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ORIGINAL: george2005

Zeeb, Danny has apparently not attempted to charge a DX6i through it's own charge circuit. If you look over on the JR/Spektrum support forum you will not that I presented this question there for Danny, and he gave me an erroneous answer. I am an engineer and have a General Class ham radio ticket, so I normally enjoy electronics, except when the circuit does not work as it should! As I mentioned in my original blurb above, there has been at least one JR radio that required modification in order to make it charge through it's jack. There was only that one long, long ago, but maybe another has now come to be.

At any rate, because Danny did not have a correct answer I presented the same question here to see if anyone using the forum had figured out the circuitry problem. Either it is that, or I received two defective DX6i radios from different sources, and I really do not think them to be defective, per se.

While I am here scribbling this out, I may as well mention as a word of caution to all that decide to go with NiMHs in lieu of NiCDs as a replacement to the Alkalines that came with the Blade 400 3D for the DX6i, be sure to charge your NiMHs each morning before you go to fly. The NiMHs do self discharge, to the point of loosing up to 225 mAh overnight max loss. Do NOT charge them the night before and assume they are fine, unless you really pay attention to the voltage readout on your transmitter. NiCDs do not self discharge overnight to any amount to be concerned about. Radio Shack #23-449 4-pack NiCDs are 1,000 mAh cells and should quite a blessing over alkaline or NiMHs. But, to each his own - - -

Other than not being able to charge without removing the batteries from the transmitter, the DX6i is a very nice transmitter. I have been able to adjust the sticks and the programming to make everything feel just like my JR transmitters. I like a certain feel about the sticks especially, so that I really feel the pressure of the sticks for accuracy in flying (I fly thumbs only in order to achieve the greater accuracy).

As to the Blade 400 3D, I also like its responsiveness, yet it can be flown very smoothly. For those that feel it is too sensitive, you can add small wheel collars, or the Flybar Paddle Mount/Adapters EFLH1427, just inside the ones that the paddles are now mounted to. Move them in little by little as you develop your muscle-memory and ability to fly the machine instead of it being way ahead of you. Just be sure that each collar or mount/adapter is equidistant from the main shaft so that the head stays balanced. The training gear is another option, of course, but they both can be utilitized at the same time. In the early 1980s we installed really big brass round weights on the flybars because we were flying bigger machines than these mini and micro helis. So just experiment, but be sure to use the set screws on the collars or mount/adpaters.

In closing I will say that if any of us have an answer to the charging problem we should make Danny aware of it so that he can not only give a better answer in the future but have the manufacturing process changed to allow charging through the circuit without us out here having to fix it.

I hope that some of this information helps some others, but I still need an answer to my question about charging the DX6i. But thanks to all for such interest in this sport/hobby that promote taking the time to get on the forum(s) to help others - - -