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Old 05-02-2004 | 05:14 PM
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Cautrell05
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Default Help With My 7CAP

I cant get my radio to work with my plane. Everything is new. Futaba 7CA Gws R4P ch 26 futaba shift, GWS pico servos. when I turn on the radio and plug in the battery nothing happens. no control at all on any channel. There is some erattic glitching(really bad) that sometimes goes away If I hold one of the sticks to one side. But there is nothing that even resembles control of the servos. The GWS reciever is stamped for futaba radios. It has the proper reciever(FM) and crystal. The TX battery is reading 10.2 volts. The lipo is straight off of the charger. The radio is set on PPM(factory default. The bad part is that it is all new. so I cant say for sure that its in the TX or the reciever. One thing I thought of trying was to talk to some of the guys at the flying field and find someone with a Futaba radio and switch the TX crystals between my radio and his for a non flying bench test. If My plane works with his radio then the problem is in my TX. and if my radio works with his plane but his radio doesent work with mine then the problem is in my reciever. And of course after the bench test we would put the TX crystals back in the proper radio so we dont have the feds after us. I really need some help on this. Thanks.

Nick