable - Wire leads for connection to any volt measuring input.
-• Unfiltered Cable - Simple 3-wire lead for tone output to user circuits.
Note: These cables are for use with the Thermal Scout. Click here for How High RT cables.
$4.00
Hitec Filter Cable
$4.00
Generic Filter Cable
$1.50
Unfiltered Cable
Spektrum, Hitec, and FrSky are trade names and/or trademarks of their respective companies and are not products of Winged Shadow Systems
$4.00
FrSky Filter Cable