Originally posted by BMT
Now to really give it a hard time put a voltage regulator between it and the battery. Take it from me, there is no way a non-switching voltage regulator can cope with the transients presented to it as well as a good nicad can without one, no matter what the manufacurer claims or how many guys say
they work OK.
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What is the solution then. Use thicker guage wire for your Y leads and battery packs and keep them as short as possible. Lose the voltage regulator.
Although my failure happened soon after I added a 6V reguator, IIRC, DavidR and Vernon both had these hard-over failures with an unregulated, freshly charged 5-cell pack. That doesn't seem to jive with the above postulation... Also, I'm already running the heaviest gauge extension leads that JR provides. (BTW, how come they don't provide the servos themselves with heavier duty wire ? ;-)
These problems may not occur on the ground when there are no control servo loads and no gyro feedback activity.
I know that my hard-over failure happened on the ground while the aircraft was stationary; IIRC, David also had failures on the ground.
Gordon