Matt, I guess that I had lot´s of luck until this moment.. there is a billion things that can go wrong in a r/c plane and more than once I had enough luck to find the problem before it happened. Hope this continues!

About the broken wire I think that it is not abrasion that caused this. There is a connector in the potentiometer board wich pulls the three wires real tight from a plastic support wich guides the wires away from the stick mechanism .. seems that this support crunched the yellow and red wire and after some up/down cycling of the throttle stick the wire suffered fatigue and started to break.

This problem seems to happen with the aleiron if you are using mode I or rudder in case of a mode II transmitter.. I suppose that it didn´t happens so much with the elevator stick as it is often more around it´s center compared with the throttle stick, but even so it is worth checking it too.



Carlos: this same thing happened to me with a old Futaba 8UHP radio, (and it costed me some helicopter parts, LOL) but I didn´t took it as a serious issue because it happened in a very, very used radio mostly with helicopters in wich I actually abused all the sticks with crazy movements.