Originally posted by MarkNovack
I had a similar occurence. I thought it was caused from a low Rx voltage. I landed immediately and yes, I was very close to losing the airplane due to low voltage.
It did not reoccur after recharging the batteries. 9Z WC2 by the way.
Mark
Hi Mark!
Well... I thought about fail safe alot, too. Here are the particulars: I only lose the throttle control... nothing else. I have full aileron, rudder and elevator control... and this is during 3D... and there is no loss of authority of the control surfaces. Only the control of the carburator goes away. I'm running two 4.8V receiver packs... new 1650 NiMHs... and they were checked before and after each flight to have over 5.3V under load.
My failsafe is at the default settings... so the the plane would not throttle up =very= slowly from the failsafe. But, I think the loss of signal from the throttle channel (bad pot) could cause the butterfly... which has no spring or tension on it... to slowly open from the pressure.
Thanks for your reply, Mark! :-)