RE: Hard Lessons Learned
I also have to agree with Ken (dang Ken you are on a roll, mod in the tank forum, plane insane prasiing you for your advice, good advice here)
As an example, I just got back 8 JR8611's that cost me a total of 85 bucks to have repaired. The short part of it was they all failed because I used to much end point travel in the radio which caused them to actually go beyond the 60 degree travel. Dumb mistake that will not happen again. Imagine what it would have cost me if I would have had to replace all of them.
I also sent a JR649 receiver back some time ago. It was not in a crash but it would evey now and then cause all of the surfaces to jitter. Range checks were always good both engine on and off but it still would jitter after the first flight and only on the second flight.. I tore my hair out replacing servos, extensions, batteries, etc... It cost me 15 bucks in shipping since the reciever was like this out of the package and was not damaged in amyway.
BTW Mark, I'm glad to see you back in the swing of things. I'm sorry I have not been in contact much, I've been really hammered lately AGAIN.