Twin Turbo Goes Proportional
John Worth calls the Twin Turbo system "the biggest bargain in RC," and guess what? He is absolutely right. Granted, it has a short operating range, and it has limitations for model airplanes (possibly because it was intended for small indoor RC blimps, etc.) But it still is an RC system with enormous room for experimentation. Some creative minds made modifications to the existing design and made it more useful, in one way or another. I thought I, too, should have some fun with it. I converted the original on/off concept to a pseudo-digital-proportional system. The end result is a system with the original twin motors, controlled by a digital speed controller/mixer for the two supplied motors to produce a servoless RC system. The brain work is done by a Microchip tiny microcontroller (uC), the size of a lentil bean, plus some receiver modifications.

