Just thought I'd touch base and find out everyone's experience's, good and bad with SBUS power systems and gyros. My jets are decked out with twin receivers running through an IGYRO SRS and into the Robbe/Emcotec 2018 power unit.
Recently I was taxiing my F16 back to the pits and lost signal in both receivers. If it happened 30 seconds earlier I would have lost the plane.
Turned out the gyro was faulty. Because both receivers were running through the gyro, the signal failed to pass through the gyro causing a total lock out.
The cause was corrosion on the circuit board of the gyro. No reason why though.
Its pretty scary as I had 30 trouble free flights before the failure.
Ive thought about running only one receiver through the gyro, but if the receiver signal switches, one minute your flying with a gyro and one minute without. I also experimented with two gyros on board, one for each receiver. I set up both gyros identical with the same gains. I activated the system then pulled out the active receiver to promote the switch to receiver 2. All worked well but there was a 0.5 second delay where no control was possible. Not acceptable.
My question- does anyone know of an SBUS power system where you can have a gyro failure and maintain receiver signal?
Thanks in advance
Levi