21-09-2023, 02:57 PM
I agree, I can find the hardware website, the question is should I change it? Having thought about this for quite a while I am inclined to do so. I trust sunjun as an elrs expert who handles tough questions about elrs on Discord. Even if my Tx16 has no problem of signal loss on 10mw, if I can improve the rc signal I think its always worth doing.
The risk seems small, and if I try it and don't like the 25mw baseline, there is no reason I cannot simply change it back, as far as I can tell.
The main reason I have not done it is I planned to first clarify how much better the signal is with baseline 25mw, by ploughing through my large collection of logs using planes that are flown with both my tx12 (25mw baseline) and my tx16, at a high noise field (prcac) and a low-noise one (a local oval). This job is keeping me busy as I do not have the analytic framework sorted yet. I know already I can easily tell which log plot is 25mw baseline, and which is 10mw, even without plotting the TPWR data, with the difference more apparent at prcac.
Here is a simple framework I may use, based on the occurrence of these parameters for 0.5 sec or more, whether once or multiple times in a flight. Each flight is categorised:
high quality rc signal flight: RQly>98, RSNR>6, no TPWR jumps (all values for 3 parameters must conform)
low quality: RQLY <96, RSNR<1, TPWR jumps (only needs one parameter to qualify as low)
medium quality: does not fit high or low category.
The risk seems small, and if I try it and don't like the 25mw baseline, there is no reason I cannot simply change it back, as far as I can tell.
The main reason I have not done it is I planned to first clarify how much better the signal is with baseline 25mw, by ploughing through my large collection of logs using planes that are flown with both my tx12 (25mw baseline) and my tx16, at a high noise field (prcac) and a low-noise one (a local oval). This job is keeping me busy as I do not have the analytic framework sorted yet. I know already I can easily tell which log plot is 25mw baseline, and which is 10mw, even without plotting the TPWR data, with the difference more apparent at prcac.
Here is a simple framework I may use, based on the occurrence of these parameters for 0.5 sec or more, whether once or multiple times in a flight. Each flight is categorised:
high quality rc signal flight: RQly>98, RSNR>6, no TPWR jumps (all values for 3 parameters must conform)
low quality: RQLY <96, RSNR<1, TPWR jumps (only needs one parameter to qualify as low)
medium quality: does not fit high or low category.