My new plane fails its radio range test (with or without the engine running) I have set up several planes with success but this one is giving me trouble.
The plane is a Pheonix laser,The radio is Futaba 6EXAS. The receiver is a Futaba R127DF with 54 crystal, battery is Hydramax 6.0 V Nimh (fully charged). Servos are Hitec 635s. Radio (with the antenna down) cannot be moved past 15 paces and the servos twitch. I changed out the receiver with another, both worked fine in other setups. Same result. I moved the receiver antenna so it was hanging out of the plane completely, no range change.
The only thing different from my other setups is going to a 6.0 V battery. Can this model of receiver handle the 6.0 volts? The servos are supposed to. Or is there something else that can cause the servos to twitch. Does anyone have any thoughts that might help me?