blhollo2

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I had a glitch really bad where i lost control of my gp cherokee, lucky for me i had some serious alt on my side.. see video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG5W7VTby0k

anyone else experiencing this?

jetmech05

please don't double post

blhollo2

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i posted in the wrong forum thanks.

ChuckW

Never had a problem with my Spektrum. (Hope I'm not jinxing myself). How was the battery voltage under a load? Looks like you had some serious altitude, could it have gone out of range?

Jetdesign

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Why don't you ask God? I thought I saw Him in the background[&:]

RCKen

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blhollo2,
One serious question about your situation. On your camera, what type of setup was it?? Was it all contained onboard the plane? Or was it a camera that had a downlink transmitted back to the ground? I asked this because some of those downlink type of cameras transmit in the 2.4 ghz range and have been known to cause interference with 2.4 Ghz radios.

Ken

blhollo2

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RCKEN
The camera was a flycamone2 where it records to a sd card, i was flying with one other airplane and he was using a specktrum 2.4 dx7 i have the dx5e

blhollo2

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chuckw

I had fresh batts in the radio, and in the airplane...it was very weird it made me 2nd guess the radio but the 2.4 radio is "supposed" to be out of sight range so im baffled

Insanemoondoggie

I lost a SSE to a glitch with one of the early AR7000 recievers. cant remeber what Horizon said the issue was for sure , something about spiking the voltage below 4.8 and a delay of reconnection time, or something like that. Switched to 6 volt packs and never had any issues again.

blhollo2

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yeah i use the 4.8v batt pack...i wonder if this could be the problem

gsoav8r

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Ive read many threads about Spectrum and JR 2.4 Rx's having "brown outs" or glitch's or rebooting. The majority of the time its been due to a 4.8v battery pack dropping below 4.8v due to servo loading.
IMO, you should definitely switch to a 6v pack. Hopefully that will eliminate your problem.

Why 2.4 systems w/ Rx's dont come with 6v packs is beyond me since this problem has been well observed for quite some time.

Best of luck,
James

Robotech

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I believe there was a modification made to the firmware to correct the reconnect time. Instead of searching for two new channels it uses the last two it had before the reboot. If you have the old firmware you can send it in for a free upgrade. Definitly upgrade your battery packs to 6v.

Insanemoondoggie

Now that you mention it, they told me I could send it in, but the 6v battery seems to have fixed that issue, and that was about 2 years and many flights ago.
I did have an issue with an Ultimate lost it and got it back and landed . But after going over the plane , found the on/off switch would go on and off, by lightly tapping on it.

blhollo2

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i think it may be the 6v issue i just bought a 6v battery and laid to rest the 4.8v