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All in one units are the way forward, less complications in terms of wiring, less weight etc, I wonder what the price of this little baby will be?

We have all known that Curtis Youngblood and his team have been working on and testing a flybarless electronics unit. However until this weekend it’s been kept under wraps, debuted for the first time to the public here at the 2009 IRCHA Jamboree.

Now, we knew it would be a flybarless unit. What was not expected is it to be a complete all-in-one unit, dubbed Total G. Meaning the combination of existing Solid G, ATG, etc all into one unit. Yes, the Total G includes a servo power bus, flybarless stabilization, tail gyro, and throttle governor all together in a single box.

So the Total G is a servo power bus, but that doesn’t mean it’s a receiver (RX). All servo inputs on the heli connect to the Total G. The Total G then has three RX ports to connect JR/Spektrum satellite receivers. This is the same concept as the soon to be released Mikado Mini V-Bar (also on display at IRCHA). However unlike the Mini V-Bar the CY Total G is designed to be used on larger heli’s. Curtis had the Total G in the pics installed on a Align T-Rex 700N with a Fueled By Hate flybarless head.

As you can imagine, this type of unit will decrease the complexity of the wiring on your heli dramatically. Less electronics and wiring on board also means less weight. I think we are starting to see a trend that will continue in the future of electronics that combine more if not all the functions on the heli to a single unit.

Curtis mentioned at IRCHA that the Total G should be completed and available for sale sometime around the end of 2009.

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